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The speedrunning community has done it again as Summer Games Done Quick 2021 ended with nearly $3 million in donations raised.
The donation tracker on the Games Done Quick website shows the final tally for SGDQ 2021 at $2,909,369.35, with over 40,000 donations made during the week-long event for an average donation amount of just over $72.
Highlights of this year’s summer speedrunning soiree include a run of Golden Sun: The Lost Age in under six hours, a 53-minute playthrough of the 2020 Demon’s Souls remake on PlayStation 5, Destiny 2’s Deep Stone Crypt raid in under 17 minutes, and a 70-star Super Mario 64 effort–while the player was blindfolded–in under two hours.
All donations for SGDQ 2021 are made to Doctors Without Borders–or Médecins Sans Frontières–a non-profit humanitarian organization that offers aid to those in war-torn areas of the world, among other things.
Games Done Quick is a series of video game speedrunning marathons that raise money for multiple charities. Its biggest events are Awesome Games Done Quick in January–which raises money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation–and Summer Games Done Quick for MSF. The next event on the GDQ calendar is Flame Fatales, an all-woman speedrunning marathon beginning August 15. Awesome Games Done Quick 2022 has been confirmed for January 9 to January 16, 2022.
