After 15 years of awesome speedrun events, Games Done Quick has raised over $54 million for charity with AGDQ 2025 bringing in $2.5 million

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Gam𝐆es Done Quick has raised over $54 million for charities over the last 15 years of its awesome speedrunning life.

The organization has just wrapped up its annual Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 event, where it hosted a runner who capped off a Ratchet and Clank playthrough wꦯith a spectac𒉰ular Opera performance, two streamers who cozied up on one controller to beat The Legend o♕f Zelda: Breath of the ꦿWild, and another who 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:speed-dated their w♎ay acr𝓰oss Fallout: New Vegas

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This year💙's festivities closed off with four streamers racing to beat Super Metroid with a map randomizer on. You can see the entire one-hour tournament down below, or you can skip to the ending to see how darn riled up the crowd got when things ♐finally got serious.

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The speedrunning shenanigans ไaren't slowing down from here, either. Summer Games Done Quick is next up, kicking off for a week starting on July 6, and this time the event will be raising money for Doctors Without Borders, an NGO that provides medical assistance to people stuck in conflict zones, disaster zones, or epidemꦗics globally. 

"Thank youജ to everyone who made this marathon possible, and to all of you for your amazing generosity & support," the event earlie🐻r today. "See you all next time."

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✃Kaan freelances for various websites including Rock Paper Shotgun, Eurogamer, and this one, Gamesradar. He particularly enjoys writing about spooky indies, throwback RPGs, and anything that's vaguely silly. A💙lso has an English Literature and Film Studies degree that he'll soon forget.