The charity event has raised more than ever for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. A marathon of games held for several days.
The 2020 edition of Awesome Games Done Quick has broken records. The annual event held from January 5 to 12, a meeting of speedrunners players trying to complete in the shortest possible time, has managed to raise $ 3,134,063.56 through the 54,167 donations made by the spectators.
All the money will go to a non-profit organization, this time Prevent Cancer Foundation, which researches and instructs cancer in different western countries. The event has been a success not only for the proceeds but for the media tour that the edition has had, with an uninterrupted prominence in streaming portals such as Twitch and known personalities making the event known.
The speedruns, a method that consists of completing a video game in the shortest possible time, sometimes with certain restrictions or permissibility, has had video games such as Control, Devil May Cry 5, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice and The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening, if we stick to the representatives of the 2019 course. To those we have to add classics such as Donkey Kong Coyntry 3, Sonic 3 & Knuckles or Mega Man (NES). There are even those who dare to play and complete titles with a blindfold, among other seemingly crazy situations with a common denominator: raise money for the fight against this fatal disease.
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Games Done Quick, annual growth and media impact
The Games Done Quick organization has been organizing under this nomenclature since 2015, although it has been operating as such since 2010. Its periodicity is semi-annual, with the Awesome mode in January – the latter held at the DoubleThree Hilton in Orlando, Florida – and the Summer mode in June or July. The summer donates the proceeds to Doctors Without Borders, whose 2019 edition is the one that had the current collection record with 3.03 million dollars.
The 2021 edition of Awesome Games Done Quick will be held from January 3 to 10, 2021 at a location yet to be determined.
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