{"id":285103,"date":"2025-10-11T18:21:46","date_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vg247.com\/?p=798193"},"modified":"2025-10-11T18:21:46","modified_gmt":"2025-10-11T18:21:46","slug":"summer-games-done-quick-raises-over-2-9m-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/summer-games-done-quick-raises-over-2-9m-for-charity\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer Games Done Quick raises over $2.9m for charity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Summer Games Done Quick 2021<\/a><\/p>\n

This year’s Summer Games Done Quick<\/strong> has raised a grand total of $2.9m for Doctors Without Borders<\/strong> – or Médecins Sans Frontières<\/strong> – over the course of a week.<\/p>\n

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The annual event has been another massive success, with the final figure coming in at over $2,904,585 from over 40,000 donations<\/a> over the course of the marathon. The GDQ team dropped a huge $250,000 into the tracker towards the end of the marathon (raised from money from sponsors, Twitch subscriptions and other miscellaneous amounts) pushing the total up to over $2.5 million at the time.<\/p>\n

Thanks to that sum – which is the highest figure a Summer Games Done Quick has ever achieved<\/a> – the grand total raised for charities by the even now stands at an eye-watering $34m. That’s seven years in a row that the event has earned over $1 million for its chosen charity, and the figure ticked over that magic number during a particularly tight Pokémon Black and White race, too<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Watch on YouTube<\/a><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n

There were some standout runs, too – early on in the week, we saw a great Nintendogs run on DS<\/a> scuppered by a less-than-helpful virtual good boy, a Dead Space run that tore the game apart<\/a>, and a Demon’s Souls (2020) run that saw the game smashed to pieces in under an hour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

You can see all the runs – and many from previous years – over on the Games Done Quick YouTube channel<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you’re hungry for yet more speedrun goodness, never fear: there’s always more to come. All-women speedrunning event Flame Fatales returns August 15 to 21, and the main show returns at the start of next year with Awesome Games Done Quick 2022 debuting on January 9 and running through until January 16.<\/p>\n

If you want more speedruns to wrap your eyes around, check out some of the best runs from Awesome Games Done Quick 2021<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If this has merely whet your appetite for all things speedrunning, you can browse various communities over on SpeedRun.com<\/a> and maybe even start practicing yourself.<\/p>\n

The post Summer Games Done Quick raises over $2.9m for charity<\/a> appeared first on VG247<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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This year’s Summer Games Done Quick has raised a grand total of $2.9m for Doctors Without Borders – or Médecins Sans Frontières – over the course of a week. The annual event has been another massive success, with the final figure coming in at over $2,904,585 from over 40,000 donations over the course of the marathon. The GDQ team dropped a huge $250,000 into the tracker towards the end of the marathon (raised from money from sponsors, Twitch subscriptions and other miscellaneous amounts) pushing the total up to over $2.5 million at the time. Thanks to that sum – which is the highest figure a Summer Games Done Quick has ever achieved – the grand total raised for charities by the even now stands at…<\/p>\n

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