AGDQ 2021 Raises $4 Million For Charity
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Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 has wrapped up after a full week of speedrunning. The event raised an impressive $US2,764,437 ($3,593,492) for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. This is the second-highest amount raised at AGDQ, only beaten by last year’s total of over $US3 ($4) million.
AGDQ 2021 was held online this time around due to the continuing covid-19 pandemic. Participants streamed games from their own homes while viewers watched online. This year’s event had some exciting highlights. Early in the week, two different
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No in-person crowd, no problem for Awesome Games Done Quick. This year s biannual speedrunning event was forced to go online-only due to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. However, in spite of that, the world s best runners were still able to raise a total of $2,759,412 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. That s up from Summer Games Done Quick, though slightly down from last year s Awesome Games Done Quick event.
Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 Online first reached the $2.5 million incentive for a closing run of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time earlier in the evening. Money continued to come in over the course of CLG ZFG s run, ultimately leading to the event s final total. It s an impressive feat considering the event had to pivot to an online presentation, much like they did back during the delayed Summer Games Done Quick 2020. The Games Done Quick team rolled with the tide, however, and even added a few new features. The most notable new feature was a special crowd channe
AGDQ 2021 Concludes as the Event Raises $2.7 Million for Charity
AGDQ 2021 has kicked the new year off by raising over $2,700,000 for the prevent cancer foundation.
One of my favorite events of the year has come to a close. AGDQ 2021 quicked the year off in fashion by shredding through some of your favorite games while also raising a whole lot of money for charity.
This year’s Awesome Games Done Quick event raised a total of $2,758,847 for the prevent cancer foundation. On top of that, the event had switched over to an online format this year rather than being held in-person. The stream went pretty smoothly for the most part.