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Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Throughout each year, Games Done Quick holds speedrunning marathons to raise money for different charities. The latest of those events was Awesome Games Done Quick 2021, which ran 24 hours a day for a week from January 3. The result is they’ve managed to raise over $2.75 million for Prevent Cancer Foundation.
A total of 157 speedruns took place during the event. Between them, they managed to raise a total of $2,775,484.03 from 42,103 donors at the time of writing. People are still able to donate to the event if they choose; over $16,000 has been donated over the last 24 hours alone. The grateful recipient, Prevent Cancer Foundation, will be using the money to help people to get cancer diagnoses as early as possible, with the aim being to prevent the disease before it even starts.
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