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Check out the schedule to see incentives and bid wars and just mention what you'd like your money to go towards when you donate.
Bid wars commonly occur over things like what to name characters in RPGs. Bid wars let everyone put their money towards making some decision for the runner. This can be playing as a particular character, higher difficulties, blindfolded runs, and so forth. Incentives are a goal that you can put your money towards in order to make a particular run more interesting. So plenty incentive to donate right there.Īnother fun thing for donators are the incentives and bid wars. There's also a grand giveaway for EVERYONE who donated, which usually involved some hardware being given away with some games. They are usually related to the game block (Mario stuff during a string of Mario speed runs, etc.) and can range from homemade perlers to rare copies of the games being played. the marathon has just gotten too popular for everyone's comments to be read, so don't hold your breath.īut there are other perks for donating! Certain blocks will have giveaways for people who donate within that period.
They'll definitely read the comment of someone who drops a few hundred. Oh, and if all else fails you can also donate shitton of money.
You're only going to get read on the stream if you have a really funny comment, are a family member/close friend of the runner, or have a particularly touching story relating to cancer. You can leave comments with your donation to be read during the stream, but they've been really cutting back on this so the runners can actually focus and provide commentary. When marathons are live, you can donate just by hitting the big DONATE button on the site. If that is the case, these uploads will usually be replaced with better ones usually the week or so after the marathon ends. The only caveat to YouTube is that the staff are busy with, you know, running the marathon, so initial uploads may be of iffy quality. Note that the official YouTube channel is getting increasingly fast at uploading runs, with runs being uploaded DURING the marathon, so this shouldn't be as necessary. If you are super impatient, there is the speedrun subreddit that is very fast at collecting Twitch VoDs and organizing them in an easy-to-read chart. If all else fails, a lot of the really old runs are collected on various YouTube channels. There's also SDA's Channel, which has some older marathons archived. Older marathons are generally saved on the Twitch channel, but there's an official GDQ YouTube Channel which uploads marathons starting with AGDQ 2014, so don't worry about missing a run. Also, there's a sister marathon, Pinball Done Quick, that runs concurrently with GDQ over here. AGDQ was the original marathon, and thus tends to be the bigger event of the two, but SGDQ has been catching up on its older sibling, managing to raise more than the winter marathon in 2016.Įverything is shown via their Twitch Channel, and there are typical several alternate language restreams available for those interested. In fact, the marathon is so big that there are actually two marathons: Awesome Games Done Quick raises money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation in the winter, and Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) raising money for Médecins Sans Frontières aka Doctors Without Borders in, well, the summer.
GDQ has become increasingly popular over the years, raising over 2.5 million dollars for charities in 2016! It's basically a week-long, nonstop marathon of speedrunners playing video games as fast as possible to raise money for charity. Games Done Quick (GDQ) is an annual speedrunning marathon done by the Speed Demos Archive, a site dedicated to the hobby. Next Marathon: Awesome Games Done Quick 2017 (January 8th-15th)