{"id":5567,"date":"2022-01-23T22:49:23","date_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/?p=5567"},"modified":"2022-01-23T22:54:32","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T05:54:32","slug":"awesome-games-done-quick-raises-over-3-4m-for-charity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/awesome-games-done-quick-raises-over-3-4m-for-charity","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Games Done Quick Raises Over $3.4M For Charity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/summer-games-done-quick-2020-raises-2-3m-for-doctors-without-borders\" title=\"Summer Games Done Quick 2020 raises $2.3m for Doctors Without Borders\">Awesome Games Done Quick<\/a> has broken a new fundraising record for a single Games Done Quick event by collecting over $3.4 million for charity.\u00a0 <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Awesome Games Done Quick is a popular video game speedrunning marathon. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Following the week-long 24-hour AGDQ 2022, Games Done Quick shared the news on&nbsp;Twitter, which raised a total of $3,416,729 for Prevent Cancer Foundation. AGDQ called the event &#8220;is officially the most we&#8217;ve ever raised in the history of @GamesDoneQuick &#8211; ANOTHER WR.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Furthermore, AGDQ 2022 reached the record for fastest $1 million in donations in Games Done Quick history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event was held from January 9 to 16 on Twitch, and numerous world records were broken, including Kena: Bridge of Spirits, Webbed speedruns, and Pumpkin Jack. The event was a great success, with speedrunners from all over the world demonstrating their outstanding abilities for a good cause.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>AGDQ had a total of 148 runs, 28,034 contributors, and 49,438 donations based on Games Done Quick&#8217;s donation tracker.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Games Done Quick has raised over $37 million for charity for various charities since its inception in 2010. Last year&#8217;s Awesome Games Done Quick had generated $2.75 million in donations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Apart from Prevent Cancer Foundation, Awesome Games Done Quick raised money for Doctors Without Borders \/ M\u00e9decins Sans Fronti\u00e8res, AbleGamers, Direct Relief, Malala Fund, and Organization for Autism Research.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At AGDQ 2021, the team raised $3.13 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, which is fantastic to see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The next GDQ event will be the all-women winter speedrunning competition Frost Fatales, which will take place from February 27 to March 5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year&#8217;s Summer Games Done Quick will also take place; however, more information will be revealed later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Send your news to <a href=\"mailto:news@gamesround.com\">news@gamesround.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Awesome Games Done Quick has broken a new fundraising record for a single Games Done Quick event by collecting over $3.4 million for charity.\u00a0 Awesome Games Done Quick is a popular video game speedrunning marathon. Following the week-long 24-hour AGDQ 2022, Games Done Quick shared the news on&nbsp;Twitter, which raised a total of $3,416,729 for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5568,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2],"tags":[1252,1256,1253,1251,1254,1255],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5567"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5575,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5567\/revisions\/5575"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gamesround.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}