Summer games are made fast raises $ 2.4 million for charity

During the first full week of July, Summer games made fast (SGDQ) 2025 Marathon event collected over $ 2.4 million for Doctors Without Borders, which is a similar amount collected during January's fantastic games made quick events. The 2025 summer games made fast marathon were highlighted by speedruns of classic games that Sonic The Hedgehog 2 and Super Metroidalong with modern titles such as Deltarune.

Usually, at the end of June to early July, summer games that are done quickly are one of two main line events worth annually for charity by GDQ. Its headline marathon, fantastic games made quickly, takes place in early January. Between charity marathon, GDQ also has smaller events such as Flame Fatales and Black on a flash to give different speedrunners a chance to hone their craft. In addition, games that have been made quickly hosted for improvised events in response to natural disasters, such as Hurricane Helene 2024. Games made quick send their charity event live on Twitch, with Youtube height points of full gaming runs shortly after.

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Six months after fantastic games made the quick 2025 raised money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, gathered its summer equivalent to some remarkable donations of their own. From 6 to July 13, SGDQ 2025 collected over $ 2.4 million and counts for Doctors Without Borders, which is within $ 100,000 of the total collected during AGDQ 2025. According to doctors without limits for boundaries, the organization provides medical care to people around the world that are affected by war, natural disasters, outbursts and shift via conflict. Since 2013, SGDQ has taken up donations for Doctors Without Borders, with its highest sum until 2022 to over $ 3 million. The annual SGDQ event was held in Minneapolis and was kicked off by a run of Sonic The Hedgehog 2. The classic Genesis title was completed by Speedrunner Supersonic in under 38 minutes.

Annual SGDQ marathon collects over $ 2.4 million for Doctors Without Borders

Other games presented during SGDQ 2025 were races from classics that Sonic Adventure 2 and Super MetroidWith the latter who saw Speedrunners Eddie and Oatsngoats end within two seconds in succession. Although it did not get a new recording for 25th anniversary, Final Fantasy 9 was presented on the last day of SGDQ 2025. Despite a series of bad luck, Speedrunner Sylleath completed the fan favorite JRPG in under four hours.

The last game SGDQ 2025 was Deltarunewho saw all four available chapters beaten by Speedrunner Shayy in three hours and 45 minutes. Games made quickly will return in full force in early January, as AGDQ 2026 returns to Pittsburgh.

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