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Kyle Campbell

Speedrunners raise more than $3.4 Million for charity

Every winter, Games Done Quick holds a week-long speedrunning event  on Twitch  where people race through video games as fast as possible. All the while, viewers make charitable donations during the broadcast, and 2022 was a record-smashing success.

Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) 2022 began Jan. 9 and wrapped up Sunday after raising over $3.4 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. As with last year’s event, AGDQ 2022 was held online to ensure participants’ safety during the ongoing pandemic and prevent any  last-minute cancellations  from happening. 

According to AGDQ’s press release, there were several world records broken during the event, including:

The most jaw-dropping spectacle during AGDQ 2022 was runner Mitchriz finishing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice  while blindfolded. Yes, he made it through the notoriously challenging action game by FromSoftware while being unable to see — in about two hours, no less. What’s even more bananas is rarely took damage from bosses.

Check out a clip of Mitchriz’s Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice run below. There’s a high-quality YouTube mirror here as well.

Games Done Quick’s next event will be the Frost Fatales, which begins on Feb. 27 and goes until March 5 on Twitch.

Written by Kyle Campbell on behalf of GLHF.

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