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Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 |OT| The 2nd Glitchiest Event of the Holidays!

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Nanashrew

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Welcome to the Awesome Games Done Quick 2021 thread! Congratulations, you made it through 2020. Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) is a long-running charity event where the speedrunning community comes together to raise money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. AGDQ 2021 will be running 24/7 from January 3rd to 10th, livestreamed on Twitch.TV, featuring many speedrunners from all over the world running many of your favourite games. Viewers are invited to donate in order to unlock bonus games and events, or to enter in to raffles to win cool prizes. Games Done Quick has raised over 28 Million US Dollars for charity since its inception, making it the largest fundraising event for Prevent Cancer Foundation (and Doctors Without Borders)! This year AGDQ will be held online due to the on-going apocalypse.
Want up to date info on Games Done Quick events!? Check out Games Done Quick on Twitter, Youtube, Twitch, and the Games Done Quick official website!


The Prevent Cancer Foundation is a United States-based non-profit organization which is dedicated to cancer prevention and early detection. Founded in 1985, the Prevent Cancer Foundation has won awards for transparency, and can average of 79 cents of every dollar donated goes directly in to the charity's programs, including cancer-related research, cancer awareness, and reducing the legal and economic barriers to cancer treatment. Find out more at www.PreventCancer.org
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Games Done Quick events are partnered with Twitch.TV! You can find all their events (including AGDQ, SGDQ, GDQX, Frame Fatales, GDQ Hotfix, and more!) on their official Twitch page:
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Fear not! With Awesome Games Done Quick running 24 hours a day, all week long, you're bound to miss some great runs. Fortunately, it's easy to find VODs on both Twitch and YouTube. /r/Speedrun has an updated VOD thread with timestamps for Twitch VODs, and GDQ gradually uploads runs to their YouTube channel. Even if you just missed the beginning of a run and want to rewind a short amount of time, Twitch automatically uploads a VOD of streams even if they're still live! You can find the current stream in the "Recent Broadcasts" header under Videos on the Games Done Quick Twitch page.
Games Done Quick Twitch VODs: https://www.twitch.tv/gamesdonequick/videos​
Games Done Quick YouTube VODs: https://www.youtube.com/user/gamesdonequick​
/r/Speedrun Live VODs Thread: AGDQ 2021 VoD Thread : speedrun (reddit.com)​

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All events, complete with Game, Runner, Runtime, and Donation reader in a handy format which automatically converts to your local time zone! Plan which days to skip out on work or class, or the optimal time to take a "bathroom break." Keep in mind that the schedule will shift over time as runs finish under- or over-estimate, and additional bonus events are added.

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Want to donate!? There are multiple ways to contribute! Donations can be made directly to PCF via Games Done Quick's portal. Alternatively, you can buy cool limited time T-Shirt, Buttons, and Banners from The Yetee, an official partner of Games Done Quick. All profits from this merch is donated to PCF via GDQ!

Want to see how high the donation total has gotten? Maybe you want to see the upcoming incentives or prizes? Games Done Quick provides a simple donation tracker!
Q: I really love Awesome Games Done Quick, but Twitch chat is awful! Where can I go to discuss the marathon free of spam, bigotry, and bad memes!?
A: We have a long running community which originally started as a private Twitch chat, and has since moved to Discord! Feel free to join us, just please read #info and familiarize yourself with the rules!​
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Q: WHAT THE HECK!? THEY'RE USING GLITCHES!
A: Speedrunning is the process of beating a game as fast as humanly possible! This includes the use of glitches. The number of glitches used varies by game, of course, and there are a variety of categories which each utilize different strategies. The schedule entry between the time slot and the system the game is being run on shows which category will be featured at AGDQ, including "any%", which is beating the game as fast as possible without restrictions, and "glitchless" or "no major glitches" categories which disallow some or all glitches.​

Q: Dang this is so cool! How can I watch more speedruns!?
A: The Games Done Quick Twitch channel hosts an increasingly varied number of events all year around. Other marathons (including European Speedrun Assembly, and a number of tournaments and community marathons) are regularly hosted all over Twitch. Simply searching for speedruns on Youtube, or glancing at the SpeedRuns.com leader boards will give you a host of awesome runs to watch.​
 
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SolidSnakeUS

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Since it's Prevent Cancer Foundation, I will definitely be donating. Dealing with cancer last year definitely gives you incentive to give to a good cause.
 
Platy

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Me at the start of the pandemic: I will learn how to do Mario 64 16 stars

Me at the end of 2020: Ok my time is around 45 minutes

This exactly games done quick:
Mario 64 16 stars in 45 minutes .... BLINDFOLDED
 
ZeroCoin

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Got my shirt in the mail this week so I'm ready to go. Great event that I love just leaving to stream in the house so the whole family can catch a bit throughout the day.
 

The FuzzPig

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I see they're playing the android version of sonic, is this the first time a phone/ tablet game has been played at one of these events? (Probably isn't, but the first I've noticed)

Looking forward to wild arms and golden sun, no idea how they're going to complete them that fast.
 
MoonCoffee8

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These events are big deals to me every year! It looks to be a reasonably good line-up this year, can't wait!
 
B4mv

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Had no idea this was coming so soon. I'm working from home most of this week, so this will be on a lot.
 

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Is that some Cyberpunk shade in the title? I approve.
 
Shan

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Gah, I hate how the castlevania block is always in the morning for some reasons...
Also sweet, Yakuza 6 and Timesplitters 2 on Friday.
 
chatsquared

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I swear, every time a GDQ ends I look at the date for the following event and whine because I feel like it's so far away, but then six months later it sneaks up on me and I'm stunned that it starts in a day. Thanks for the OT, super excited!
 
RedShift_

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That's great! Looks like there won't be any long JRPG runs, though. (The FF7 one is 2 hours... just how?!? Is there a new strat?)
A shame, but I guess that's expected given that they usually require more tha one runner in the same room.
 
Reanimatoin

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Looking at the AGDQ schedule and FF7 is on there, but it's the shitty PC version run thats boring as hell
Real disappointment since the last time the game was properly run, major skips have been found that make it a potential sub 7 hour game
But nope, boring PC wrong warp/debug room run
 
MangoUltz

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This snuck up on me too but so hype for it. Love GDQ, will have it on while working all week.
 
kyle mechlachlan

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Ok so am I to expect these skits and stuff through the whole show or is it just this preshow? Because this stuff is bad and unwatchable.
 
Platy

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