AGDQ 2025: Over $2.5M Raised for Charity

Summary

• Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 raised over $2.5 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, surpassing the 2024 total by $100,000.
• The organization's mission is focused on early cancer detection and prevention, along with funding research and outreach programs.
• The 18-minute Crazy Taxi run stole the show, raising over $24,000 in donations.

From January 5 to January 13, the Awesome Games Done Quick (AGDQ) 2025 event raised over $2.5 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, exceeding the 2024 event's total by over $100,000. This annual winter event by Games Done Quick (GDQ) featured speedruns of various games, including Crazy Taxi, Super Metroid, and other titles across multiple genres.

Awesome Games Done Quick is one of GDQ's two main events held each year, with the other being Summer Games Done Quick in July. GDQ also organizes smaller events such as Frame Fatales and GDQ Express to keep the momentum going between the major marathons. In October 2024, GDQ hosted an impromptu Disaster Relief Done Quick event in response to Hurricane Helene's devastation in the Southeastern US, raising over $45,000 in just over two days for Direct Relief, a charity focused on emergency supplies, transportation, and medical response.

With the new year underway, Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 raised a remarkable $2.5 million for cancer research, surpassing the previous year's total by more than $100,000. The Prevent Cancer Foundation, which focuses on early cancer detection, prevention, research, and outreach programs, has benefited from over $26 million raised by GDQ events over the years. AGDQ 2025, held in Pittsburgh, kicked off with a swift run of the Switch version of Pikmin by speedrunner Ray0ken, completed within an hour.

Awesome Games Done Quick 2025 Raises Over $2.5 Million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation

One of the standout moments of AGDQ 2025 was a run of Crazy Taxi, a popular Dreamcast game. Despite challenges with copyrighted music, speedrunner Chuckles825 performed an 18-minute run accompanied by a live band playing the game's soundtrack, raising over $24,000 in donations.

The event concluded with a thrilling randomized four-player race of the SNES classic Super Metroid, where runners Eddie and Andy finished within a second of each other. GDQ will return for Summer Games Done Quick 2025 in Minneapolis on July 6, supporting Doctors Without Borders.