: Speedrunner and forum-goer in non-residence Goatrope will be playing through
: the original Halo as fast as he can on June 26 th for donations, as
: part of Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ). SGDQ is an annual event (or
: biannual if you count Awesome Games Done Quick as the same thing) put on
: by Speed Demos Archive (SDA) where people speedrun games (play them as
: fast as possible) and stream it on-line for donations. There are often
: prizes that can be won by donating a specific amount (or more than that)
: during a specific time, and people can bid to influence (to some degree)
: which games are played and to choose options such as the names of saved
: games. When it starts, you'll be able to watch it on GamesDoneQuick.com
: or on SDA's Twitch channel, SpeedDemosArchiveSDA (going to their site's
: front page during the marathon will redirect you to GamesDoneQuick.com).
: This year all donations from SGDQ will go to Doctors Without Borders .
: Since the goal is to get through games as fast as possible, and various
: things including random chance can change how long that takes, the time
: and day that Halo or any game will be run might change. You can check the
: most recent time estimates here .
: This has been going for five or six years now (I've been following it since
: the third year, I think, and I've lost count of how many of these have
: happened) and it's gone from a quiet niche thing held in someone's
: basement for a few days to raising over a million dollars ( >
: $1,000,000 ) at the last Awesome Games Done Quick event. These people are
: serious about speedrunning, charity, and entertainment-- the confluence is
: truly awesome to behold, for example speedrunning the first world in Super
: Mario Bros. blindfolded because people gave thousands of dollars. As for
: Halo, Goatrope recently found a new trick to use in speedrunning Halo 1,
: which I assume he will show on the stream.
: If you have schedule conflicts, you have about a month to fix them, and I
: suggest you do so, because if you watch one thing this June, if you watch
: one thing this summer, I think it should be this.
^ I meant to bump this a few days ago, but if you missed it, well, there you go ^
