Summer Games Done Quick 2020 Cancels On-Site Event, Moves Online

Games Done Quick has announced that its physical Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) 2020 event has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but an online event will take its place to allow runners to "participate from the safety of their homes." Summer Games Done Quick 2020 Online will run from August 16-23, 2020 in support of Doctors Without Borders / Médecins Sans Frontières. 100% of all donations go directly to Doctors Without Borders and Games Done Quick has raised over $26 million for charities around the world since 2010. [ignvideo url="https://www.ign.com/videos/2018/07/04/the-celeste-speedrun-that-wasnt-humanly-possible"] "We would like to thank the community for its patience while we were figuring out the best way to proceed with Summer Games Done Quick 2020," said Kasumi Yogi, Director of Marketing and Business Development at Games Done Quick. "We're excited to continue showcasing some of the most talented speedrunners in the world while observing best practices to keep everyone safe in the midst of a global pandemic." Games Done Quick also holds the Awesome Games Done Quick event in the Winter, and the last one took place earlier this year and raised over $3.13 million for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. The over 54,000 donations were from over 80 countries. Games Done Quick also recently held a speedrunning marathon to help raise funds against the COVID-19 pandemic called Corona Relief Done Quick. It was held in April 2020 and raised over $400,000. [widget path="global/article/imagegallery" parameters="albumSlug=games-to-play-while-stuck-at-home&captions=true"] For more on speedrunning, be sure to check out our Devs React series where developers watch speedrunners race through their games. Some of the latest runs were from Darksiders Genesis, Resident Evil 2, Dead Cells, Doom Eternal, and Half-Life 2. [poilib element="accentDivider"] Have a tip for us? Want to discuss a possible story? Please send an email to newstips@ign.com. Adam Bankhurst is a news writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @AdamBankhurst and on Twitch.

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