Sunday saw another amazing week of speedrunning come to an end, as the curtain fell on Summer Games Done Quick 2019. For seven days, players from all over the world descended on the DoubleTree Hilton Bloomington-Minneapolis Hotel in Minnesota to burn their way through a catalogue of amazing video games and Last Action Hero, while viewers generously offered up donations for a worthy cause.
When the closing credits rolled on the last game of the week – beloved SNES RPG Chrono Trigger – everybody watching at home and in attendance was gobsmacked by an incredible final total of $3,004,039, smashing last year’s total by almost a million dollars. The money raised will be going toward international organisation Medecins Sans Frontieres, a network of medical aid professionals who provide relief, medicine and care wherever it is needed worldwide, regardless of race, creed or political persuasion.
Source: Destructoid Summer Games Done Quick 2019 raised a staggering million for charity