Video gamers at Summer Games Done Quick 2025 aim to raise millions for MSF's humanitarian work
Thousands of gamers are converging in-person to set speedrun records to raise funds for MSF!
SGDQ by Wes "Fish" Chan
Video gamers will raise millions of dollars in partnership with Doctors Without Borders — be a part of the community and watch and donate at Twitch and Games Done Quick!
From July 6-13, hundreds of thousands of gamers from around the world are tuning into Twitch to watch video game speedrunners set records while raising funds and awareness for humanitarian medical aid.
Games Done Quick is a series of charity video game marathons, featuring high-level gameplay by speedrunners raising money for charity. Summer Games Done Quick is held every summer in partnership with Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières. This year, SGDQ will be held in-person and online, 24 hours a day, from July 6-13 at gamesdonequick.com.
Watch how we kicked-off SGDQ 2024!
2025 event schedule
- View the 2025 event schedule here
- Check out these highly anticipated games our team is looking forward to watching:
- We Love Katamari REROLL+, Tuesday, July 8 at 7:44 AM ET
- Tetris 99, Wednesday, July 9 at 5:50 PM ET
- Celeste, Saturday, July 12 at 3:46 PM ET
Make a donation and join the cause!
- You can make a donation to the event through Games Done Quick's website
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Event Sponsors
Thank you to AMD and The Yetee, our Platinum sponsors for Summer Games Done Quick 2025!
We are grateful to all SGDQ 2025 corporate sponsors. To learn more about how your company can support Doctors Without Borders, visit our corporate support page.
Summer Games Done Quick raises millions each year to support lifesaving humanitarian aid around the world
As hundreds of thousands of fans stream the live event, speedrunners demonstrate their incredible video game prowess and challenge their audience to raise money for Doctors Without Borders. In exchange, they perform even more impressive in-game feats!
What is speedrunning?
Speedrunning has its own community within the video game world, where the only thing that matters is beating any video game as fast as possible, and by any means necessary. Discovering new glitches, skips, or other tricks that manipulate game mechanics is encouraged and these techniques are always at their disposal—even if it sometimes breaks the game! Millions of fans tune into live streams to watch speedrunners each year.
Games Done Quick has partnered with Doctors Without Borders since 2013, setting awesome new records for fundraising year after year:
- Summer Games Done Quick Online 2020: $2,345,786 raised
- Summer Games Done Quick Online 2021: $2,938,714 raised
- Summer Games Done Quick 2022: $3,051,055 raised
- Summer Games Done Quick 2023: $2,246,251 raised
- Summer Games Done Quick 2024: $2,576,741 raised
