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The Games Done Quick (GDQ) brand is synonymous with two things: the niche esport of speedrunning and charity. Twice a year, the American organizer hosts a marathon attracting speedrunning gamers across a plethora of titles and charitable video game enthusiasts from everywhere.

In January and June, the Awesome Games Done Quick and Summer Games Done Quick weeklong marathons are broadcast with donations for GDQ’s Twitch channel going to the Prevent Cancer Foundation. This year both its events raised more than $2M USD.

As if anyone needed more proof that Twitch viewers show up for charity, GDQ’s audience metrics on the platform this year further demonstrate the activist nature of gamers.

Despite GDQ’s Twitch channel primarily being inactive outside of its two big yearly marathons, the “gamesdonequick” channel has managed to keep itself on the list of top 10 most watched Twitch channels nearly 11 months into the year.

Though GDQ occasionally hosts shorter special marathons, the bulk of its work is done during Awesome Games Done Quick and Summer Games Done Quick, and the channel has only posted 571.4 total hours of broadcasting. For comparison, Twitch’s top streamer Tyler “Ninja” Blevins has 3.02K hours of airtime this year so far. Even an esports channel like the Overwatch League, which has largely been inactive during the offseason, has recorded 1.95K airtime.

While Summer Games Done Quick reeled in 17.19M hours watched with an average of 79.25K concurrent viewers (CCV), Awesome Games Done Quick in January posted an even more impressive average CCV of 110.27K with 19.10M hours watched.

The surge in viewership those events bring to Twitch is unignorable. Though personality streamers and competitive leagues pull large numbers of hours watched by promoting themselves as much as possible and increasing their broadcast time, GDQ’s charity-first approach has turned its events into a must-watch for fans of gaming.