Awesome Games Done Quick 2019: Day 4 schedule and runs to watch

Games Done Quick is back to help kick off a new year by celebrating games and finishing them fast. Awesome Games Done Quick is an annual event that invites the world's best speedrunners to run through the greatest games of the past and present as quickly as possible. They'll raise money for charity as they leave broken records behind them and celebrate the speedrunning community in the process.

This year kicks off a new era for Awesome Games Done Quick, as this year's event is being held in an all-new venue. The week takes place from the Marriott Bethesda North Hotel in Rockville, Maryland. They will be raising money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation. The event has begun and GDQ has raised over $315,000 in just two days. Shacknews is here with a handful of noteworthy runs from throughout the week that should not be missed.

Before getting into the Day 4 schedule, let's look back at a Day 3 highlight. Come on, Glackum! Come on, Glackum!

Here's the full schedule for Day 4, taken from the Games Done Quick website, along with a handful of noteworthy runs to check out:

11:12AM - Halo: Reach

With the Halo franchise ready to resume soon with the upcoming Halo: Infinite, it's time to revisit what some consider to be the franchise's peak. Halo: Reach is an epic campaign, particularly on Legendary difficulty. Speedrunning it alone is one thing, but a co-op run requires more strategy, better coordination, and a little better luck. WoLfy and Pedrogas will team up and look to finish this campaign off in just under two hours.

6:54PM - Mega Man X 1-3 team relay race

Team relays are often the highlight of any Games Done Quick week. This time around, it's three teams of runners looking to blaze through the Super NES Mega Man X trilogy. Each of these games has their own distinct shortcuts and glitches and these teams will all combine their forces to put all of that magic to work.

10:49PM - The Awful Games Done Quick block

It might look like another entry into the Mega Man block, but those terrible-looking sprites and the ugly-as-sin graphics of the DOS version of Mega Man can only mean one thing. The Awful Games Done Quick block has arrived. The top runners in the world will pull an all-nighter to try and plow through the kinds of bad games that would make the Angry Video Game Nerd hang his head in shame. They'll make the best of a bad game by offering insightful commentary, interacting with whatever crowd members are still awake, and generally lending some levity to the proceedings.

Awesome Games Done Quick 2019 will take place from now through Saturday, January 12. For more, check out the Games Done Quick website and be sure to watch all of the action from Twitch. Also, be sure to check out our TwitchCon interview with GDQ's Matt Merkle.

Ozzie Mejia

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Ozzie has been playing video games since picking up his first NES controller at age 5. He has been into games ever since, only briefly stepping away during his college years. But he was pulled back in after spending years in QA circles for both THQ and Activision, mostly spending time helping to push forward the Guitar Hero series at its peak. Ozzie has become a big fan of platformers, puzzle games, shooters, and RPGs, just to name a few genres, but he’s also a huge sucker for anything with a good, compelling narrative behind it. Because what are video games if you can't enjoy a good story with a fresh Cherry Coke?