Awesome Games Done Quick 2012 was a speed run marathon done by a group of ~85 or so of us from SpeedDemosArchive (SDA) in an effort to raise money for the Prevent Cancer Foundation, a charity devoted to, as expected, fighting cancer by stopping it before it takes effect. This took place from January 4th through January 9th in Chevy Chase, MD, with nonstop back-to-back speed runs streamed live online during the entire duration of the marathon. Our very generous donors helped us raise over $149,000 for the Prevent Cancer Foundation! Thank you so much for all of you who supported this run either by watching or donating (or watching recorded runs such as this one)! We could not have done it without you all! I am very honored to have been able to contribute to this event!
I need to give a huge shoutout to UraniumAnchor for working so hard to upload all the marathon footage, and also a shoutout to everybody who has been helping find sync points for him Encoding/uploading nearly 130 hours of footage is just insanity. Thanks, everybody! I downloaded this run (and the others) off of the schedule page (speeddemosarchive.com/marathon...) for some shameless self-promotion. :P Thanks guys!
For this run, I was focusing more on trying to create a very entertaining run, instead of aiming for pure speed. As such, as a lot of my strategies are pretty slow/conservative. I'm really pleased with how this went, though!