Summer Games Done Quick (SGDQ) released the full schedule for its return to in-person activities for 2023. The charity speed-running event takes place in Minneapolis from May 28th to June 4th. This year, the organizers added a slew of Zelda runs in honor of the upcoming , which gamers will spend countless hours exploring beginning next month. Of course, the event will stream live on Twitch for those who can’t make it to Minnesota.
The full schedule starts with a pre-show followed by a run on May 28th and wraps up with a run and an unknown finale on June 3rd. The last day also includes and a blindfolded run of . Sightless speed runs have been a popular GDQ mainstay, with previous years including memorable blindfolded play-throughs of and .
Other Zelda games in the SGDQ 2023 lineup include (Switch) on May 28th, (3DS) on May 29th, (Nintendo 64) on May 31st, s (GameCube) on June 1st and (Game Boy Advance) on June 2nd. The Zelda franchise should be frontmost on the minds of many gamers during this year’s event as the latest installment, , launches on May 12th.
If big-name series aren’t your thing, the 2023 event will include plenty of cult-classic and oddball runs. For example, you can tune into on June 1st, on May 31st and the NES adventure on May 30th. (And you won’t want to miss on June 1st.) You can read the full schedule for many more runs, including , s and
It should be lighthearted fun for a terrific cause, as 100 percent of all donations go to Doctors Without Borders. The event typically raises millions of dollars for the charity, which provides medical and humanitarian care to people in over 70 countries affected by crises like war, natural disasters and epidemics. In its return as an in-person event, attendees must provide proof of COVID-19 vaccination and wear a KN95 / N95 / KF94 mask. You can register to attend on the organization’s website.