{"id":4357,"date":"2017-11-03T11:15:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-03T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/awesome_games_done_quick_will_have_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_as_its_big_finale"},"modified":"2017-11-03T11:15:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-03T11:15:00","slug":"awesome-games-done-quick-will-have-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-as-its-big-finale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2017\/11\/03\/awesome-games-done-quick-will-have-zelda-breath-of-the-wild-as-its-big-finale\/","title":{"rendered":"Awesome Games Done Quick Will Have Zelda: Breath of the Wild as its Big Finale"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"picture embed centered picture-900x img-900x\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a title=\"Breath of the Wild.jpg\" href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/awesome_games_done_quick_will_have_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_as_its_big_finale\/attachment\/0\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2017\/11\/awesome_games_done_quick_will_have_zelda_breath_of_the_wild_as_its_big_finale\/attachment\/0\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"Breath of the Wild.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Twice a year we have Games Done Quick events, in which there&#8217;s a full week of speedrunning to raise money for charity. They&#8217;re hugely popular, and the Summer event raised an eye-watering <strong>$1,792,632<\/strong>, which is fantastic.<\/p>\n<p>The January event is running from 7th to 14th January at The Holiday Inn Dulles Hotel in Herndon, Virginia, though the vast majority watch it all online. The charity that&#8217;ll benefit this time is Prevent Cancer Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Now the event has unveiled its full schedule, and it&#8217;s rather interesting. Of note is the fact that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/nintendo-switch\/legend_of_zelda_breath_of_the_wild\"><strong>The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild<\/strong><\/a> has been chosen as the big finale &#8211; atz will do the run which requires completion of all main quests with no amiibo. In fact the final stretch is focused on Nintendo, with <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/legend_of_zelda_a_link_to_the_past\">The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past<\/a><\/strong> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/super_mario_world\"><strong>Super Mario World<\/strong><\/a> preceding that finale.<\/p>\n<p>You should check out <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/gamesdonequick.com\/schedule\">the full schedule<\/a>, which has plenty of retro Nintendo games along with a broad range of multi-platform and modern titles. It&#8217;ll be a good watch to get us up and running in the New Year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twice a year we have Games Done Quick events, in which there&#8217;s a full week of speedrunning to raise money for charity. They&#8217;re hugely popular, and the Summer event raised an eye-watering $1,792,632, which is fantastic. The January event is running from 7th to 14th January at The Holiday Inn Dulles Hotel in Herndon, Virginia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4357\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}