Summer Games Done Quick 2026 Day 2: Super Mario Odyssey on Switch 2 Headlines
Summer Games Done Quick’s second full day of speedrunning delivered exactly what Nintendo fans were hoping for: runner CheeseJay finished a full “All Story Moons” clear of Super Mario Odyssey running on Switch 2 hardware in 1 hour, 25 minutes and 56 seconds, according to the official Games Done Quick broadcast archive. The run anchored a Day 2 lineup for the week-long charity marathon that also featured PS5 showcase title Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart and a modded BioShock Infinite category, all raising money for Doctors Without Borders.
CheeseJay Turns Odyssey’s Moon Hunt Into a Sub-90-Minute Showcase
The Mario run was one of the most anticipated slots of the night. Kotaku’s preview of the day singled out the kinetic movement techniques of platformers as a highlight, noting “a run of Super Mario Odyssey starts at 7:15 PM Eastern today.” Blizzard Watch’s preview of the marathon’s must-watch runs similarly flagged the slot, previewing an “All Story Moons” run by CheeseJay, arguing that “Odyssey’s movement tech may offer some of the most potential for inhuman combos, and the fact that it’s an All Moons run means we’ll get to see a whole lot of incredible platforming.”
The published recording of the run, uploaded to the official Games Done Quick YouTube channel, confirms the final clear time of 1:25:56, with commentary handled by Phillie and Karatemanfletchisafurry hosting. Odyssey has become a recurring GDQ fixture over the years thanks to its dense skip routes, but staging it on Nintendo’s newer console gave longtime viewers a fresh technical wrinkle to watch for.
Ratchet & Clank and BioShock Infinite Fill Out Prime Time
Odyssey wasn’t the only console spectacle on the Monday schedule. Runner Bdud5 chased every Gold Bolt in Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart on PS5, a category tracked separately by the fan-run statistics site GDQ Stats, which logged the completed run at roughly 1 hour and 36 minutes. Elsewhere in the evening block, a modded run of BioShock Infinite and a Star Wars Jedi Knight: Dark Forces II attempt kept the marathon’s classic-and-cult streak going into the early hours, echoing the mix of eras that has defined this year’s event.
Twitch VOD listings tracked by third-party archiving service StreamRecorder corroborate the same run order for July 6-7, showing back-to-back segments for BioShock Infinite, Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart, and the Nintendo 64 novelty Hey You, Pikachu!, all broadcast under the marathon’s official “SGDQ 2026 benefiting Doctors Without Borders” stream title.
Hey You, Pikachu! Cashes In as the Marathon’s First Bonus Game
Games Done Quick traditionally reserves certain runs as “bonus games” that only unlock once viewers clear a donation incentive during the broadcast. Shacknews flagged this ahead of Day 2, noting “Games Done Quick has lined up something special for this summer’s first bonus game.” That slot went to the Nintendo 64 curiosity Hey You, Pikachu!, a title better remembered as a footnote in Pokémon history — built around a microphone peripheral for talking to the on-screen Pikachu — than as a competitive speedrunning staple, giving the marathon one of its more novelty-driven segments of the week.
Doctors Without Borders Total Keeps Climbing Through the Week
Summer Games Done Quick 2026 is running from July 5 through July 11 out of Minneapolis, Minnesota, with every donation going to Doctors Without Borders, also known as Médecins Sans Frontières. Shacknews reported that after one day, the runners had raised over $125,000, a figure that continued building through the week; a later Shacknews update on the marathon’s sixth day noted that after five days, the runners have raised over $987,000. Games Done Quick’s charity marathons have collectively raised more than $60 million since the organisation’s founding, a running total the group cites ahead of each new event.
The event is being held on-site at a Minneapolis hotel venue with a full slate of in-person activities alongside the broadcast, but the vast majority of its audience — including fans across New Zealand and Australia — follows along purely through the free Twitch and YouTube streams. Because Day 2’s headline runs landed in the US evening, viewers on this side of the Pacific catching up after work or school can find CheeseJay’s Odyssey clear, the Ratchet & Clank Gold Bolt run and the BioShock Infinite category already archived on Games Done Quick’s YouTube channel for on-demand viewing.
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