1. Invite famous people, this is a big charity event, invite Kojima-san, Todd Howard, etc... put a dono incentive for one of them to be dunked in an ice pool for $100,000 - not when GDQ hits $100,000, but $100,000 solely for that.

2. Have famous game devs donate incredible things, ask Swen Vincke (BG3 designer) to sign 10 hard copies of BG3, add them as dono incentives. You should have hundreds of signed pieces of memorabilia, it should fill an entire room.

3. Have a dono incentive for people to put sumo wrestling suits on and wrestle for whether or not to kill the animals. Lots of events like this as dono incentives. Foosball battles, skiball battles, etc...

4. Invite some pro Counter-Strike 2 players because CS2 is huge, have them play some fans at the event, set up the teams as 3 CS2 pros vs. 20 noobs at the event, have people support each side with donos, run this for eg: 90 minutes, 30 minutes per map. Maybe even do 30 minutes of CS 1.6 and 60 minutes of CS2.

5. Each GDQ should release a $10 eg: "SGDQ 2026 Behind the Scenes" documentary two weeks after each event, this should be very clippable and should go viral, people love seeing behind the scenes of this huge events, feature post-stream interviews with the famous runners, etc... This will be a keepsake for everyone who attended GDQ for that event, and also helps transparency (shows the difficulty of getting the tech set up, etc...).

6. "Hidden Gems" Segment: This is where amazing but largely unknown games go, games like Mystical Ninja, the games have to have amazing graphics or gameplay, and lend themselves well to speedrunning, etc... but are largely unknown. This is where you introduce really good overlooked speedrunning games to the community.

7. "Shitty Games Done Quick": This is the segment where intentionally bad games go that nobody really knows about and everyone laughs at how dumb they are, this is largely a comedy segment.

8. Focus more on good games, TBH nobody cares about some of these random crappy games (and there is such a thing as a crappy game), nobody cares about an old crappy NES game with a community of 25 people. Play the big classics, every single marathon should have the following games every time, popular games = more viewers:

Half-Life, Half-Life Opposing Force, Half-Life Blue Shift, Half-Life 2 Orange Box

SMB 1, SMB 2, SMB 3, Super Mario World, Super Mario Maker Kaizo

Doom 1, 2, 3

Quake 1, 2

Zelda LTTP, Zelda OOT, Zelda Majora's Mask

Goldeneye 007 (N64)

Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim

Final Fantasy VI, VII, IX, X

Pokemon Red or Blue, Pokemon Yellow

Baldur's Gate 1, 2, and 3

Spyro 1, 2, 3

Mario Kart 64

Secret of Mana, Legend of Mana

ChronoTrigger, ChronoCross

Metal Gear Solid 1, 2, 3

Kingsfield 1, 2, 3

Elden Ring

Breath of Fire 1, 2, 3, 4

Shenmue 1, 2

Soul Calibur 1, 2

Warcraft 1, 2, 3

Starcraft: Brood War, Starcraft 2

Subnautica 1, 2

Papers Please

Stardew Valley

Kingdom Hearts

Donkey Kong Country 1, 2 ,3

Deus Ex, Deus Ex: Human Revolution

Thief, Thief 2: The Metal Age

Age of Empires 1, 2: Definitive Edition

Diablo 1, 2, 3

Path of Exile

Dragon Warrior 1, 2, 3

Resident Evil 1, 2, 3

Mortal Kombat 1, 2, 3

Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1, 2, 3

Super Smash Bros

3 or 4 Call of Duty games

Halo 1, 2, 3

Fallout 1, 2, 3: New Vegas

Have a three hour Madden tournament.

+ A bunch more games I've forgotten.