Friendly Fire (event)

Friendly Fire is a charity event by German YouTubers and streamers on the live streaming service Twitch. It takes place once a year since 2015 on the first Saturday in December. There was one special on April 12, 2020 collecting money for victims of the COVID-19 pandemic.[1] The most recent stream was on December 5, 2020. Each stream is around 12h long and consists of a series of games and challenges. Friendly Fire collected a total of over 4.95 Million € (6 Million $) in donation money from viewers and sponsors. The money gets split equally between each years charities.

Friendly Fire
Friendly Fire
GenreGaming live stream
Starring
  • Gronkh
  • Team PietSmiet
  • Pandorya
  • FisHC0p
  • Der Heider
  • PhunkRoyal
  • MrMoregame
Country of originGermany
Original languageGerman
No. of episodes6 (+1 Special)
Production
Executive producerMikkel Robrahn
Running time720 Minutes
Release
Original releaseDecember 12, 2015 on Twitch

Friendly Fire 7 will be on December 4, 2021 at 3pm CET.[2]

The event won several awards, including the German computer games award in 2018.[3]

Donations

Year Total Donations Donations by Viewers
2015 170,000€ 170,000€
2016 300,000€[4] 200,000€
2017 640,000€[5] 470,000€
2018 888,000€[6] 620,000€
2019 1,190,000€[7] 730,000€
2020 (April) >162,000€[8] >147,000€
2020 (December) >1,600,000€[2] 1,054,548€[9]

References

  1. Gameswirtschaft (2020-04-15). "Friendly Distancing: Corona-Stream spielt über 140.000 Euro ein". GamesWirtschaft.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  2. Producer Mikkel Robrahn at the end of Friendly Fire 6
  3. "Preisträger". Deutscher Computerspielpreis (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  4. SPIEGEL, Markus Böhm, DER. "Friendly Fire II: So steht es um die deutsche Let's-Play-Szene - DER SPIEGEL - Netzwelt". www.spiegel.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  5. Gameswirtschaft (2018-03-01). "Friendly Fire 3: Charity-Livestream mit Rekord-Spendensumme". GamesWirtschaft.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  6. "Friendly Fire 2018 – mit betterplace.org!". Neues von betterplace.org (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  7. Gameswirtschaft (2020-03-31). "Friendly Fire 5: Spendensumme kratzt an 1,2 Mio. Euro-Marke / Termin für Corona-Stream". GamesWirtschaft.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  8. According to friendly fire cast member Gronkh in his livestream from April 14, 2020
  9. Fire, Team Friendly. "Friendly Fire 6". betterplace.org (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-06.
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