Friendly Fire (event)


Friendly Fire
Friendly Fire
GenreGaming live stream
Starring
  • Gronkh
  • Team PietSmiet
  • Pandorya
  • FisHC0p
  • Der Heider
  • PhunkRoyal
  • MrMoregame
Country of originGermany
Original languageGerman
No. of episodes7 (+1 Special)
Production
Executive producerLena Laaser
Running time720 Minutes
Original release
ReleaseDecember 12, 2015 (2015-12-12)

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 4, 2021. Each stream is around 12h long and consists of a series of games and challenges. Friendly Fire collected a total of over 6.5 Million € (7 Million US$) in donation money from viewers and sponsors. The money gets split equally between each years charities.

Friendly Fire 9 will be on December 2, 2023, at 3pm CET.[2]

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

Donations

Event Year Total Donations Donations by Viewers
Friendly Fire 2015 170,000€ 170,000€
Friendly Fire 2 2016 300,000€[4] 200,000€
Friendly Fire 3 2017 640,000€[5] 470,000€
Friendly Fire 4 2018 888,000€[6] 620,000€
Friendly Fire 5 2019 1,190,000€[7] 730,000€
Friendly Distancing 2020 (April) >162,000€[8] >147,000€
Friendly Fire 6 2020 (December) 1,654,548€[9] 1,052,548€[10]
Friendly Fire 7 2021 >1,860,000€ >1,281,000€

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 (4 December 2016). "Friendly Fire II: So steht es um die deutsche Let's-Play-Szene - DER SPIEGEL - Netzwelt". Der Spiegel (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-04.{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  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. ^ Gameswirtschaft (2021-04-09). "Friendly Fire 6: Mehr als 1,6 Millionen Euro für den guten Zweck (Update)". GamesWirtschaft.de (in German). Retrieved 2021-04-11.
  10. ^ Fire, Team Friendly. "Friendly Fire 6". betterplace.org (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-06.