Friendly Fire (event) explained

Native Name:Friendly Fire
Genre:Gaming live stream
Starring:
  • Gronkh
  • Team PietSmiet
  • Pandorya
  • FisHC0p
  • Der Heider
  • PhunkRoyal
  • MrMoregame
Country:Germany
Language:German
Num Episodes:7 (+1 Special)
Executive Producer:Lena Laaser
Runtime:720 Minutes

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

EventYearTotal DonationsDonations by Viewers
Friendly Fire2015170,000€170,000€
Friendly Fire 22016300,000€[4] 200,000€
Friendly Fire 32017640,000€[5] 470,000€
Friendly Fire 42018888,000€[6] 620,000€
Friendly Fire 520191,190,000€[7] 730,000€
Friendly Distancing2020 (April)>162,000€[8] >147,000€
Friendly Fire 62020 (December)1,654,548€[9] 1,052,548€[10]
Friendly Fire 72021>1,860,000€>1,281,000€

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gameswirtschaft. 2020-04-15. Friendly Distancing: Corona-Stream spielt über 140.000 Euro ein. 2020-12-04. GamesWirtschaft.de. de-DE.
  2. Producer Mikkel Robrahn at the end of Friendly Fire 6
  3. Web site: Preisträger. 2020-12-04. Deutscher Computerspielpreis. de.
  4. News: SPIEGEL. Markus Böhm, DER. Friendly Fire II: So steht es um die deutsche Let's-Play-Szene - DER SPIEGEL - Netzwelt. 2020-12-04. Der Spiegel. 4 December 2016 . de.
  5. Web site: Gameswirtschaft. 2018-03-01. Friendly Fire 3: Charity-Livestream mit Rekord-Spendensumme. 2020-12-04. GamesWirtschaft.de. de-DE.
  6. Web site: Friendly Fire 2018 – mit betterplace.org!. 2020-12-04. Neues von betterplace.org. de.
  7. Web site: Gameswirtschaft. 2020-03-31. Friendly Fire 5: Spendensumme kratzt an 1,2 Mio. Euro-Marke / Termin für Corona-Stream. 2020-12-04. GamesWirtschaft.de. de-DE.
  8. According to friendly fire cast member Gronkh in his livestream from April 14, 2020
  9. Web site: Gameswirtschaft. 2021-04-09. Friendly Fire 6: Mehr als 1,6 Millionen Euro für den guten Zweck (Update). 2021-04-11. GamesWirtschaft.de. de-DE.
  10. Web site: Fire. Team Friendly. Friendly Fire 6. 2020-12-06. betterplace.org. de.