Engineering:Friendly Fire (event)

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Short description: Charity gaming live stream event
Friendly Fire
Friendly Fire
GenreGaming live stream
Starring
  • Gronkh
  • Team PietSmiet
  • Pandorya
  • FisHC0p
  • Der Heider
  • PhunkRoyal
  • MrMoregame
Country of originGermany
Original language(s)German
No. of episodes7 (+1 Special)
Production
Executive producer(s)Lena Laaser
Running time720 Minutes
Release
Original 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" (in de-DE). https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/events/friendly-distancing-livestream-spendensumme/. 
  2. ↑ Producer Mikkel Robrahn at the end of Friendly Fire 6
  3. ↑ "Preisträger" (in de). https://deutscher-computerspielpreis.de/preistraeger. 
  4. ↑ SPIEGEL, Markus Böhm, DER (4 December 2016). "Friendly Fire II: So steht es um die deutsche Let's-Play-Szene - DER SPIEGEL - Netzwelt" (in de). Der Spiegel. https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/games/friendly-fire-ii-so-steht-es-um-die-deutsche-let-s-play-szene-a-1124332.html. 
  5. ↑ Gameswirtschaft (2018-03-01). "Friendly Fire 3: Charity-Livestream mit Rekord-Spendensumme" (in de-DE). https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/marketing-pr/friendly-fire-3-spendensumme-zuschauerzahlen/. 
  6. ↑ "Friendly Fire 2018 – mit betterplace.org!" (in de). https://www.betterplace.org/c/neues/friendly-fire-4. 
  7. ↑ Gameswirtschaft (2020-03-31). "Friendly Fire 5: Spendensumme kratzt an 1,2 Mio. Euro-Marke / Termin für Corona-Stream" (in de-DE). https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/events/friendly-fire-5-spendensumme-corona-stream/. 
  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)" (in de-DE). https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/events/friendly-fire-6-spendensumme-ff7/. 
  10. ↑ Fire, Team Friendly. "Friendly Fire 6" (in de). https://www.betterplace.org/de/fundraising-events/36081-friendly-fire-6. 



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