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 | |
|---|---|
| Friendly Fire | |
| Genre | Gaming live stream |
| Starring |
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| Country of origin | Germany |
| Original language | German |
| No. of episodes | 7 (+1 Special) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer | Lena Laaser |
| Running time | 720 Minutes |
| Original release | |
| Release | December 12, 2015 |
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
edit| 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
edit- ^ Gameswirtschaft (2020-04-15). "Friendly Distancing: Corona-Stream spielt über 140.000 Euro ein". GamesWirtschaft.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ Producer Mikkel Robrahn at the end of Friendly Fire 6
- ^ "Preisträger". Deutscher Computerspielpreis (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ 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) - ^ Gameswirtschaft (2018-03-01). "Friendly Fire 3: Charity-Livestream mit Rekord-Spendensumme". GamesWirtschaft.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ "Friendly Fire 2018 – mit betterplace.org!". Neues von betterplace.org (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
- ^ 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.
- ^ According to friendly fire cast member Gronkh in his livestream from April 14, 2020
- ^ 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.
- ^ Fire, Team Friendly. "Friendly Fire 6". betterplace.org (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-06.