Tournament information | |
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Game | Free Fire |
Location | Online |
Dates | 21–29 November 2024 |
Administrator | Garena |
Venue | 3 Tournaments (Asia, Americas, EMEA) |
Participants | Total 57 teams (19 from Asia, 20 from Americas, 18 from EMEA) |
Website | ffesports |
The Free Fire Continental Series 2020 (FFCS) was a professional Free Fire world championship tournament hosted by Garena.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the FFWS for the 2020 season - alongside the 2020 Free Fire World Cup (FFWC) that was supposed to be held in Jakarta during the Summer, were both cancelled. Free Fire World Series 2020 had to be replaced with Free Fire Continental Series 2020 which was held to be on April 19. Free Fire Continental Series was held as 3 separate events for Asia, EMEA and Americas. The event was streamed live on YouTube and had 1.5 million peak live viewers. There was a prize pool of $300,000. In each region a total of 18 teams fought for a prize pool of $300,000. The Asian region winner was EXP Esports, the EMEA region winner was Sbornaya Chr, and the American region winner was Team Liquid. [1] [2] [3]
Tournament | Mode of Event | Champion & Runner up | 3rd Place | MVP of the Tournament | Number of Teams | Ref | |||
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Champion | Score | Runner-up | |||||||
2020 Asia | Online | EXP Esports | 161 | 160 | King of Gamers club | EVOS Divine | 19 | [4] | |
2020 EMEA | Sbornaya ChR | 158 | 124 | Silence | Stay Away | 20 | [5] | ||
2020 Americas | Team Liquid | 151 | 151 | Santos eSports | SS Esports | 18 | [6] |
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