Friendly Fire (event)

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Friendly Fire
Friendly Fire
Genre Gaming 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
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

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€

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References

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  2. Producer Mikkel Robrahn at the end of Friendly Fire 6
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  8. According to friendly fire cast member Gronkh in his livestream from April 14, 2020
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