Friendly Fire (event)


Friendly Fire
Friendly Fire
GenreGaming 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
Original release
ReleaseDecember 12, 2015 (2015-12-12)
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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]

  1. ^ Gameswirtschaft (2020-04-15). "Friendly Distancing: Corona-Stream spielt über 140.000 Euro ein". GamesWirtschaft.de (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-04.
  2. ^ Producer Mikkel Robrahn at the end of Friendly Fire 6
  3. ^ "Preisträger". Deutscher Computerspielpreis (in German). Retrieved 2020-12-04.