Friendly Fire (event)

{{Infobox television

| native_name = Friendly Fire

| genre = Gaming live stream

| starring = * Gronkh

Team PietSmiet
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MrMoregame

| country = Germany

| language = German

| num_episodes = 7 (+1 Special)

| executive_producer = Lena Laaser

| runtime = 720 Minutes

| first_aired = {{Start date|2015|12|12}}

| image =

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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.{{Cite web|last=Gameswirtschaft|date=2020-04-15|title=Friendly Distancing: Corona-Stream spielt über 140.000 Euro ein|url=https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/events/friendly-distancing-livestream-spendensumme/|access-date=2020-12-04|website=GamesWirtschaft.de|language=de-DE}} 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.Producer Mikkel Robrahn at the end of Friendly Fire 6

The event won several awards, including the German computer games award in 2018.{{Cite web|title=Preisträger|url=https://deutscher-computerspielpreis.de/preistraeger|access-date=2020-12-04|website=Deutscher Computerspielpreis|language=de}}

Donations

class="wikitable"

!Event

!Year

!Total Donations

!Donations by Viewers

Friendly Fire

|2015

|170,000€

Friendly Fire 2

|2016

|300,000€{{Cite news|last=SPIEGEL|first=Markus Böhm, DER|title=Friendly Fire II: So steht es um die deutsche Let's-Play-Szene - DER SPIEGEL - Netzwelt|url=https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/games/friendly-fire-ii-so-steht-es-um-die-deutsche-let-s-play-szene-a-1124332.html|access-date=2020-12-04|newspaper=Der Spiegel|date=4 December 2016 |language=de}}

|200,000€

Friendly Fire 3

|2017

|640,000€{{Cite web|last=Gameswirtschaft|date=2018-03-01|title=Friendly Fire 3: Charity-Livestream mit Rekord-Spendensumme|url=https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/marketing-pr/friendly-fire-3-spendensumme-zuschauerzahlen/|access-date=2020-12-04|website=GamesWirtschaft.de|language=de-DE}}

|470,000€

Friendly Fire 4

|2018

|888,000€{{Cite web|title=Friendly Fire 2018 – mit betterplace.org!|url=https://www.betterplace.org/c/neues/friendly-fire-4|access-date=2020-12-04|website=Neues von betterplace.org|language=de}}

|620,000€

Friendly Fire 5

|2019

|1,190,000€{{Cite web|last=Gameswirtschaft|date=2020-03-31|title=Friendly Fire 5: Spendensumme kratzt an 1,2 Mio. Euro-Marke / Termin für Corona-Stream|url=https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/events/friendly-fire-5-spendensumme-corona-stream/|access-date=2020-12-04|website=GamesWirtschaft.de|language=de-DE}}

|730,000€

Friendly Distancing

|2020 (April)

|>162,000€According to friendly fire cast member Gronkh in his livestream from April 14, 2020

|>147,000€

Friendly Fire 6

|2020 (December)

|1,654,548€{{Cite web|last=Gameswirtschaft|date=2021-04-09|title=Friendly Fire 6: Mehr als 1,6 Millionen Euro für den guten Zweck (Update)|url=https://www.gameswirtschaft.de/events/friendly-fire-6-spendensumme-ff7/|access-date=2021-04-11|website=GamesWirtschaft.de|language=de-DE}}

|1,052,548€{{Cite web|last=Fire|first=Team Friendly|title=Friendly Fire 6|url=https://www.betterplace.org/de/fundraising-events/36081-friendly-fire-6|access-date=2020-12-06|website=betterplace.org|language=de}}

Friendly Fire 7

|2021

|1,984,400€

|>1,281,000€

Friendly Fire 8

|2022

|1,783,208€

|>1,000,000€

Friendly Fire 9

|2023

|1,428,733€

|>1,038,000€