It was an eventful weekend for Free Fire!
We're excited to share with you more details on both.
1. FFCS: Play-ins Results
We concluded the Asia Series Play-ins yesterday – the top five teams have qualified for the Asia Series Grand Finals, joining the seven teams who earlier earned direct qualification by winning their local level tournament.
The 12 grand finalists will now compete in the Asia Series' Grand Finals on 29 November for a slice of the US$300,000 prize pool and the title of the region's strongest team.
The full list of Asia Series grand finalists are:
The FFCS' other two series – the Americas Series and EMEA Series – also held the Play-ins over the weekend to determine the 12 grand finalists from each series. They will now battle in their respective Grand Finals on 28 November to be the best Free Fire team in the region. The Americas Series and EMEA Series will each have US$300,000 in prize money, bringing the combined prize pool for the FFCS to US$900,000.
# via Play-ins * via direct qualification
The FFCS Grand Finals will take place next weekend, on 28 November (Americas and EMEA Series) and 29 November (Asia Series), so look forward to more updates from us!
2. Free Fire is the Esports Mobile Game of the Year
The Esports Awards 2020 named Free Fire as the "Esports Mobile Game of the Year" at their annual awards ceremony held virtually yesterday.
In his acceptance speech, Harold Teo, Free Fire Producer at Garena, shared that the team was "humbled and honoured" to have won the award, and dedicated the win to Free Fire's community all around the world – its fans, players, and partners. Harold acknowledged the great work that the team has done to make this win possible, and said that they will be working hard to "help more people around the world love Free Fire."
The Esports Awards 2020 included a mobile category for the first time, where Free Fire was nominated alongside titles like Arena of Valor, Call of Duty: Mobile, PUBG Mobile, Clash Royale, Brawl Stars, Clash of Clans, and Mobile Legends. The win builds on the success of Garena's self-developed and published game, which was the most downloaded mobile game worldwide in 2019, according to App Annie, and the most downloaded mobile game worldwide in the first nine months of 2020 with more than 220 million installs, according to Sensor Tower.
Publishers or Game Developers can send their press release on our site, simply follow the guide here: https://pinoygamer.ph/pages/press
- We unveiled the Free Fire Continental Series (FFCS) grand finalists from all three regions – Asia, Americas, and EMEA – over the weekend.
- Free Fire was also named "Esports Mobile Game of the Year" by the Esports Awards 2020 at their annual awards ceremony held virtually yesterday.
We're excited to share with you more details on both.
1. FFCS: Play-ins Results
We concluded the Asia Series Play-ins yesterday – the top five teams have qualified for the Asia Series Grand Finals, joining the seven teams who earlier earned direct qualification by winning their local level tournament.
The 12 grand finalists will now compete in the Asia Series' Grand Finals on 29 November for a slice of the US$300,000 prize pool and the title of the region's strongest team.
The full list of Asia Series grand finalists are:
- EVOS Esports (Indonesia)*
- Total Gaming Esports (India)*
- Geek Fam (Malaysia)*
- TEAM KNIGHTS (Chinese Taipei)*
- EV THAILAND (Thailand)*
- House of Blood (Pakistan)*
- Heavy (Vietnam)*
- King of Gamers Club (Thailand)#
- EXP Esports (Thailand)#
- Burst the Sky (Vietnam)#
- RRQ Hades (Indonesia)#
- V-Gaming (Vietnam)#
The FFCS' other two series – the Americas Series and EMEA Series – also held the Play-ins over the weekend to determine the 12 grand finalists from each series. They will now battle in their respective Grand Finals on 28 November to be the best Free Fire team in the region. The Americas Series and EMEA Series will each have US$300,000 in prize money, bringing the combined prize pool for the FFCS to US$900,000.
The full list of the EMEA Series grand finalists are:
| The full list of the Americas Series grand finalists are:
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# via Play-ins * via direct qualification
The FFCS Grand Finals will take place next weekend, on 28 November (Americas and EMEA Series) and 29 November (Asia Series), so look forward to more updates from us!
2. Free Fire is the Esports Mobile Game of the Year
The Esports Awards 2020 named Free Fire as the "Esports Mobile Game of the Year" at their annual awards ceremony held virtually yesterday.
In his acceptance speech, Harold Teo, Free Fire Producer at Garena, shared that the team was "humbled and honoured" to have won the award, and dedicated the win to Free Fire's community all around the world – its fans, players, and partners. Harold acknowledged the great work that the team has done to make this win possible, and said that they will be working hard to "help more people around the world love Free Fire."
The Esports Awards 2020 included a mobile category for the first time, where Free Fire was nominated alongside titles like Arena of Valor, Call of Duty: Mobile, PUBG Mobile, Clash Royale, Brawl Stars, Clash of Clans, and Mobile Legends. The win builds on the success of Garena's self-developed and published game, which was the most downloaded mobile game worldwide in 2019, according to App Annie, and the most downloaded mobile game worldwide in the first nine months of 2020 with more than 220 million installs, according to Sensor Tower.
Publishers or Game Developers can send their press release on our site, simply follow the guide here: https://pinoygamer.ph/pages/press
