Roughly a few days ago, we covered the past year of competitive PUBG Mobile. Indeed, it’s at the top mobile esport in the world. However, this time we’re taking a step back to review their major competitor’s year – read on as we dive into competitive Free Fire 2020/21!
Peaking at the Right Time – Competing with PUBG Mobile?
What’s curious about competitive Free Fire is that it was released all the way back in August 2017.
However, only recently has the title really caught fire these past few years. Indeed, it’s mainly this past year and a half that the mobile esport has truly come about as a true competitor to PUBG Mobile.
In this regard, it shares a lot of similarities with the title. For example, both esports can be respected for hosting an incredible number of first-party events. Accordingly, it might be that Garena hosts more.
Anyways, the following dive into the competitive year should be an interesting revelation to determine how close the title is to PUBG Mobile.
Fact Sheet – The Best Free Fire Esports Events Over the Year – Competitive Free Fire 2020/21
- Before we go ahead, let’s just once again thank Esports Charts for making all of the viewership details public for use. Otherwise, we’ll have to note that we’re only mentioning a handful of events in this article while trying to cover the calendar year from this time last year.
Free Fire Indonesia Masters 2020 Fall – September 2020
- Online
- Peak Viewers – 201,875
- Average Viewers – 34,419
Kicking things off in September with Free Fire Indonesia Masters 2020 Fall, this is where things start getting interesting.
As an example of a regional tournament, we all know that Indonesia is one of the top regions for PUBG Mobile. However, as we can see here, the region also shows a lot of love and enthusiasm for competitive Free Fire too.
With a respectable viewership for this type of event, let’s keep it rolling to bigger things.
Free Fire Continental Series 2021 Asia – November 2020
- $300,000
- Online
- Peak Viewers – 2,566,046
- Average Viewers – 828,986
Sitting as one of the top 5 viewed events ever for competitive Free Fire, the Continental Series 2021 Asia was an incredible event.
Indeed, with a mind-boggling peak viewership of 2,566,046, the event slightly edged out the Americas region which was taking place at the same time.
Although huge, you’ll be happy to know there’ll be a bigger event this year.
Free Fire Latinoamerica 2021 Opening – January/March 2021
- $114,750
- Online
- Peak Viewers – 1,460,906
- Average Viewers – 98,509
When we take preferred regions, when discussing Free Fire, the Latin America region is a massive favourite – constantly offering some of the best viewership.
Indeed, that was no different at the LA 2021 Opening where we enjoyed some impressive viewership and competition too.
Free Fire Tri Series 2021 – April 2021
- $50,000
- Online
- Peak Viewers – 150,922
- Average Viewers – 38,441
Moving over to a lesser region, here, Garena decided to combine three different regions into one Tri Series combined.
Nothing too crazy here, though it’s always great to see Garena experimenting with how they host events.
Free Fire World Series 2021 Singapore – May 2021
- $2,000,000
- Offline
- Peak Viewers – 5,414,953
- Average Viewers – 2,087,307
And now, we’ve reached the peak of the competitive season.
Acting as one of the best events in the year, the Free Fire World Series 2021 Singapore is officially the most viewed esports event in the history of competitive Free Fire.
Held offline with a $2,000,000 prize pool, it acted as one of the few offline events ever held this season.
Also, the competition was simply awesome and we can’t wait for more events like this. It’s an event like this which cement this esport as a top contender.
Liga Brasileira de Free Fire 2021 Series A Stage 2 – June 2021
- $188,618
- Online
- Peak Viewers – 598,885
- Average Viewers – 168,138
We’ll conclude things by revisiting the beloved region of South America.
Now focusing on the Liga Brasileira, this region offered some spicy competition with the Liga Brasileira de Free Fire 2021.
With almost 600,000 peak viewers, this was an awesome event to help conclude the season.
Competitive Free Fire 2020/21 – What’s Next?
So, in conclusion, it’s safe to say that Free Fire is hot on the heels of PUBG Mobile.
I think, the only thing Free Fire needs to work on to keep up to PUBG Mobile is hosting more regular premier/major events with larger prize pools. Otherwise, we can commend the esport for having an awesome season, especially with the Singapore World Series.
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