New cyber sport’s season for one of the most popular mobile games of 2020th already brought up the fruits of success. The finals of Latin American and Brazilian leagues have gone perfectly and overtook their predecessors in numbers. Esports Charts prepared mini-digest with the key information about events and their statistics. League Latinoamerica started on the 16th of January and finished on the 21 of March. All together in the tournament were 24 teams who fought to win $123,750. The winner of the tournament automatically made it to the playoffs of Free Fire World Series 2021 Singapore (begins on the 22 of May), the second place made it to Play-In. Mexican team “Team Aze” became the winner. It is easy to see their progress since in the last tournament Free Fire Continental Series 2020: Americas they got only 12th place. During 65 hours on air, the championship reaches 6.3 million hours of viewings and 1,4 million concurrent viewers at the peak of the broadcast. All viewers of the tournament were Hispanic and the broadcast could be viewed on YouTube, Booyah, and Facebook.
1,3 million concurrent viewers watched the broadcast on YouTube-channel Free Fire LATAM. Besides official channels, the biggest Argentinian company Telefe (It covers 95% of the Argentinian audience) was live-streaming the league, on its YouTube channel — 57 thousand viewers at the peak. Compared to the Free Fire League Clausura 2020 the viewing hours have increased by 100 thousand. Plus 2021 league lasted 10 hours more. The peak of viewers has increased by 16%. But still, the most popular event in this discipline is Free Fire Continental Series 2020 Asia.
Success Liga Brasileira de Free Fire
From the 23 of January to the 20th of March Brasilian League in Free Fire was held. There were 18 teams, and the event itself was a qualification for the World Series Singapore. From the Brazilian league to Singapore will go the winner – Fluxo (they will get straight to the playoffs) and LOUD (they will start in Play-In). Note, that Fluxo was founded on the 18 of January 2021 (only 5 days prior to the league) by two very popular streamers of Free Fire in Brazil — Nobru (he plays in the main cast) and Cerol. It was their very first tournament and they came first straight away. LOUD has progressed as well, last year this team got only 13th place and in 2021 they’ve got silver. The championship lasted 67 hours, viewing hours reached 14 million. If compared with Liga Brasileira De Free Fire 2020 Series A, it has increased by 21%. The amount of viewers at the peak is impressive — 827 thousand people, the concurrent viewers who watched Grand Finale are 121% higher. Liga Brasileira is now in the Top-10 the most popular Free Fire events during whole times. On YouTube, the official channel Free Fire Brasil got most of the viewers — 608 thousand. On Twitch GemadaoTV the biggest fan of the game was live-streaming the league. He got 4,7 thousand viewers at the same time. Last year there was not any streaming on this platform. Let’s talk separately about the rise of Booyah! from Garena. It mostly promotes Free Fire events. To compare, Free Fire normally has a total of 20 thousand viewers, and in other categories, it is below even 1000 most of the time. If we look at the Brasilian League numbers last season then we will see that the peak number has increased from 40 thousand to 276 thousand concurrent viewers.