Undoubtedly, Garena is on a tourney spree as we all are witnessing a bunch of Free Fire tournaments across the globe, being hosted by Garena. Today, in this article, we are bringing you a detailed breakdown of one of the recent tournaments held in India, the Free Fire City Open 2021.
Before we dive into the numbers, let’s acquire a brief knowledge about this tourney. Free Fire City Open 2021 is a regional tournament held in 8 cities of India. The teams had to battle it out in Qualifiers, Play-Ins and the finals.
The entire tournament was held online due to Covid restrictions and had prize money of $80,656 USD. After the long hustle, the finals were held on the 15th of August and Hyderbad Nawabs were declared as the champions of the very tournament.
Wildcard Finals and Play-Ins overview

In the above infographics, we have the details for the Play-Ins and the Wildcard Finals. To add more information, the Play-Ins had 24 teams contesting against each other and the top 2 only get to play the Play-Ins final and make their way to the National finals.
According to the data, The Play-Ins had 10K Average Viewers during the 10.8H of Air Time. Similarly, the Wild Card finals, which showcased those two teams who were directly qualified for the National Finals had 4K Average Viewers, in 3.5H of Air Time.
Details of qualifiers held in multiple cities

At the top spot, we have the tournament held in the capital of India, New Delhi, which got close to 14K Average Viewers during the 3.6H of Air Time. This is followed by the Chennai tournament, which managed to collect almost 10K Average Viewers in 2.8H of Air Time. A significant drop in the Average Viewers number, however, has less Air Time, so it is justified.
In the third and fourth places, we have Lucknow and Kolkata, almost near to each other in terms of Average Viewers and Air Time. They both have collected 9.6K and 9.3K Average Viewers during 3.4 and 3.3H of Air Time.
Here we can see another major difference in the number of Average Viewers between Mumbai and Hyderabad. They both 3H of Air Time but, the Hyderbad tournament had 8.7K Average Viewers whereas Mumbai could only get close to 6.4K.
Lastly, the Ahmedabad and Vizag tournaments, which are standing at the last spots of our charts with approximately 6K and 3.5K Average Viewers. But, note that both of them had 3.8H of Air Time, so, Ahmedabad tournament clearly had more popularity over Vizag.
National Finals overview

To give you an overall idea about the languages and the platform that was popular throughout the stream, we have the above infographic. As you can see, the entire tournament of Free Fire City Open 2021 Finals has 607K Hours Watched with a max 142K Average Viewers along with a peak of 278K Peal Viewers watching it.
Hindi, which is the official language of India accounted for the highest number of viewers during the tournament with 250K. Next was Tamil with 14K, followed by English and Bengali with 7K and 6.9K respectively. The platform that was most preferred to watch the entire tournament was YouTube with 262K Peak Viewers, followed by Booyah and Facebook with 31K and 248 respectively.

With this, we have reached the end of the numerical analysis of Free Fire City Open 2021. Keep visiting our page to get more insights on the popular tournaments.
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