Garena invites players, fans from across India to tune in for Free Fire City Open

Garena announces the city finals of the Free Fire City Open, its first-ever Free Fire tournament in India where survivors will compete for a chance to represent their own city. With the competition heating up, fans from across the country are invited to be a part of the exciting action by tuning in and rallying behind their favorite teams as they battle for glory! Committed to the spirit of #IndiaKaBattleRoyale, Free Fire City Open takes forward Garena’s efforts towards bringing people together through esports and fostering pride within the community as they represent their cities on a national platform.

The Free Fire City Open will feature the top 12 Free Fire teams from each of the 8 participating cities from across the nation competing to win from a prize pool of INR 60 lakh. These 8 cities are – Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Kolkata, Chennai, Lucknow, and Visakhapatnam. Players belonging to the state of each of these 8 cities will also be able to participate in their city finals. For the remaining cities and states in India, they will be able to find a slot in the national finals, through the wildcard finals.

Tournament Format

The Free Fire City Open aims to be competitive, thrilling, and action-packed for teams and fans. The qualifiers saw a host of players from across the country signing up in-game through the Free Fire Cup (FFC) mode to participate in the tournament. The top 12 teams from each city have been selected and are ready to battle it out in their individual city finals from 15 June till 9 July. 

Thereafter, there will be 12 teams that will qualify for the national finals and a chance to win big from the INR 60 lakh prize pool. These include 8 teams, the winners from each of the participating cities that will be chosen basis their individual city finals; 2 teams selected from the play-ins between the teams ranked #2 to #4 from each of the 8 city finals, on 20, 23, and 30 July; and 2 “wildcard” entries which will be the best teams chosen from the rest of India, outside the 8 participating cities, on 16 July. This will culminate in the national finals on 15 August. 

Schedule of the tournament 

Fans are invited to tune in and watch the exciting matches of this tournament from 15 June until 15 August. The schedule for the tournament is below – 

Match	Date	Day	Timing
Delhi Finals	15-June	Tuesday	18:00 IST – 21:00 IST
Ahmedabad Finals	18-June	Friday	18:00 IST – 21:00 IST
Hyderabad Finals	22-June	Tuesday	18:00 IST – 21:00 IST
Kolkata Finals	25-June	Friday	18:00 IST – 21:00 IST
Chennai Finals	29-June	Tuesday	18:00 IST – 21:00 IST
Lucknow Finals	2-July	Friday	18:00 IST – 21:00 IST
Mumbai Finals	6-July	Tuesday	18:00 IST – 21:00 IST
Vizag Finals	9-July	Friday	18:00 IST – 21:00 IST
Wildcard Finals	16-July	Friday	18:00 IST – 21:00 IST
City Play-ins 1	20-July	Tuesday	18:00 IST – 21:00 IST
City Play-ins 2	23-July	Friday	18:00 IST – 21:00 IST
City Play-ins Finals	30-July	Friday	18:00 IST – 21:00 IST
National Finals	15-August	Sunday	18:00 IST – 21:00 IST

Selected teams for region finals

The top 12 teams from the 8 cities and wildcard entries are as follows:

Ahmedabad

1. GJ-Teddy
2. Fearless-4
3. Conqueror
4. The-Extremee
5. Boltregiment
6. New Invention
7. War House
8. Team Struglers
9. United_4hl
10. City Slums
11. Underdogs_77
12. Zero-Degree

Chennai 

1. Raven Esports
2. Jallikattutn
3. Slumberqueen
4. Titans Esports
5. Badge-99.
6. MGC Gaming JK
7. Biowar-Tn
8. Magilchi 97
9. Damage
10. Jk-Newday
11. TGB-Xtremelvl
12. MR24squad 

Lucknow

1. Frustrated 4
2. Gyan Army
3. Zila Ghaziabad
4. Survivor 4am
5. Wrecking Crew
6. Team Elite
7. God Game
8. FFwarriors
9. AFF Esports
10. GVCS Squad
11. Onlyfreaks
12. City Of Tehzeeb

Mumbai 

1. 4UN-GXR
2. Greedy Hunters
3. 4xtraordinary
4. The Rebellions
5. Bombay Fever
6. YKZ-Seniors
7. Eyesesport
8. Imthepro
9. Mces Esports
10. TSG Army
11. TSG Hard
12. Underworld

Delhi 

1. Team Revolution
2. Last Breath
3. Nym Delhi
4. Hawk Eye Esports
5. Lvl Iconic
6. ᎠᏞ ᎢO UK 
7. Surgical Strike
8. God Like
9. Heart Breakers
10. Gen×Force
11. Illusion Esports
12. Team Op

Vizag

1. Black Ops
2. Flickr Force
3. Fly High
4. U18 Army
5. Gamingwithdino
6. SS Esports
7. Appledinoff
8. Team Thunder
9. Nawabpet Kings
10. Crazy Amigos
11. Incredibles
12. High End 

Hyderabad 

1. Ay Esports
2. Blackhunters
3. As Takers
4. Tr4nsformers
5. Mighty Raju
6. Captains
7. Mbgtitans
8. Lazy Kids
9. Darkfire
10. LR7 United
11. Blood Reapers
12. Toxic Esports

Kolkata

1. Art Of War
2. Head Hunters
3. Rule Breakers 
4. Sixth Sense
5. Invincibles Esports
6. LA-Gaming
7. Old-Generation
8. High Five
9. Team Fab
10. Asin Clutchgods
11. Bot Army
12. Underdogs

Wildcard

1. Titanium Army
2. Pro Nation
3. 4ever Cool
4. AOS Esports
5. Risers
6. Shooting.Stars
7. Clash War
8. Die Another Day
9. Identicals 
10. Umk Gamer
11. LCG-Esport
12. Huskies

The tournament will be broadcasted live on Free Fire Esports India’s YouTube and Facebook, and on BOOYAH!.

Through the Free Fire City Open, Garena aims to continue its efforts towards delighting the Indian community with exciting, localized experiences, and to support and develop incredible talent all across the nation by offering them a launchpad to display their skills. 

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