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Free Fire Master League Season 4 Starts Soon: Division 1 on August 21 and Division 2 on August 18

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Free Fire Master League (FFML) is back. Just like the previous season, FFML Season 4 will be divided into two division: Division 1 for the professional teams and Division 2 for the semiprofessional teams.

Here is the schedule for FFML Season 4:

  • Division 2, Regular Season: every Wednesday and Thursday, starts from August 18 until September 23, 2021
  • Division 2, Play-offs: September 30, 2021,
  • Division 1, Regular Season: every Saturday and Sunday, starts from August 21 until September 26, 2021
  • Division 1, Play-offs: October 2, 2021

The best six teams from FFML Season 4 Division 1 will go straight to the Grand Finals of Free Fire Indonesia Masters 2021 Fall. While the other 12 teams will have to fight in the play-off of FFML Division 1. Six teams that manage to be on the top of the play-off will also have their tickets to the play-ins of FFIM 2021 Fall.

Meanwhile, the best three teams from Division 2 will also be picked up to fight in the play-ins of FFIM 2021 Fall. For the sake of equality, Garena will also hold open qualifiers for teams that can’t get into either division of FFML. From the play-ins of FFIM 2021 Fall, the top six teams will fight against the best six professional teams in the grand finals.

How to get into the FFIM 2021 Fall.

Here is the schedule for FFIM 2021 Fall:

  • Open qualifiers: September 19, 2021
  • Quarter finals: September 24, 2021
  • Group finals: October 3-5, 2021
  • Play-ins: October 16, 2021
  • Grand finals: October 24, 2021

FFML Season IV Division 1 has a prize pool of Rp1.2 billion. While Division 2 offers Rp300 million. As for the FFIM 2021 Fall, it will offer Rp800 million as a prize pool. In total, Garena prepares Rp2.3 billion for prize pools for the three Free Fire competitions.

In a virtual press conference, Christian Wihananto, Producer of Free Fire, Garena said that aside from holding tournaments for professional and semiprofessional teams, Garena will also offer funds for developing talents. For 18 teams, it prepares Rp8.6 billion. With this money, it hopes to help nurturing young esports talents in Indonesia.

“We do put all of our investment in the prize pool of our tournaments. We also know how important it is to nurture young talents. We hope that the funds we give will help in facilitating young Free Fire athletes to grow, both in local and international esports scenes,” said Christian.

The schedule for FFIM 2021 Fall.

Christian explained that Garena does not only care for the professional players, but also for the amateurs and semiprofessional players. Garena even created FFML Division 2 for semiprofessional players. And on this season, Garena also adds 6 more slots from the previous 12. “We evaluated the previous season of Division 2. We noticed that there were many people who wanted to join the competition. We also got feedback from our esports community: that the hype surrounding Division 2 is still high,” he said, to answer the question of why Garena added more teams to Division 2.

Teams from Division 2 will also have a chance to be promoted to Division 1. NGID, the champion of Division 2 in the previous season, was promoted to Division 1 this season. The team will fight under the banner of RANS Esports after being acquired by Raffi Ahmad.

FFML Season 4 will be held offline to uphold the integrity of the matches.  But, there will be no live audience. Christian promised that Garena will follow a strict health protocol. Before a match, every player will be tested with an antigen test. If one of the players happens to be positive COVID-19, then the player will not be allowed to compete. Garena also plans to quarantine all the players that manage to go to the grand finals before the match.

Garena Indonesia Umumkan Musim Kompetisi Free Fire Fall Season 2020

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Sore tadi (7 Agustus 2020), Garena mengumumkan paruh kedua musim kompetitif Free Fire. Bertajuk Free Fire Fall Season 2020, Garena mengumumkan akan ada 3 buah kompetisi yang hadir pada paruh kedua musim kompetitif Free Fire. Tiga kompetisi tersebut kurang lebih masih memiliki fomat, dan hirarki yang mirip dengan paruh musim pertama kemarin (Spring Season). Dimulai dengan Free Fire Master League Season 2, dilanjut dengan Free Fire Indonesia Masters Fall, yang ditutup oleh kompetisi internasional.

Free Fire Master League Season 2 (FFML S2) sudah diumumkan tanggal 5 Agustus 2020 lalu. Bertanding dengan format liga, FFML akan mempertandingkan organisasi esports profesional yang ada di Indonesia. Musim lalu ada 24 tim memperebutkan total hadiah sebesar 1,2 miliar rupiah. Pada FFML Season 2 ada penurunan jumlah peserta dan jumlah hadiah. Akan ada 18 tim peserta, yang akan bertanding untuk memperebutkan total hadiah sebesar 1 miliar rupiah pada FFML Season 2.

Musim lalu, Free Fire Master League menyertakan “Commitment Fee” sebesar 50 juta rupiah untuk masing-masing peserta. Untuk FFML S2, Christian Wihananto selaku Produser Garena Free Fire Indonesia mengatakan bahwa biaya commitment fee tersebut masih ada, dengan nilai yang sama yaitu 50 juta rupiah.

Setelah FFML, pertandingan akan dilanjutkan ke Free Fire Indonesia Master (FFIM) 2020 Fall Season, yang bisa dikatakan sebagai “kejuaraan nasional” bagi Free Fire Indonesia. Nantinya 6 tim peringkat teratas dari babak Regular Season FFML S2 akan langsung melaju ke babak FFIM 2020 Fall Season Grand Finals. Semetara 12 sisanya akan bertanding ke babak FFML Playoff.

Dari babak Playoff, 6 tim teratas akan melaju ke babak FFIM 2020 Fall Season Play-ins, dengan 6 tim sisanya akan melaju ke babak Free Fire Indonesia Masters Final Grup. Jika Anda kebingungan, Anda bisa lihat struktur turnamennya lewat gambar di bawah ini.

Nantinya peringkat teratas dari turnamen FFIM 2020 Fall Season akan mendapat kesempatan untuk bertanding di tingkat interasional. Pada paruh musim pertama seharusnya ada Free Fire Champions Cup 2020 yang diselenggarakan di Indonesia. Namun berhubung situasi pandemi menjadi semakin genting, turnamen tersebut dibatalkan, yang digantikan dengan Free Fire Asia All-Stars 2020.

Untuk paruh musim kedua, Garena Indonesia sendiri belum menjelaskan soal turnamen internasional yang akan diadakan, namun diperkirakan akan diselenggarakan pada November 2020 mendatang. Babak Regular Season FFML 2020 Season 2 akan diselenggarakan mulai esok hari, 8 Agustus hingga 19 September 2020 mendatang. Setelah itu pertandingan akan dilanjut dengan FFIM 2020 Fall pada September – Oktober 2020, ditutup dengan turnamen internasional yang akan diadakan November 2020.