Free Fireplace MAX India Cup (FFMIC) 2025, India’s first official esports occasion for the sport since 2022, has introduced its competitors venue.
The event is ready to culminate with the grand finals on the Ekana Worldwide Indoor Stadium, Lucknow on September twenty eighth.
Sixteen groups will probably be competing within the FFMIC grand finals for the title of champions and a share of the INR 8m (~£67,000) prize pool.
Garena stated in its announcement that the tickets for the occasion will probably be accessible quickly on ticketing platform BookMyShow.
FFMIC 2025 Groups
The 16 groups who will compete in Lucknow on the grand finals are as follows:
- GodLike Esports
- Jonty Gaming
- Complete Gaming
- Aerobotz Esports
- Genesis Esports
- Nightmare Esports
- Reckoning Esports
- Gods Reign
- Group iNSANE
- Vasista Esports
- NG Silver Eagle
- Group Hind
- Revenant XSpark
- Autobotz Esports
- Nonstop Execs
- Group Tycoons
- S8UL
- Kar98 Military
These groups have certified by open qualifiers which occurred in-game. This was adopted by on-line qualifiers and a four-week league stage to determine the 16 finalists.
The grand finals of FFMIC 2025 will comply with the Champion Rush format. Because of this the crew which takes the Booyah (match victory) after reaching the Champion Rush Level, which is 80 for the grand finals, will win the event.
If nobody manages this, the crew with essentially the most factors after 10 matches will probably be topped the champions.
Way forward for Free Fireplace Esports
India was one of many largest markets for Free Fireplace globally, nevertheless it was dropped at a halt in February 2022 as Delhi banned the sport together with a number of different functions for alleged knowledge privateness issues.
Nevertheless, Free Fireplace MAX was not banned and has turn out to be the go-to title for the sport’s followers within the nation.
Now, Garena goes all in on Free Fireplace MAX with the FFMIC. This marks the primary official esports occasion for the nation because the ban.
Not too long ago, Garena additionally hosted the BOOYAH Awards, an award ceremony to reward creators and gamers throughout 13 completely different classes. This occurred on June seventh on the Biswa Bangla Mela Prangan in Kolkata, the identical venue which performed host to the BGMI India Sequence simply months earlier.
BGMI is the opposite dominant battle royale title within the Indian market.
Even with the FFMIC, nevertheless, India has not been given a slot on the Free Fireplace World Sequence (FFWS) World Finals 2025, set to occur in Indonesia from October thirty first to November fifteenth.
