The announcement was made via Free Fire Esports India’s official Facebook page. Two players participated in FFCO Open Online Qualifiers (FFC mode) several times from the Total Gaming Esports roster, Fozy Ajay and Mafia Bala. Once in the TG-Delhi team and again in the FOMZYvai team, they were involved. This violation falls under the Free Fire esports’ competitive integrity rules-book, which disqualifies all the participants and their respective teams. Total Gaming Esports is owned by Total Gaming, also known as Ajju Bhai, India’s largest free-fire content creator. His major YouTube channel has more than 24 million subscribers, and his secondary channel is five million. Instagram already has 2,8 million followers. On 30 April, the FFCO’s online qualifications were held. Garena started a thorough verification process for the top 3000 teams selected before announcing the qualifying teams from each region. It turned out that several teams had sent reports of the players currently serving bans from esports tournaments via the inquiry process. Garena then rejected these tournament squads. Teams banned from the Free Fire City Open – Region-wise qualified teams from FFC mode qualifiers – • DELHI • AHMEDABAD • CHENNAI • HYDERABAD • VISAKHAPATANAM • KOLKATA • LUCKNOW • MUMBAI • WILDCARD

About Free Fire

Garena  Free Fire is the battle royale game that has been developed and released by 111 Dots Studio for Android and iOS. In 2019, it was the world’s most downloaded smartphone title. The game won the Google Play Store award in 2019 because of its success for the “Most Popular Vote Game.” By May 2020, Free Fire has recorded over 80 million active users worldwide every day. Free Fire amounted to more than 1 billion dollars worldwide by November 2019.