eSports Award
The eSports Award[2] was an annual award ceremony held from 2004 to 2011 by Turtle Entertainment in which individuals, teams and organisations are recognized in several categories for their contribution or achievements to or in the field of competitive gaming. Most awards ceased in 2009,[3] but the remaining Journalist Award category has become the main award for the next two years.
The event was traditionally held at a major gaming event in Germany. The winner of each category was determined by either a panel of experts or an online popularity vote. Each year's nominees were announced mid-July.
Active categories were:
- eSports Player of the Year (since 2004)
- eSports Team of the Year (since 2004)
- Best Counter-Strike Player (since 2004)
- Best Warcraft 3 Player (since 2004)
- Newcomer / Breakthrough of the Year (since 2004)
- Best eSports Coverage, international (since 2004)
- Journalist Award (since 2006)
- Scene Journalist Award (since 2007)
- eSports Game of the Year (since 2007)
- Lifetime Achievement Award (since 2007)
- eSports Photo of the Year (since 2008)
- Best Call of Duty 4 Player (since 2008)
- Consoles Player of the Year (since 2008)
- Consoles Team of the Year (since 2008)
- Best Halo 3 Player (since 2008)
- Best Counter-Strike Player, Female (2004)
- Best eSports Coverage, German (2004, 2005, 2006)
- Best Publisher (2004, 2005, 2006)
- eSport Player of the Year, Female (2005)
- Best FPS Duel Player (2007)
- Best Hardware (2007)
Journalists Award[edit]
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| Awarded for | Bestowed to journalists, members of the press, editors and press volunteers who write unique, different and detailed articles about eSports and its subtopics |
| Date | 2006 |
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The eSports Journalist Award[4] was initially a category of the eSports Awards, but in 2009 became the main focus of the award-giving ceremony. The eSports Journalist Award was bestowed to journalists, members of the press, editors and press volunteers who write unique, different and detailed articles about eSports and its subtopics.
According to the official website of the eSports Journalist Award, writers for the eSports scene were not eligible for the award since their content is generally directed to the community of gamers while journalists write for the general public, raising awareness and delivering information unto people who aren't as knowleadgeable as eSports community members.
Winners of the ESA[edit]
Article:
- "Career gamers", for Wired, UK-based technology magazine
Articles:
- Wie Schach spielen im Musikvideo Rhythmus (Like playing chess with the rhythm of a music video), for Zeit Online, German magazine website
- Deutschlands beste Counterstrikerin (Germany’s best female Counterstrike player), for Zeit Online, German magazine website
- Schließbefehl für "Counterstrike" (Closing order for Counterstrike), for Spiegel Online, German magazine website
Article:
- Ist eSport ‘echter’ Sport? (Is eSport ‘truly’ sport?), for 3sat.de, German broadcasting company
2007 Tim Farin & Christian Parth[11][12]
Article:
- Wirtschaftsfaktor Counterstrike (Economy factor Counterstrike), Die Welt, German newspaper
2006 Bernhard Hübner[13]
Article:
- FIFA Zwillinge jetzt schon Weltmeister (FIFA twins are already world champions), for Süddeutsche Zeitung, German newspaper
2008 Awards[edit]
Nominees of 2008's categories are:
eSports Player of the Year[edit]
eSports Photo of the Year[edit]
Daniel Jensen
Michal Blicharz- Rafal Lagowski
Paul Chaloner- David Donschen
- Max Silver
Best Call of Duty 4 Player[edit]
Rob 'rob-wiz' Kennedy
Antonin 'OZWALD' Grenier
Nikolai 'Mazarini' Lazarev- Robert 'smithz' Krivka
Daniel 'tidde' Asp
Consoles Player of the Year[edit]
- Rudolph 'The Tactical' Fischer
- Philippe 'Yggdrasil' Vaillant
Wouter 'Handewasser' van Someren
Tom 'OGRE2' Ryan- Dave 'Walshy' Walsh
Consoles Team of the Year[edit]
- Team Final Boss
- Team Carbon
- Infinity
- Warriors of Hell
- New Era
Best Halo 3 Player[edit]
- Dan 'OGRE1' Ryan
- Tom 'OGRE2' Ryan
- Dave 'Walshy' Walsh
- Benjamin 'Karma' Jackson
- Scott 'Gandhi' Lussier
2007 Awards[edit]
Nominees and winners of 2007's[14] international categories are:
eSports Player of the Year[edit]
- Filip 'Neo' Kubski
- Johan 'Toxic' Quick
Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li- Daniel 'hero' Schellhase
- Vanessa Arteaga
eSports Team of the Year[edit]
- PGS Gaming (CS)
- World Elite (WC3)
- Dignitas (WiC)
- fnatic (CS)
- Pandemic (WoW)
Best Counter-Strike Player[edit]
- Filip 'Neo' Kubski
- Dennis 'walle' Wallenberg
- Jan 'mooN' Stolle
- Harley 'dsn' Orwall
Raphael 'cogu' Camargo
Best Warcraft 3 Player[edit]
- Yoan 'ToD' Merlo
Olav 'Creolophus' Undheim- Li 'Sky' Xiaofeng
Jang 'Moon' JaeHo
Mykhaylo 'HoT' Novopashyn
Breakthrough of the Year[edit]
- Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski
- Wei Liang 'Fly100%' Lu
Alexey 'cypher' Yushanevsky- Jimmy 'allen' Allen
- Roman 'roman' Ausserdorfer
Best FPS Duel Player[edit]
- Johan 'toxic' Quick
Anton 'cooller' Singov- Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski
- Alexey 'cypher' Yushanevsky
- Magnus 'fojji' Olsson
Best Online Magazine[edit]
- Readmore
- Esreality
- MeetYourMakers
- Replays.net
- SK Gaming
- eFever
- Cyberfight
- Zonerank
- Gotfrag
- Fragbite
Scene Journalist Award[edit]
- David Abel - Michal Blicharz
- Jonas Vikan - Nafiz Choudhury
- Richard Lewis - Trevor Schmidt
- Dario Miljkovic - Lawrence Phillips
- Elroy Pinto - Sujoy Roy
eSports Game of the Year[edit]
Lifetime Achievement Award[edit]
2006 Awards[edit]
Nominees and winners of 2006's[15] international categories were:
eSports Player of the Year[edit]
- Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen
- Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel
- Johan 'Toxic' Quick
- Danny 'fRoD' Montaner
- Dennis 'styla' Schellhase
eSports Team of the Year[edit]
- fnatic
- SK Gaming
- compLexity
- Mousesports
- 4Kings
Best Counter-Strike Player[edit]
- Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg
- Navid 'Kapio' Javadi
- Christian 'Vilden' Lidstroem
- Ke Fei 'Jungle' Yang
- Danny 'fRoD' Montaner
Best Warcraft 3 Player[edit]
Breakthrough of the Year[edit]
- Navid 'Kapio' Javadi
- Alexander 'Ztrider' Ingarv
- Oskar 'ins' Holm
- Ke Fei 'Jungle' Yang
- Jae Wook 'Lucifer' Noh
Best Online Magazine[edit]
Best Publisher[edit]
- Electronic Arts
- Atari
- Activision
- Codemasters
- Eidos
- Frogster
- Koch-Media
- Ubisoft
- CDV
- VU Games
- Take2
- THQ
- Midway
- Microsoft
- Jowood
- Konami
2005 Awards[edit]
Nominees and winners of 2005's[16] international categories were:
eSports Player of the Year[edit]
eSports Team of the Year[edit]
Best Counter-Strike Player[edit]
- Danny 'fRoddD' Montaner
- Jorgen 'Xeqtr' Johanessen
- Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg
- Mattias 'Snajdan' Andersen
- Michael 'PapsT' Schmidt
Best Warcraft 3 Player[edit]
- Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen
- Jang 'Spirit_Moon' Jae Ho
- Dae Hui 'FoV' Cho
- Li 'Sky' Xiaofeng
- Tae min 'Zacard' Hwang
Breakthrough of the Year[edit]
- Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager
- Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg
- Marcus "zet" Sundstrom
Danny 'zonic' Sørensen- Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström
Female Player of the Year[edit]
- Louise 'AurorA' Thomsen
- Alice 'ali' Lew
- Qin '1212' Qin
- Isabelle 'redfox' Schaffert
- Natalia 'Nath' Ko
Best Online Magazine[edit]
Best Publisher[edit]
- Electronic Arts
- UbiSoft
- Microsoft
- Atari
- Vivendi
- Eidos
- Activision
- Virgin
- Take 2
- Codemasters
- THQ
- Konami
- Deep Silver
- Jowood
- CDV
- Koch-Media
- Lucas Arts
2004 Awards[edit]
Nominees and winners of 2004's[17] international categories were:
eSports Player of the Year[edit]
- Fredrik 'MaDFroG' Johansson
- Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen
- Lim 'Boxer' Yo-Hwan
- Dennis 'styla' Schellhase
eSports Team of the Year[edit]
Best Counter-Strike Player[edit]
- Tommy 'Potti' Ingemarsson
- Ola 'elemeNt' Moum
- Emil 'HeatoN' Christensen
- Danny 'Hyper' Kuusisto
Franz "gore" Burghardt
Best Warcraft 3 Player[edit]
- Jung Hee 'Sweet' Chun
- Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen
- Matthew 'Wizard' Anderson
- Fredrik 'MaDFroG' Johansson
- Alborz 'HeMaN' Haidarian
Breakthrough of the Year[edit]
- Maurice 'Burnie' Engelhardt
- Jeff 'Aether' Zhang
- Dae Hui 'FoV' Cho
- Dennis 'walle' Wallenber
- Abdisamad 'SpawN' Mohamed
Best Female CS Player[edit]
Silena 'Lena' Urquiza- Alice 'ali' Lew
- Line 'MissHyper' Haug
- Sandra 'craZygirL' Sbrzesny
- Natalia 'Nath' Ko
Best Online Magazine[edit]
Best Publisher[edit]
- Electronic Arts
- Ubisoft
- Microsoft
- Atari
- LucasArts
- Vivendi
- Activision
- Eidos
- Virgin
- Take 2
- CDV
- Jowood
- Koch-Media
- THQ
Records[edit]
Most Nominated[edit]
- Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen - seven times
- Jang 'Spirit_Moon' Jae Ho - five times
- Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li - five times
- Danny 'fRoD' Montaner - four times
- Esreality - four times
- Gotfrag - four times
- SK Gaming (site) - four times
Most won[edit]
- Electronic Arts - three times
- Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen - three times
- SK Gaming (site) - three times
- Filip 'Neo' Kubski - two times
- Sander 'vo0' Kaasjager - two times
Notes[edit]
- ↑ https://www.esportsindustryawards.com/
- ↑ old site of the Award
- ↑ new site of the Award
- ↑ eSports Journalist Award homepage
- ↑ "eSports Journalist Award 2012 to be given during gamescom in Cologne"
- ↑ "eSports-Journalistenpreis für Tom Cheshire vom WIRED" (German)
- ↑ "Sports Award 2010 – Vergabe des Journalistenpreises zur gamescom in Köln" (German)
- ↑ "eSports Award 2011" (German)
- ↑ "eSports Award 2008 - Journalistenpreis wird auf der Games Convention verliehen" (German)
- ↑ "Alle Sieger der Games Convention" (German)
- ↑ "eSports Award 2007: Die Nominierten" (German)
- ↑ "eSports Award 2007 - Die Gewinner stehen fest" (German)
- ↑ "GIGA eSports-Talk: eSport-Journalismus im Wandel" (German)
- ↑ newspost about the 2007 award
- ↑ newspost about the 2006 award
- ↑ newspost about the 2005 award
- ↑ newspost about the 2004 award
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