eSports Award

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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

ESports Journalist Award
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 (2006)

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

2011 Tom Cheshire[5][6]

Article:

  • "Career gamers", for Wired, UK-based technology magazine

2010 Mathias Hamann[7][8]

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

2008 Winfried Laasch[9][10]

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

Nominees of 2008's categories are:

eSports Player of the Year

eSports Photo of the Year

  • Germany Daniel Jensen
  • Poland Michal Blicharz
  • Poland Rafal Lagowski
  • United Kingdom Paul Chaloner
  • Germany David Donschen
  • United Kingdom Max Silver

Best Call of Duty 4 Player

  • Canada Rob 'rob-wiz' Kennedy
  • France Antonin 'OZWALD' Grenier
  • Czech Republic Nikolai 'Mazarini' Lazarev
  • Germany Robert 'smithz' Krivka
  • Sweden Daniel 'tidde' Asp

Consoles Player of the Year

  • Germany Rudolph 'The Tactical' Fischer
  • France Philippe 'Yggdrasil' Vaillant
  • Netherlands Wouter 'Handewasser' van Someren
  • United States Tom 'OGRE2' Ryan
  • United States Dave 'Walshy' Walsh

Consoles Team of the Year

Best Halo 3 Player

  • United States Dan 'OGRE1' Ryan
  • United States Tom 'OGRE2' Ryan
  • United States Dave 'Walshy' Walsh
  • United States Benjamin 'Karma' Jackson
  • United States Scott 'Gandhi' Lussier

2007 Awards

Nominees and winners of 2007's[14] international categories are:

eSports Player of the Year

eSports Team of the Year

Best Counter-Strike Player

  • Poland Filip 'Neo' Kubski
  • Sweden Dennis 'walle' Wallenberg
  • Germany Jan 'mooN' Stolle
  • Sweden Harley 'dsn' Orwall
  • Brazil Raphael 'cogu' Camargo

Best Warcraft 3 Player

Breakthrough of the Year

Best FPS Duel Player

Best Online Magazine

Scene Journalist Award

  • 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

Lifetime Achievement Award

2006 Awards

Nominees and winners of 2006's[15] international categories were:

eSports Player of the Year

eSports Team of the Year

Best Counter-Strike Player

Best Warcraft 3 Player

Breakthrough of the Year

  • Germany Navid 'Kapio' Javadi
  • Sweden Alexander 'Ztrider' Ingarv
  • Sweden Oskar 'ins' Holm
  • China Ke Fei 'Jungle' Yang
  • South Korea Jae Wook 'Lucifer' Noh

Best Online Magazine

Best Publisher

  • Electronic Arts
  • Atari
  • Activision
  • Codemasters
  • Eidos
  • Frogster
  • Koch-Media
  • Ubisoft
  • CDV
  • VU Games
  • Take2
  • THQ
  • Midway
  • Microsoft
  • Jowood
  • Konami

2005 Awards

Nominees and winners of 2005's[16] international categories were:

eSports Player of the Year

eSports Team of the Year

Best Counter-Strike Player

  • United States Danny 'fRoddD' Montaner
  • Norway Jorgen 'Xeqtr' Johanessen
  • Sweden Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg
  • Sweden Mattias 'Snajdan' Andersen
  • Germany Michael 'PapsT' Schmidt

Best Warcraft 3 Player

Breakthrough of the Year

Female Player of the Year

  • Sweden Louise 'AurorA' Thomsen
  • United States Alice 'ali' Lew
  • China Qin '1212' Qin
  • Germany Isabelle 'redfox' Schaffert
  • Brazil Natalia 'Nath' Ko

Best Online Magazine

Best Publisher

  • Electronic Arts
  • UbiSoft
  • Microsoft
  • Atari
  • Vivendi
  • Eidos
  • Activision
  • Virgin
  • Take 2
  • Codemasters
  • THQ
  • Konami
  • Deep Silver
  • Jowood
  • CDV
  • Koch-Media
  • Lucas Arts

2004 Awards

Nominees and winners of 2004's[17] international categories were:

eSports Player of the Year

eSports Team of the Year

  • Sweden Eyeballers (CS)
  • United Kingdom 4Kings (WC3)
  • Norway NoA (CS)
  • Germany Progaming (FIFA)
  • Germany SK Gaming (CS)
  • Germany Mousesports (CS)
  • Denmark The Titans (CS)
  • Germany SK Gaming (UT)
  • Germany mTw (WC3)

Best Counter-Strike Player

Best Warcraft 3 Player

Breakthrough of the Year

  • Germany Maurice 'Burnie' Engelhardt
  • United States Jeff 'Aether' Zhang
  • South Korea Dae Hui 'FoV' Cho
  • Sweden Dennis 'walle' Wallenber
  • Sweden Abdisamad 'SpawN' Mohamed

Best Female CS Player

  • Spain Silena 'Lena' Urquiza
  • United States Alice 'ali' Lew
  • Sweden Line 'MissHyper' Haug
  • Germany Sandra 'craZygirL' Sbrzesny
  • Brazil Natalia 'Nath' Ko

Best Online Magazine

Best Publisher

  • Electronic Arts
  • Ubisoft
  • Microsoft
  • Atari
  • LucasArts
  • Vivendi
  • Activision
  • Eidos
  • Virgin
  • Take 2
  • CDV
  • Jowood
  • Koch-Media
  • THQ

Records

Most Nominated

Most won

Notes

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