ESports Award - AbsoluteAstronomy.com

The eSports Award is an annual award ceremony held since 2004 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

Electronic sports

Electronic sports comprises the competitive play of video games. Other terms include competitive gaming, professional gaming and cybersports...

.

The event is traditionally held at a major gaming event in Germany. The winner of each category is determined by either a panel of experts or an online popularity vote. This year's nominees are expected to be announced mid-July.

Active categories are:

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)

Retired categories are:

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)

2008 Awards

Nominees of 2008's categories are:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| style="text-align:center" | eSports Player of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | eSports Team of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Best Counter-Strike Player
| style="text-align:center" | Best Warcraft 3 Player
|-
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg

Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen

Filip 'Neo' Kubski

Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert

Jang 'Moon' Jae Ho

Jang Jae Ho

Jang "Moon" Jae Ho is a South Korean professional gamer of the popular Blizzard real-time strategy games Warcraft III and StarCraft II. He is seen by many as the best Night Elf player in the world...

Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li

Raphael 'cogu' Camargo
|
|-
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Breakthrough of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Best Online Magazine
| style="text-align:center" | Scene Journalist Award
| style="text-align:center" | Journalist Award
|-
| style="vertical-align:top" |
|
|
|
|-
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| style="text-align:center" | eSports Game of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Lifetime Achievement Award
| style="text-align:center" | eSports Photo of the Year
|-
|
|
|

Daniel Jensen

Michal Blicharz

Rafal Lagowski

Paul Chaloner

Paul Chaloner , better known by his pseudonym ReDeYe, is one of the world's first professional electronic sports TV commentators....

David Donschen

Max Silver

|-
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Best Call of Duty 4 Player
| style="text-align:center" | Consoles Player of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Consoles Team of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Best Halo 3 Player
|-
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Rob 'rob-wiz' Kennedy

Antonin 'OZWALD' Grenier

Nikolaj 'Mazarini' Lazarev

Robert 'smithz' Krivka

Daniel 'tidde' Asp

|

Rudolph 'The Tactical' Fischer

Philippe 'Yggdrasil' Vaillant

Wouter 'Handewasser' van Someren

Tom 'OGRE2' Ryan

Dave 'Walshy' Walsh

|

Final Boss

Carbon

Infinity

Warriors of Hell

New Era

|

Dan 'OGRE1' Ryan

Tom 'OGRE2' Ryan

Dave 'Walshy' Walsh

Benjamin 'Karma' Jackson

Scott 'Gandhi' Lussier

|-
|}

2007 Awards

Nominees and winners of 2007's international categories are:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| style="text-align:center" | eSports Player of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | eSports Team of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Best Counter-Strike Player
| style="text-align:center" | Best Warcraft 3 Player
|-
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Filip 'Neo' Kubski

Johan 'Toxic' Quick

Johan Quick

Johan Quick, who plays with the pseudonym "Toxjq", also known as tox, toxic is a professional gamer from Norrköping, Sweden. Quick is currently signed by Jonathan Wendel's Free Player Organization and is specialized in Quake 4 competitions. During the 2006 season, he was signed to SK Gaming and won...

Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li

Daniel 'hero' Schellhase

Vanessa Arteaga
| style="vertical-align:top" |

PGS Gaming (CS)

World Elite (WC3)

Dignitas

Team Dignitas

right|thumb|140px|Logo of Team DignitasTeam Dignitas is an International e-Sports team which is headquartered in Great Britain and which is among the best British gaming teams. It was founded on the 9th of September 2003 as a fusion of the Battlefield 1942 clans Legion Condor and Sweden Kompanix....

(WiC)

fnatic

Fnatic

Fnatic is a professional electronic sports organization based out of Australia, UK and The Netherlands. Fnatic was founded in July 23, 2004. Fnatic is particularly well-known for its highly successful Counter-Strike team, which is the single most financially-successful Counter-Strike team in...

(CS)

Pandemic (WoW)
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Filip 'Neo' Kubski

Dennis 'walle' Wallenberg

Jan 'mooN' Stolle

Harley 'dsn' Orwall

Raphael 'cogu' Camargo
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Yoan 'ToD' Merlo

Olav 'Creolophus' Undheim

Li 'Sky' Xiaofeng

Jang 'Moon' JaeHo

Jang Jae Ho

Jang "Moon" Jae Ho is a South Korean professional gamer of the popular Blizzard real-time strategy games Warcraft III and StarCraft II. He is seen by many as the best Night Elf player in the world...

Mykhaylo 'HoT' Novopashyn
|-
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Breakthrough of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Best FPS Duel Player
| style="text-align:center" | Best Online Magazine
| style="text-align:center" | Scene Journalist Award
|-
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski
Maciej Krzykowski
Maciej Krzykowski , who also goes by the pseudonym av3k, is an active professional player of the first person shooter series Quake. He has Polish nationality and resides in Ostróda. He has been activily competing in international Quake competitions since March 5, 2006 and is signed to Dutch...

Wei Liang 'Fly100%' Lu

Alexey 'cypher' Yushanevsky

Jimmy 'allen' Allen

Roman 'roman' Ausserdorfer
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Johan 'toxic' Quick
Johan Quick
Johan Quick, who plays with the pseudonym "Toxjq", also known as tox, toxic is a professional gamer from Norrköping, Sweden. Quick is currently signed by Jonathan Wendel's Free Player Organization and is specialized in Quake 4 competitions. During the 2006 season, he was signed to SK Gaming and won...

Anton 'cooller' Singov

Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski

Maciej Krzykowski

Maciej Krzykowski , who also goes by the pseudonym av3k, is an active professional player of the first person shooter series Quake. He has Polish nationality and resides in Ostróda. He has been activily competing in international Quake competitions since March 5, 2006 and is signed to Dutch...

Alexey 'cypher' Yushanevsky

Magnus 'fojji' Olsson
| style="vertical-align:top" | Readmore
Esreality - MeetYourMakers
Replays.net - SK Gaming

SK Gaming

SK Gaming is a professional German electronic sports organization founded in 1997 by a small group of Quake players living in Oberhausen. SK Gaming retains teams across different genres and are particularly known for their success in Counter-Strike tournaments...

eFever - Cyberfight
- Zonerank - Gotfrag

GotFrag

GotFrag is a website, founded in 2002, that covers daily events and news about e-Sports and professional video gaming. New York Post writer Michael Kane called GotFrag "the best source of gaming [information] for the hard-core community". The site provides gamers with a place to find information...

- Fragbite
| style="vertical-align:top" | David Abel - Michal Blicharz
Jonas Vikan - Nafiz Choudhury
Richard Lewis - Trevor Schmidt
Dario Miljkovic - Lawrence Phillips
Elroy Pinto - Sujoy Roy

|-
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| style="text-align:center" | eSports Game of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Best Hardware
| style="text-align:center" | Lifetime Achievement Award
|-
| style="vertical-align:top" | Pro Evolution Soccer 6
Pro Evolution Soccer 6
Pro Evolution Soccer 6 is one of Konami's highly successful Pro Evolution Soccer franchise...

Command & Conquer 3
World of Warcraft: Burning Crusade
World in Conflict

World in Conflict

World in Conflict, or WiC, is a real-time tactical video game developed by the Swedish video game company Massive Entertainment and published by Ubisoft for Microsoft Windows. The game was released in September 2007...

FIFA 07

FIFA 07 is the 2007 edition of EA Sports' series of football simulator video games. Developed by EA Canada, it is published by Electronic Arts....

|
|

Jonathan "Fatal1ty" Wendell
|-
|}

2006 Awards

Nominees and winners of 2006's international categories were:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| style="text-align:center" | eSports Player of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | eSports Team of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Best Counter-Strike Player
| style="text-align:center" | Best Warcraft 3 Player
|-
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen

Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel

Johan 'Toxic' Quick

Johan Quick

Danny 'fRoD' Montaner

Dennis 'styla' Schellhase
| style="vertical-align:top" |

fnatic
Fnatic
Fnatic is a professional electronic sports organization based out of Australia, UK and The Netherlands. Fnatic was founded in July 23, 2004. Fnatic is particularly well-known for its highly successful Counter-Strike team, which is the single most financially-successful Counter-Strike team in...

SK Gaming

compLexity

Complexity

In general usage, complexity tends to be used to characterize something with many parts in intricate arrangement. The study of these complex linkages is the main goal of complex systems theory. In science there are at this time a number of approaches to characterizing complexity, many of which are...

Mousesports

4Kings
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg

Navid 'Kapio' Javadi

Christian 'Vilden' Lidstroem

Ke Fei 'Jungle' Yang

Danny 'fRoD' Montaner
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen

Jang 'Spirit Moon' Jae Ho

Jang Jae Ho

Jang "Moon" Jae Ho is a South Korean professional gamer of the popular Blizzard real-time strategy games Warcraft III and StarCraft II. He is seen by many as the best Night Elf player in the world...

Yoan 'ToD' Merlo

Li 'Sky' Xiaofeng

Jung Hee 'Sweet' Chun

Jung Hee Chun

Chun Jung-hee was a South Korean professional player of the real-time strategy game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. He used to play for the Chinese professional gaming team Beijing eSport Team....

|-
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Breakthrough of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Best Online Magazine
| style="text-align:center" | Best Publisher
|-
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Navid 'Kapio' Javadi

Alexander 'Ztrider' Ingarv

Oskar 'ins' Holm

Ke Fei 'Jungle' Yang

Jae Wook 'Lucifer' Noh
| style="vertical-align:top" |

SK Gaming
SK Gaming
SK Gaming is a professional German electronic sports organization founded in 1997 by a small group of Quake players living in Oberhausen. SK Gaming retains teams across different genres and are particularly known for their success in Counter-Strike tournaments...

Gotfrag

GotFrag

Fragbite

Replays.Net

Esreality
| style="vertical-align:top" | Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

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 international categories were:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| style="text-align:center" | eSports Player of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | eSports Team of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Best Counter-Strike Player
| style="text-align:center" | Best Warcraft 3 Player
|-
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Sander 'Vo0' Kaasjager
Sander Kaasjager
Sander Kaasjager, who also goes by the pseudonym Vo0, is a former Dutch professional player of the first person shooter game Painkiller, born in Naarden. He was formerly signed on to play for the electronic sports team Fnatic...

Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen

Jang 'Spirit Moon' Jae Ho

Jang Jae Ho

Jang "Moon" Jae Ho is a South Korean professional gamer of the popular Blizzard real-time strategy games Warcraft III and StarCraft II. He is seen by many as the best Night Elf player in the world...

Danny 'fRoD' Montaner

Johnathan 'Fatal1ty' Wendel
| style="vertical-align:top" |

4Kings (WC3)

NoA (CS)

Team NoA

Team NoAYear founded: 2003Team NoA is a professional Counter-Strike team who are as well known for setting precedents as they are for being a successful team. Founded by Jonas "bsl" Alsaker, the team was several times regarded as the worlds best, taking home many prestigious "trophies"...

Begrip (CS)

Mousesports (CS)

mTw (FIFA)
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Danny 'fRoD' Montaner

Jorgen 'Xeqtr' Johanessen

Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg

Mattias 'Snajdan' Andersen

Michael 'PapsT' Schmidt
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen

Jang 'Spirit Moon' Jae Ho

Jang Jae Ho

Jang "Moon" Jae Ho is a South Korean professional gamer of the popular Blizzard real-time strategy games Warcraft III and StarCraft II. He is seen by many as the best Night Elf player in the world...

Dae Hui 'FoV' Cho

Li 'Sky' Xiaofeng

Tae min 'Zacard' Hwang
|-
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Breakthrough of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Female Player of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Best Online Magazine
| style="text-align:center" | Best Publisher
|-
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg

Marcus "zet" Sundstrom

Andreas 'Zonic' Isberg

Robert "RobbaN" Dahlström
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Louise 'AurorA' Thomsen

Alice 'ali' Lew

Qin '1212' Qin

Isabelle 'redfox' Schaffert

Natalia 'Nath' Ko
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Gotfrag

GotFrag

Fragbite

Ampednews

Esreality

SoGamed

NESC
| style="vertical-align:top" | Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

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 international categories were:

{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| style="text-align:center" | eSports Player of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | eSports Team of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Best Counter-Strike Player
| style="text-align:center" | Best Warcraft 3 Player
|-
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Fredrik 'MaDFroG' Johansson

Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen

Lim 'Boxer' Yo-Hwan

Lim Yo-Hwan

Lim Yo-Hwan , known by the pseudonym SlayerS_`BoxeR` , is one of the most successful players of the real-time strategy computer game StarCraft to date...

Dennis 'styla' Schellhase
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Eyeballers (CS)

4Kings (WC3)

NoA

Team NoA

(CS)

Progaming (FIFA)

SK Gaming

(CS)

Mousesports (CS)

The Titans (CS)

SK Gaming

(UT)

mTw (WC3)

| style="vertical-align:top" |

Tommy 'Potti' Ingemarsson

Ola 'elemeNt' Moum

Emil 'HeatoN' Christensen

Emil Christensen

Emil Pathric William Christensen , alias HeatoN, is a former Swedish professional Counter-Strike player, formerly playing as captain of the gaming team Ninjas in Pyjamas...

Danny 'Hyper' Kuusisto

Franz "gore" Burghardt
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Jung Hee 'Sweet' Chun
Jung Hee Chun
Chun Jung-hee was a South Korean professional player of the real-time strategy game Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne. He used to play for the Chinese professional gaming team Beijing eSport Team....

Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen

Matthew 'Wizard' Anderson

Fredrik 'MaDFroG' Johansson

Alborz 'HeMaN' Haidarian
|-
{| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left"
|-
| style="text-align:center" | Breakthrough of the Year
| style="text-align:center" | Best Female CS Player
| style="text-align:center" | Best Online Magazine
| style="text-align:center" | Best Publisher
|-
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Maurice 'Burnie' Engelhardt

Jeff 'Aether' Zhang

Dae Hui 'FoV' Cho

Dennis 'walle' Wallenber

Abdisamad 'SpawN' Mohamed
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Silena 'Lena' Urquiza

Alice 'ali' Lew

Line 'MissHyper' Haug

Sandra 'craZygirL' Sbrzesny

Natalia 'Nath' Ko
| style="vertical-align:top" |

Gotfrag

GotFrag

Ampednews

Esreality

SoGamed
| style="vertical-align:top" | Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts
Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

Ubisoft - Microsoft - Atari

LucasArts - Vivendi - Activision

Eidos - Virgin -Take 2 - CDV

Jowood - Koch-Media - THQ
|-
|}

Most Nominated

Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen - seven times Jang 'Spirit Moon' Jae Ho

Jang Jae Ho

Jang "Moon" Jae Ho is a South Korean professional gamer of the popular Blizzard real-time strategy games Warcraft III and StarCraft II. He is seen by many as the best Night Elf player in the world...

- five times Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li - five times Danny 'fRoD' Montaner - four times Esreality - four times Gotfrag

GotFrag

- four times SK Gaming

SK Gaming

(site) - four times

Most won

Electronic Arts

Electronic Arts, Inc. is a major American developer, marketer, publisher and distributor of video games. Founded and incorporated on May 28, 1982 by Trip Hawkins, the company was a pioneer of the early home computer games industry and was notable for promoting the designers and programmers...

- three times Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen - three times SK Gaming

SK Gaming

(site) - three times Filip 'Neo' Kubski - two times Sander 'vo0' Kaasjager

Sander Kaasjager

Sander Kaasjager, who also goes by the pseudonym Vo0, is a former Dutch professional player of the first person shooter game Painkiller, born in Naarden. He was formerly signed on to play for the electronic sports team Fnatic...

- two times

The source of this article is wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. The text of this article is licensed under the GFDL.