eSports
ESPORTS AWARDS CREATIVE & COLLEGIATE FINALISTS ANNOUNCED
The Esports Awards, the most prestigious night in the esports calendar, is excited to present the finalists for this year’s creative & collegiate categories which include the likes of FaZe Clan, Team Vitality, and LittleJem with voting now live. This year’s Esports Awards will be hosted at Resorts World Theatre in Las Vegas on December 13th.
The finalists were announced by Parker “Interro” Mackay, Yinsu Collins, & Thom “Fdot” Badinger as part of Esports Awards’ fourth Spotlight Show of the year. The show also featured a quiz where a VALORANT expert Yinsu and Rainbow 6 expert Interro went head-to-head to see who knows more about esports.
The Spotlight Show also played host to an interview with Jake Lucky, esports personality, interviewer, presenter, and reporter, who discussed Full Squad Gaming’s nomination for Content Group of the Year, an organisation he recently joined. Lucky is an esports apparel enthusiast and co-founded Esports Closet – an organisation focused on promoting and displaying the best apparel and merchandise from the esports industry.
The full list of creative and collegiate award finalists are:
Esports Apparel of the Year
- FaZe Clan
- Team Liquid
- 100 Thieves
- FlyQuest
- G2 Esports
- Cloud9
- Fnatic
- OpTic Gaming
- TSM
- Team Vitality
Esports Cosplay of the Year
- LittleJem
- Inastes_tears
- Anaelic
- Kinpatsu Cosplay
- Skydaddi
- Har_Fie
- Peyton Cosplay
- Romu
- Anna Veber
- Larissa Rochefort
Esports Creative of the Year
- Caroline Parker-Stark
- Roma Bib
- Tiago ‘Liquid Enigma’ Paixao
- Euller Araujo
- Gregory ‘SesoHQ’ Ortiz
- Ella Pravetz
- Jay Braga
- Christian Skimmeland
Esports Creative Piece of the Year
- FATALE: Coming for the Crown | 2022 Verizon VCT Game Changers
- The Bellhop | Gucci Gaming Academy
- 2022 Here we are – WATCH US FOLLOW US
- Become the Nightmare | VCT22 Masters Reykjavík Cinematic
- Together We Rise | Liquid VALORANT Montage
- The Topfather | G2 MSI Hype Video
- TOMORROW WE FIGHT | 2022 LCS Summer Promo ft. Voyboy, Doublelift, Sneaky, Shiphtur
- IEM Katowice 2022 – Immortals
- Blast Premier Spring 2022 Posters
Esports Creative Team of the Year
- Sentinels
- LOUD
- AOE Creative
- Paper Crowns
- North Studio
- G2 Esports
- OpTic Gaming
- Team Liquid
- MAD Lions
- 100 Thieves
- Team Vitality
Esports Collegiate Program of the Year
- Boise State University
- Maryville University
- University of Hawai’i
- University of Warwick
- St. Thomas University
- Illinois State University
- Northwood University
- Grand Canyon University
- University of North Carolina at Charlotte
- Southern University
Esports Collegiate Ambassador of the Year
- Kevin Hoang
- Justin Banusing
- Jack Fenton
- Adam Antor
- Sergio ‘Physix’ Brack
- Daniel Clerke
- Yugina Yun
- Nyle Sky Kauweloa, PhD
- Christine Fan
- Ryan Johnson
“It is such an honour to bring together so many talented individuals, organisations, and brands from across the globe and provide a platform for them to get the recognition and celebration that they deserve. I am so happy to see the massive amounts of growth in the creative categories this year and look forward to welcoming everyone to a night of excitement and celebration in Las Vegas in December.” Michael Ashford, CEO, Esports Awards
The Esports Awards 2022 campaign key dates:
- September 29: Lifetime Achievement in Esports Class of 2022 reveal
- October 27: Finalists for Pro & On-air categories
- TBC: The Go Home Show
- December 13: Esports Awards 2022
The 2022 Esports Awards is brought to you in partnership with Verizon, Plarium, Truman Factory, Secretlab, Sizzle Creative and Tyson Foods.
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Kambi and Abios Join ESIC as Anti-Corruption Supporters
The Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC) has announced Kambi and Abios, its esports data subsidiary, as new ESIC Anti-Corruption Supporters. This partnership signals the alignment of Kambi’s longstanding commitment to corporate probity and sports integrity with ESIC’s ongoing battle against match-fixing and corruption in esports.
Kambi and Abios join a distinguished class of other Anti-Corruption Supporter stakeholders who have historically worked with ESIC to ensure that attacks against the competitive integrity of esports competition are appropriately reported and dealt with. Anti-Corruption Supporters assist ESIC in investigating suspicious betting activity, supporting ESIC’s broader mission to combat cheating and betting fraud in the esports industry. Kambi and Abios’ entrance into the Anti-Corruption Supporter class will see the entities actively work with ESIC to assist in ESIC’s mission to disrupt, prevent, investigate and prosecute all attempts to compromise competitive integrity in esport competition.
Abios’ Managing Director and Founder, Anton Janér, commented: “Our mission at Abios has always been to enable the sustainable growth of esports. As such, we’re incredibly excited to join ESIC in their mission to future-proof esports through combatting match-fixing and other integrity-related malpractices. Fair play is a crucial component in ensuring the viability of esports as a long-term community and investment and we hope to be able to support the industry together with ESIC going forward.”
Stephen Hanna, ESIC’s Chief Executive Officer, commented: “We are pleased to welcome Kambi and Abios as Anti-Corruption Supporters. Kambi and Abios are well trusted and recognised operators in their respective industries, and their entrance into the Anti-Corruption Supporter class of ESIC membership emphasises their shared commitment to upholding the highest standards of integrity and fair play within the esports industry.”
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Tundra Esports Announces New Official Supplier Partnership with Gladiator PC
Tundra Esports, The International 11 Champions and a leading competitive esports team playing in Dota 2, proudly announces a game-changing collaboration with Gladiator PC, a pioneer in high-performance gaming technology as their Official Supplier.
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Arnold Hur
Gen.G Acquires League of Legends Data Analytics Platform YOUR.GG
Global esports organization Gen.G announced their acquisition of YOUR.GG, a data analysis and networking platform for League of Legends players. This partnership comes as a new method for Gen.G to enhance the Gen.G Global Academy experience for students in the program. Gen.G is the first global esports academy equipped with such advanced analytical tools to help expand their offering to players looking to improve their game to a professional level.
“Over the last few years, we’ve been hard at work pioneering what is now the world’s largest esports academy. With over 10,000 students having gone through our curriculum, we see the clear need to develop better tools that gamers, coaches, and parents need to create the best gamers possible. YOUR.GG’s best-in-class data, technology and analytics combined with millions of hours of our professional and academy student coaching will be able to unlock the next generations of esports tools that can help realize the true potential of every student and pro in our program,” Arnold Hur, CEO of Gen.G, said.
This acquisition underscores the importance of data and analytics in developing and refining esports talent, a core principle at Gen.G. YOUR.GG will power both its pro team players and its academy students with data-driven tools and reports to foster growth and provide better insight into scouting for new talent.
“We plan to pioneer a shift in how talent is developed and measured in esports. By developing a tool that will bring a level of analysis and precision to esports that mirrors the most sophisticated training environments in traditional sports. We want to take a holistic approach to measure not just the data within the game, but how a student responds to coaching and feedback,” Min Chang Cha, Founder of YOUR.GG and current VP of Technology at Gen.G, said.
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