The Sport Awards have struggled at instances to keep up the gaming and esports group’s respect, and with blunders like these, you possibly can see why. Rémy “XTQZZZ” Quoniam’s nomination for Greatest Esports Coach of 2023 raised many eyebrows and compelled the person himself to beg to be taken off the nominees’ shortlist.
With the top of the calendar yr comes the time to charge one of the best and worst of 2023. The Game Awards have tried to say authority because the place to go for every thing gaming and esports come the top of the yr, but it surely’s exhausting to take the award present critically when it will probably’t get even the obvious nominees proper.
Such is the case with XTQZZZ’s nomination for Greatest Esports Coach. The French Counter-Strike 2 coach has practiced his craft for all of two months in the course of the entirety of 2023 and hasn’t received a single trophy this yr. His nomination is so misplaced that XTQZZZ pleaded to The Game Awards to take him off the record, stating “he wasn’t even a coach this yr.”
The community is equally baffled by the nomination and has give you a humorous and scarily believable principle—The Sport Awards panel merely googled which crew received the CS:GO Main in 2023 and simply nominated their coach. XTQZZZ is at present teaching BLAST Paris Main Champions Vitality, however he was not the one to steer the crew to victory in Paris. That honor goes to Danny “zonic” Sørensen, now at Falcons.
The wild card right here is that zonic can also be nominated for Greatest Esports Coach of 2023, which makes the number of XTQZZZ even more durable to clarify. The CS group’s principle could also be a bit disrespectful but it surely at the very least gives some kind of clarification. Having each zonic and XTQZZZ among the many nominees simply makes it appear to be The Sport Awards had been choosing names at random out of a hat.
The opposite three names that had been picked through this scientific methodology are Evil Geniuses’ Christine “Potter” Chi, Florida Mayhem’s Jordan “Gunba” Graham, and JD Gaming’s Yoon “Homme” Sung-Younger.
This leaves CS2 as the one sport that gives two nominees to the Greatest Esports Coach class at The Sport Awards. As a lot as we’d wish to rejoice that achievement, even XTQZZZ is aware of that it shouldn’t be the case, or on the very least not with the present nominees.
Whether or not The Sport Awards will acknowledge the French coach’s demand to be taken off the shortlist stays to be seen. The Sport Awards present kicks off on Thursday, Dec. 7.
