The Esports Awards 2022: The Winners Checklist

Listed below are all the winners for this yr’s Esports Awards!


The extremely anticipated occasion kicked off its spectacular awards present in stunning Resorts World Las Vegas to have fun this yr’s most notable achievements within the esports world.

The Esports Awards is an occasion that seeks to acknowledge excellence on this planet of digital sports activities. Inside its legacy are the nominated gamers, organisations, suppliers and platforms which have all labored collectively to solidify esports’ triumphs within the trendy world. That is not to say that the highlight stays on the entrance stage, although. Additionally amongst its nominees are the hardworking broadcast corporations and technological titans which have made these occasions attainable behind the scenes. Sponsored by Lexus, 2022 was certain to host the best awards present but.

In one other latest awards present, The Recreation Awards 2022 topped Valorant as this yr’s Greatest Esports Recreation, even beating the massively common League of Legends.

Esports Controller Rookie of the 12 months

Recognizing the best expertise that delivered probably the most of their first steps into the world {of professional} controller esports.

2022 Nominees

  • Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Williams
  • Enzo ‘Seikoo’ Grondein
  • Yan ‘yanxnz’ Xisto Nolasco
  • Leonardo ‘MkLeo’ López Pérez
  • Matthew ‘FormaL’ Piper
  • Evan ‘M0nkey M00n’ Rogez
  • McArthur ‘Cellium’ Jovel
  • Derek ‘iDom’ Ruffin
  • Umut ‘Umut’ Gültekin
  • Noyan ‘Genburten’ Ozkose

Winner: Seikoo

Esports PC Rookie of the 12 months

Recognizing an esports skilled making huge strides for his or her entrance within the trade for PC competitions.

2022 Nominees

  • Ilya ‘m0NESY’ Osipov
  • Felipe ‘Much less’ Basso
  • Emir ‘Alfajer’ Beder
  • Joseph Joon “jojopyun” Pyun
  • Ammar ‘ATF’ Al-Assaf
  • Jacob ‘valyn’ Batio
  • William ‘Spoit’ Löfstedt
  • Kim ‘ZEST’ Hyun-Woo
  • Huang ‘Wayward’ Ren-Xing

Winner: Ilya ‘m0NESY’ Osipov

 Esports Coach of the 12 months

Recognizing a coach that not solely skilled, however uplifted and enriched the aggressive spirit of the workforce members beneath their care.

2022 Nominees

  • Robert ‘RobbaN’ Dahlström
  • Chet ‘Chet’ Singh
  • Erik ‘d00mbr0s’ Sandgren
  • Andrii ‘B1ad3’ Horodenskyi
  • Matthew ‘Satthew’ Ackermann
  • Zhang ‘xiao8’ Ning
  • Go ‘Rating’ Dong-bin
  • Maxwell Alexander ‘Max Waldo’ Waldo
  • Diogo José ‘Jebuz’ Fernandes de Jésus
  • Théo ‘Mew’ Ponzoni

Winner: Andrii ‘B1ad3’ Horodenskyi

Esports {Photograph} of the 12 months

Recognizing the one who captured the second that defines esports this yr.

Winner: Colin Younger-Wolff

Esports Writer of the 12 months

Recognizing the corporate that develops and improves AAA sport titles that home the large moments for the skilled gaming scene.

2022 Nominees

  • Riot Video games
  • Valve
  • Psyonix
  • Garena
  • Epic Video games
  • Tencent
  • Ubisoft
  • PUBG Studios
  • EA

Winner: Riot Video games

Esports Attire of the 12 months

Recognizing the style firm that helped followers all around the globe put on their love for skilled gaming

2022 Nominees

  • TSM
  • 100 Thieves
  • FaZe Clan
  • Staff Liquid
  • FlyQuest
  • G2 Esports
  • Cloud9
  • Fnatic
  • OpTic Gaming
  • Staff Vitality

Winner: 100 Thieves

Esports Collegiate Ambassador of the 12 months

Recognizing pushed people that discover a place within the trade regardless of the challenges of scholastic esports (and you already know, faculty).

2022 Nominees

  • Kevin Hoang
  • Justin Banusing
  • Jack Fenton
  • Adam Antor
  • Sergio ‘Physix’ Brack
  • Daniel Clerke
  • Yugina Yun
  • Nyle Sky Kauweloa, PhD
  • Christine Fan
  • Ryan Johnson

Winner: Christine Fan

Esports Broadcast/Manufacturing Staff of the 12 months

Recognizing the love and energy of world broadcast corporations for bringing 2022’s spectacular reveals

2022 Nominees

  • Riot Video games
  • Garena
  • Esports Engine
  • LVP
  • BLAST Premier
  • Past the Summit
  • PGL Esports
  • ESL Gaming
  • FACEIT

Winner: Riot Video games

Esports Industrial Accomplice of the 12 months

Recognizing a distributor that supported the professional video games scene by bringing the best esports moments to the plenty.

2022 Nominees

  • Logitech
  • Purple Bull
  • Intel
  • Verizon
  • Monster Vitality
  • Gucci
  • Package Kat
  • Nike

Winner: Verizon

Esports Inventive Piece of the 12 months

Recognizing the imaginative audiovisual tasks that sought to raise esports to a complete new stage

2022 Nominees

  • FATALE: Coming for the Crown
  • The Bellhop
  • WATCH US FOLLOW US
  • Grow to be the Nightmare
  • Collectively We Rise
  • The Topfather
  • TOMORROW WE FIGHT
  • Immortals
  • Blast Premier Spring 2022 Posters

Winner: The Bellhop by Gucci Gaming Academy

Esports Journalist of the 12 months

Recognizing a reporter that offered an important insights into the world of digital sports activities.

2022 Nominees

  • Ashley Kang
  • Kevin Hitt
  • Chandy Teixeira
  • Richard Lewis
  • Adam Fitch
  • Jacob Wolf
  • Brieuc ‘LEC Wooloo’ Seeger
  • Antonio Yuste
  • Liz Richardson
  • George Geddes
  • Luis Mira
  • Cecilia D’Anastasio

Winner: Ashley Kang

Esports Content material Creator of the 12 months

Kicking off the occasion’s major ceremony, The Esports Awards 2022 acknowledged an impartial creator that made their residing within the huge world of esports.

2022 Nominees

  • Hector ‘H3CZ’ Rodriguez
  • Jared ‘SunlessKhan’ Zook
  • Ashley Kang
  • Thomas ‘ZooMaa’ Paparatto
  • Phillip ‘ImperialHal’ Dosen
  • Brian ‘BananaSlamJamma’ Canavan
  • Juan ‘Hungrybox’ Debiedma
  • Mohan ‘Launders’ Govindasamy
  • Christian ‘IWDominate’ Rivera

Winner: Juan ‘Hungrybox’ Debiedma

Esports Recreation of the 12 months

Recognizing a sport that delivered the very best expertise within the esports style.

2022 Nominees

  • League of Legends
  • Valorant
  • CS:GO
  • Rocket League
  • Dota 2
  • Free Hearth
  • Apex Legends
  • Rainbow Six Siege
  • Fortnite

Winner: Valorant

Esports Cellular Recreation of the 12 months

Recognizing a cellular sport that took the unimaginable giant world of esports and match it the pockets of gifted professional gamers.

2022 Nominees

  • Free Hearth
    PUBG Cellular
    League of Legends: Wild Rift
    Pokemon Unite
    Area of Valor
    Cellular Legends: Bang Bang
    Name of Obligation: Cellular
    Brawl Stars

Winner: PUBG Cellular

Content material Group of the 12 months

Recognizing a creator group that gave informal followers their gateway into the esports trade.

2022 Nominees

  • 100 Thieves
  • FaZe Clan
  • OTK
  • G4TV
  • Tribo Gaules
  • OfflineTV
  • Full Squad Gaming
  • Staff Summertime
  • S8ul Esports
  • LOUD

Winner: S8ul Esports

Esports PC Play of the 12 months

Recognizing a gaming spotlight that stood above the remaining for the Esports Play of the 12 months.

2022 Nominees

  • Jaccob ‘yay’ Whiteaker
  • Russel ‘Twistzz’ Van Dulken
  • Oleksandr ‘s1mple’ Kostyliev
  • Jeong ‘Chovy’ Ji-hoon
  • Andrey ‘Shao’ Kiprsky
  • Illya ‘Yatoro’ Mulyarchuk
  • Zhang ‘Faith_bian’ Ruida
  • Andrei ‘Odoamne’ Pascu
  • Jacob ‘HisWattson’ McMillin
  • Jaime ‘Cyber’ Ramos
  • Cho ‘Maru’ Seong-ju

Winner: Russel ‘Twistzz’ Van Dulken

Esports Cosplay of the 12 months

Giving props to the videogame followers that introduced its brilliantly colourful characters to life.

2022 Nominees

  • LittleJem
  • Inastes_tear
  • Anaelic
  • Kinpatsu Cosplay
  • Har_Fie
  • Skydaddi
  • Peyton Cosplay
  • Romu
  • Anna Veber
  • Larissa Rochefort

Winner: Kinpatsu Cosplay

Esports Content material Collection of the 12 months

Recognizing a sequence that unfold the phrase and saved the world up to date on the present state of esports.

2022 Nominees

  • The Story Of… (theScore esports)
  • The Course of – OpTic Gaming
  • T1 The Locker Room
  • G2 Voicecomms
  • The Eavesdrop Podcast
  • Backstory – Karmine Corp x Purple Bull
  • OG — Street to the Worldwide
  • Gamers

Winner: Gamers

Esports Inventive of the 12 months

Recognizing the right-brained abilities that bass-boosted the perfect components of the trade.

2022 Nominees

  • Caroline Parker-Stark
  • Roma Bib
  • Tiago ‘Liquid Enigma’ Paixao
  • Euller Araujo
  • Gregory ‘SesoHQ’ Ortiz
  • Ella Pravetz
  • Jay Braga
  • Christian Skimmeland

Winner: Christian Skimmeland

Esports Color Caster of the 12 months

Recognizing a commentator that gives informative predictions whereas pumping up the hype in our esports tournaments

2022 Nominees

  • Chad ‘SPUNJ’ Burchill
  • Andrew ‘Vedius’ Day
  • Michael ‘hypoc’ Robins
  • Isaac ‘Azael’ Cummings-Bentley
  • Matt ‘Mr X’ Morello
  • Niclas ‘Pengu’ Mouritzen
  • Andy ‘Bravo’ Dudynsky
  • Thomas ‘Likelihood’ Ashworth
  • James ‘Jamesbot’ Villar
  • Trent ‘TrentPax’ MacKenzie
  • Daniel Ray ‘Artosis’ Stemkoski

Winner: Andy ‘Bravo’ Dudynsky

Esports Play By Play Caster of the 12 months

Recognizing a caster that took the viewers via high-paced event moments this yr.

2022 Nominees

  • Lauren ‘Pansy’ Scott
  • Alex ‘Machine’ Richardson
  • BrunoClash
  • Clayton ‘CaptainFlowers’ Raines
  • Miles Ross
  • Victoria ‘VikkiKitty’ Perez
  • Parker ‘INTERRO’ Mackay
  • Mark ‘Onset’ Hatcher
  • Mitch ‘Uber’ Leslie
  • Joey ‘Jorby’ Ahrens
  • Owen ‘ODPixel’ Davies

Winner: Lauren ‘Pansy’ Scott

Esports Host of the 12 months

Recognizing a revered commentator that welcomes newcomers and leads the momentum of main esports occasions.

2022 Nominees

  • Eefje ‘Sjokz’ Depoortere
  • Alex ‘Goldenboy’ Mendez
  • James ‘Sprint’ Patterson
  • Caleb ‘WavePunk’ Simmons
  • Lottie Van-Praag
  • Yinsu ‘Yinsu’ Collins
  • Ana Paula ‘Ana Xisdê’ Cardoso
  • James Banks
  • Freya ‘Freya’ Spiers
  • Jorien ‘Sheever’ van der Heijden

Winner: James ‘Sprint’ Patterson

Lifetime Achievement Class of 2022

Recognizing a workforce that contributed to their neighborhood and gave their all to passionately forge the esports scene.

  • Dennis ‘Thresh’ Fong
  • Emil ‘Heaton’ Christensen
  • Daniel ‘OGRE1’ Ryan
  • Tom ‘OGRE2’ Ryan
  • Morgan Romine
  • Alexander Garfield
  • Jason Lake

Esports Cellular Participant of the 12 months

Recognizing the pioneer that gained the perfect cellular sport performs for esports this 2022.

2022 Nominees

  • Ceng ‘Order’ Zehai
  • Luan ‘Misplaced’ Souza
  • An ‘Lengthy’ Xulong
  • Mohamed ‘Mohamed Mild’ Tarek
  • Cauan ‘Cauan7’ da Silva
  • Sitetampo’
  • Eman ‘EMANN’ Sangco

Winner: Ceng ‘Order’ Zehai

Esports Staff of the 12 months

Recognizing an esports workforce that gained the hearts and minds of spectators throughout the globe.

2022 Nominees

  • FaZe Clan (CS:GO)
  • LOUD (Valorant)
  • Los Angeles Thieves (Name of Obligation)
  • Staff BDS (Rocket League)
  • Nova Esports (PUBG Cellular)
  • Natus Vincere (CS:GO)
  • Los Angeles Gladiators (Overwatch)
  • PSG.LGD (Dota 2)
  • T1 (League of Legends)
  • LoL Wildcard
  • Dota Wildcard

Winner: LOUD (Valorant)

 

Esports Persona of the 12 months

Recognizing a pressure of persona that embodies the spirit and tenacity of the esports world.

2022 Nominees

  • Hector ‘H3CZ’ Rodriguez
  • Oleksandr ‘s1mple’ Kostyliev
  • Eefje ‘Sjokz’ Depoortere
  • Carlos ‘Ocelote’ Rodriguez
  • Alexandre ‘Gaules’ Borba
  • Naman ‘Mortal’ Sandeep Mathur
  • Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-hyeok
  • Matthew ‘Nadeshot’ Haag
  • Alex ‘Goldenboy’ Mendez
  • Nicolle ‘Cherrygumms’ Merhy
  • Charlie ‘MoistCr1TiKaL’ White Jr.
  • Bruno “Nobru’ Goes

Winner: Matthew ‘Nadeshot’ Haag

Esports Controller Participant of the 12 months

Recognizing a significant participant that gave the perfect efficiency total in controller esports.

2022 Nominees

  • Kenneth ‘Kenny’ Williams
  • Enzo ‘Seikoo’ Grondein
  • Yan ‘yanxnz’ Xisto Nolasco
  • Leonardo ‘MkLeo’ López Pérez
  • Matthew ‘FormaL’ Piper
  • Evan ‘M0nkey M00n’ Rogez
  • McArthur ‘Cellium’ Jovel
  • Derek ‘iDom’ Ruffin
  • Umut ‘Umut’ Gültekin
  • Noyan ‘Genburten’ Ozkose

Winner: Matthew ‘FormaL’ Piper

Esports PC Participant of the 12 months

Recognizing a participant who took the world of PC esports play to new heights this yr.

2022 Nominees

  • Jaccob ‘yay’ Whiteaker
  • Russel ‘Twistzz’ Van Dulken
  • Oleksandr ‘s1mple’ Kostyliev
  • Jeong ‘Chovy’ Ji-hoon
  • Andrey ‘Shao’ Kiprsky
  • Illya ‘Yatoro’ Mulyarchuk
  • Zhang ‘Faith_bian’ Ruida
  • Andrei ‘Odoamne’ Pascu
  • Jacob ‘HisWattson’ McMillin
  • Jaime ‘Cyber’ Ramos
  • Cho ‘Maru’ Seong-ju

Winner: Oleksandr ‘s1mple’ Kostyliev

Streamer of the 12 months

Recognizing a livestreamer that enhanced the world of esports by their pressure of persona and arduous work.

2022 Nominees

  • Alexandre ‘Gaules’ Borba
  • Ibai Llanos
  • Rachell ‘Valkyrae’ Hofstetter
  • Asmongold
  • Tarik ‘tarik’ Celik
  • Kamel ‘Kameto’ Kebir
  • Tyler ‘loltyler1’ Steinkamp
  • Timothy ‘TimTheTatman’ Betar
  • Man ‘DrDisrespect’ Beahm IV
  • QTCinderella
  • David ‘TheGrefg’ Cànovas Martinez
  • Nicholas ‘NICKMERCS’ Kolcheff

Winner: Ibai Llanos 

Esports Organisation of the 12 months

Recognizing a bunch on the pinnacle of esports that works tirelessly to win affect from their basic presence inside esports tradition.

2022 Nominees

  • 100 Thieves
  • LOUD
  • FaZe Clan
  • FURIA Esports
  • G2 Esports
  • OpTic Gaming
  • Staff Liquid
  • Cloud9
  • Nova Esports
  • Evil Geniuses
  • T1

Winner: OpTic Gaming

The journey this neighborhood has taken was extremely memorable to say the least. Regardless of its ups and downs, and the present state of the world, witnessing how esports grew as an expert gaming occasion felt like a random and thrilling ballroom dance.

With a slew of superior titles making their method within the new yr, 2023 is bound to be one other thrilling chapter for the world of gaming normally. And we simply cannot wait!

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Author: Ronnie Neal