Nominations have opened for the first group of categories in the Esports Industry Awards 2017.
In a Twitch announcement show this evening featuring OJ Borg, Paul “ReDeYe” Chaloner, Alan “Bricey” Brice, new categories were revealed including Unsung Hero and Videographer.
Paul Chaloner said Unsung Hero is one of his favourite new awards, because anyone can win (yes, even xPeke’s mum or imaqtpie’s cat)!
You can nominate on the Esports Industry Awards website – the first 50 will be entered into a raffle to win two tickets to the awards on November 13th, five-star accommodation in London and a year’s pass from sponsor Now TV.
The categories are as follows:
Organisers say the awards ‘aim to ensure success and achievement in esports is celebrated globally’, and that they are ‘acting as an impartial entity across all platforms and titles’.
After nominations are in and reviewed by a panel, finalists will be announced, based on being at the top level between October 2016 and October 2017.
The panel is as follows:
The finalists are then put to a public vote, and the winners are announced on November 13th at a ceremony in London.
Earlier this month, Clash Royale picked up the public-voted AMD Esports Award at the Game BAFTAs.
In other news, Paul Chaloner, one of the strongest supporters of ‘esports has a lower case s’ and someone involved in the awards, had to explain why the eSports Industry Awards Twitch channel has an upper case ‘S’, and got ‘brutal, savage, rekt’ when his message was deleted (sorry Paul)!
Update: The Awards have changed their spelling – Paul has won!
@PaulChaloner Okay you win, you win! Who would have thought @paulchaloner would get his way? ;). We are officially: The Now TV Esports Industry Awards!
— Esports Ind. Awards (@esportsIA) April 20, 2017
You can nominate on the Esports Industry Awards website here
Dom is an award-winning writer and finalist of the Esports Journalist of the Year 2023 award. He graduated from Bournemouth University with a 2:1 degree in Multi-Media Journalism in 2007.
As a long-time gamer having first picked up the NES controller in the late ’80s, he has written for a range of publications including GamesTM, Nintendo Official Magazine, industry publication MCV and others. He worked as head of content for the British Esports Federation up until February 2021, when he stepped back to work full-time on Esports News UK and offer esports consultancy and freelance services. Note: Dom still produces the British Esports newsletter on a freelance basis, so our coverage of British Esports is always kept simple – usually just covering the occasional press release – because of this conflict of interest.
