UK talent among Esports Awards 2020 finalists

The last few Esports Awards 2020 finalists have been announced, and there’s a host of UK esports talent among them.

This year’s Esports Awards will take place virtually on Saturday November 21st as part of the Esports Assemble in partnership with Esports Insider.

Tonight the finalists for this year’s pro and on-air category finalists were revealed. Among them are a host of UK talent including pro FIFA gamer Tekkz (Esports Console Player of the Year), Fortnite player Benjyfishy (PC Player of the Year), Vedius and HenryG (Esports Colour Caster of the Year), ODPixel (Esports Play By Play Caster of the Year) and more.

Esports Host of the Year finalists include Machine and Frankie Ward, while the NUEL are nominated in the Esports Collegiate Award.

UK-based Esports Insider and Dexerto are up for Esports Coverage Website of the Year, while Hitmarker Jobs has been nominated for Esports Support Agency of the Year.

Journalist of the Year includes UK nominees Adam Fitch and Richard Lewis (both recently joining Dexerto) and Duncan ‘Thorin’ Shields. And Katy Eyre has been nominated in the Esports Photographer of the Year category.

There’s a full of list of finalists at the bottom of this article.

The Esports Awards has also welcomed co-CEO of ESL Gaming, Craig ‘Torbull’ Levine, and esports veteran journalist Richard Lewis as the newest inductees for the Lifetime Achievement Award.

“I am so excited to announce that we are officially going digital. In such uncertain times it’s an honor to be able to create something that celebrates and recognises those who are going above and beyond in the esports industry,” said Esports Awards MD Michael Ashford.

The Esports Awards is part of the Esports Assemble, four days of events and insights from industry figures from November 18th to 21st, including ESI Digital Winter, Esports Awards Expo and the Esports Awards.

Full list of 2020 Esports Awards finalists 

Esports Coach Of The Year                                                                        

• Zews (EG)
• Rambo (Dallas)
• Tow B (Big Clan)
• Grabbz (G2)
• Crusty (San Fran)
• Zefa (Damwon)
• Heen (Team Secret)
• Chrome (Spacestation Gaming)
• Lycan (Spacestation Gaming)
• Luo “Bsyy” Sheng

Esports Console Player Of The Year In Partnership With Scuf Gaming

• Clayster
• Shotzzy
• Tekkz
• Crimsix
• Sypical
• Jknaps
• Fairy Peak!
• Msdossary

Esports Console Rookie Of The Year In Partnership With Scuf Gaming

• Shotzzy
• Firstkiller
• Zezinho
• Illey
• Joreuz
• Owakening

Esports Mobile Player Of The Year

• Fly
• Luxxy
• Nobru
• Surgical Goblin
• Mortal
• Zuxxy
• Iferg

Esports Organisation Of The Year

• G2 Esports
• NRG
• Team Liquid
• Envy
• Spacestation
• Cloud 9
• 100 Thieves
• TSM

Esports PC Player Of The Year 

• ZywOo
• Knight
• Caps
• Matumbaman
• David Tonizza
• Benjyfishy
• Rampy
• Bugha
• Striker 
• Sinatraa
• Nisha 
• Canadian 

Esports PC Rookie Of The Year In Association With Matrix Keyboards 

• Sinatraa
• Wardell
• Tactical
• Keria
• Spica
• Fultz

Esports Team Of The Year

• Dallas Empire (CDL)
• Top Esports (LPL)
• Vitality (CS:GO)
• G2 Esports (LEC)
• Spacestation Gaming (Rocket League)
• Spacestation Gaming (R6)
• Team Secret (Dota2)
• Damwon (LCK)
• Sf Shock (Overwatch) 
• Shanghai Dragons (Overwatch) 

Esports Analyst Of The Year

• Spunj
• Ls
• Froskurinn
• Fogged
• Nameless
• Wolf
• Jacob “Pimp” Winneche
• Reinforce
• Velly

Esports Caster Of The Year (Colour)

• Merk 
• Froskurinn
• Vedius
• Ls
• Moses
• Launders
• Chance
• Kixstar
• Fogged
• Henryg

Esports Caster Of The Year (Play By Play)

• Uber
• Maven
• Captain Flowers
• Quickshot
• Drakos
• Ibai
• Anders
• Semmler
• Odpixel

Esports Host Of The Year

• Ana Xisde
• Chris Puckett
• Sjokz
• Machine 
• Frankie Ward
• Sheever
• Lottie Van-Praag
• Soe Gschwind
• Dash
• Goldenboy

Esports Collegiate Award

• The University of California at Irvine
• Maryville University of Saint Louis
• Full Sail University
• Kevin Hoang
• NACE
• NUEL
• College Carball
• Tyrelle Appleton
• TESPA

Esports Content Creator of the Year

• Ashley Kang
• Esports Talk
• Musty
• Hecz
• Nadeshot
• UpUpDownDown

Esports Mobile Game of the Year

• PUBG MOBILE
• Clash Royale
• Brawl Stars
• Free Fire
• Arena of Valor
• Call of Duty Mobile
• Clash of Clans
• Mobile Legends

Esports Personality of the Year

• Ocelote
• Goldenboy
• Nadeshot
• Sjokz
• Dr Lupo
• Faker
• Hecz
• Froskurinn
• Fallen

Streamer of the Year

• Dr Lupo
• Pokimane
• TimTheTatman
• Summit1G
• Gaules
• XQC
• Ibai
• CourageJD
• MortaL
• Swagg
• Asmongold

Esports Commercial Partner of the Year

• Intel
• Red Bull
• BMW
• Logitech
• Mastercard
• State Farm
• Mountain Dew Game Fuel
• Nike
• Louis Vuitton

Esports Coverage Website of the Year in association with Sizzle Creative 

• ESPN
• The Esports Observer
• Esports Insider
• Dexerto
• Liquipedia
• HLTV
• The Score Esports
• Inven Global

Esports Game of the Year in association with Koyo 

• League of Legends
• CS:GO
• COD Modern Warfare
• Dota 2
• Rainbow Six Siege
• Rocket League
• VALORANT
• F1 2019
• Fortnite

Esports Hardware Provider of the Year

• Razer
• AMD
• Logitech
• Intel
• NVIDIA
• HyperX
• Corsair
• ASUS ROG
• Alienware
• Scuf Gaming
• Elgato
• Respawn

Esports Journalist of the Year

• Adam Fitch
• Tyler ‘Fionnonfire’ Erzberger
• Jacob Wolf
• Jared ‘Dekay’ Lewis
• Richard Lewis
• Duncan ‘Thorin’ Shields
• Ashley Kang
• Emily Rand

Esports Publisher of the Year 

• Riot Games
• Activision Blizzard
• Valve
• Ubisoft
• Epic Games
• PUBG Corp
• Psyonix
• 2K
• EA
• Supercell
• Tencent

Esports Supporting Agency of the Year in association with Grind Gaming

• ESG Law
• Hitmarker Jobs
• The Story Mob
• Esports Engine
• Character Select Agency
• Prodigy Agency
• Paper Crowns

Esports Content Series of the Year

• 100 Thieves – the Heist
• TSM Legends
• Complexity Through the Smoke
• Eavesdrop Podcast
• The Story of (Score Esports)
• G2 Voice Comms
• Team Liquid the Squad
• Chicago Huntsmen – The Hunt

Esports Cosplay of the Year

• Peyton Cosplay
• FusRoFran
• Willow Creative
• Sneaky
• Glory Lamothe
• Har_Fie
• LittleJem
• Lara Lunardi
• Xenon Cosplay

Esports Creative Piece of the Year

• Chasing the Dream – G2
• FionnOnFire – Faker Piece
• 100 Thieves Uno
• LOL Cinematic Season Opening
• Flyquest: Treequest / Seaquest
• Dota 2 TI9 Truesight
• Team Liquid Marvel Collaboration
• Drink CTRL FaZe Clan

Esports Content Team of the Year

• 100 Thieves
• G2
• 1UP Studios
• Complexity
• NRG
• Faze Clan
• Cloud 9
• LEC

Esports Videographer of the Year

• Sean Do – Complexity 
• Logan Dodson – 100 Thieves
• Charles Dalton – G2 Esports 
• Pete Nguyen – Fnatic 
• Caroline Parker-Stark – 1UP & Team Liquid 
• Cassidy Sanders – Cloud9
• Perra “akidos” Andersen – Dignitas 
• Julian Ramirez – NRG
• Tuomo Väkevä – ENCE 
• Esteban Martinez – FGC 

Esports Photographer of the Year

• Eric Ananmalay
• Rich Lock
• Peter Chau
• Helena Kristiansson
• Kyle Miller
• Stephanie Lindgren
• Michal Konkol
• Katy Eyre
• Radosław Makuch
• Logan Dodson
• Nuno Miranda
• Chris OTT

Esports Creative/Creative Team of the Year

• Damian Estrada
• AOE Creative
• Paper Crowns
• Popcorp
• Euller Araujo
• SesoHQ
• Visuals by Impulse
• Hugo Bonnamy
• Roma Bib

Dom Sacco

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.