British marketing specialist Morgan Ashurst has been awarded the Esports Impact award at the 2022 MCV/Develop Women in Games Awards this evening.
Morgan, who most recently worked as head of marketing at the British Esports Association, where she has worked for three years, is about to start a new role to be announced soon.
She also has a raft of prior experience in esports having worked at Riot Gaming and Fierce PC, and competed in Call of Duty as a pro gamer.
Morgan said in a LinkedIn post: “Since receiving the nomination I was ecstatic, so much to be thankful for. Being recognised for so much hard work behind the scenes to develop our Women in Esports initiative to where it is now. That was the feeling of being nominated… and this afternoon I found out that I’ve won the thing!
“With me being in my final week at British Esports, what a way to sum up this entire experience.
“It was highlighted in my speech about how none of this would’ve been possible without the incredible Alice Leaman [British Esports head of operations] – also known as my work wife – and what we’ve built together. The same applies to all the team at British Esports and to Chester King for giving us the platform to create such a fantastic initiative and to have the ability to work in an area we’re both so passionate about.”
Morgan also gave her respects to the other nominees, and thanked Alice and British Esports junior content executive Bryony-Hope Green, who attended the awards event on Morgan’s behalf (recovering after an op).
“With me being in my final week at British Esports, what a way to sum up this entire experience.”
Morgan Ashurst
Others nominated for the Esports Impact award were Catherine Bygrave (Gfinity), Caz Lacey (CAA), Rachel Rakowski (Logitech) and Becky Wright (National Student Esports, aka NSE).
Other award winners this evening included Maria Laura Scuri of FaceIt for Technical Innovation, Shahneila Saeed of Digital Schoolhouse/Ukie for Educational Impact and more.
In other recent esports awards news, UK esports winners were named at the*gameHERs awards 2021 and UK esports and gaming talent have been nominated for the 2022 Gayming Awards, which is due to take place in London on April 25th 2022.
The full list of MCV/Develop Women in Games Awards 2022 nominees can be found here, and the winners have been announced on the MCV/Develop Twitter page.
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.
