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Update (October 13th 2024): The League Awards 2024 will take place on Thursday December 5th 2024 from 8pm CEST in Berlin, Sjokz and Caedrel have confirmed.
The event will be broadcast on Caedrel’s Twitch channel.
They also said that Laure and YamatoCannon will be a part of the event, and they hope IWillDominate will join them too.
There will be no in-person audience for year one, but they hope to have this for the 2025 awards show.
Sjokz said from Worlds 2024: “We’d really like to have someone from NA like IWillDominate, if he wants to join us and come over that’d be dope.
“We won’t have an audience for year one, it’s just because we are fronting this ourselves, we’re carrying the cost and we just want to get this off the ground. We want to make this awesome event for you, it’s a lot of moving parts and we want the audience there for next year.”
Update (November 12th 2024): The League Awards nominations have now opened, and will close on November 20th.
There are the following categories:
- Player of the year
- LCS player of the year
- LEC player of the year
- LPL player of the year
- LCK player of the year
- Minor region star of the year
- Team of the year
- Rookie of the year
- Broadcast talent of the year
- Esports creator of the year
- Community creator of the year
- Content piece of the year
- Best Riot release of the year
- Play of the year
- Creator event of the year
- Best caster call of the year
- Escape of the year
- Steal of the year
- Moment of the year
Original article (June 12th 2024):
League of Legends esports personalities Caedrel and Sjokz have announced they’re working on a brand new awards show: The League Awards.
They made the announcement on social media today.
Caedrel, the popular UK streamer, said: “Excited to announce that Sjokz and I will be creating and hosting “The League Awards”.
“We felt like this was something that was missing, a big award show to celebrate everyone from the entire scene across the world of Lolesports at the end of each competitive year.”
Caedrel, The League Awards
“We’re hoping this can become a consistent event for the end of every year. More details in regards to dates, location and voting soon to come, stay tuned.”
Sjokz, the iconic Belgian broadcast host and interviewer, added: “Caedrel and I are teaming up to bring you the League Awards to celebrate our community.
“[This is ] very much in the beginning stage of everything, a lot TBD. Think SCUFFED for now, but we’re very excited.”
Caedrel of course first started out as a League player, before becoming a caster and then moving to full-time content creation. He co-streams many of the top League esports broadcasts.
Sjokz is a very well-known host, having been involved in League of Legends and other esports for many years. She’s worked on countless broadcasts, and features regularly on the European LEC.
Mitsouko Anderson, chief operating officer at UK-based agency DotX Talent, added: “Super excited for Caedrel and Sjokz – I know a lot of love and passion has gone into this from both of them to provide something amazing for the community.”
Both Caedrel and Sjokz are signed to DotX Talent, with Sjokz joining earlier this year.
Mitsouko also said brands, creators and teams interested in supporting The League Awards can message her.
The news comes a few days after the Esports Awards announced it had signed a three-year contract with Saudi Arabia’s Esports World Cup Foundation (EWCF), leading to criticism from the community.
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.
