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The inaugural 2024 League Awards winners have been named, as co-organiser of the awards (UK streamer Caedrel) has picked up his own separate wins and addressed comments he made about T1.
The League Awards was launched by Caedrel and popular Belgian esports host Sjokz, who announced the awards back in the summer.
It took place in Berlin on Thursday December 5th 2024, with many names from the League of Legends esports community in attendance, including UK talent such as DonJake, Nymaera, Initialise and many more.
The League Awards winners listed in full
- Player of the Year: Faker
- Team of the Year: T1
- Moment of the Year: T1 win Worlds 2024
- Escape of the Year: Zeus, T1 vs TES
- Steal of the Year: Oner, T1 vs G2
- Play of the Year: Faker as Sylas vs BLG
- LEC Player of the Year: Caps, G2
- LCS Player of the Year: Inspired, FlyQuest
- LCK Player of the Year: Chovy, Gen.G
- LPL Player of the Year: Bin, BLG
- Best Riot Release of the Year: ‘Still Here’ cinematic
- Content Piece of the Year: T1 Rose Together documentary
- Creator Event of the Year: NNO Cup
- Esports Creator of the Year: Tolkin
- Community Creator of the Year: TheBausffs
- Minor Region Star of the Year: Levi, GAM
- Rookie of the Year: Massu, FlyQuest
- Broadcast Talent of the Year: Laure
Faker said after his win:
Caedrel responds to outcry over comments he made about T1
Caedrel initially said he personally voted for Chovy and BLG to win Player and Team of the Year respectively, and that in the future they make the award winners chosen fully by the panel, or change it to a 90/10 split in terms of panel/public votes.
They weighted the first awards with 70% an analyst panel and 30% a public vote, and Caedrel said they may change this in the future.
“I wanted the best team or person to win. I wanted to make sure it was fair because in my opinio a lot of award shows are popularity contests, but then it still happened,” Caedrel said.
“I think there’s an argument for T1 and Faker to deserve it. I wasn’t on the panel because I was trying to organise everything. Apologies if people are upset, we’ll try to make it more accurate next year. I’d say 90% of the awards hit the nail on the head pretty well.
“I feel bad for [some of] the T1 fans [I saw commenting on Reddit] in the sense that they will get hate because T1 won, even though [those] T1 fans knew they shouldn’t have won. I’m not here to blame anyone, I just think the awards could be structured better. But I don’t want to take anything away from T1 and Faker, they were really nice [providing a winners speech, and liaising with awards organisers, for example].”
Caedrel
He also said that there were 54,000 votes for Player of the Year, and 55% of these voted for Faker.
His quotes above upset some members of the community.
Caedrel later deleted the below clip from his channel, saying it was taken out of context, but it’s since been reuploaded elsewhere. The full Twitch VOD is still live too.
Caedrel then addressed the situation in a separate video.
In a video on the Caedrel Clips YouTube channel, Caedrel said: “I need to think more about what I say and how I say it. If I’m saying something that’s got a lot of context behind it, I need to phrase it better. That’s on me.
“A lot of people are saying I said Faker and T1 didn’t deserve the award. I never said that.
“There was feedback from people saying the voting wasn’t fair. I don’t think it wasn’t fair, but my point is if we optimise the voting system next year, it’d be harder for people to discredit awards.
“I also realised I need to separate Caedrel the League Awards host and Caedrel the streamer, or make sure they at least don’t overlap. Because that essentially leads to unprofessionalism. So I’m sorry about sharing my personal opinion while being a host, my opinion should be left out – I shouldn’t be saying those things. I’ll abstain from sharing my opinion next year – if we do this next year.
“I’m absolutely happy T1 and Faker won the awards. And you have no idea how grateful I was for Faker sent the acceptance speech. I am super grateful. I think people took the ‘Caedrel said T1 didn’t deserve an award’ angle and went crazy.”
Caedrel
On the ‘T1 fans knew they shouldn’t have won’ quote he said, Caedrel added: “After the show ended, I went to Reddit and checked what the feedback was, and saw some T1 fans said they felt Chovy had a better year than Faker. I didn’t try to start a war or comment what I was thinking, I was [referring to the community feedback I saw].
“On my Twitch channel, I will say my honest opinion and say what I think. I’ll be biased, critical and honest about players. And I think some things were taken way too far. I’ve also realised if you start an awards show, there’s always gonna be a fistfight, no matter what.”
Caedrel also criticised people misconstruing him, and attacking other people’s views in Twitch chat. However, he said he doesn’t mind receiving valid criticism and receiving constructive feedback.
He also said reddit is turning into a ‘cesspool’ and he’ll be working on that, as he got mass downvoted when he tried to respond to comments on there, and that he will aim to focus on a single megathread in the future, rather than tens of similar threads complaining.
“I never have bad intentions or to go out of my way to flame a certain fanbase. I want to chillout and watch some League of Legends. Sometimes you say things and don’t think about it in the moment, then someone has misconstrued what you’ve said. So I need to be more locked in, in the future. I need to be careful how I use my words.”
Caedrel wins Best MOBA Streamer at The Streamer Awards 2024
Caedrel also won in a separate awards show.
He said:
Related article: Caedrel’s Los Ratones team won Season 2 of the NNO Cup.
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.
