They were held sometime this weekend.

Unfortunately, while Teamliquid was nominated for Best ESPORTS Coverage, we did not win.

eSports Player of the Year 2009

Sweden Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund (fnatic)
Germany Roman 'roman' Ausserdorfer (Team Alternate)
Poland Filip 'Neo~' Kubski (Wicked)
South Korea Jang 'Moon' JaeHo (Wemade Fox)
China Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li (World Elite)
United States Jordan 'n0thing' Gilbert (Team EG)

eSports Team of the Year

Sweden fnatic (Counter-Strike 1.6)
South Korea Button Bashers (former H O N) (World of Warcraft)
Denmark mTw.dk (Counter-Strike 1.6)
United Kingdom Nihilum Plasma (World of Warcraft)
France Verygames (Counter-Strike: Source)

Best Counter-Strike Player

Denmark Alexander 'ave' Holdt (mTw)
Sweden Patrik 'f0rest' Lindberg (fnatic)
Sweden Christopher 'GeT_RiGhT' Alesund (fnatic)
Poland Filip 'Neo~' Kubski (Wicked)
Denmark Christoffer 'Sunde' Sunde (mTw)

Best Warcraft 3 Player

Netherlands Manuel 'Grubby' Schenkhuizen (Team EG)
South Korea June 'Lyn' Park (SK Gaming)
Spain Pedro Moreno 'LucifroN' Durán (nGize)
South Korea Jang 'Moon' JaeHo (Wemade Fox)
China Xiaofeng 'Sky' Li (World Elite)

Newcomer / Breakthrough of the Year

Sweden Rasmus 'Gux' Ståhl (fnatic / Counter-Strike 1.6)
Spain Pedro Moreno 'LucifroN' Durán (nGize / Warcraft 3)
South Korea Kang Nae 'Orangemarmalade' Hyun (Button Bashers / World of Warcraft)
United States Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson (SK Gaming / Quake)
South Korea Park Chul 'Shy' Woo (Wicked / Warcraft 3)

eSports Game of the Year

FIFA 2009 (EA)
Street Fighter IV (Capcom)
Left 4 Dead (Valve / EA)
Dawn of War 2 (Relic / THQ)
Quake Live (id Software)

Best Call of Duty Player

United Kingdom Jonathan 'razMKi' Baker /Team Dignitas)
United Kingdom Tom 'D1ablo' Newman (Reason Gaming)
United States Justin 'PRANK`' Demara (Team Pandemic)
Germany Ralf 'rizaR' Beyer (Team Bavarian Heaven)
Belgium Stevy 'Stevy' Verheyen (fnatic)

Consoles Player of the Year

United States Tom 'Tsquared' Taylor (Str8 Rippin / Halo 3)
United States Eric 'Snipedown' Wrona (Str8 Rippin / Halo 3)
United Kingdom Jack 'South' Dalton (Team Dignitas / Call of Duty 4)
Japan Daigo 'The Beast' Umehara (Street Fighter 4)
Netherlands Wouter 'Handewasser' van Someren (LowLandLions / Project Gotham Racing 4)

Consoles Team of the Year

United States Str8 Rippin (Halo 3)
United Kingdom CrackClan (Halo 3)
United States MoB RAGE (Rainbow Six Vegas 2)
United States Infinity (Gears of War)
United Kingdom Team Dignitas (Call of Duty 4)

Scene Journalist 2009

United States Frank 'Mirhi' Fields: The God of Warcraft is Human After All (myMYM.com)
United Kingdom Paul 'Red Eye' Chaloner: Angry German Kid (cadred.org)
United Kingdom Lawrence 'Malystryx' Phillips: Attitude - The legacy of Yoan 'ToD' Merlo (SK-Gaming.com)
Germany David 'R0ck3r' Donschen: End of a great dot com idea (fragster.de)
Sweden Patrik 'raistlin' Hellstrand: Starcraft A-Z (GosuGamers.net)
Sweden Shahin 'WIWO' Adl Zarrabi: 2008 in pictures (fragbite.se)
United Kingdom Corin 'Corin' Cole: Fall of CGS (cadred.org)
Poland Marcus 'Wind' Ho: Dollars & Cents behind Warcraft (myMYM.com)
United Kingdom Richard 'Dr. Gonzo' Lewis: 500k Slap (cadred.org)
United Kingdom Michael 'Zechs' Radford: Esports' Iniesta stars in el año del español (SK-Gaming.com)

Nominees Best eSports Coverage 2009

Hungary counter-strike.hu
Germany fragster.de
Denmark HLTV.org
Russia proplay.ru
Germany readmore.de
China replays.net
Germany SK-Gaming.com
France team-aAa.com
South Korea teamliquid.net
France vakarm.ne

Nominees eSports Photo of the Year 2009

Germany Jonas Gebhardt - Fly100% enjoys unique PGL victory (myMYM.com)
Ukraine Gennadii Veselkov - eSports love (gameinside.ua)
United States Kara Leung - Ed Ma Loss (getyourtournament.com)
France Laurent Prost - Moon defeated (eSportsfrance.com)
France Laurent Prost - Come on guys! (eSportsfrance.com)

3 Lions

United States3705 Posts

August 23 2009 21:30 GMT

NO WE LOST
but looking at the winners, I don't think they consider Starcraft players for these awards.

Meteor

Canada25 Posts

August 23 2009 21:34 GMT

fnatic is amazing

congrats to all

Sinedd

Poland7052 Posts

August 23 2009 21:36 GMT

so tl.net is korean now ??? wow so amazing :O

sad that we lost

vx70GTOJudgexv

United States3161 Posts

August 23 2009 22:03 GMT

No shame in losing to Readmore - they are pretty much THE BIGGEST site for all esports in Germany.

Rostam

United States2552 Posts

August 23 2009 22:37 GMT

On August 24 2009 06:30 3 Lions wrote:

NO WE LOST
but looking at the winners, I don't think they consider Starcraft players for these awards.

Yeah it really doesn't mean much because it isn't exposed to the SC community much at all (esp. Korea). The poll for Korean Regional Player of the Year was held only on the e-sports award website (other regionals were open for voting on some sites like sk-gaming, EG, etc.) and Moon beat out Flash, Jaedong, and Bisu. I don't track the WC3 scene much but I don't think Moon even has had a particularly good year.

And the fact that there isn't even a category for "Best Starcraft Player" is telling in and of itself.

soonsu

France166 Posts

August 23 2009 22:53 GMT

yay GeT_RiGhT/fnatic owning it up!

deL

Australia5540 Posts

August 24 2009 00:38 GMT

I think I liked the 'Moon defeated' photo best, the others were really average.

No idea why StarCraft A-Z was in there :/

TL did well to even be in the running, I think, seeing it is just a community and focussed only on one game - not even regularly bringing out news (that's left up to members individual threads) so nice work.

sixghost

United States2096 Posts

August 24 2009 00:42 GMT

They didn't even capitalize ESPORTS correctly. Award credibility lost.

Motiva

United States1774 Posts

August 24 2009 03:06 GMT

#10

lol the whole thing seems really uninformed about real ESPORTS imo

LOL
(I've certainly become bias against CS 1.6 and source after watching live SC every night on TV)

I am glad to see Quake Live win esports game of the year over those other jokes

sixghost

United States2096 Posts

August 24 2009 03:15 GMT

#11

On August 24 2009 12:06 Motiva wrote:
lol the whole thing seems really uninformed about real ESPORTS imo

LOL
(I've certainly become bias against CS 1.6 and source after watching live SC every night on TV)

I am glad to see Quake Live win esports game of the year over those other jokes

Why is SF4 a joke?

kefkalives

Australia1272 Posts

August 24 2009 07:01 GMT

#12

Kara's photo of ed ma losing is an amazing photo, very emotionally potent.

Ilvy

Germany2445 Posts

August 24 2009 07:20 GMT

#13

Too bad for TL but gratz to Jonas

NeverGG

United Kingdom5399 Posts

August 24 2009 09:21 GMT

#14

I wish I'd known about eSports photo of the year ;_;

shaozu

China178 Posts

August 24 2009 10:04 GMT

#15

just checked the photos, i think they're all average :/
http://www.esports-award.org/news/93749/

Plexa

Aotearoa39261 Posts

August 24 2009 10:12 GMT

#16

Zero surprises here unfortunately, although I wish they got our country right >.<

Carnac

Germany / USA16648 Posts

August 24 2009 10:33 GMT

#17

I did have them change it originally (they gave us the Euro flag instead of the South Korean flag), dunno why they changed it back for the final news lol

GTR

51607 Posts

August 24 2009 21:46 GMT

#18

fomos should nominate their photos if they could have.

notable pictures i remember were lockdown of jangbi celebrating after beating calm and yoonjoong's crying.

peidongyang

Canada2084 Posts

August 24 2009 23:48 GMT

#19

On August 24 2009 18:21 NeverGG wrote:
I wish I'd known about eSports photo of the year ;_;

Yeah honestly I really thought you won that with some picture and realized after looking over the nominations that you weren't even there!

Yo, win next year lol. I bet they give you a nice doorprize