Reigning League of Legends world champions T1 its leader Faker headlined the second part of the 2024 Esports Awards.
Reigning League of Legends world champions T1 and Saudi Arabia's Team Falcons took center stage during the second part of the 2024 Esports Awards, held in Saudi capital Riyadh.
Esports titles and game publishers were recognized at an earlier event, held at the concluding weekend of Esports World Cup. This is the first year that the award-giving body has partnered with the Esports World Cup, in what was a controversial move for its ties to the Saudi Arabian government.
T1 was recognized as Team of the Year, while Team Falcons, which is backed by the Saudi Arabia government was recognized as the organization of the year.
Here are the winners of the 2024 Esports Awards:
Sebastian Job - Sim Racer of the Year
Gen.G Kim - Esports Coach of the Year
Worlds 2023 - Live Event of the Year
Jawgemo - Esports Play of the Year
ESL FaceIt - Esports Broadcast and Production TOTY
Liquid ENIGMA - Esports Creative of the Year
Blitz.GG - Esports Supporting Service of the Year
SpunJ - Esports Color Caster of the Year
Brandion Smoth - Esports Play-By-Play Caster of the YEar
Faker - Esports PC Player of the Year
Shotzzy - Esports Controller PLayer of the Year
T1 - Esports Team of the Year
Mortal - Esports Content Creator of the Year
Chris Puckett - Esports Host of the Year
Team Falcons Esports Organization of the Year
The award-giving body drew criticism for deciding on the partnership. Saudi Arabian government has been long accused of sportswashing to cover up alleged human rights violations.
Some of its longtime panelists and hosts backed out of this year’s awards ceremonies as a result.
MLBB dominates MOBIES
Meanwhile, Mobile Legends: Bang Bang, a game headquartered in Shanghai and Singapore, took home Game of the Year in the MOBIES held in Los Angeles, California, as reported by Spin.PH. last November 21.
Mobile Legends: Bang Bang (MLBB) dominated the 2024 Mobile Gaming Awards, winning multiple accolades. It was named the Most Competitive Game of the Year and its M5 World Championship was recognized as the Live Event of the Year.The Filipino team, Falcons AP.Bren, was honored as the Mobile Team of the Year.
Additionally, MLBB received five major nominations, including two for Mobile Player of the Year for FlapTzy and Sekys, and nominations for Mobile Game of the Year, Mobile Strategy Game of the Year, and Developer of the Year for MOONTON Games.
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