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The 2024 edition of the Esports Awards was held for the first time at Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which is a collaboration with the Esports World Cup Foundation, who are also the organizers of the Esports World Cup. The event celebrated some of the most prominent esports personalities that showed some impressive feats in the year, and here is the list of the winners from the event:
- Samantha ‘RIVERS’ Rivera Treviño won Streamer of the Year.
- Seth ‘Scump’ Abner won Personality of the Year
- Malr1ne won for Esports Breakthrough Player of the Year.
- Teamfight Tactics won for Breakthrough Game of the Year.
- Zip Creative, Alti Agency, Gaming Gladiators, the Philippines, S8ul Esports, Full Squad Gaming and Nobru were the Ones to Watch Class winners.
- S8UL Esports won for Content Group of the Year.
- VALORANT won the Esports Game of the Year.
- Gods Ft. Newjeans won for Esports Content of the Year for Worlds 2023 Anthem — League of Legends.
- Riot Games won for Esports Game Publisher of the Year.
- Liquipedia won for Esports Coverage and Content Platform of the Year.
- Team Liquid won for Creative Team of the Year.
- Mobile Legends: Bang Bang won for Mobile Esports Game of the Year.
- Red Bull won for Esports Commercial Partner of the Year.
- Marc Robert ‘Caedrel’ Lamont won Esports Community Leader of the Year.
- Jacob ‘PIMP’ Winneche won Esports Analyst of the Year.
In addition to this list, the co-founder of Electronic Sports League (ESL) and esports data company Bayes, Jens Hilgers was also inducted into the Lifetime Achievement Class of 2024.
With esports showing a lot of promise and the recent partnerships that have been made with the Esports World Cup Foundation and Esports Awards, we look forward to seeing more esports businesses, outlets, and athletes step up their game as they may benefit from the promotion of the awards scheme.
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Written by Jeffrey Osei-Agyeman
