eSports Award 2006 Nominees

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Just like » last year, an Esport Award Event will be held at the Games Convention in Germany. This year is not different, and the nominees have just recently been announced. Apart from general categories such as Best Newcomer, Player of the Year, Team of the Year, Best Publisher and Best Coverage, there are also special categories for Counter-Strike and WarCraft 3 players.

There are a total of nine categories, where in six of them a jury will decide the winners - while in the last three (Best publisher, German and International ESport coverage) the winners will be crowned by the community.

Best Warcraft III Player

MYM]Moon
SK.Sweet
4K^Grubby
4K^ToD
WE.IGE.Sky

Best Newcomer / Breakthrough Award

MYM]Lucifer (Warcraft 3)
fnatic.Ztrider (Quake4)
NiP-ins (Counterstrike)
ALTERNATE aTTaX | Kapio (Counterstrike)
wNv Gaming | Jungle (Counterstrike)

E-Sport Player of the Year

fatal1ty (Quake4 / Painkiller)
compLexity | fr0d (Counterstrike)
4Kings.Grubby (Warcraft 3)
SK|sty!a (FIFA'06)
SK|tox (Quake4)

E-Sport Team of the Year

Team 3D
fnatic
SK Gaming
mousesports
4Kings

Best Counterstrike Player

ALTERNATE aTTaX | Kapio
SK|Vilden
fnatic | Forest
compLexity | fr0d
wNv Gaming | Jungle

Best reporter

TBA

Best Publisher

Activision
Atari
CDV
Codemasters
Eidos
Electronic Arts
Frogster Interactive
JoWood
Koch Media
Konami
Microsoft
Midway Games
Take 2
THQ Int.
Ubisoft
Vivendi Universal Games

Best German E-Sport Coverage

»

mymTw
» GIGA eSports
» CS.GAMERscene
» readmore.de
» BF-Scene

Best International E-Sport Coverage

» FragBite
» GotFrag
» ESReality
» Replays.net
» SK-GamingAn interesting note is that they removed the Player of the Year – Female category, and instead added Best Reporter. More information on how you vote will come up shortly.