It’s time we looked back on a successful 2015 and acknowledged those who stood out. This is the first ever eSports awards in all categories, so bare with me as we nominate the best in the business. Out of the five categories, we’ll select six nominees and the rest is up to you. So get voting and sharing!
Best eSports Organization
The best organization category is based solely on performance. The criteria is brand reach, community involvement, following and of course performance. So choose wisely. The six nominees are:
- Bravado Gaming
- Energy eSports
- Ventus Gaming
- In-Finity Gaming
- BerZerk Gaming
- Veneration eSports
- Xperts@Total.Chaos
- Aperture Gaming
- Altitude Gaming
Best eSports Team
The best team takes the winners from the top eSports titles this year. There is no real criteria here, but rather based on the teams involvement in local eSports and their achievements.
- Bravado Gaming Dota 2
- Bravado Gaming CS:GO
- Energy eSports League of Legends
- Carbon eSports Call of Duty Xbox One
- Altitude Gaming Call of Duty PC
- Aperture Gaming Battlefield 4
Best player
The best player looks at each title and a player who outshines the rest. Even if you’re unfamiliar with the player, these six gamers have earned accolades in their respective eSport.
- Dimitri “Detrony” Hadjipaschali, Bravado Gaming Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- Ruan “senti” Potgieter, Energy eSports League of Legends
- Donio “Doni” Teixeira, Bravado Gaming Dota 2
- Dale “Pand3m0nia” Pon, Hearthstone
- Kyle “Frost” Nortje, ex-Team Astra (Carbon eSports) Call of Duty Xbox One
- Garrion “Gray” Van Gesseleen, Bravado Gaming Heroes of The Storm
- Michael “Mike22” Schaller, Pulse Gaming Battlefield 4
Best Commentator
The best commentator award criteria is the one who has been the most active throughout 2015 in their coverage. They also hold a steady social media influence and remain the best at what they do.
- Devin “Hellbird” Rigotti
- DeWet “Ridditz” Lombard-Bovey
- Matthew “HaZe” Stott
- Jackie “Rainz” Chung
- Shaun “Profeci” Murrell
- Anthony “scant” Hodgson
Best eSport
Let’s see what the best eSport of 2015 is.
- Dota 2
- Counter-Strike: Global Offensive
- League of Legends
- Hearthstone
- Heroes of The Storm
- Call of Duty
- Battlefield 4
You can vote for the above categories below, and yes you’re only allowed to vote once per category. Voting closes on Friday
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Last Updated: December 8, 2015
Alien Emperor Trevor
December 8, 2015 at 14:39
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Captain JJ 4x
December 8, 2015 at 14:41
I know those games they played! Haha!
But that’s all. :/
Lardus-For the Emperor!
December 8, 2015 at 14:46
Lol, 1 Voters total. 100% agree with you! No idea what I just clicked, except for things containing HotS…
VampyreSquirrel
December 8, 2015 at 14:47
#CantClickToVote #ThatIsAll
The Grand Admiral Chief
December 8, 2015 at 14:48
xD
Ottokie
December 8, 2015 at 14:50
https://media1.giphy.com/media/bQCi1vhomb8ti/200_s.gif
The Grand Admiral Chief
December 8, 2015 at 14:50
OH, and before I forget:
[mssc]
ElFakio
December 8, 2015 at 15:01
No internatonal teams /guys . Its like ?,?,?,?,dota when i vote
CongoKyle
December 8, 2015 at 16:19
It’s local awards.
ElFakio
December 9, 2015 at 08:46
I know . Was just joking on how little i know of the local scene
Lang-Slang
December 8, 2015 at 16:02
I cannot believe what I just read…..What planet did this info come from?
CongoKyle
December 8, 2015 at 16:19
They’re nominations, what seems to be the problem?
Lang-Slang
December 8, 2015 at 16:23
nominated by following which leagues/competitions/stats?
If you go by amount of teams entering per title in DGL. the list of E-sports titles will look different
If you look at the amount of independent tournaments per title, the Esports titles would be different
if you look at MGO’s and the amount of top teams they have per title, the list would be different
if you take total prize pool per title, the top E-sports titles would look different.
Naming a few things that dont belong. COD being a small fry compared to some other titles.
I cant name the issue with the “top MGO’s/Commentators” because I will land in sh$t
RedRover
December 8, 2015 at 16:27
Yeah there seems to be something wrong here. Who thought up the nominations? fanbois?
CongoKyle
December 8, 2015 at 16:27
It’s a fun awards ceremony. There are no prizes, there’s nothing to gain from this. It’s a fun idea. You need to relax, if you don’t like it, you need not participate.
RedRover
December 8, 2015 at 16:29
I am sorry. I missed the part were it says this a fun vote not to be taken seriously
Lang-Slang
December 8, 2015 at 16:31
Sorry but I thought this was the E-sports section of the Lazy-gamer website. and being an competitor I am keen to read all your articles. dont take offense when I point out a few flaws in the information that is provided. This is not personal. but when doing an awards. and calling games “the best E-sports titles” and adding a not so accurate list does not lend itself to informative reading
CongoKyle
December 8, 2015 at 16:34
How many international BF tournaments have their been compared to every single eSport mentioned? I know these are local awards, but as an eSport I chose a metric of popularity.
All those above mentioned eSports titles have stood out both international and locally (bar Heroes of the Storm which is rather new). I just don’t see Battlefield as the eSport it should have been.
Lang-Slang
December 8, 2015 at 16:41
You are contradicting yourself. Saying this is local, and then rectifying yourself by talking about international tournaments. Lets forget about ESLone for a second. And stick to local, as you clearly stated in earlier replies.
LOCALLY
Battlefield had one of the largest prize pools in South Africa and more team entries than COD and Heroes of the storm.
Internationally
Battlefield has done better than any other international E-sport. SA won the ESL cup of nations last year, and placed 7th if im not mistaken, this year.
this is only battlefield now. but lets continue with other points
TOP MGOS
bvd and eN are the only two I agree with the rest needs reviewing desperately
TOP CASTERS
I cannot comment on this too much
Top Teams:
2x Cod teams??????????
Lang-Slang
December 8, 2015 at 16:51
problem with the argument here is
1) You its a fun thing, but then say that next year you want it to be larger and with more meaning. Those two contradict.
2) you says its a local awards, but then bases it on international popularity. To me that’s just justifying that you are out of touch and forgot about BF.
3) You cant have one person nominating. Nominations are done from a group of people, or normally an open forum. You open the table to nominations and each nomination needs to be seconded. Then you vote on those. This outcome shows why only one person cannot nominate. And favoritism or lack of knowledge shines through.
Captain Jakes
December 8, 2015 at 16:23
Have to agree with you bud
CongoKyle
December 8, 2015 at 16:40
Jakes! I mentioned COD a few times. Is it because I named Frost? 🙁
I chose him because everyone I spoke to said he was one of the best players. Next year I’m going to have players for each title. This was just a test to see how the community reacts, so far it has been good, except for the Battlefield guys.
RedRover
December 8, 2015 at 16:46
Actually my issue is with your nomination for Organisation and Team. I am not going to name whom I think you got wrong cos they don’t deserve negative attention.
B4d R0b0t
December 8, 2015 at 18:58
No go ahead, you so salty about this article, let us know why.
Lang-Slang
December 9, 2015 at 08:29
if you saw the orignal article you would be on the same “salty boat”
RedRover
December 9, 2015 at 09:47
Its fine Myles. The issue has been resolved
Lang-Slang
December 8, 2015 at 16:48
when I saw that one MGO listing I knew this entire article would be based on favoritism and be completely biased
Captain Jakes
December 9, 2015 at 14:22
No I have no animosity to anyone here etc its just the guys on the BF4 BFSA side of things are really trying damn hard to rebuild the image of BF4 it actually hurts us when we don’t get mentioned in articles like this. We are here and are part of the gaming community. Its comments like this that are hurting us and putting us in a no interest leg of things. I for one have really tired to build the community including Lang Slang and many guys in the community. It would be nice to get support from you guys not negativity.
DeWet Lombard-Bovéy
December 8, 2015 at 16:26
Heeey I am nominated.
haha thanks for the nomination guys. 🙂 always appreciate the support
RidditZ
Lardus-For the Emperor!
December 9, 2015 at 10:04
Your name is close to Riddick…so you got my vote 😛
Nicolaas Swart
December 8, 2015 at 16:32
I like this local eSports awareness keep it up
Aries
December 8, 2015 at 18:01
Why no BF4 player
BakedBagel
December 8, 2015 at 18:22
Winner of “Best BVD player provider”: Energy Esports
Kappa
B4d R0b0t
December 8, 2015 at 18:58
This is fun, its cool that Lazygamer even cares, shot Kyle.
Barry Louzada
December 9, 2015 at 08:46
Nice initiative some well deserved mentions in the article, you arent going to make everyone happy all of the time but hey 80% is better than eleventy one percent.
Jon
December 9, 2015 at 09:04
Lol you add BZKak to best Organization when they totally embarrassed the SA CS:GO scene!
Lardus-For the Emperor!
December 9, 2015 at 11:05
@congokyle:disqus Just a quick comment. When I voted yesterday, I had to select an option for categories I knew nothing about. So I basically selected randomly for those. Some others might always select the top option which can skew the results if the order is the same. Perhaps next year split the categories, or perhaps add an option for “No comment” or something so people can skip a category they don’t care about. If that option was there I obviously did not see it, so make it more obvious then 😛
Lardus-For the Emperor!
December 9, 2015 at 11:13
Also, does question 1 need to scroll?
Craig "CrAiGiSh" Dodd
December 9, 2015 at 12:37
Haha, very cool idea 😀
ghostR
December 10, 2015 at 18:03
*grabs popcorn*