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Jeremiah Sevilla

Esports Awards 2025 winners in every category

esports Team Falcons NRG G2 Esports Karmine Corp Riot Games Rocket League Team Liquid Call of Duty Falcons

The Esports Awards 2025 once again gave the spotlight for standout talents and organizations that defined competitive gaming this year.

Across 22 categories, the ceremony recognized everything from Esports Game of the Year and top-performing players to elite teams, organizations, creators, publishers, and esports industry pioneers. It also honored legendary figures through the Lifetime Achievement and Panel’s Choice awards.

Here’s the complete rundown of all the Esports Awards 2025 winners.

Full list of Esports Awards 2025 winners

League of Legends Worlds 2025 trophy captured with the crowd in the background
LoL esports on top. Photo Photo by Yicun Liu via Riot Games

Esports Game of the Year

Winner: League of Legends

Other finalists:

  • Counter-Strike 2
  • VALORANT
  • Dota 2
  • Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
  • Fortnite
  • Honor of Kings
  • PUBG Mobile
  • Apex Legends
  • Call of Duty: Mobile
  • Pokemon Unite

Esports Mobile Game of the Year

Winner: PUBG Mobile

Other finalists:

  • Mobile Legends: Bang Bang
  • Honor of Kings
  • Pokemon Unite
  • Free Fire
  • Brawl Stars
  • Call of Duty: Mobile

Esports Creative Campaign of the Year

Winner: Team Liquid – 25-Year Anniversary Campaign

Other finalists:

  • Nescafe Latte and Team Vitality – Ready to Level Up
  • DHL – Effibot Game: World Championship
  • Team Vitality x ALDI – Rising Day
  • Imperialhal & Iitztimmy Dropping Hot into Nola | ALGS Open x Red Bull
  • Prime Video x Esports World Cup Level Up
  • G2 Esports – League of Legends roster announcement

Esports Coach of the Year

Winner: Kim – Gen.G League of Legends

Other finalists:

  • Xtqzzz – Team Vitality CS2
  • Zwy – AG Super Play Honor of Kings
  • Alecks – Paper Rex VALORANT
  • Aui_2000 – Team Falcons Dota 2
  • Julio – Team Falcons Rainbow Six Siege
  • NineK – Team Falcons Overwatch
  • Bonkar – NRG VALORANT
  • Satthew – NRG Rocket League

Esports Supporting Service of the Year

Winner: Prodigy Agency

Other finalists:

  • Character Select Agency
  • ESG Law
  • Bad Moon Talent
  • Ocelot Sports
  • Heaven Media
  • Loaded
  • Evolved Talent
  • Ulti Agency

Esports Commercial Partner of the Year

Winner: Red Bull

Other finalists:

  • DHL
  • Mastercard
  • Pepsico
  • Shopify
  • Logitech G
  • Mobil 1
  • Visa
  • Zenni
  • Intel
  • Infinix

Esports Play of the Year

T1 huddles backstage between matches during MSI 2025 Bracket Stage Day 5 at the Pacific Coliseum in Vancouver, Canada on July 05, 2025.
Four-man stun with Jax. Photo by Colin Young-Wolff via Riot Games

Winner: Doran – T1 League of Legends

Other finalists:

  • Unlucky – Alliance Apex Legends
  • Sylvan – Team Secret VALORANT
  • Jawgemo – G2 Esports VALORANT
  • Movistar KOI League of Legends
  • HyDra – 100 Thieves Call of Duty
  • 910 – The MongolZ CS2
  • Mercules – OpTiC Gaming Call of Duty
  • Myrwn – Movistar KOI League of Legends

Esports Publisher of the Year

Winner: Riot Games

Other finalists:

  • Valve
  • Level Infinite
  • Epic Games
  • Krafton
  • Moonton
  • Microsoft
  • NetEase
  • Electronic Arts

Esports Supporting Platform of the Year

Winner: Liquipedia

Other finalists:

  • Discord
  • Esports Charts
  • FACEIT
  • Blitz.gg
  • Overwolf
  • Tracker Network
  • Mobalytics
  • Grid
  • Blinkfire Analytics
  • Shikenso

Esports Analyst of the Year

Winner: aEvilcat

Other finalists:

  • Pimp
  • Jhawk
  • Stee
  • Fresh
  • Dagda
  • Clutch
  • Alphama
  • Emily Rand

Esports Host of the Year

Winner: Laure Valée

Other finalists:

  • Raynday
  • Iain Chambers
  • GlitterXplosion
  • Soe
  • Sjokz
  • Quickshot
  • Milosh
  • Frankie Ward
  • Chris Puckett
  • James Banks
  • Freya Spiers

Esports Breakthrough Player of the Year

OpTic Texas Mercules playing during a Call of Duty tournament
A true prodigy. Photo via Monster Gaming on X

Winner: Mercules – OpTiC Gaming Call of Duty

Other finalists:

  • Stompn – G2 Esports Rainbow Six Siege
  • Rasyah – EVOS Divine Free Fire
  • Techno4k – The MongolZ CS2
  • Kaajak – Fnatic VALORANT
  • Blaz – 2Game Esports Street Fighter 6
  • Skewmond – G2 Esports League of Legends
  • Kirk – ONIC Philippines MLBB
  • Dralii – Karmine Corp/Team Falcons Rocket League
  • Brawk – NRG VALORANT
  • DaShuai – AG Super Play Honor of Kings

Esports Play by Play Caster of the Year

Winner: CaptainFlowers

Other finalists:

  • ODPixel
  • Onset
  • Pansy
  • Anders Blume
  • Miles Ross
  • Kaelaris
  • Scrawny
  • The7wg
  • VikkiKitty
  • Brandon Smith
  • Yipes

Esports Colour Caster of the Year

Winner: Vedius

Other finalists:

  • Dan Gaskin
  • SideShow
  • Launders
  • Azael
  • Chance
  • Bravo
  • Spunj

Esports Content Creator of the Year

Winner: Jynxzi

Other finalists:

  • Caedrel
  • Clix
  • Tarik
  • Gaules
  • NiceWigg
  • OhnePixel
  • TheDonato
  • Snax Gaming
  • Tactical RAB
  • Zoomaa
  • Jonathan Gaming

Esports Content Group of the Year

Winner: S8UL

Other finalists:

  • GodLike
  • Sentinels
  • T1
  • Team Liquid
  • Fnatic
  • Gentle Mates
  • Karmine Corp
  • Team Heretics

Esports PC Player of the Year

ZywOo sits comfortably in his chair while looking at the monitor screen during a match at the Austin Major 2025.
Seven MVP trophies. Photo via BLAST

Winner: ZywOo – Team Vitality CS2

Other finalists:

  • Chovy – Gen.G League of Legends
  • JV92 – FURIA Rainbow Six Siege
  • F0rsaken – Paper Rex VALORANT
  • Brawk – NRG VALORANT
  • Donk – Team Spirit CS2
  • Malr1ne – Team Falcons Dota 2
  • Stalk3r – Team Falcons Overwatch
  • Whitemon – Tundra Esports Dota 2

Esports Controller Player of the Year

Winner: Xiao Hai – Team Falcons FGC

Other finalists:

  • Mercules – OpTic Gaming Call of Duty
  • Dralii – Karmine Corp/Team Falcons Rocket League
  • Ulsan – DN Freecs Tekken
  • Effect – Alliance Apex Legends
  • Scrap – 100 Thieves Call of Duty
  • GO1 – DetonatioN FocusMe and PUNK WORKSHOP FGC
  • Kiileerrz – Team Falcons Rocket League
  • Vejrgang – Team Falcons EA Sports FC
  • Lastshot – Shopify Rebellion Halo

Esports Team of the Year

Winner: Team Vitality CS2

Other finalists:

  • Team Falcons Dota 2
  • Gen.G League of Legends
  • AG Super Play Honor of King
  • NRG VALORANT
  • FURIA R6
  • Karmine Corp Rocket League
  • Team Vitality MLBB Women
  • LA Thieves Call of Duty
  • OpTic Texas Call of Duty
  • Team Falcons Rocket League

Esports Personality of Year

Winner: Thug

Other finalists:

  • Caedrel
  • Ibai
  • Apex
  • Disguised Toast
  • Gotaga
  • MSDossary
  • Nadeshot
  • Scump
  • Kameto

Streamer of the Year

Winner: IShowSpeed

Other finalists:

  • Caedrel
  • Ibai
  • Kai Cenat
  • AngryGinge13
  • XQC
  • Jynxzi
  • Lacy
  • OhnePixel
  • ExtraEmily
  • Payal Gaming
  • Caseoh

Esports Organisation of the Year

Winner: Team Falcons

Other finalists:

  • AG.AL
  • Team Vitality
  • Team Liquid
  • NRG
  • Virtus.pro
  • Gen.G
  • G2 Esports
  • Optic Gaming
  • Weibo Gaming

2025 Lifetime Achievement in Esports

  • Steve “LiQuiD112” Arhancet – Team Liquid Co-CEO
  • Tom and Tony Cannon – EVO and Radiant Entertainment founders
  • Nick “Tasteless” Plott and Dan “Artosis” Stemkoski – Starcraft 2 casters
  • Matthew “FormaL” Piper – Former Call of Duty and Halo world champion, XGames gold medalist
  • Johan “N0tail” Sundstein – Two-time Dota 2 The International champion with OG
  • Peter “dupreeh” Rasmussen – Five-time Counter-Strike Major champion

Panel’s Choice Award

  • Seb Leathlean – Riot Games (League of Legends Senior Stage Manager)
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