The Esports Awards 2025 ended after celebrating its 10th anniversary. The event recognized some of the most intriguing individuals in the gaming content space who have had a significant impact on everything. The competition took place in Riyadh, and we have access to everything that happened, so let’s dive into more details about each category.
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Esports Game of the Decade – League of Legends
Riot’s LoL became the Esports Game of the Decade. Thanks to the game’s impressive history, popularity, and the successful Netflix series called Arcane, the game made a huge impact in the world of video games and esports.
Aside from League of Legends, the nominees include Fortnite, Call of Duty, Dota 2, Counter-Strike, Rocket League, Valorant, Rainbow Six Siege, and Mobile Legends: Bang Bang.
Esports PC Player of the Decade – Faker
This is probably the least surprising result at the Esports Awards 2025, and for a good reason. Lee “Faker” Sang-hyeok is a living legend and grabbed the Esports PC Player of the Decade award. The legendary South Korean superstar has 5 Worlds titles and has been the most successful LoL player ever.
He was nominated alongside Nisha, Miposhka, Caps, Aspas, ZywOo, N0tail, s1mple, and Coldzera.
Espots Contoller Player of the Decade – Shotzzy
The Call of Duty & Halo superstar Anthony “Shotzzy” Cuevas-Castro won the best Esports Controller Player of the Decade award. He has countless trophies throughout his career, including Four World Championships, MVP honours, and more.
The other nominated players included SIMP, HungryBox, Formal, Crimsix, HungyBox, SonicFox, Scum, TurboPolsa, Kaydrop, SnakeBite, and ImperialHal.
Esports Breakthrough Player of the Decade – ZywOo
There were many Counter-Strike players who deserved this prize, but in the end, Mathieu “ZywOo” Herbaut won the Esports Breakthrough Player of the Decade. The French superstar has consistently been one of the best in the world in the last couple of years and has 27 HLTV MVP Awards. He has won many tournaments throughout the years and will continue to be an important part of Team Vitality.
Aside from ZywOo, we also saw names like Punk, M0nkey m00n, Miracle, Shotzzy, Kenny, Bugha, Malr1ne, Keria, SIMP, and m0nesy.
Streamer of the Decade – xQc
This is definitely an interesting category, and we did not know what to expect. In the end, Felix “xQc” Lengyel won the Streamer of the Decade award after accumulating a jaw-dropping following on Twitch. He is famous for playing various FPS games.
Besides xQc, we had the following nominees – Gaules, Shroud, Ibai, Ninja, Summit1G, Polimane, Tarik, Rivers, Tyler1, Sodapping, TimTheTatMan, Kameto and Mortal.
Esports Team of the Decade – T1
It seems like League of Legends won 3 prizes because T1 also won the Esports Team of the Decade award. This did not come as a surprise to most people, especially after Faker won the other reward. Aside from that, Riot and LoL also won the additional rewards – Esports Publisher of the Decade and Esports Live Event of the Decade.
T1 has won 4 Worlds and loads of other tournaments over the years. As for the rest, we had the following – Astralis (CS), OG (Dota 2), NAVI (CS), Team Secret (Dota 2), Team Liquid (Dota 2), G2 Esports (LoL), Optic Texas (CoD), Atlanta FAZE (CoD), Team Vitality (CS & Rocket League) and Team BDS.
Other Rewards
Alongside everything mentioned so far, here are all of the other rewards and the people who won them:
- Esports Personality of the Decade – Nadeshot
- Esports Coach of the Decade – KKoma
- Esports On-Air Talent of the Decade – Sjokz
- Esports Publisher of the Decade – Riot Games
- Esports Content and Coverage Platform of the Decade – Liquipedia
- Esports Live Event of the Decade – LoL Worlds 2017
- Esports Commercial Partner of the Decade – Intel
- Esports Organization of the Decade – Team Liquid
