ESports Journalist Award
The eSports Journalist Award was previously a category of the eSports Awards, which started in 2006 and as of 2010 became the main focus of the award-giving ceremony. The eSports Journalist Award is now bestowed to journalists, members of the press, editors and press volunteers who write unique, different and detailed articles AbOUT eSports and its subtopics.
According to the official website of the eSports Journalist Award, writers for the eSports scene are not eligible for the award since their content is GeneRally directed to the community of gamers while journalists write for the general public, raising awareness and delivering information unto people who aren't as knowleadgeable as eSports community members.
Winners of the ESA
2011 Tom Cheshire
Article:
- "Career gamers", for Wired, UK-based technology magazine
2010 Mathias Hamann
Articles:
- Wie Schach spielen im Musikvideo Rhythmus (Like playing chess with the rhythm of a music video), for Zeit Online, German magazine website
- Deutschlands beste Counterstrikerin (Germany’s best female Counterstrike player), for Zeit Online, German magazine website
- Schließbefehl für "Counterstrike" (Closing order for Counterstrike), for Spiegel Online, German magazine website
2008 Winfried Laasch
Article:
- Ist eSport ‘echter’ Sport? (Is eSport ‘truly’ sport?), for 3sat.de, German broadcasting company
2007 Tim Farin & Christian Parth
Article:
- Wirtschaftsfaktor Counterstrike (Economy factor Counterstrike), Die Welt, German newspaper
2006 Bernhard Hübner
Article:
- FIFA Zwillinge jetzt schon Weltmeister (FIFA twins are already world champions), for Süddeutsche Zeitung, German newspaper