Call of Duty 4 is the eSport Game of the Year

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Call of Duty 4 is the eSport Game of the Year
posted by: LINKAGE on 2008-08-24, 00:58
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The eSports Award ceremony just finished a couple of hours ago and for the fifth year in a row the Academy has selected the best out of the best in each category, a range that has been increased over the years with new categories. 2008 was time to introduce five new categories: Best eSport Photo of the Year, best Call of Duty 4 player, the Consoles Player of the Year, the Consoles Team of the Year and the Best Halo 3 Player.

You may remind that TEK9's very own Antonin "OZWALD" Grenier was the winner selected by the Academy jury to win the Call of Duty 4 player of the year, he was also among the selected player for Breakthrough of the Year but unfortunately didn't win this one too. The best eSport Photo of the Year went to SK's phtographer Rafal "Pigvomit" Lagowski with "The Bitter Taste of Defeat", a great picture of Grubby's expression after losing to his former team-mate and now number one arch-rival, ToD, at the Intel Extreme Masters II Finals.

A total of 15 awards were given out this year but only 10 had a shot at tonight's show as the winners of the other 5 had already been announced in the past few days. Along with another 9 awards was the eSports Game of the Year category which one featured Call of Duty 4, Pro Evolution Soccer 2008, FIFA 2008, Unreal Tournament 3 and Team Fortress 2 as possible winners. A poll was held to decide the game that would be getting the title of eSport Game of the Year, guess who came out on top.. Call of Duty 4!

The game has been a rising and shining star since its release back in November 2007 and gathered a huge gamers base from a wide range of games such as Counter-Strike 1.6 and Source, Quake, Enemy Territory, among many others. New events have been popping out as the community grows and the game establishes itself as one of the best at the moment.

Call of Duty: World at War is scheduled to be released in Europe for PC in November 7th, 2008, according to Amazon.co.uk pre-order website that you can find on Call of Duty series official website, www.callofduty.com. The trailers and movies available so far are console only, the first official movie was released two days ago during Games Convention 2008 and it also shows the console version of the game. If there are any Call of Duty: World at War movies featuring the PC version, i'm not aware of it.

Here is the list of awards given out in tonight's eSports Award ceremony:

Breakthrough of the Year
Antonio 'cyx' Daniloski

Scene Journalist Award
Michal "Carmac" Blicharz

eSport Game of the Year
Call of Duty 4

eSport Special Award
Gerrit Sauer (designing an eSports Arena)

Best eSport Coverage
Replays.net

Best Counter-Strike Player
Christoffer 'Sunde' Sunde

Best Warcraft III Player
Jang 'Moon' JaeHo

eSport Team of the Year
mTw Denmark (Counter-Strike 1.6)

Best Journalist Award
Winfried Laasch (3Sat)

eSport Player of the Year
Jang 'Moon' JaeHo

If you want to find out more about the whole structure, who's behind the eSports Award and how the machine works, feel free to visit the Academy's official website at www.esports-award.org.

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Soik

2008-08-24 01:03:46

Guess no other "new" game has hit the LAN scene as well as CoD4 this year...

[R]sandford

2008-08-24 01:05:08

Well done CoD4 :)

Shoutout to Sunde, chris u beast :DD

edited 2008-08-24 01:05:35

wexor

2008-08-24 01:18:01

Heroes|solu

2008-08-24 01:20:05

yapadapadu cod4 :) myb that gives a bigger batch to more events and Bigger Clans to add a CoD4 Team

team.MD joefroobs

2008-08-24 01:28:04

was 2008 such a bad year for game developers?

CQC deffan

2008-08-24 01:28:30

not many more games to pick among so, but still good

V1oqor

2008-08-24 02:34:58

niceee

monkeymark

2008-08-24 02:37:17

will cod5 be game of the year next year?

NEDERHOP kenzo

2008-08-24 03:02:14

yea joe, not many new good games came in 2008

#10

damiEEEn

2008-08-24 03:02:27

nice moon : )

edited 2008-08-24 03:04:27

#11

MiB'sHakur

2008-08-24 03:15:54

niCe!!

#12

sick\Athlon

2008-08-24 09:36:58

nice

#13

dfiance`qure

2008-08-24 09:53:04

yey!

#14

dannezz

2008-08-24 10:32:23

suprise...

#15

tek9.VulcanO

2008-08-24 12:04:14

pretty accurate stuff !

go go COD4 :D

#16

9mm

2008-08-24 12:05:27

nice, cod5 november 7th already wtf? :| Really hope that most ppl will skip it and stay with CoD4

#17

Framp

2008-08-24 12:16:00

nice :)

#18

NEDERHOP twyz1nz

2008-08-24 12:47:41

nice, btw where can i see that photograph :P

#19

v`Zwaardvis

2008-08-24 12:51:41

nice and now we need codtv:D

#20

brodinski

2008-08-24 13:12:56

	Zwaardvis said:
	nice and now we need codtv:D

COD.TV oh yeah !

#21

charlezY

2008-08-24 13:27:14

	Soik said:
	Guess no other "new" game has hit the LAN scene as well as CoD4 this year...

css had its first season in the cgs so in total there was more prize money in lans etc. for css than cod4 by far, so i guess your point is slightly faulty

#22

ZNIPRR

2008-08-24 13:29:23

charlezY said:

	Soik said:
	Guess no other "new" game has hit the LAN scene as well as CoD4 this year...

css had its first season in the cgs so in total there was more prize money in lans etc. for css than cod4 by far, so i guess your point is slightly faulty

my friend, you only compare the pricemoney thats winnable, but on the main public cod4 has won by far,
so i think you point is slightly faulty

edited 2008-08-24 13:29:50

#23

#euro CASSIAS

2008-08-24 13:34:21

nice cyx & sunde, both deserved.

#24

Fr33dom

2008-08-24 13:44:23

Danish cs is zeh best!

#25

NONE vitox

2008-08-24 13:49:47

nice cod4 :) congratz to ozwald

#26

IDEFIXION

2008-08-24 14:04:02

something more then 2 months cod5 wtf :S i hope cod5 will be better or i hope everybody will stay playing cod4

#27

charlezY

2008-08-24 14:25:35

ZNIPRR said:

charlezY said:

	Soik said:
	Guess no other "new" game has hit the LAN scene as well as CoD4 this year...

css had its first season in the cgs so in total there was more prize money in lans etc. for css than cod4 by far, so i guess your point is slightly faulty

my friend, you only compare the pricemoney thats winnable, but on the main public cod4 has won by far,
so i think you point is slightly faulty

i believe that cod2 had alot of lans but didnt boast the prize pots that cs 1.6 & css had... and after all isnt the lans/prize pot the only thing that really keeps a game 'alive' :S

edited 2008-08-24 15:15:09

#28

fantasy.apezz

2008-08-24 15:03:20

Hang on, 2008 isn't over yet :/

#29

tek9.Davy

2008-08-24 15:15:30

sunde was insane at the eswc masters final, gratz

#30

switch.tomzki

2008-08-24 15:47:50

yay