Below you'll see the 1st place winner for each category with a 2nd/3rd place follow-up if the votes were close! Thank you so much to everyone who participated in the and threads!

2023 Subreddit Awards

Redditor of the Year

• 45.2% -

• 21.9% -

• 15.8% -

Best Original Content

• 52.6% - 's in-depth stat/ranking system

• 21.2% - 's RLCS analysis on

Prediction of the Year

• 60.2% -

• 25.6% - nearly accurately

Post of the Year

• 23.2% 's actually travelling to Version1 HQ

• 22.% -

• 20.8% - by

Comment of the Year

• 40.1% - counters NA pros

• 23% - comments

• 23% - points out the

Verified User of the Year

• 48.3% -

• 28% -

• 22.3% - (Drekt)

Image Comment of the Year

• 43.1% - accurately answers

• 30.7% - comments after

• 26.1% - comments on

The Class Clown Award

• 42% - 's numerous off-season shitposts

• 25.3% - "" by

Legacy Flair Award

• 36.6% -

• 25.6% -

Version1 (:Version1) & Spacestation Gaming Original Logo (:SSG_Legacy:) are now permanent flairs on this subreddit!

Mods Choice Redditor of the Year

• , for their excellent contributions to the subreddit with the "Road to Worlds" RLCS points scenarios series.

2023 RL Esports Awards

Moment of the Year

• 39.9% - Ferra turning the crowd in Boston in Vitality's favor

• 16.9% Vatira + Zen hug

Desk/Caster Moment of the Year

• 48.1% -

• 25.1% -

Play of the Year

• 33.2% -

• 31.5% -

Top Team Stream

• 57.9% -

• 21.3% -

• 20.7% -

Shock/Upset of the Year

• 36.1% - Hogan Mode beating Karmine Corp in EU Spring Invitational

• 33.3% - OpTic Bo7 reverse-sweeping FaZe in NA Spring Invitational

• 23.3% - Elevate defeating G1 at the World Championship

Player of the Year

• 71.2% - Zen

• 21.2% - Vatira

Most Fun Player To Watch

• 30.4% - Joyo

• 25.5% - Zen

• 15.8% - Dark(?_

Breakout Player of the Year

• 85.7% - Zen

• 8.8% - Motta

• 8.8% - Juicy

Player to Watch for 2024

• 33% - Wahvey

• 25.1% - Nass

• 23.5% - Dralii

Community Project/Group of the Year

• 40.6% - Pickstop.gg

• 40% - Halfway Dead's rocketscience.fyi/esports/ranking

Subreddit's Choice Award

• 34.3% - The Johnnyboi/Rise/Appjack watch party of OpTic's Bo7 reverse sweep

• 21.9% - Chalked Cast for their podcasts

Vote for your favorite players, teams, redditors and more in the 2023 Awards!

(All categories are optional)

Voting Closes January 9th @ 12 AM PST/3 AM EST/ 9 AM CET, with the results being announced the day after.

How Do the Awards Work?

I'm glad you asked, Title Text. The process takes a couple of weeks and is broken into 3 parts.

Part 1:

Part 2: Final Voting (This one!)

Part 3: Results (Jan 10th)

The Nominations

Redditor of the Year

Best Original Content

• 's RLCS analysis on

• 's in-depth stat/ranking system

• 's regional recap edits

• 's bar graph animations

Post of the Year

• by

• by

• 's actually travelling to Version1 HQ

• by

Comment of the Year

• comments

• counters NA pros

• points out the

• describes

Image Comment of the Year

• accurately answers

• comments on

• comments after

Verified User of the Year

• (Drekt)

Legacy Flair Award

Prediction of the Year

• nearly accurately

• predicts

The Class Clown Award

• 's numerous off-season shitposts

• 's numerous off-season shitposts

• "" by

• "" by

• "" by

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Player of the Year

• Vatira

• Zen

• Alpha54

• Radosin

• Atow

Moment of the Year

• Zen's reaction to winning the world championship

• Retals' speech to inspire OpTic's Bo7 reverse sweep over FaZe

• Turbopolsa's retirement

• Zen hitting his signature shot in the world championship grand final

• "Hi, my name is Ferra, and I'm Champion of the World!" - Ferra's post worlds-speech

• Aztromick's player spotlight

• Rise's Chalked Cast story about how he broke his wrist

• Scrubkilla lifting weights + flexing on Karmine Corp

• Vatira + Zen hug

• Ferra turning the crowd in Boston in Vitality's favor

Desk/Caster Moment of the Year

Play of the Year

Top Team Stream

Most Fun Player To Watch

• Zen

• Dark(?)

• Beastmode

• Joyo

• Scrubkilla

• Atow

• AyyJayy

• MajicBear

Breakout Player of the Year

• Motta

• juicy

• Zen

Shock/Upset of the Year

• KRU reverse-sweeping Team Secret at Winter Major

• OpTic Bo7 reverse-sweeping FaZe in NA Spring Invitational

• Version1 losing to KOI in NA Spring Invitational

• Oxygen Bo7 reverse-sweeping G2 in the off-season Holiday Invitational

• Hogan Mode beating Karmine Corp in EU Spring Invitational

• Elevate defeating G1 at the World Championship

Player to Look Out For in 2024

• Dralii

• Swiftt

• Nass

• Scrzbbles

• Wahvey

• frosty

Community Project/Group of the Year

• Pickstop.gg

• Halfway Dead's rocketscience.fyi/esports/ranking

• FanRL.com

• half-flip.site

Subreddit's Choice Award

• The Johnnyboi/Rise/Appjack watch party of OpTic's Bo7 reverse sweep

• Chalked Cast for their podcasts

• Rise to BDS as signing of the season

• Rw9 as best 1v1 player

• Herculyse for her tournament organization

• AJG for most improved player

• The Rocket RB for their English coverage of SAM + MENA regionals

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Welcome to the 6th Annual Awards! Please join us in celebrating this subreddit and the larger RL community over the past year.

We wish everyone a happy holiday season, and an excellent 2024.

- Mods

How Do the Awards Work?

I'm glad you asked, Title Text. The process takes a couple of weeks and is broken into 3 parts.

Part 1: Nomination Thread (This one!)

Part 2: Final Voting (Jan 3rd)

Part 3: Results (TBA)

In this nomination thread, the moderators have created 20 categories, grouped into 2 sections: Subreddit and Esports. Subreddit categories celebrate the subreddit (funny posts, incredible original content, the best org accounts, etc) while Esports categories look back on the best moments of the RL pro scene over the last calendar year.

• Each award category will be a reply under this post.

• Share your nomination for an award by replying to the appropriate comment.

• Explain your nomination or it will be removed.

• Also please be sure to follow specific nomination criteria where applicable (ie. giving appropriate links).

• Avoid recency bias - Don't forget about events that happened 11 months ago..

• If you support a nomination, upvote it. This is how we will determine what advances to final voting. We'll have this thread set to 'contest mode' so comment scores aren't visible.

• Each user is allowed a maximum of two nominations per category. You may not nominate yourself.

• Keep open discussion contained to . If you wish to freely discuss these awards that'll be the place to do it!

• Be sure to check back daily to vote on new nominations.

• This post will be locked when nominations close on January 3rd @ .

Before we share the categories, keep these three points in mind:

1. Explain/Justify your nominations - Give people a reason to upvote your nomination

2. Avoid recency bias - Don't forget about events that happens 11 months ago.

3. Nominate Nominate Nominate - The more choices we have for the final voting round, the better.

The Categories

Subreddit

Esports

Vote here (you can vote once a day until 20/11) -

All of the nominees from (or at least active in) Valorant this year:

Team of the year - Fnatic Valorant, EG Valorant

Org of the year - All of them (except OpTic) have a Valorant division

Coach of the year - Christine "Potter" Chi (EG)

Breakthrough player of the year - Max "Demon1" Mazanov (EG)

PC player of the year - Emir "Alfajer" Beder (FNC), Max "Demon1" Mazanov (EG)

Colour caster of the year - Sideshow, Hypoc

Desk analyst of the year - aEvilcat

Host of the year - Goldenboy, Yinsu, Dash

Play by Play caster of the year - Bren, Pansy

Content creator of the year - LOUD, theScore esports

Personality of the year - Ludwig, DisguisedToast, Coringa

Streamer of the year - Ibai, Tarik

Game of the year - Valorant

Coverage platform of the year - Liquipedia, Dexerto, Dot Esports

Journalist of the year - Richard Lewis, Alejandro Gomis/anonimotum, Mikhail Klimentov/LeaderGrev

Publisher of the year - Riot Games

Broadcast/Production team of the year - Riot Games

Content of the year - LOCK//IN Cinematic Trailer, Liquid 2023 Roster announcement

Creative of the year - Enigma (Team Liquid), Sydneycreates (The Guard)

Creative team of the year - LOUD, Team Liquid, G2, Team Vitality, Sentinels

(lmk if i missed any)

Vote here:

• Team of the year – Team Vitality

• Organisation of the year – Team Vitality, Team Liquid, G2, GenG, KCorp, Moist, Optic, NRG

• Coach of the year – Ferra

• Breakthrough player of the year – Zen

• Controller player of the year – Zen, Rise, ApparentlyJack

• Colour caster of the year – JohnnyBoi

• Desk analyst of the year – Tbates

• Host of the year – Stax, WavePunk

• Play by play caster of the year – Shogun

• Game of the year – Rocket League

• Publisher of the year – Psyonix

• Broadcast/production team of the year – Psyonix

• Content of the year – Risking It All: the Tale of GenG

Let me know if I've missed any!