The category eSports Player of the Year is the most honorable reward of the eSports award. The player who is given this prize has definitely shown his skills in numerous tournaments and has undoubtely dominated this eSports year. This category features only the very best, no matter which game they play.

This category is besides the "Player of the Year" an important award, too. The team with the best team play, group harmony and results on tournaments is rewarded with this prize. Once again, it is not important which game the team plays.

In fact, this award doesn't require to be explained. In this category, only the very best and most successful Counter-Strike players are awarded; even though Counter-Strike has been solely a game with the focus on team play for 10 years now, the experience and the skills of particular players still can decide a match.

Da WarCraft III auf den großen Turnieren und in den bekannten Ligen fast ausschließlich im 1 gegen 1-Modus ausgespielt wird, ist die Nominierung in dieser Kategorie einzig und allein auf den Erfolg des jeweiligen Spielers zurück zu führen. Die Weltelite rückt immer näher zusammen und der Level auf dem derzeit gespielt wird bleibt auf einem konstant hohen Maß. Dies zeigt unter anderem die Tatsache, dass der niederländische Orc-Spieler Grubby bereits zwei Mal den Award mit nach Hause nehmen konnte.

Since WarCraft III is mostly played 1 vs. 1 on the big tournaments and leagues, the nomination in this category is limited to the skills of merely one player. The world's elite is moving together with the skill gap diminishing each day and the current skill level of the players remains on a continuous high level. This is underscored by the fact that the Dutch Orc player Grubby has taken the award home for two times now.

The roots of eSports are definitely to be found in the duel scene, as when Doom was released in 1993 as the first computer game which could be played on LAN, eSports was born. Because there were several FPS duel tournaments in the past, Turtle Entertainment wants to pay attention to the players.

eSports has been alive for almost ten years and thus it is clear that each year, new talents conquer this relatively young scene and give the old staggers a hard time. The performance or the talent of these players is rewarded with this prize.

The steadily increasing importance of writers and journalists in eSports is represented by this award. The best coverage web-site of the year is rewarded with this prize and kann be sure to have made everything for its readers. The winner of this category will however not be determined through the jury, but through the community. For now, this award was split in two sub-categories: the "Best eSports Coverage International" which SK Gaming has won each year now and the category "Best eSports Coverage National" which readmore, mousesports and rushed "mymTw" have won for now.

The "Scene Journalist Award" was introduced this year for the very first time and rewards persons writing for eSports-related web-sites. This award pays attention to all of those who have determined all their energies and enthusiasm in eSports. Each scene journalist is given the chance to send in an article of themselves with the potential chance of being nominated. The actual winner is decided through community votes.

The Journalist Award is for journalists of the print press or for those working for TV or radio stations. Because of their articles and contributions, eSports has been made more open for the community as a whole and accepted by latter. In this category, the five best articles and contributions of authors of the last year are nominated, no matter from which country or in which language they are available.

In recent years this prize was called "Best Publisher", this year however the award ought to be more focused. With the reward of the eSports Game of the Year, the community reckons the efforts of the publisher as well as of the studios and thus emphasizes the need of the publishers to seriously tackle the wishes and proposals of the community. Hence, the winner of this category is determined through community votes.

Once again a new category of the year 2007, this award is for game studius and developers who guarantee our daily portion of fun and success with their work. What would a computer game be without professional equipement? Right on, not much.

By now eSports has been existing for nearly 15 years, the term itself, though, emerged in the late 90s. This award goes to players who have fostered eSports effectively. To make this one something special, this award isn't handed out on a regular basis ever year and the winner of it is furthermore revealed one month before the ceremony.