The Gamers' Choice Awards was an award show that honored the video game industry in 2018. It was held on December 3, 2018 and broadcast on December 9, 2018 on CBS. It was the first gaming and Esports awards show to be televised on a broadcast network.
Event The idea for the show came from Michael Burg, executive producer for the Teen Choice Awards. Victor Borachuk along with his company JupiterReturn, left the project prior to the show's airing.
The awards were based on fan voting and online public voting was held beginning November 17, 2018 to decide the winners. Two previews shows were held on November 17 and November 18, 2018 and aired on CBS. The initial shows were nomination shows prior to the main show on December 9.
The award show was held on December 3, 2018 at The Fonda Theatre in Hollywood, California. KISS performed followed by a tribute to Stan Lee. The competition featured 150 nominees in 22 categories.
The show premiered on CBS on December 9, 2018. Winners included Ninja who was awarded Fan Favorite Esports Player of the Year, Fan Favorite Gamer Moment, and the 2018 Super Nova Honor. Other winners included TimTheTatman and Pokimane who were named Streamers of the Year. Fortnite led the award shows with five fan favorite awards. Additional winners included Terry Crews for Fan Favorite Celebrity Gamer and Snoop Dogg for Fan Favorite Music Artist Gamer.
Winners and nominees Video games Titles in bold won in their respective category. Fortnite — Epic Games God of War — Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Spider-Man — Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Overwatch — Blizzard Entertainment Dragon Ball FighterZ — Arc System Works/Bandai Namco Entertainment/NIS America Celeste — Maddy Makes Games League of Legends — Riot Games Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — Treyarch/Activision Assassin's Creed Odyssey — Ubisoft Monster Hunter: World — Capcom The Last of Us Part II — Naughty Dog/Sony Interactive Entertainment Kingdom Hearts III — Square Enix The Elder Scrolls VI — Bethesda Softworks Death Stranding — Kojima Productions/Sony Interactive Entertainment Cyberpunk 2077 — CD Projekt Red/CD Projekt Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice — FromSoftware/Activision Rage 2 — Avalanche Studios/Bethesda Softworks Days Gone — Bend Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Anthem — Bioware/Electronic Arts Tom Clancy's The Division 2 — Massive Entertainment/Ubisoft Spider-Man — Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment God of War — Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Assassin's Creed Odyssey — Ubisoft Shadow of the Tomb Raider — Eidos Montréal/Square Enix Far Cry 5 — Ubisoft Spider-Man — Insomniac Games/Sony Interactive Entertainment Celeste — Maddy Makes Games God of War — Santa Monica Studio/Sony Interactive Entertainment Assassin's Creed Odyssey — Ubisoft Detroit: Become Human — Quantic Dream/Sony Interactive Entertainment Fortnite — Epic Games Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — Treyarch/Activision Destiny 2: Forsaken — Bungie/Activision World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth — Blizzard Entertainment Overwatch — Blizzard Entertainment A Way Out — Hazelight Studios/Electronic Arts PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds — PUBG Corporation Monster Hunter: World — Capcom Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — Treyarch/Activision Overwatch — Blizzard Entertainment Destiny 2: Forsaken — Bungie/Activision Quake Champions — id Software/Bethesda Softworks Far Cry 5 — Ubisoft Warframe — Digital Extremes Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege — Ubisoft Pokémon Go — The Pokémon Company/Niantic PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds Mobile — PUBG Corporation/Tencent Games Arena of Valor — Timi Studio Group/Tencent Games Florence — Mountains/Annapurna Interactive Alto's Odyssey — Team Alto/Snowman Vandals — Cosmografik/Novelab/Ex Nihilo/ARTE France Rocket League — Psyonix FIFA 19 — EA Sports NBA 2K19 — Visual Concepts/2K Sports Forza Horizon 4 — Playground Games/Microsoft Studios NHL 19 — EA Sports WWE 2K19 — Yuke's/Visual Concepts/2K Sports Madden NFL 19 — EA Sports Super Mario Party — NDcube/Nintendo Mario Tennis Aces — Camelot Software Planning/Nintendo Overcooked 2 — Ghost Town Games/Team17 Starlink: Battle for Atlas — Ubisoft Scribblenauts Showdown — Shiver Entertainment/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Lego The Incredibles — TT Fusion/Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment Just Dance 2018 — Ubisoft Fortnite — Epic Games League of Legends — Riot Games Dota 2 — Valve Overwatch — Blizzard Entertainment Counter-Strike: Global Offensive — Hidden Path Entertainment/Valve Dragon Ball FighterZ — Arc System Works/Bandai Namco Entertainment/NIS America Super Smash Bros. Melee — HAL Laboratory/Nintendo Rocket League — Psyonix PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds — PUBG Corporation Fortnite — Epic Games PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds — PUBG Corporation Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 — Blackout — Treyarch/Activision Realm Royale — Hi-Rez Studios Ring of Elysium — Tencent Games/Garena Darwin Project — Scavengers Studio H1Z1 — Daybreak Game Company Dragon Ball FighterZ — Arc System Works/Bandai Namco Entertainment/NIS America Street Fighter V: Arcade Edition — Capcom/Dimps Soulcalibur VI — Bandai Namco Entertainment Street Fighter 30th Anniversary Collection — Digital Eclipse/Capcom BlazBlue: Cross Tag Battle — Arc System Works Fighting EX Layer — Arika Monster Hunter: World — Capcom Path of Exile — Grinding Gear Games Dragon Quest XI — Square Enix Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom — Level-5 (company)/Bandai Namco Entertainment Kingdom Come: Deliverance — Warhorse Studios/Deep Silver Octopath Traveler — Square Enix/Acquire/Nintendo Diablo III — Blizzard Entertainment Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire — Obsidian Entertainment/Versus Evil Moonlighter — Digital Sun/11 Bit Studios World of Warcraft: Battle for Azeroth — Blizzard Entertainment The Elder Scrolls Online — ZeniMax Online Studios/Bethesda Softworks MapleStory 2 — NSquare/Nexon Lineage 2 Revolution — Netmarble Games Black Desert Online — Pearl Abyss/Kakao Games Eve Online — CCP Games Final Fantasy XIV — Square Enix Beat Saber — Beat Games Moss — Polyarc Pixel Ripped 1989 — Arvore Immersive Games Brass Tactics — Hidden Path Entertainment Sprint Vector — Survios Creed: Rise to Glory — Survios Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic — BioWare/LucasArts Half-Life — Valve F-Zero — Nintendo Banjo Kazooie — Rare Earthbound — HAL Laboratory Chrono Trigger — Square Jet Set Radio — Sega Subnautica — Unknown Worlds Entertainment Celeste — Maddy Makes Games Dead Cells — Motion Twin Into the Breach — Subset Games Iconoclasts — Konjak/Bitfrost Entertainment Donut County — Ben Esposito/Annapurna Interactive Moonlight — MonkeyMaw Red Dead Redemption 2 — Rockstar Games Fallout 76 — Bethesda Softworks Battlefield V — EA DICE/Electronic Arts Warframe: Fortuna — Digital Extremes Peter Parker/Spider-Man — Spider-Man Kratos — God of War Lara Croft — Shadow of the Tomb Raider Leo Caruso — A Way Out Connor — Detroit: Become Human Alexios and Kassandra — Assassin's Creed Odyssey Christopher Judge as Kratos — God of War Bryan Dechart as Connor — Detroit: Become Human Jesse Williams as Markus — Detroit: Become Human Yuri Lowenthal as Peter Parker/Spider-Man — Spider-Man Jeremy Davies as Baldur — God of War Greg Bryk as Joseph Seed — Far Cry 5 Michael Antonakos as Alexios — Assassin's Creed Odyssey Camilla Luddington as Lara Croft — Shadow of the Tomb Raider Valorie Curry as Kara — Detroit: Become Human Danielle Bisutti as Freya — God of War Laura Bailey as Mary Jane Watson — Spider-Man Tara Platt as Yuri Watanabe — Spider-Man Melissanthi Mahut as Kassandra — Assassin's Creed Odyssey Super Mario Bros. — Nintendo Pong — Atari, Inc. Space Invaders — Taito/Midway Games The Legend of Zelda — Nintendo Tetris — Alexey Pajitnov Mario — Mario Link — The Legend of Zelda Donkey Kong — Donkey Kong Pac-Man — Pac-Man Bomberman — Bomberman Bonk — Bonk's Adventure Mega Man — Mega Man Sonic the Hedgehog — Sonic the Hedgehog Samus Aran — Metroid Ninja plays with Drake The_Happy_Hob beats the Dark Souls trilogy without taking a single hit Red Dead Redemption 2 has the biggest opening weekend of any entertainment property Dr DisRespect hits a $100 headshot tyler1 returns to League of Legends 16 year old Joseph Saelee becomes Tetris World Champion Soviet Womble attempts a tactical strategy
Esports and celebrities TimTheTatman Ninja — Tyler Blevins Shroud — Michael Grzesiek Dr DisRespect — Herschel Beahm IV Tyler1 — Tyler Steinkamp summit1g — Jaryd Lazar Lirik — Saqib Zahid Dr Lupo TFUE Pokimane — Imane Anys AnneMunition Mystik — Kat Gunn itsHafu — Rumay Wang KittyPlays — Kristen Michaela Geguri — Kim Se-Yeon Xmiramira — Amira Juliano — Julia Kiran zAAb — Zainab Turkie NinjaIn official Gamers' Choice Awards press releases, this award is listed. However, no nominations for this category were published by the Gamers' Choice Awards. Snoop Dogg Marshmello Post Malone Drake Lupe Fiasco Justin Bieber JuJu Smith-Schuster Xavier Woods Gordon Hayward Kenny Omega Demetrious Johnson Ronda Rousey Jeremy Lin Neymar David Price (baseball) Terry Crews Vin Diesel Mila Kunis Olivia Munn Zac Efron Henry Cavill FaZe Clan Cloud9 Team Liquid Team SoloMid 100 Thieves G2 Esports Fnatic Cloud9 wins Boston Major Cloud9's League of Legends Worlds Run OG wins The International 2018 Mew2King wins Smash Summit 6 NRG Esports zero-second goal in Rocket League Championship Series Evil Geniuses wins Call of Duty Championship 2018 Alex Mendez Eefje Depoortere Paul Chaloner Alex Richardson Rachel Quirico Jorien van der Heijden Sue Lee Chris Puckett Call of Duty World League League of Legends World Championship The International Overwatch League Evolution Championship Series ELEAGUE Fortnite — Community Skirmishes Dota 2 — Dota Pro Circuit League of Legends — League of Legends Championship Series Overwatch — Overwatch League Street Fighter V — Capcom Pro Tour Counter-Strike: Global Offensive — Counter-Strike: Global Offensive Major Championships Ohio State University Bellevue University University of Utah Maryville University University of Washington University of California, Irvine Robert Morris University University of California, Berkeley Faker Doublelift Bjergsen Sneaky Aphromoo Uzi Svenskeren Miracle Topson Somnus 7ckngMad RAMZES666 No[o]ne ana Mang0 Leffen Hungrybox Mew2King Armada Plup aMSa SonicFox Kazunoko NYChrisG Moke HookGangGod Dogura Go1 s1mple RIMZ FalleN NiKo coldzera dev1ce Profit JJonak Muma SoOn Carpe Eqo Squishy Kaydop GarrettG Turbopulsa ViolentPanda Kuxir JSTN Ninja Tfue Vivid Poach Cloakzy Fuzzface lionkk Sambty EscA Pr0phie CouRage Rivington Bruce Bisland III Toby "Tobiwan" Dawson Anders Blume Indiana "Froskurinn" Black Clint "Maven" Evans Mitch "Uber" Leslie Lauren "Pansy" Scott D'Ron "D1" Maingrette Michael "Yipes" Mendoza Monte and Doa Artosis and Tasteless Scar and Toph Sajam and Tasty Steve James Bardolph and ddk James Chen and Ultra David Achillos and Wolf Brandon Smith and Richard Buckley Twitch Mixer Facebook Gaming YouTube Gaming
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