Valkyrae scoops Best Content Creator at The Game Awards 2020

She's the firs female to win the award in The Game Awards' history

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In among a slightly overwhelming number of trailers and world premieres at The Game Awards 2020, Lord Keighley decided to dish out some actual awards. While The Last of Us Part 2 scooped the prestigious Game of the Year award, we know you’re probably here for the winners of the competitive-focused categories and to see if your favourite streamer scooped the Content Creator of the Year award.

Well, if your favourite is Rachell ‘Valkyrae’ Hofstetter, then you’re in luck; the YouTube Gaming streamer was voted as 2020’s top content creator, beating some of Twitch’s biggest streamers like Nick ‘NICKMERCS’ Kolcheff and Tim ‘TimTheTatman’ Betar. This is the first time a female creator has won this award, or the equivalent Trending Gamer award from earlier years, with past winners including the likes of Tyler ‘Ninja’ Blevins and Michael ‘Shroud’ Grzesiek.

Unsurprisingly, League of Legends took home Esports Game of the Year, and even more unsurprisingly its 2020 World Championships was awarded Esports Event of the Year. Let’s be honest, we’re used to Riot sweeping these categories by now…

League of Legends featured in even more categories too. While Worlds winners DAMWON Gaming missed out on Esports Team of the Year to G2, its midlaner Heo ‘ShowMaker’ Su was voted Esports Athlete of the Year.

Here’s all the winners, which are shown in bold, from the content and competitive categories at The Game Awards 2020:

CONTENT CREATOR

  • Alanah Pearce
  • Jay Ann Lopez
  • NICKMERCS
  • TimTheTatman
  • Valkyrae

BEST MULTIPLAYER GAME

  • Animal Crossing: New Horizons
  • Among Us
  • Call of Duty: Warzone
  • Fall Guys
  • Valorant

BEST ESPORTS GAME

  • Call of Duty: Modern Warfare
  • CS:GO
  • Fortnite
  • League of Legends
  • Valorant

ESPORTS ATHLETE

  • Crimsix (Dallas Empire, Call of Duty)
  • ShowMaker (DAMWON Gaming, LoL)
  • Canyon (DAMWON Gaming, LoL)
  • Shotzzy (Dallas Empire, Call of Duty)
  • ZywOo (Team Vitality, CS:GO)

ESPORTS COACH

  • Zonic (Astralis, CS:GO)
  • Crusty (San Francisco Shock, Overwatch)
  • Grabbz (G2, LoL)
  • Zefa (DAMWON Gaming, LoL)
  • Rambo (Dallas Empire, Call of Duty)

ESPORTS TEAM

  • DAMWON Gaming (LoL)
  • Dallas Empire (Call of Duty)
  • G2 (LoL)
  • San Francisco Shock (Overwatch)
  • Team Secret (Dota 2)

ESPORTS HOST

  • Goldenboy
  • Sjokz
  • Machine
  • Dash
  • Sheever

ESPORTS EVENT

  • BLAST Premier Spring Series EU Finals
  • Call of Duty League Championship
  • IEM Katowice
  • League of Legends Worlds
  • Overwatch League Grand Finals

Jamie has been with The Loadout since the very beginning, joining in 2019 as the site's first staff writer and working his way up to deputy editor. Wielding a degree in broadcast journalism and a deep knowledge of FIFA and EA FC, Call of Duty, and FPS games in general, he's the go-to guy for tips on how to solve SBCs in FC 24, observations on the current Warzone meta, and much more. He is currently sinking far too many hours into Starfield and is perpetually rolling his eyes at the tribal (and ridiculous) Xbox versus PlayStation console wars.