Become an Esports Industry Awards partner:
Increase your brand position with key influencers and the industry; Our panel are experts in their chosen field, and together with our partners support our awards because they want to acknowledge and reward organisations, players and teams who are excelling in esports.
Enjoy tangible and sustainable returns:
The esports Industry Awards represents an international consumer and commercial mark of excellence. Nominees (and especially winners) will gain recognition that gives them a discernible commercial advantage.
Gain large scale media exposure:
Our awards will be promoted by a targeted and strategic marketing campaign; our official broadcasting partner Gfinity as well as other media partners have a combined viewing figures of over 50 million a year (and growing).
Our Audience
85,000 +
viewers
15,000,000
impressions
80
worldwide press coverage outlets
- Over 35,000 people voted on the live vote awards
- Concurrent audience of over 6,000 live viewers
- Our main audience was the UK and USA
- Over 39,000 messages sent on Twitch
- Over 500,000 visits to our social media
- Over 5,000 mentions on social media
- Your brand was visible to a combined audience of over 59,000,000
Available Opportunities
- Naming Rights
- Main Partner
- Category Sponsorship
- VIP & Networking
- Hospitality Tables
- Platinum Tables
- Gold Tables
- Tickets
and benefit from:
- Exposure to best of industry
- Vast networking opportunity
- Brand exposure via GFINITY (eSports Industry Awards Official Broadcast Partner) to your target market
- Branded website & event (activation fee applies)
- Event day brand awareness
- Be ahead of the game! First mover advantage
- Working alongside established eSports PR agency to maximise exposure through PR, marketing and Social Media channels.
Contact us today for more information
SPONSORSHIP
Conor Tallon
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Warren Fish
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Tom Mercey
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AWARDS
Hannah Robinson
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PR
Lottie Van Praag
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Bryce is the founding partner of ESG Law, the world’s first dedicated esports law firm, where he represents preeminent esports teams, talent, and institutions. Bryce is also a founding partner at Theorycraft, a creative and strategic advisory firm focused on helping major brands, sports teams and owners, and investors on how to successfully enter and navigate the esports space. Bryce’s work spans across the esports landscape; he has worked on major deals involving every esports title, and his clients range from long-standing, endemic esports entities to marquee sports, media, and entertainment companies looking to capitalize on the explosive growth of the industry. Bryce is a contributing writer for ESPN, and drives industry standards as a thought leader on key legal and business issues facing all aspects of the esports ecosystem. Bryce was named to the 2018 classes of the Forbes 30 under 30 and Sports Business Journal/Daily 40 under 40.
Chris Mead is Twitch’s Senior Director of Partnerships for EMEA, where he works with broadcasting partners ranging from individuals to developers, publishers, and organizations. Chris’s expertise lies in live and VOD content licensing, esports and go-to market strategy development. Prior to joining Twitch, he competed professionally in Call of Duty tournaments between 2008-2012 and worked for a full service digital agency in London.
Currently the Head of Twitch Esports, Justin Dellario looks after Twitch’s first-party esports content development and business programs, strategic business partnerships, and technology development. Before Twitch, Justin lead esports Marketing at Razer where he oversaw sponsorships and marketing. Justin is active in sitting on several industry panels and boards helping to shape the future of the esports industry.
Christina Alejandre is an executive consultant in esports and video game publishing space. Prior to this, she served as General Manager of ELEAGUE and Vice President of esports for Turner Sports. In this role, she lead the development and strategy for ELEAGUE, a transformative esports tournament brand created in partnership with IMG. Alejandre has two decades of years of experience in video games and new media, driving business development for global companies. She previously served as a consultant for Electronic Sports League where she identified and developed the core elements to establish the company’s long-term growth in North America. In addition, she previously held several high-ranking positions overseeing licensing and partner management, publishing and esports at Turbine and Warner Bros. Games. She also has led business development for 38 Studios and Octopi after working on interactive licensing and product development at Nickelodeon and Viacom
Secretlab was started by former competitive Starcraft II players Ian and Alaric who have applied their analytical and strategic mindset to gaming chairs, taking Secretlab from 1 country to 50 in just under 4 years. Under Alaric, who is the company’s Partnerships & Technical Director, Secretlab has signed industry-shaking esports partnerships with Riot Games for their global League of Legends tournaments, as well as world-renowned teams such as Cloud9 and Team Secret; pioneering collaborations with pop culture icons including HBO’s Game of Thrones and Warner Bro.’s Batman; and even in the electronic dance music industry with renowned EDM producer deadmau5.
A fighting game legend has joined the ranks of our Esports Awards Panel. Ryan Hart has been a part of the fighting game community for over 25 years and is now a world class player, caster and presenter. He started his career in 1994 and is possibly the world’s first professional player, winning himself hundreds of titles around the world in the Street Fighter, Virtua Fighter, King of Fighters and Tekken series. Ryan is one of the most accomplished fighting games players in the world, holding 4 Guinness World Records including most international competition wins and most countries victorious in around the world. Ryan is also a multi-lingual event host, influencer and commentates at some of the biggest tournaments. In addition to his impressive resume, Hart works as a project coordinator and content creator for ESL’s main products. With his long career within esports and the video game industry, he has also had the opportunity to co-author a book and work full time for top video game publishers such as Sega of Europe and Nintendo of Europe.
For the past 13 years, Anton has worked exclusively in esports for organizations that include Riot Games & Major League Gaming. During this time he has supported the production of over 100 live events, developed thousands of hours of content on behalf of sponsors, and pushed strategic initiatives across for a wide array of projects including streaming, content acquisition and business development.
With over 10+ years of experience in the gaming industry, Rishi has worked on everything from distribution platforms to game publishers. As the Global Head of Gaming Partnerships, Rishi brings exceptional content from global gaming leagues, esports franchises, publishers & developers, and game communities to fans in real time, while driving reach and revenue for these strategic partners and Twitter. In 2018, he launched strategic partnerships with Activision Blizzard across the Overwatch League and Call of Duty World League, Riot Games, ESL, DreamHack, and FACEIT.
Richard Lewis has been the definitive esports journalist for over a decade, starting at forgotten blogs like Source Junky, working his way into sites like GotFrag, Tek-9 and Cadred, spearheading the Daily Dot’s foray into esports, before finally becoming a TV anchor for Turner Sports. Breaking stories that focus on the aspects of esports people would rather ignore, such as match-fixing, contract disputes, exploitation of players and predatory practices, his work isn’t always welcome but is certainly necessary. Nominated for multiple awards, his first win came in 2016 winning the 2016 Esports Journalist of the Year.
Ross Thompson also known as “TommyT999” is a video game industry veteran who is now running his own business & creating/publishing content via his YouTube channel TommyT999. Fully focused on video games content across games both new & old, spanning all formats & genres the channel hosts some of the biggest Top 10 gaming series running on YouTube at this time & he covers across a wide variety of games including Call of Duty, Rainbow Six, Fortnite, PUBG, Rocket League & Fifa to name but a few. Working within the industry for the length of his career to date, in many companies all dedicated to growing the world of video games & esports he has a vast knowledge & experience of the industry & within his current role, every day he is watching the best clips the best players & gamers have to offer in the world of online competitive gaming.
Alan ‘Bricey’ Brice is a professional host and commentator within the esports industry with over 7 years’ experience. Starting out as a player in a local community team attending LAN events, Bricey has a grass roots knowledge of what goes through players’ minds during matches.
Mike Sepso is Senior Vice President of Major League Gaming, with a focus on global strategy and brand partnerships across the Activision Blizzard esports portfolio. As part of the Activision Blizzard executive team, Mike continues to build on his experience as a pioneer in the development of esports leagues and properties worldwide.
MonteCristo started in esports as a volunteer writer for WCReplays, a Warcraft 3 replays site. He began shoutcasting for WCReplays with Phreak. During his involvement with the Warcraft 3 scene, Mykles managed a professional Warcraft 3 team with Verge Gaming and joined the Team Sportscast Network, a now defunct esports shoutcasting organization. Mykles became “obsessed” with League of Legends in its beta phase and subsequently founded ggChronicle to provide a journalism outlet devoted to professionalism for the LoL esports scene.MonteCristo then took a full-time, contract casting position at OnGameNet, where he still casts presently. In 2013, he then joined CLG as a coach and coached the team until the end of 2014, moving on to become a co-owner of Renegades on June 19th, 2015.
Known as “The Esports Historian”, Thorin has been a custodian of the history of competitive computer games since 2001. Also known for his work on analysis desks at CS:GO events, he is considered one of the world’s foremost experts in the subject of esports.
General Manager of one of the world’s largest competitive gaming organizations, ODEE’s esports career began in 1999 as a Quake 3 pro player. Four years later, his Battlefield 1942 team merged with another, giving birth to Team Dignitas. With the experience and ideals he earned as a player, ODEE built Team Dignitas from the ground up, coaching and managing players across a multitude of games like CS:GO, League of Legends and Heroes of the Storm. Over his 19 years of experience, ODEE’s philosophy has always been to put his players and staff first in his efforts to further esports.
Eefje ‘sjokz’ Depoortere has been a part of Riot’s League of Legends
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