Welcome to the 2nd annual GosuAwards winners feature for League of Legends, where we celebrate the top teams, stories, and players in their individual roles.

Please feel free to read all of our nominations here. This year, you can find some similiar categories from last year with a bit of freshness added in with new categories such as "Best Storyline" and "Best Entertainer".

Just like last year, we'll be splitting the winners into two categories: winners that we hand picked ourselves and the winners from our community poll. Winners were selected amongst the crew here at GosuGamers as well as those with the most votes on the polls with runner-ups provided.

But enough of that, let's check out the awards!

Category: Best team

Winner: SK Telecom T1

Photo: RIOT



One cannot argue with the results plus as the combination of fantastic team play and individual skill that has developed within SK Telecom T1 K this year. While off to what can hardly be called a "rough" start with a 3rd place finish at OGN Spring, the team went on to dominate the region in every other tournament up until the WCG Korean qualifiers losing to MVP Blue, who had been practicing while SKT T1 were at Worlds. Taking first at the Korean regionals and then taking the World title, no one can argue the strength of the team. The most terrifying part of SKT T1 is they lack a clear weakness. Their bottom lane has developed into one of the strongest of the world, their top lane does his job, Bengi is incredibly strong, and Faker is Faker.

Runner-up: OMG for being incredibly dominant all year in China and taking the once unconquerable throne from World Elite.



Community poll results Winner: SK Telecom (62%) Runner-up: Fnatic (32%) Results

Fnatic Photo: FNATIC

Category: Player of the year

Winner: SKT.Faker

Photo: Daily Esports

Faker is nearly seen as a deity in League of Legends, a player who does not falter in any category. Originally scouted out for his impressive solo queue play, Faker has quickly developed into the most profound professional player in the scene. Faker is a fan favorite because of his flashy plays and impressive mechanics which never cease to make the crowd's jaw drop. Faker is no one trick pony, though, and is typically strong in every other aspect of the game as well. Faker is rarely seen being outfarmed by his opponent and has incredible decision-making in additon to map awareness. Having no isolated niche and being so well rounded in every single aspect means Faker is easily qualified to take this award.

Runner-up: CJF.Madlife for showing the capability to carry a team on his back before he got the extra gold to do so in Season 3.

Community poll results Winner: SKT.Faker (59%) Runner-up: Fnatic.xPeke (20%) Results



xPeke photo by: GosuGamers

Category: Best top laner

Winner: CJF.Shy

Photo: RIOT

CJ Entus Frost may be falling off a bit in the Korean scene, but that doesn't take anything away from Shy. Shy is a player who learns frighteningly fast. Comparatively to other pros, he's been playing the game the least amount of months while picking up new champions almost immediately. While his results may not be as visible with Frost's recent performances, Shy was definitely picked up for a reason for this year's All-Stars. In a sea of such talented top laners, it's hard to single out a best top laner, but for the amount of time he's been playing as well as his quick adaptibility to carry in the midst of several doubters at the start of his career, Shy deserves the top laner award. Runner-up: CJB.Flame for putting the other CJ Entus squadron on his back despite initial doubts, especially filling the shoes of Reapered in his debut.

Community poll results Winner: Fnatic.sOAZ (42%) Runner-up: CJF.Shy (38%) Results

Photos: GosuGamer (sOAZ), Fomos.kr (Shy)

Category: Best jungler

Winner: KTB.InSec

Photo: Inven

InSec deserves recognition for being the best jungler due to his flexibility and his amazing champion pool. Even with the long stretch of support-style junglers fitting best in the meta, InSec warped the jungle differently, playing several carry junglers like Zed, Lee Sin, and Gragas and winning the game single-handedly. Even theorycrafting jungle-God "Diamondprox" has sung praises about how strong InSec is in the jungle. Though he now resides in the top lane, believing he's done all that he could do in the jungle, InSec was heralded for the greater part of the year as the best jungler the game's ever seen. If that wasn't cool enough, InSec managed to win against World Elite using Shaco. Runner-up: OMG.LoveLin for being arguably the most dominant jungler in all of China after transitioning from being one of the best supports.

Community poll results Winner: KTB.InSec (41%) Runner-up: SKT.Bengi (26%) Results



Bengi photo: RIOT

Category: Best mid laner

Winner: SKT.Faker

Photo: Inven

If he's going to be the winner of the "Best player" category, then certainly he will champion the best category for his role. Again, there's not much weakness in Faker's play and rarely is anyone heralded as a better mid laner than him. In fact, if anyone does manage to beat him in lane or in a duel, it goes viral and becomes news. What more is there to say? Faker is an absolute monster and there's no one that can currently fill his shoes. Runner-up: Fnatic.xPeke for being the strongest mid laner in the alleged strongest region for mids and making such memorable performances.

Community poll results Winner: SKT.Faker (57%) Runner-up: TSM.Bjergsen (25%) Results

Category: Best bot lane

Winner: PE.Sicca & PE.NaMei

After a lot of consideration, the best bottom lane has to be handed to NaMei and Sicca. China has always had exceptionally strong bottom lanes -- marskmen in particular. The focus on marskman is so strong in China that they've had to play "peel for the AD" much longer than other parts of the world. Namei & Sicca were consistently able to win lane against China's best and Namei was able to grab the #1 MVP Titles for both LPL seasons. While not familiar names in the broad scope of the globe, any Chinese scene enthusiast will have their mouth agape seeing what the two can do and how perfect their execution can be at times. While the team as a whole was not able to make it into worlds, there's no doubt that Namei & Sicca would give the other world class bottom lanes the fight of their lives judging by their spring and summer LPL performances. Runner-up: NJBS.Pray & NJBS.Cain for being dominant at a time shortly after Doublelift lead the world to believe that Korean bottom lanes were trash, an opinion that spread wide amongst the community at the time.

Community poll results Winner: Uzi & Tabe (49%) Runner-up: Space & Madlife (35%) Results



Photos: LPL, Inven

Category: Best tournament

Winner: All-Stars Shanghai

Photo: RIOT

While the Season 3 World Championships offered a broad amount of "real sports" qualities, the hype leading up to it ultimately had a lot of people's expectations way too high. Due to the format and lackluster finals, a lot of people weren't necessarily displeased, but disappointed. With that said, it only makes sense that All-Stars Shanghai should win. Many memorable and theoretical combos played in All-Stars with a variety of different features that made the event extremely fun. Since it wasn't just a standard tournament, there was also the "skill competitions" which featured a sneak-preview of an upcoming 1v1 & 2v2 map, an alteration of the heavily anticipated "Magma Chamber." In a similar fashion to Worlds, Korea crushed China in a 2-0 stomp, but the games leading up to the grand finals were exciting for viewers with NA unexpectedly defeating EU 2-0, sOAZ winning top lane against Shy, and more. Runner-up: S3WC for having an impressive playoffs, venue, and presentation despite an anticlimatic ending.



Community poll results Winner: Season 3 WC (61%) Runner-up: All-Stars (17%) Results



S3WC photo: LoLeSports flickr

Category: Story of the year

Winner: Cloud 9's NA Summer run

Photo: LoLeSports flickr

For the longest time, not only was North America heralded as the weakest of the regions, it became stagnant as Team Solomid could not be shoved off their throne. That was, of course, until the Season 3 summer split. A lot of teams anticipated the strength of Cloud 9, but no one expected them to smash the scene in such a convincing manner. After only dropping 3 games in the entire season and winning 28, the other teams were not even close. Now, North America sets its hopes on finally having a world-class team that can compete with the titans, and their domination doesn't seem to be stopping. Other teams will be very hard-pressed in their attempts to knock the current NA king off the top of it's very convincingly deserved throne. Runner-up: Gambit Reborn for showing a "Moscow 5-esque" performance as soon as the original 5 banded back together.

Community poll results Winner: Cloud 9 in NA Summer (55%) Runner-up: Gambit reborn (27%) Results



Edward photo: Gambit Gaming

Category: Drama of the year

Winner: The EU super team

For well over a month, rumors were afloat about this "EU Superteam," and while "evidence" was amiss for the first week or so, match histories and suggestive tweets had been popping up left and right allegedly proving the existence of such a team. While this didn't happen exactly as predicted, there were indeed several swaps, trades, and retirements from the European teams, even from closely knit teams that had refused to seperate in the past such as Evil Geniuses. As a byproduct of all the swaps, some teams became incredibly weaker and in danger of falling off the face of the Earth while other teams like Alliance essentially formed an All-Star team, though they have yet to prove their merit in an LCS season. However, the "favored" swaps were not all success stories, such as Ninjas in Pyjamas' 0-3 defeat and removal from the LCS at the hands of KMT. Runner-up: S4 LCS Contracts for beginning a shitstorm that erupted so fast that Riot took action almost immediately.

Community poll results Winner: Season 4 contracts (30%) Runner-up: EU super team (24%) Results

Category: Best entertainer

Winner: Trick2g

While this one was incredibly hard to decide on, we had to give Trick2g the award because of how hard he works and how consistent his content is. While the other nominees definitely create some hilarious and exceptional content, Trick2g lives and breathes it. His videos and highlights come out constantly and he generates a ton of viewers any time he streams on Twitch. Trick2g is also a high-rated player on top of being an entertainer, meaning he can offer valuable lessons to help others in their quest to improve. Trick2g is the perfect blend of satire and serious play, setting a good example on his stream and telling others essentially to "not try this at home." Lastly, Trick's community interaction is top notch, with him constantly replying to viewers on stream, on Reddit, thanking subscribers, having subscriber games, and doing constant subwars. Runner-up: Sky for his famed attitude and video virality, touching up popular topics and adding his own comical interpretation and flavor to them.

Community poll results Winner: Sky (40%) Runner-up: Trick2g (36%) Results

Category: Best "play"

Winner: xPeke's backdoor

Though another tough category to make a decision, ultimately the circumstances won this over for xPeke. While it may not have the same flashy-factor that Faker's play has, it comes damn close and happened in a game that was much closer and looking much more grim for Fnatic. In fact, had xPeke not had the bravery and execution after commiting to his plans, SK Gaming most likely would have won the game. If that wasn't enough, this wasn't too far off from when Yellowstar got replaced on SK Gaming, making the victory all that much more sweet for him when Fnatic, his new team, advanced. xPeke's move was so popular that it received it's own name, "the xPeke", engraved into LoL history and spawned many attempted imitations of the same style of game-ending play in both the professional field and in matchmade games. Runner-up: Faker's Zed mirror play for showing one of the most fantastic (and confusing) spectacles seen in OGN history.



Community poll results Winner: xPeke's backdoor (43%) Runner-up: Faker vs Ryu (41%) Results

Category: Most potential

Winner: Dr. Mundo

You know, oddly enough we thought of this poll before Dr. Mundo became a big part of the meta, so it's a safe assumption that those who voted knew what they were talking about. The long-running joke that CLG is a team of "potential" may be getting a bit stale, but apparently it's not even true. Unfortunately, the combined efforts of all three CLG votes couldn't hold a candle to Dr. Mundo. And just how right was everyone? Well, now you rarely see a high-level game that doesn't have Dr. Mundo, so the potential is real. MUNDO!! Runner-up: Counter Logic Gaming for general satire and for our community's beloved tradition of beating a dead horse.

Community poll results ​ Winner: Dr. Mundo(65%) Runner-up: CLG (16+8+6%) Results GosuAwards committee:

Michale "Drexxin" Lalor

Kelsey "Prehistorique" Moser

Nicholas "Endspark" Doucet