Michael Phelps Presents Best Esports Player Award at The Game Awards

The Game Awards 2016 begins and the Olympic Gold-medalist Swimmer presents an award.

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Geoff Keighley will be hosting The Game Awards 2016, which starts today at 9PM EST/6PM PST at the Microsoft Theater in Los Angeles, California.

Michael Phelps, the most decorated Olympian of all time, will be there to give the ‘Best Esports Player’ award to one of these talented individuals:

Lee ‘Faker’ Sang-hyeok 🇰🇷

from League of Legends — SK Telecom T1

Sang-hyeok 🇰🇷 from League of Legends — SK Telecom T1 Marcelo ‘Coldzera’ David 🇧🇷

from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive — SK Gaming

David 🇧🇷 from Counter-Strike: Global Offensive — SK Gaming ‘ByuN’ Hyun Woo 🇰🇷

from Starcraft 2 — Team expert

Hyun Woo 🇰🇷 from Starcraft 2 — Team expert Lee ‘Infiltration’ Seon-woo 🇰🇷

from Street Fighter V — Team Razer

Seon-woo 🇰🇷 from Street Fighter V — Team Razer Juan ‘Hungrybox’ Debiedma 🇦🇷

from Super Smash Bros. — Team Liquid

In addition to ‘Best Esports Player’ award, there are also the ‘Best Esports Team’ and ‘Best Esports Game’ categories.

The nominees for ‘Best Esports Team’ include:

SK Gaming organization

Cloud 9 organization

SK Telecom T1 — League of Legends

Wings Gaming — DOTA2

ROX Tigers — League of Legends

‘Best Esports Game’ will be awarded to one of the following:

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive

DOTA 2

League of Legends

Overwatch

Street Fighter V.

Make sure to tune in to the event at www.TheGameAwards.com or their YouTube channel: