GGL’s 2007 Players of the Year: The votes are in!

The gaming press from all over the world has voted for Players and Revelations of 2007 in Counter-Strike, Warcraft 3 and Quake 4. For the first time in the award’s history, two players will share an award.

The Player of the Year in Counter-Strike is Filip “NEO” Kubski from Meet Your Makers. He won two out of three of the most prestigious tournaments in 2007 with PGS Gaming and performed very well for the large part of the year. He received 37 points, 10 more than Patrick “cArn” Sattermon (27 points) and the 2006 Player of the Year Patrik “f0rest” Lindberg (17).

Mickael “mSx” Cassisi is the Revelation of 2007 in Counter-Strike. The award is traditionally given to the players that made the biggest breakthrough in one year, and mSx was the player that took emuLate to a gold medal in the World Cyber Games. The Frenchman got 29 points. Just four points behind him was mTw’s Christoffer Sunde, who was the ESWC and WCG runner up with his danish team, known in 2007 as NoA.

There was no doubt that the Player of the Year in Warcraft 3 would be Jang “Moon” JaeHo. The Korean MYM player received 53 points and only one of the voting media outlets did not put him in first place. The runner up is Olav “Creolophus” Undheim, the ESWC runner up and WCG champion, with 26 points. His former team mate Yoan “ToD” Merlo was third.

The Warcraft 3 Revelation category had a surprising turnout, as two players received the same number of points. Those were Creolophus and June “Lyn” Park, both having improved outstandingly last year.

The Quake 4 Player of the Year category was as almost clear-cut as in Warcraft 3. Johan “Toxjq” Quick received the award for the second time in a row. His major opponent for the title was Maciej “Av3k” Krzykowski, the Revelation of 2006 in Quake.

The voters in the award were the representatives of the world’s best gaming websites, magazines and shoutcasting stations have been picking the Players of the Year since 2003. The voters were (in no particular order): QuadV, Esbr.com.br, GGL, Rakaka.se, Fragbite.com, FPSKorea.com, eSports.pl, Readmore.de, EsportsFrance.com, Gameriot.com, GotFrag.com, ESReality.com, and Pro Gam3r Magazine.

COUNTER-STRIKE 2007 PLAYER OF THE YEAR TALLY
NEO 37
cArn 27
f0rest 17
mSx 8
fnx 5
dsn 5
sunde 4
walle 3
Luq 2

COUNTER-STRIKE 2007 REVELATION OF THE YEAR TALLY
mSx 29
Sunde 25
GeT RiGhT 21
face 11
plastE 7
ton 6
Edward 4
evolution 3

Warcraft 3 2007 PLAYER OF THE YEAR TALLY
Moon 53
Creolophus 26
ToD 12
ReMind 3
Sky 3

WARCRAFT 3 2007 REVELATION OF THE YEAR TALLY
Creolophus 39
Lyn 39
TH000 10
FoCuS 6
Infi 5

QUAKE PLAYER PLAYER OF THE YEAR TALLY
Av3k 28
Toxic 44
Cooller 10
DaHang 8