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. Continued…



Every year, GGL invites several prominent e-Sports coverage sites to vote for the e-Sports Players of the Year. The categories cover three e-Sports games with long traditions and histories: Quake (in this case, Quake 4), Warcraft III and Counter-Strike 1.6.

Each voter (or site) selects three players from every category and assigns them a rank from 1-3. Rank 1 receives 5 points, Rank 2 receives 3 points, and Rank 3 receives 1 point. At the end of the voting process, the points are tallied and the winners are announced. You can see the 2006 winners at GGL.com in a legacy format.

Without further ado, let’s name the 2007 nominees: Continued…



The happiest man of the weekend, at least among competitive gamers, was Filip “NEO” Kubski. The Polish player was given the Counter-Strike Player of the Year award, the eSports Player of the Year award and his PGS Gaming received the Team of the Year award. He topped that by winning the European Nations Cup with team Poland.

GGL Wire’s Michal “Carmac” Blicharz has caught NEO after the ENC decoration and sat down with the player for a chat about the awards, Counter-Strike and Games Convention.



Last Saturday, the eSports Awards were handed out to players, teams and journalists during a live show at Games Convention. We have written about who won but have you seen the smiles? Have you seen the tears in those people’s eyes? Have had the chance to notice how nervous Fatal1ty was giving his memorable speech? Have a look if you are interested.



Poland is the big winner of the 2007 edition of the eSports Awards with five awards going to Polish gamers, winning every category where they were nominated except one. The “Turtles” were handed out at Games Convention 2007 during a live ceremony and on German television.

Polish gamers took awards in every category they were nominated in, including the most prestigious eSports Player of the Year and eSports Team of the Year. The winners were:

Breakthrough of the Year
Maciej ‘av3k’ Krzykowski

Best eSports Coverage (Uservote)
readmore.de

Best FPS Duel Player
Johan ‘toxic’ Quick

Best Warcraft 3 Player
Yoan ‘ToD’ Merlo

Best Counter-Strike Player
Filip ‘Neo’ Kubski

Lifetime Achievement Award
Johnathan ‘Fatal1ty’ Wendel

Best Journalist
Tim Farin & Christian Parth

Scene Journalist Award (Uservote)
David ‘Craven’ Abel & Michal ‘carmac’ Blicharz

eSports Player of the Year
Filip ‘Neo’ Kubski

Best eSports Game of the Year (Uservote)
Pro Evolution Soccer 6

eSports Team of the Year
PGS Gaming Continued…