Gamestah End of Year Awards Nominations
Date Posted: Saturday 12th December, 2009 Author: Ej
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Gamestah "Golden MIc" and "Rookie of the Year" Awards Nominations.
These awards are in recognition of outstanding contributions to the field of Esports commentary and promoting Esports.
Golden Mic Nominations are:
Arseynimz, TobiWanKenobi, and Pandan
Rookie of the Year Nominations are:
Boomser, and BioAcid
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Golden Mic:
Craig "Arseynimz" Nimmo:
320 Casts for the year.
Live event casting including: WCG NZ, Malaysian Nationals and Egames Expo in Melbourne
Call of Duty Division Admin
Esports Weekly Co-Host (24 Episodes)
Mentor
Craig has had a huge year in 2009, Leading by example he has been a division admin, also assisting other division during the year. He hold the record for most casts in a year, has traveled to Australia and Malaysia to cover live events, was lead caster at Egames Expo in Melbourne. Craig has also co hosted Gamestah flagship show "Esports Weekly". Along with this Arsey has supported and mentored many rookies and assisted setting up new game division.

Toby "TobiWanKenobi" Dawson
248 Casts for the year.
Live event casting including, Lansmash events, Malaysian Nationals, SMM Malaysia and GenCon
DotA/HoN Division Admin
Mentor
Toby has set new records in 2009 for most watched cast, most live listeners, most casts in a month, generated most site activity, Toby has become a true global superstar in Esports commentary and has become Gamestahs' Most popular caster. Toby has also built up a new division at gamestah, holds the top 10 recent casts as all dota casts and pushed international casting to new hights.

Craig "Pandan" Warren
184 Casts for the year.
Live event casting including, Lansmash events, WCG NZ, WCG AU, 1.6 Nationals, and Egames Expo.
Mentor
Craig has really developed during 2009 into a real Esports commentator. He has drivin CSS casting to new heights and popularity. His live event work has been first rate, include World Cyber Games Nationals in New Zealand and Australia, he has also covered lan events solo this year, as well as supporting Lansmash and rocking the aimseries comp at Egames Expo. Craig also cast with Swine Flu in New Zealand, a mighty effort. Craig has also been instrumental in behind the scene develpement of Gamestah TV.

Rookie of the Year - Awarded to a caster who debuted in 2009.

Scott "Boomser" Bendarski
100 Casts
Regular Esports Weekly Guest.
Live event coverage including: Lansmash events, WCG AU, DICE VIP Nationals, and Egames Expo.
Scott debuted with a bang in 2009 and has proven a very popular caster and real team player at gamestah. Became member of the 100 club and guest presented on many shows of Esports Weekly. Scotts real developement has been as a live event commentator. While starting out a bit nervous, we saw scott shine when he rocked the Egames Expo CSS grand final, as well as regular attendance at Lansmash, Scott also commentated the World Cyber Games Australian Nationals in 2009.

Dallas 'Bio BOOYA Acid' O'Donnell
102 Casts for the year
Pioneered Console casting
Senior Xbox Division leader
Esports Weekly Cohost (23 Episodes)
Mentor
Dallas burst onto the scence in July and has racked up 100 casts, joining the 100 club in that short time. He has pioneered xbox casting and has built up a great reputation within the xbox community and has been a great ambassador for Esports commentary. Dallas gets his first crack at Live event casting when he attends relaoded lan in 2010. Dallas has also been a supurb role model to new casters and has mentored many new xbox casters in 2009.

Who do you think should get the nod in the categories above?

Winners will be announced on this weeks Esports Weekly Xmas Awards Special  (being filmed on sudnay night)
Comments
Bio Acid
Esports Commentator
56 comments
w00t i got nominated :P, nice write up EJ
  Posted at Saturday 12th December, 2009 - 10:30:44 am
Bio Acid
Esports Commentator
56 comments
No edit button, but Best of luck to all :D.

Question : Will there be a VIP Party afterwards ?
  Posted at Saturday 12th December, 2009 - 10:31:39 am
Duwom

20 comments
Awesome article, great work by everyone, I can't believe the level that you guys are pushing it to
  Posted at Saturday 12th December, 2009 - 11:20:34 am
C-Rad
Esports Commentator
43 comments
hands down, Arsey for golden Mic! 320 casts for the year is epic!
  Posted at Saturday 12th December, 2009 - 1:27:43 pm
Misty

5 comments
TOBI MUST WIN
  Posted at Saturday 12th December, 2009 - 8:59:35 pm
Konsumed

2 comments
TobiWanKenobi has done a extraordinary job in his shoutcasts and makes them very entertaining to watch. I heard one of his shoutcasts on some random DotA website and tracked you guys down here. Gamestah as a whole has done an amazing job. Bravo!
  Posted at Sunday 13th December, 2009 - 11:02:18 am
Paradox

2 comments
Love counting how many times Tobi says 'but' in a shotucast :D
  Posted at Sunday 13th December, 2009 - 4:35:15 pm
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