The Red Carpet at the Esports Awards.
The Red Carpet at the Esports Awards.
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Esports Awards take place in Riyadh as Esports World Cup concludes

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The Esports Awards took place last night in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, for the first time last night during the concluding weekend for the Esports World Cup.

Samantha “Rivers” Rivera Treviño won for Streamer of the Year. Personality of the Year went to Seth “Scump” Abner, who was also one of the emcees for the evening. And the first Lifetime Achievement award went to Jens Hilgers, founder of Bitkraft Ventures, Bayes, G2 Esports and ESL.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.