Similiar to last year, Turtle Entertainment's eSports Award has started a voting process to determine which six players they will recognize as the Player of the Year of their respective regions. The regional winners will eventually be compared to eachother in order to determine who will be recognized as eSports Player of the Year.

The categories and voting sites are:

Northern Europe eSports Player of the Year (SK Gaming, fragbite, rakaka.se)

Includes
- Sweden Magnus 'fox' Olsson (Quake)
- Sweden Sebastian 'Spart1e' Siira (Quake)


Western Europe eSports Player of the Year (SK Gaming, readmore, fragster.de, eSportsFrance)


Eastern Europe Player of the Year (SK Gaming, Gameinside, eSport.pl)

Includes
- Poland Maciej 'av3k' Krzykowski
- Belarus Alexey 'Cypher' Yushanevsky


Korea eSports Player of the Year


China eSports Player of the Year (nicez, Replays.net)

Includes
- China Fan 'Razerj' Zhibo


America eSports Player of the Year (Teamplay.com.br, Team EG, SK Gaming)

Includes
- United States of America Shane 'rapha' Hendrixson


Source: eSports Award