The 2013 Blizzard Stream Awards, powered by Twitch have come to a close and we’d like to thank you, the community, for tuning into Twitch and voting for your favorite Blizzard game streamers.
Blizzard and Twitch established 13 unique award categories representing streamers from four Blizzard franchises (Diablo III, Hearthstone, StarCraft II, and World of Warcraft). Six of these categories were data-driven (example: most number of hours streamed for Blizzard titles in 2013) while the other seven were qualitative categories that were voted on by you, the community (example: favorite community show of 2013). Twitch will distribute a prize pool of approximately $45,000 in prizes that will be distributed evenly to each award category. Here’s a breakdown for how the prizing will be distributed to the winning streamers.
1st place: $2013
2nd place: $400
3rd place: $300
Runners-up: $100
Note: We previously announced that there would be seven data-driven categories of awards. We unfortunately had to drop one of them from the program due to privacy concerns. We have adjusted the award amounts to reflect this.
For more info on the Blizzard Stream Awards, please visit our original blog post here.
We’ve laid out how each data driven awards category was tabulated, provided a full list of award winners, and a list of the runners-up below and on Blog.Twitch.tv.
Data Driven Categories - Twitch's army of data robots and scientists scoured their databases to find the top streamers for the following six categories
- Most Active Viewer – Awarded to the viewer who is following the most Blizzard channels
- 1st Place: looknohands119 – 595 Blizzard channels followed
- 2nd Place: zarvene – 562 Blizzard channels followed
- 3rd Place: kfkfcxy – 505 Blizzard channels followed
- Runners-up: bulaire, mtpvipor, ryan780, evilgrades, mabalon, obsena, trip_tv
- 1st Place: mdstorey
- 2nd Place: razerdwarf
- 3rd Place: umadbroqt
- Runners-up: pollogalante123, chinglishtv, im_not_dreamin, nzdr, sodapoppin, cloniez, feralkittehkat
- 1st Place: Sodapoppin – 389,251,500 minutes watched
- 2nd Place: Reckful – 377,959,500 minutes watched
- 3rd Place: nl_kripp – 320,320,200 minutes watched
- Runners-up: TrumpSC, towelliee, Kingkongor, Swifty, Grubby, Dragon, DeMusliM
- 1st Place: nl_kripp – 48.89 average minutes watched
- 2nd Place: Painuser – 30.88 average minutes watched
- 3rd Place: Reckful – 28.21 average minutes watched
- Runners-up: Artosis, khaldor, Mori09TV, SelectKR, iNControL, HeRoMaRinE, Trillebartom
- 1st Place: Painuser – Streamed 43.5% of the year
- 2nd Place: Swifty – Streamed 39.1% of the year
- 3rd Place: protech – Streamed 37.7% of the year
- Runners-up: whitepearl2622, ddina1230, maximusgrahamicus, pechthefarmer, nomanis, dexter_bl, sintorra
- 1st Place: Totalbiscuit
- 2nd Place: NL_Kripp
- 3rd Place: Reckful
- Runners-up: Sodapoppin, TrumpSC, Day9tv, DeMusliM, IdrA, Kungentv, Grubby
Poll Categories – You, the community voted for your favorite Twitch streamers in the following seven categories
- Favorite New Streamer of 2013
- 1st Place: Day[9]TV - “Day[9] Daily” [StarCraft II]
- 2nd Place: ChanmanV – “Climbing the Ladder,” “Wednesday Night Sprites,” & “Value Town” [StarCraft II & Hearthstone]
- 3rd Place: GameBreakerTV - “Legendary” & “Convert to Raid” [World of Warcraft]
- Runners-up: Artosis [StarCraft II & Hearthstone], ManaGrind [Hearthstone], ItmeJP [StarCraft II], AmoveTV [Hearthstone], TwizzCast [Diablo III & World of Warcraft], OneMoreGameTV [StarCraft II]
- 1st Place: Moldran
- 2nd Place: Kingkongor
- 3rd Place: DatModz
- Runners-up: Archon the Wizard, Baudusau420, Moses_2265, Invisuk, Doxsen, Zisss, Cdxliv
- 1st Place: Sodapoppin
- 2nd Place: Reckful
- 3rd Place: Swifty
- Runners-up: Venruki, Veev, Cdewx, Hydramist, LegendaryLea, EGAzael, Ziqoftw
Congratulations to the winners and to everyone that streamed or watched Blizzard games on Twitch in 2013! We look forward to your continued support in 2014. If you'd like to share your unique personality and gameplay experiences, we encourage you to become a Twitch partner. Visit this link for more information.