Esports Awards 2021 Mobile categories: List of all winners

The Esports Awards were first organized in 2016 to reward excellence and accomplishments in the worldwide esports industry. Moving it into its sixth iteration, Esports Awards 2021 is presented by Lexus and hosted at Arlington, Texas.

Due to the widespread popularity and growth of mobile esports, the Esports Awards 2020 included a new category for mobile esports for the very first time. In a similar vein, this year's mobile category includes two special awards: Esports Mobile Game of the Year and Esports Mobile Player of the Year.

Esports Awards 2021: Free Fire and Paraboy take the win in their respective categories

Free Fire bags Esports Mobile Game of the Year

Free Fire has been a tremendous success and has laid out a vast esports ecosystem for the players.

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Earlier this year, the game surpassed the milestone of 1 billion downloads on Google Play Store, and has also topped the chart for the most-watched mobile game of Q3, 2021.

For the second consecutive year, Free Fire has been named as Esports Mobile Game of the Year. The title continues to set a new benchmark on several fronts.

The nominees for the Esports Mobile Game of the Year comprised of the following:

PUBG Mobile
Free Fire
Brawl Stars
Clash Royale
Mobile Legends
Lol Wild Rift
COD Mobile
Arena of Valor

Paraboy crowned Esports Mobile Player of the Year

Zhu "paraboy" Bocheng took home the award for Esports Mobile Player of the Year. The 19-year-old star represents Nova Esports and has been dubbed as one of the best PUBG Mobile players across the world.

He has had quite a run this year and was also named the MVP of the Peacekeeper Elite League 2021 Season 3.

In Season 4, his team placed second in the Regular Season. The star player is looking forward to confirming a slot at the PUBG Mobile Global Championship (PMGC) 2021.

The nominees for Esports Mobile Player of the Year included:

Zhu "paraboy" Bocheng
Mohamed "Mohamed Light" Tarek
Gabriel "Syaz" Vasconcelos
Mustafa "SkYRiiKZz" Ibrahim
Karl Gabriel "KarlTzy" Nepomuceno
Jash "Learn" Shah
Piyapon "TheCruz" Boonchuay
Brian "Tectonic" Michel
Lucas "LucasXGamer" Vinícius Batista Rocha
Cauan "Cauan7" da Silva

About the author

Aniket Thakkar is an esports writer for Sportskeeda, and covers mobile games, including Free Fire and BGMI. He is pursuing a masters's degree in finance and accounting from Kozminski University while still being on a track to become a certified management accountant (CIMA UK). Alongside his academic interests, he enjoys playing FPS games, including Valorant and CSGO, besides engaging in bullet and blitz chess on multiple platforms.
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