Marvel Rivals nominated for Stream Game of the Year at Streamer Awards

Marvel Rivals has been nominated for Stream Recreation of the Yr on the 2025 Streamer Awards.

The hero shooter will compete with fellow nominees Clair Obscure: Expedition 33, R.E.P.O., Peak and Schedule I in its class.

The Streamer Awards is an annual awards present, organised by content material creator QTCinderella, that celebrates achievements within the live-streaming trade. 

This 12 months’s version can be broadcast on December seventh at 11 PM BST on QTCinderella’s Twitch channel. Till November thirtieth, followers may vote for his or her favorite streamers and types.

Like different titles in its class, Marvel Rivals is a comparatively new sport that generated vital hype round its launch in December 2024. 

Since then, NetEase Video games’ hero shooter has additionally gained the eye of esports fans in addition to notable esports organisations. The likes of Sentinels, NAVI and 100 Thieves have shaped Marvel Rivals rosters all through 2025.

Nevertheless, Sentinels paused its operations earlier this month, explaining that it might “revisit the choice” if “NetEase roll out a programme with staff incentives”.

Most just lately, Marvel Rivals concluded its inaugural Ignite collection, a tier-one circuit with regional and worldwide tournaments. Its Grand Finals occasion noticed Virtus.professional take residence the lion’s share of the $1m (~£745,000) prize pool.

In line with esports knowledge platform Esports Charts, the Marvel Rivals Ignite Grand Finals recorded 78,171 peak viewers and just below 1.4m hours watched throughout its 50-hour airtime.

Wanting on the sport’s total streaming recognition, Marvel Rivals couldn’t make the highest 20 most-watched classes throughout all main streaming platforms prior to now 30 days. On Twitch, the title generated 12.6m hours watched and 136,937 peak viewers in the identical time span. 

Compared, esports titles League of Legends, Counter-Strike and VALORANT rank second, tenth, and eleventh. Their Twitch watch hours for the previous 30 days are 91.7m, 46.1m and 35.1m, respectively.

Nonetheless, Marvel Rivals is the one esports title nominated for Stream Recreation of the Yr and the one one with a devoted Streamer Awards class, known as Marvel Rivals Streamer of the Yr. The nominees on this class are Flats, Bigpuffer, bogur, supertf and TimTheTatman.