The voting however is not a public vote as it was last year, the winners will now be determined by a jury called "The Academy" which will be "comprised of star players, opinion leaders, eSports Award winners and other people from the eSports industry" .

Last year's joint winner Michal "Carmac" Blicharz returns to the list of possible nominees once more, this time under the SK Gaming flag for his article Paupers will be Kings.

Lawrence "Malystryx" Phillips who was also nominated last year for his piece "Is eSports becoming boring?", joins the shortlist, this time for his column entitled eSports Journalist: Quality over Quantity.

Richard "_evan" Armstrong who missed out on the nominations last year has come a long way is one step close to earning himself a nomination this year for his blog entitled What's an alias worth?

Meanwhile the latest addition to our writing staff wordsmith Michael "Zechs" Redford was the fourth writer to be in with a chance for a nomination for last week's installment of the Zechs Files, Vultures? What Vultures?

The full list of pre-selected article is as follows:

Trevor Schmidt – Gotfrag – “Is the grass greener?“
Lawrence Phillips – SK-Gaming - “eSports Journalism – Quality over Quantity“
Davor Miljkovic - myMYM - “Torture - The Art of Mind Games“
Frank Fields - myMYM – “The Art of Game Management“
Felix Morgan - Cadred.org - “The Media's Impact on eSports“
Michael Redford – “SK-Gaming - Vultures? What Vultures? “
Paul Chaloner - TheCGS/SK-Gaming – "ReD's Corner - Under-Age Gaming"
Richard Lewis - GotFrag – "The Superfly Swindle"
Andreas Lenski - Kistengang – "Advanced training for Counter-Strike teams"
Michal Blicharz - SK-Gaming – "Paupers will be Kings"
Richard Armstrong - SK-Gaming – "What's an alias worth"
Marcus Ho – myMYM - „Creolophus – I won't try progaming again“
Sam McCafferty – eSportsglobal - „The rise and rise of Korean e-sports“
Jonas Alsaker Vikan - GotFrag – "History of a Legend: Element"
Elroy Pinto – fnatic - ToD – The Romantic Human!
Robert Pinsler - eFever – "A Home for the eSport"
Daniel Jensen - readmore – "The Call for Uniqueness"
David Donschen - fragster – "Bootcamp all year round"
Filip Hansson – fragbite – "2007"