Popular Indian YouTuber and content creator Naman 'MortaL' Mathur has once again been shortlisted as a finalist for The Esports Awards 2021 under the category of ‘Streamer of the Year’. This is the second year in a row that MortaL has been nominated as a finalist under this category. Other streamers who are named alongside him include Jack “CouRageJD” Dunlop, Dr Disrespect, Michael “Shroud“ Grzesiek, Jaryd “Summit1g“ Lazar, Rachel "Valkyrae" Hofstetter, Félix "xQc" Lengyel and other famous gaming personalities. Last year MortaL had received the second-highest number of votes under this category, exceeded by Spanish streamer and esports commentator Ibai Llanos.
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One of the most famous streamers from India, MortaL has now been named as a finalist by The Esports Awards for ‘Streamer of the Year’ two years in a row. In 2020, he had actually been nominated as a finalist under two categories, one being the same as above while the other was ‘Esports Mobile Player of the Year’.
Unfortunately, this year he would not be getting shortlisted under the second category as he has been out of the competitive circuit for a long time now. Last year in November, MortaL had announced that he was taking a break from competitive gaming while stating that even if he comes back it would likely be in the form of a coach or a mentor.
However, when it comes to streaming and content creation MortaL has been going strong currently standing with about 6.39 Million subscribers on YouTube and 2.6 Million followers on Instagram. Also, since last year he has gone on to join S8UL Esports along with Animesh ‘Thug’ Agarwal to create one of the biggest esports organization within the country. Just a few days back he even launched an esports and gaming course called ‘Learning Gaming’ on Frontrow, an Indian website that offers online courses on various topics.
Along with the ‘Streamer of the Year’, finalists for some other categories that The Esports Awards 2021 revealed are a follows,
Esports Mobile Game of the Year
Esports Apparel of the Year
Esports Content Creator of the Year
Esports Personality of the Year
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