“This Year’s Exceptional Esports Achievement Awards” by Tencent QQ’s Games section has iG.Dota placed as number 1 esports team of 2012.

Their criteria gave points based on three aspects: online fan voting, media scoring, and score based on competition results. iG easily won both the media scoring and competition results segments, and perhaps predictably, placed second in fan voting on QQ.com to the WE.LoL team.

Additionally, iG’s YYF placed second in the Esports Player of the Year award, losing out to some LoL player.