The trophy is the reason the room goes quiet. Everything else on a gaming award show, the lighting rig, the walk-on music, the host’s build-up, exists to hand one object to one winner in front of a watching community. Get that object right and the moment becomes iconic. Get it wrong and the most important seconds of your night rest on something forgettable.
Gaming award show trophies are bespoke, stage-ready pieces engineered to be the centrepiece of a broadcast moment, not an afterthought handed over at the end. The best ones are designed around three things at once: how they read on camera, how they feel in the winner’s hands, and how they carry the identity of the show. At Fabit we build them in-house in Antwerp, combining 3D design and craft, and we have delivered for the sharpest names in the space, including Riot and BLAST.
Why the trophy is the real broadcast asset
A gaming award show lives twice. Once in the arena, and a second, much longer life in clips, thumbnails and social posts. Your trophy is in nearly all of them. It is the single physical object that survives the night and travels across every screen afterward.
That changes how you should think about it. You are not commissioning a prize. You are commissioning the most photographed brand asset of your event. It needs to be legible at a glance, distinct from every other trophy in the category, and unmistakably yours.
Fabit
Custom esports trophies, built in house
Fabit designs and produces the trophies for ESL, BLAST and the biggest tournaments in esports. 3D design, in house production and worldwide delivery, with a response within 24 hours.
Designing for the camera first
Stage lighting is unforgiving. Flat, over-polished surfaces blow out under key lights and turn into white blobs on the broadcast feed. Fine engraving disappears at distance. A shape that looks striking on a desk can read as a shapeless mass from the third camera position.
We design gaming trophies to solve this before production. Strong silhouettes that hold up in a wide shot. Material contrast, matte against gloss, metal against resin, so the form separates cleanly on camera. Considered internal lighting where it earns its place. The goal is a piece that photographs as decisively as it looks in person.
Making it feel like a win
Weight matters more than people expect. A trophy that feels light feels cheap, and the winner registers it instantly, on stage, on camera, in the handshake. We engineer balance and mass into the piece so that the moment it is lifted, it feels earned.
The same goes for the hand-off. A trophy should have an obvious way to be held and raised. We think about grip, about how it sits when hoisted overhead, about the second the winner turns to the crowd. That is the shot your community screenshots.
Carrying the identity of the show
Esports and gaming brands have some of the most refined visual identities anywhere. Your trophy should feel like it came from the same world as your key art, your overlays and your stage design, not from a generic catalogue.
Working from 3D lets us translate a game’s motifs, a league’s marque or a show’s signature form into a physical object with real precision. Custom geometry, brand colours in the material itself, sculpted detail that references the world the award belongs to. This is where in-house 3D and craft together do what neither can alone.
Building a tiered program, not a single cup
Most serious gaming award shows are not one trophy. They are a system: a headline award, category winners, finalist pieces, sometimes crew or partner recognition. Designed as a family, they reinforce each other and make the hierarchy of the night instantly readable.
- Grand prize: the tallest, most engineered piece, built to dominate the closing shot.
- Category awards: a shared design language, scaled and detailed to sit clearly below the headline.
- Finalist and nominee pieces: refined keepsakes that still feel premium, so every shortlisted name leaves with something worth displaying.
- Partner and crew recognition: a subtle variant that extends the program to the people who built the show.
Designing the range together, as we do with our recognition trophies, keeps the whole night coherent and lets you scale the program year over year without starting from scratch.
Production that respects the calendar
Award shows do not move. The date is fixed months out, and the trophies have to be finished, checked and shipped with room to spare. Because we design and produce in-house, we control the timeline end to end and there is no hand-off where things slip.
We deliver worldwide and respond within 24 hours, which matters when a show date is locked and the brief is still evolving. You can see the range of programs we have built across our case work, from esports to global corporate.
Getting the brief right
The strongest trophies come from the sharpest briefs. Tell us the format of the show, the number of categories, the broadcast setup and the identity you are working within. Share the moment you want the audience to remember. From there we move into design, and if you want to explore directions yourself first, you can start in our design studio.
FAQ
How far in advance should we commission gaming award show trophies?
For a full tiered program, the earlier the better, ideally as soon as your show date and category structure are confirmed. We respond within 24 hours and will map a production timeline that lands comfortably before your date.
Can you match our game or league’s visual identity?
Yes. Working in 3D, we translate your marque, motifs and colours into custom geometry and materials, so the trophy feels native to your brand rather than adapted from a template.
Do you deliver internationally?
We deliver worldwide from Antwerp, including to venues and production partners on tight event schedules.
Can you produce nominee and finalist pieces as well as the main trophy?
Absolutely. We design the full family together so grand prize, category, finalist and partner pieces share one language and a clear hierarchy.
Design the moment your community will replay
A gaming award show trophy is not the end of the night. It is the object that carries the night forward, into every clip, every thumbnail, every proud shelf. Designed with intent and built in-house, it becomes the centrepiece the whole production points toward.
Tell us about your show and the moment you want to own. Request a quote for bespoke gaming award show trophies, engineered and crafted in Antwerp, delivered worldwide, with a response within 24 hours.
