Candidate for the award as a German player of the year doesn’t play that much

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Marcel “Staiy” Krustin is a German YouTuber who is known for his reaction videos. He has now been nominated for the German Computer Game Prize as “Player of 2025”. Staiy is currently criticized and he is not exactly known for his gaming content.

What kind of price is that? The price of the “player in the year” is awarded as part of the “German Computer Game Prize” (DCP).

It is an undotiated price that is awarded by a jury. The award wants to honor e-athletes, Let’s Player or players who noticed with special achievements. It is not just about performing a playful performance, but also a commitment to the medium games, the community or society. However, the award winner is expressly connected to gaming.

In 2023, the price made headlines on how the streamer Shurjoka was named player of the year, which cried critics on the plan that she was not a player at all, but above all made political content. In the years after that, this developed into a permanent dispute.

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These are the 5 nominees for the price as a player in the year

Who is nominated this year? The 5 nominees are this year:

  • The historian and Twitch streamer Steinwallen, who is known for strategy games. We reported on MeinMMO that he positioned himself against the enlargement of Germany of Hearts of Iron
  • The influencer Staiy, which is primarily known for his reaction videos, in which he partially criticizes other creators. So he was centrally involved in a debate how many YouTuber should pay their employees, the cutters.
  • The Podcaster Dom Schott, which leads interviews with developers and media professionals in his “OK Cool” format. Schott used to work for GamePro, which, like Meinmmo, belongs to Webedia. The current award winner as a player of the year, Maurice Weber, also works for Webedia.
  • Lunarie, who works as a caster in E-Sport and is committed to promoting women in e-sports.
  • Justnoahde, a content creator from Austria, which is known for its content to Minecraft, but also works with the ARD.

    • Staiy is criticized by rough tone

    Why is that so critical at Staiy? Staiy is currently involved in a controversy with Youtuber Alicia Joe. The opinion blogger has accused him of creating no content, but using the content of others and using “outrage” as a business model.

    Among other things, she felt incorrectly presented by an aggressive thumbnail, which she described as “abnormal”. Staiy changed the Thumbnail later.

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    Staiy had stated several times that he no longer reacted to Alicia Joe’s content because they did not interest him and made him angry. But then he kept doing it. Alicia Joe felt specifically attacked by his content.

    At Staiy it is also questionable whether there is a gaming cover, which should actually be considered a prerequisite for the price. Staiy has its own channel on YouTube, which deals with gaming, but that is not his flagship channel.

    The Staiy gaming channel is only filled relatively sparse.

    But actually it is known for political and social content:

    How much gaming shows Staiy on Twitch? Staiy has been on the air on Twitch in the last 365 days, he spent 1,087 of which in the “Just Chatting” category.

    His other major categories were “Dungeons and Dragons” (134 hours), “Supervive” (20 hours) and Norland (18 hours).

    In contrast, Steinwallen was “only” active on Twitch, but spent most of his time with gaming: 94 hours in Just Chatting are 90 hours in Jagged Alliance 3, 59 hours in Civilization VII, 33 hours in Victoria 3 and many hours in other games.

    Lunarie_ttv and Justnoahde spent almost all of their hours on Twick in Games, especially in Minecraft.

    The impression arises that the price as the “player of the year” has to do with the political orientation of the candidates and less with gaming. This is exactly what streamer had been outraged in the past, who went away empty-handed in similar award ceremonies: Montan brackets are scolding the price that he does not win, and on the “left-wing” Twitch around Handofblood

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