the 2026
winners
These are the 100 winners building communities, breaking barriers, and moving gaming forward. Meet your 2026 class.
Advocates for Representation
Changing who gets seen, heard and believed in games.
Community Champions
The ones who hold the lobby together — hosts, mods, hype squads.
Content CreateHERs
Streams, videos and whole worlds built on their own terms.
Cosplay Star
Craft, transformation, and zero apologies about who gets to be the character.
Esports Excellence
Competitive edge — on the server, on the desk, behind the ops.
GameHERs Icon
Names the whole community knows. The standard, set.
GameHERs Student Impact Award
Campus organizers turning clubs into pipelines.
Impact Through Education
Teaching games as a real career — in classrooms and far beyond.
Rising Star Award
New on the scene, already impossible to ignore.
TrailblazeHERs in Gaming
Doors opened, norms broken, receipts attached.
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community first
Every name here was put forward by the community. The best women, non-binary, and femme-identifying gamers, chosen by their own — not by us.
1000+ nominations
Open for seven weeks, self- and peer-nominations weighted the same.
42,000+ votes
One ballot per member per category. Votes set the shortlist order.
100 winners
Ten per category, announced October 6.
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