Katie B Wins Best Minecraft Streamer at The Streamer Awards, IShowSpeed Takes Top Prize

Katie B is the new Best Minecraft Streamer. She won the category at The Streamer Awards 2026, the sixth edition of QTCinderella's show, held in Los Angeles on November 12 and co-hosted by QTCinderella and Caroline Kwan. If you searched for "Minecraft Streamer of the Year", this is the award you are after. The overall Streamer of the Year trophy is a separate prize, and it went to IShowSpeed for the third year in a row.

The result matters for the Minecraft scene because, as Sportskeeda points out, Katie B is the first woman to win the Minecraft category. Earlier winners were TommyInnit at the first show, Quackity in two straight years and Tubbo in 2025. She also beat a shortlist that covered three very different ways of playing the game.

How the Minecraft category played out

The four nominees came from separate corners of the community. Sportskeeda describes Feinberg as the speedrunner of the group. DrDonut is known for his work on DonutSMP, and ashswag for server content. Beebom also highlighted Feinberg's speedrunning record and noted that the other two have built their audiences on popular multiplayer servers.

Sportskeeda reports that Tubbo, the 2025 winner, handed the trophy to his successor. Public voting ran from October 16 to October 31. The result in each of the 37 voted categories was decided by a 70% fan vote and a 30% industry panel.

Her acceptance speech was disarmingly modest. Beebom reports that she praised the other three nominees, joked that they were all far better at Minecraft than she will ever be, and openly admitted she is not very good at the game. She then thanked her family, her friends and the viewers who tune in every day.

The other nominees are much better at Minecraft than I'll ever be, and I'm fine with that.

Katie B, paraphrased from her acceptance speech

From QSMP regular to a three-trophy night

Minecraft is where Katie B, who streams as RealKatieB, got her start. Sportskeeda notes that her first Twitch stream in October 2023 was a Minecraft session. She later joined QSMP after an invitation from Quackity, and she has since branched out into Fortnite, Grand Theft Auto Online and VALORANT. Clips from her streams spread widely on TikTok through 2025, and that year she also finished second with Team Vanilla, led by Vanillamace, at Ludwig Ahgren's Streamer Games.

The Minecraft trophy was one of three. Every outlet agrees she also won Best Breakout Streamer and Best Stream Duo alongside Vanillamace. EkSukoon adds that Vanillamace picked up the Sapphire Award on the same night.

Minecraft's wider night

The Minecraft category was not the only prize with a block-game link. Here is how the related categories went, based on Sportskeeda's results.

So all three of Katie B's rivals did not leave empty-handed, and Feinberg and ashswag both won elsewhere. EkSukoon says Minecraft lost Stream Game of the Year alongside Fortnite and Big Walk, a sign of how one viral stream can lift a smaller title. One small caveat: when EkSukoon published, it said the Cozy Game Streamer winner had not yet been confirmed through the show's official channels.

The rest of the show

IShowSpeed beat CaseOh, Joe Bartolozzi, Jynxzi and Stable Ronaldo to win Streamer of the Year. EkSukoon reports that he also took Best IRL Streamer and Best Streamed Series for his World Cup tour. Swikblog says his father and his brother Jamal collected the Series award because he had not yet reached the venue. Former Minecraft winner Quackity received the Legacy Award and presented Streamer of the Year, according to EkSukoon.

Jynxzi was named Gamer of the Year and CaseOh won Best Variety Streamer. Kai Cenat also won three awards, EkSukoon reports. Other new or notable winners included supertf for Streamer's Choice, HMBLZAYY for the new Spark Award, Lacy for Best Crashout and E11ysa as Rising Star.

How this year's show was run

According to Wikipedia, the ceremony was first set for November 17 and was moved forward so it would not sit too close to the release of Grand Theft Auto VI. This was the first year Kick streamers could be nominated. Nominees also had to pre-apply to accept a nomination, and presenters were announced in advance for the first time. Four categories were added, including Best Cozy Game Streamer.

Reports disagree on start times. Both Swikblog and EkSukoon say red carpet coverage began at 2:30 p.m. PT, but Swikblog lists the main show at 5:30 p.m. PT and EkSukoon at 3:30 p.m. PT. The broadcast streamed on Twitch and YouTube, and the full show is available to rewatch on both.

1. Sep 12

   Nominations open

2. Oct 2

   Nominations close

3. Oct 16

   Nominees announced and public voting begins

4. Oct 31

   Voting closes

5. Nov 12

   Ceremony held in Los Angeles

6. Nov 17

   Original date, dropped to avoid clashing with GTA VI

What people are saying

Most of the reaction to Katie B's win so far comes from the ceremony itself. Her joke about being the weakest Minecraft player of the four landed as self-aware rather than awkward. It also raises a real question for the community: should a Minecraft award reward skill at the game or the entertainment a streamer builds around it? A speedrunner and two server creators lost out to a personality-led streamer, so expect that debate to continue.

Not everything went down well. Swikblog notes that some viewers called parts of the red carpet humour awkward or inappropriate, though it is unclear how widespread that criticism was. Swikblog also recounts JasonTheWeen standing up before the Streamed Series result, apparently expecting to win. On the Minecraft side, the Streamer Awards has not released vote counts, so nobody outside the organisers knows how close Katie B's margin was.