Kai Cenat Wins 3 Awards At The 2026 Streamer Awards After Streaming Break

Kai Cenat wins big with Streamer University and his Tyla collaboration.© NDTV Library

Kai Cenat left the 2026 Streamer Awards with three trophies, which kept him among the night's biggest winners. He took Best Streamed Event for Streamer University, Best Mainstream Collab with Tyla, and League of Their Own. The wins came after a nine-month break from streaming earlier this year, and he turned three of his four nominations into awards. IShowSpeed, Katie B and Vanillamace shared the night's top win count with him. The sixth annual ceremony happened in Los Angeles on November 12, hosted by QTCinderella and Caroline Kwan.

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Streamer University and Tyla collaboration deliver two of Cenat's wins

Streamer University got Cenat the Best Streamed Event award for a second straight year.

The multi-day production turned a college campus into a creator-focused space, with classes, challenges and performances, and it pulled a peak concurrent audience of more than 700,000 viewers.

Cenat's return stream from the break, where he revealed the 2026 lineup, drew more than one million concurrent viewers across Twitch and YouTube. This year's run was held in July at Hendrix College in Conway, Arkansas, with Ludwig, Maya Higa and Agent00 among the professors.

In the category, the event faced Ludwig's Streamer Games, Zerator's ZEvent and PaymoneyWubby's 24 Hour Tag. Cenat launched the program in 2025, and he has already announced that the next edition will be held in Europe in 2027.

His second award came from the broadcast he did with South African singer Tyla, which won Best Mainstream Collab.

The category is meant for collabs with celebrities rather than other streamers, and their joint stream took it over pairings that included BenDadon and Drake, and Cinna and Girlset.

League of Their Own, his third prize, is reserved for a creator whose content and cultural reach stand apart from usual streaming categories.

IShowSpeed takes the top honor as the ceremony draws a large Twitch audience

IShowSpeed won top award for a second consecutive year, and he also took Best IRL Streamer and Best Streamed Series for his World Cup Tour. Cenat had backed him for Streamer of the Year before the show, pointing to his friend's international growth and consistency.

The awards, founded by QTCinderella in 2022, had 37 categories this year, and the live broadcast on her channel reached more than 177,000 concurrent viewers. It was Twitch's most-watched category while the event ran.

Katie B and Vanillamace also finished with three wins each. Fan votes made up 70% of each category's final result, and voting ran from October 16 to October 31.