Isaac Ellis Wins First OTE MVP

After a thrilling regular season at OTE, the league announced the winners of the 2025-26 regular season awards on Tuesday evening:

📍 Most Valuable Player - Isaac Ellis (YNG Dreamerz)

📍 Defensive Player of the Year - Yandel German (Jelly Fam)

📍 Most Underrated Player - K’Nard Callendar (Fear of God Athletics)

📍 Best Duo - DaKari Spear/Marcus Spears Jr. (FaZe)

📍 Bullseye Award - DaKari Spear (FaZe)

📍 Highlight of the Year - Taylen Kinney game-winner against FaZe (RWE)

All-OTE Team:

📍 DaKari Spear (FaZe)

📍 Marcus Spears Jr. (FaZe)

📍 Isaac Ellis (YNG Dreamerz)

📍 Caleb Jones (YNG Dreamerz)

📍 Anderson Diaz (Cold Hearts)

📍 Adam Oumiddoch (Cold Hearts)

📍 Taylen Kinney (RWE)

📍 Parker Robinson (RWE)

📍 K’Nard Callendar (Fear of God Athletics)

📍 Cayden Daughtry (Fear of God Athletics)

Isaac Ellis made the Ellis family proud on Tuesday night, winning his first ever OTE MVP award and marking the third consecutive year an Ellis brother has won OTE MVP. Ellis becomes the third player in OTE history to win the award, joining his brother Eli Ellis and Ausar Thompson 🥇

Ellis had a season for the ages, leading the league in PPG (29.3 PPG) and APG (8.9 APG) joining Eli as the only other player in league history to accomplish this feat. In addition, Ellis set the single game record for most points scored in a game with 55 (which was broken later in the season by his teammate Caleb Jones) and most assists in a game with 19. Ellis guided the YNG Dreamerz to the second seed in the playoffs with a record of 13-5 and will start the team’s journey for a second consecutive championship in the first round on Wednesday, February 4 against the Blue Checks 🏅

The Defensive Player of the Year award race was incredibly tight but it was Jelly Fam’s Yandel German who took home the award, becoming the first Jelly Fam player to ever win the award. German is the quintessential steals artist averaging an absurd 3.5 steals per game more than one steal per game better than second place in the league. In addition, German became the league’s all-time leader in steals this season with 122 over the course of his three year OTE career 🔒

After coming into the year as a relatively unheralded prospect, Fear of God Athletics’ K’Nard Callendar made quite the name for himself and was named the league’s Most Underrated Player as a result. Callendar was top ten in both PPG (19.6 PPG) and RPG (8.6 RPG), one of just four players to be top ten in both. In addition, Callendar established himself as an elite defender, as he was tied for the league-lead in shots blocked per game at 1.8 BPG while he also registered 1.6 SPG. Callendar, alongside Cayden Daughtry, was largely responsible for all of the success Fear of God Athletics experienced this season in spite of losing superstar Shon Abaev 🤩

In the inaugural year of the OTE Best Duo award, which goes to the best pair of teammates, FaZe’s DaKari Spear and Marcus Spears Jr. took home the honors as they led their team to the number one overall seed in the playoffs. Spear and Spears Jr. both finished the season in the top ten in scoring with both of them logging exactly 19.8 PPG. FaZe has won 12 straight games, the longest single season win streak ever, and the duo are looking to propel FaZe to its first ever championship 🧑‍🤝‍🧑

DaKari Spear was decorated even further, winning the inaugural Bullseye Award, which goes to the most efficient, high volume scorer in the league. DaKari Spear finished with a bullseye score of 90.10 which just narrowly beat out Adam Oumiddoch’s score of 89.51. Spear finished the year with shooting splits of 50.4/40/86.5 making him one of the most efficient scoring guards in OTE history 🎯

All of Isaac Ellis, K’Nard Callendar, Marcus Spears Jr. and DaKari Spear were named to the All-OTE Team but they weren’t alone. The Cold Hearts landed two on the All-OTE Team as Adam Oumiddoch finished as the MVP runner-up while Anderson Diaz was also named to the team. OTE’s leading scorer Caleb Jones made the All-OTE Team and so did the second runner-up for MVP Cayden Daughtry. The final two spots went to the star duo of RWE, Taylen Kinney and Parker Robinson. Kinney and Ellis are the only two repeat members from last year’s All-OTE team ⭐

The OTE Playoffs tip-off on Wednesday, February 4 at 7 PM with the second seeded YNG Dreamerz taking on the seventh seeded Blue Checks. The entire OTE Playoffs can be watched on OTE’s YouTube channel 📱

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