Esports
LOUD's debutant tkzin: three ACEs in one BO3, and a record caged by verification risk
The Empty Chair in the Mid Lane: MidOne In for Nisha at Team Liquid — What Is Proven, What Is Still Guesswork
2-2 Record, 0-3 Loss: Paritosh's Knockout Ticket Was a Format Gift, Not a Receipt of Merit
Nisha Out, MidOne In: An Evidence Audit of Team Liquid's Mid-Lane Change
LOUD's debutant tkzin: three ACEs in one BO3, and a record caged by verification riskI opened the scoreboard at a quarter to three in the morning, sitting in my...
Publisher as Judge: KRAFTON's One-Year Ban, Bungie's Identity Pivot, and the Accountability Crisis in EsportsOver 4.1 million signatures on a petition. A sanction covering every global...
The Top-Three Rule Saved Paritosh: A Cold Read of Puyo Puyo Champions Group B at the 2026 Asian GamesBefore the quarter-finals start Saturday at Aichi Sky Expo Hall in Nagoya, re...
The Empty Chair in the Mid Lane: MidOne In for Nisha at Team Liquid — What Is Proven, What Is Still GuessworkOn the night of September 25, I was refreshing BLAST's website the way I stil...
Publisher as Judge: Marathon's Mode Pivot and the PUBG Ban Are Two Symptoms of One DiseaseLast Friday at 2 a.m. I had two tabs open. One showed a Vietnamese petition...
The List Was the Announcement: MidOne Steps Into Nisha's Mid Lane at Team Liquid, and the Numbers Nobody Is ReconcilingOn September 25, BLAST published its participant list for BLAST Slam 8. I...
Permanent Bans, 58.1% of Viewership and an Asymmetric Contract: The Real Ledger of PUBG's Vietnam CrisisI muted the crowd and looked again. Twitter closed, caster audio at zero, and...
The Label Said 100%, the Code Said 9%: The Price of Trust Across Three KRAFTON CrisesIn June 2026 I closed my laptop halfway through reading a Yonhap report. Sout...
Two Permanent Bans, 4.1 Million Signatures and PUBG's Player Count: What Is Actually Happening in VietnamIt was 3 a.m. in Dhaka and I had refreshed the SteamDB page for PUBG:...
MidOne for Nisha: The BLAST List, Four Days of Prep, and the Question Still UnansweredSeptember 25, 2026. BLAST publishes its full participant list for Slam 8. I...
2-2 Record, 0-3 Loss: Paritosh's Knockout Ticket Was a Format Gift, Not a Receipt of MeritThe 0-3 Nobody Reported The last game of the group stage finished 0-3, and th...
Nisha Out, MidOne In: An Evidence Audit of Team Liquid's Mid-Lane ChangeHook — A List, A Missing Name, Four Days On September 25 I did not get this...
Champions 2026, Day One: TYLOO's 3-13 Collapse Is a Smaller Story Than It LooksHook: 13-3, and an assumption that didn't survive the night I had assumed the...
Team Liquid's Mid Swap: MidOne In, Nisha Out — A Two-Read AnalysisThe first xG notebook taught me that a match can be read twice — once on the...
The Seven Hidden Minutes Behind a 13-3: What Valorant Champions 2026 Opening Day Actually RevealedI sat in front of the screen for six hours. Opening day of Valorant Champions...
Yoru, 58 Kills and One Warning: Reading Day One of Valorant Champions 2026Sunset was the map. The scoreboard read 13-3. On the opening day of Valorant...
The Top-Three Rule, a 2-2 Score and an Unfinished Ledger: The Real Accounting of Puzzle Esports at the 2026 Asian GamesThe final series scoreboard read 0-3. It was 2:40 in the morning in a...
Valorant Champions 2026 Opening Day: China's No. 1 Seed Swept, and the Yoru Question ReturnsHook: A 13-3 Scoreboard and an Open Spreadsheet Last night I laid out the...
No Hot Take Without a Timestamp: TYLOO's Collapse, something's 58-Kill Line, and One Warning on Champions 2026 Opening Day"China's No. 1 seed, gone in two maps. 3-13 on the decider." It was 2:40 a.m....
Valorant Champions 2026 Opening Day: G2's Shock, TYLOO's Collapse, and something's 58 TestimoniesI opened the Busan ledger before the first day of this tournament. Every numb...
Valorant Champions 2026 Day One: TYLOO's 3-13, something's 58 Kills, and the Arithmetic of One Life in the Lower BracketOn Lotus, with the scoreboard sitting at 13-10, Khalish "d4v41" Rusyaidee too...
How Much Truth Fits in a 2-2: Paritosh, Puyo Puyo and the Arithmetic of the 2026 Asian GamesThe last match of Group B ended and the number burning on the scoreboard was...