Month: September 2026

September 7, 2026

Valorant

Champions Shanghai Draw: Group D Throws Karmine Corp, Nongshim and NRG Together While G2 Meet Paper Rex Again

All News, Valorant Mark Terrence

Hours after 100 Thieves lifted the Americas Stage 2 trophy in São Paulo, Riot pulled the balls for Valorant Champions 2026. The draw show on Sunday sorted the 16 qualified teams into four groups and fixed the opening matches, and for anyone following the Valorant betting scene it delivered the... read more

September 6, 2026

Valorant

LOUD Complete the Miracle: 3-2 Over NRG Books Champions Shanghai and a Grand Final Against 100 Thieves

All News, Valorant Mark Terrence

Three weeks ago LOUD were a lower-bracket afterthought. On Saturday night in São Paulo they became the last team to punch a ticket to Valorant Champions 2026. A 3-2 win over NRG in the VCT Americas Stage 2 lower final sends the Brazilian side to Shanghai for the first time... read more

September 6, 2026

League of Legends

Dplus KIA Are Back at Worlds – and Face T1 Today for a Higher LCK Seed

September 6, 2026 All News, League of Legends Mark Terrence

Dplus KIA have booked the last Korean ticket to the League of Legends World Championship. A 3-1 win over KT Rolster in the LCK lower bracket on Thursday secured the spot and ended a two-year drought for the 2020 world champions, who missed Worlds entirely in 2025. The reward comes... read more

September 6, 2026

CS:GO

Spirit and MOUZ Meet Again in the BLAST Open Porto Final – a Rematch of the Bounty Decider

September 6, 2026 All News, CS:GO Mark Terrence

The playoffs at BLAST Open Porto have produced the final most of the Counter-Strike betting scene had circled from the start: Spirit against MOUZ, Sunday at 16:00 CEST in the Porto arena. Both sides swept their semi-finals on Saturday, and both arrive with a very recent history against each other... read more

September 5, 2026

Valorant

100 Thieves Sweep NRG to Reach the Americas Grand Final as LOUD Send G2 Home

September 5, 2026 All News, Valorant Mark Terrence

The top half of the VCT Americas Stage 2 playoff bracket emptied out in the space of an afternoon. 100 Thieves took the upper final off NRG without conceding a map, and a couple of hours later LOUD removed G2 Esports from the tournament altogether. A four-team fight for the... read more

September 4, 2026

League of Legends

Riot Opens Tier 2 to the World: WSCI 2026 Brings 16 Academy-Level Teams to One Bracket

September 4, 2026 All News, League of Legends Mark Terrence

For years, the second tier of competitive League of Legends has been a collection of sealed rooms. Challengers leagues in Europe, the Americas, Korea, China and APAC each produced their own champions, and those champions almost never met. Riot Games and TJ Sports are changing that this month with the... read more

September 4, 2026

Dota 2

Virtus.pro Disband Their Dota 2 Roster After a Third Straight TI Miss — and Five Names Hit the Market

September 4, 2026 All News, Dota 2 Mark Terrence

Virtus.pro have closed the book on the roster they built to end their drought, parting ways with their entire lineup in the weeks after The International 2026. The organisation confirmed the split after a season that never delivered the tier-one results its own management had planned for, and the timing... read more

September 3, 2026

Call of Duty

Modern Warfare 4’s Beta Rewrote Aim Assist and TTK — Competitive CoD Now Has Seven Weeks to Adapt

September 3, 2026 All News, Call of Duty Mark Terrence

Infinity Ward has just closed out one of the most consequential beta cycles in recent Call of Duty history, and the parts of the game it chose to change tell you a lot about where the competitive scene is heading. The Early Access weekend ran from Aug. 21 to 25,... read more

September 3, 2026

CS:GO

NIP Hand the Calls to Krimbo on Loan From BIG — Snappi Benched After 18 Months as IGL

September 3, 2026 All News, CS:GO Mark Terrence

Ninjas in Pyjamas have rewritten the most important seat in their lineup twice inside three days. Marco "Snappi" Pfeiffer stepped away from the active roster on August 31 after more than 18 months as in-game leader, and on September 2 the organisation named his replacement at the microphone: German rifler... read more

September 3, 2026

Valorant

VCT Pacific Stage 2 Reaches Its Busan Endgame — Nongshim Face Global Esports, T1 Keep Grinding

All News, Valorant Mark Terrence

The Pacific league's second stage of 2026 is down to four teams and three days of play at the Sajik Indoor Gymnasium in Busan, and the bracket that arrived at this point looks very little like the one most people sketched out in July. Both of the region's biggest names... read more

September 2, 2026

Overwatch

Overwatch World Cup Finals Land at BlizzCon With Eight Nations and Almost No Form Book

All News, Overwatch Mark Terrence

The Overwatch competitive scene has spent most of 2026 revolving around the pro circuit, and then the World Cup came back and rearranged everything. The group stage wrapped up in Busan in late August, the field has been cut from 16 nations to eight, and the finals now head to... read more

September 2, 2026

League of Legends

Gen.G Sweep kt Rolster 3-0 to Lock a Seventh Straight Worlds Trip — and the LCK Board Tightens

All News, League of Legends Mark Terrence

Gen.G Esports have booked their place at the 2026 World Championship, sweeping kt Rolster 3-0 in Upper Bracket Round 2 of the LCK playoffs on Sept. 1. It is their seventh consecutive Worlds qualification, and for anyone tracking the League of Legends betting market, it is the cleanest form signal... read more

September 2, 2026

CS:GO

BLAST Open Porto Moves to the Arena With Spirit and MOUZ Already Two Wins From the Trophy

September 2, 2026 All News, CS:GO Mark Terrence

The Copenhagen half of BLAST Open Porto 2026 is finished, and only six of the original sixteen teams are getting on a plane to Portugal. What matters for anyone pricing up the closing weekend is not just who survived, but how they survived: two of the six skip the quarter-finals... read more

September 1, 2026

Call of Duty

MW4 Beta Ends With Its Time-to-Kill Still Contested — and Six Weeks to Fix the Form Book

September 1, 2026 All News, Call of Duty Mark Terrence

The Modern Warfare 4 open beta shuts down on Sept. 1 at 10am PT, and the loudest argument left behind is not about maps, spawns or matchmaking. It is about how many bullets it takes to win a gunfight — and that single number quietly decides who looks good when... read more

September 1, 2026

Valorant

G2 Punch Their Champions Ticket in Americas Stage 2 — and LEVIATÁN’s Fate Now Rests With Others

September 1, 2026 All News, Valorant Mark Terrence

The first half of the VCT 2026 Americas Stage 2 playoffs wrapped up on Aug. 31, and it left the region with a top four, two secured Champions slots and one very nervous former favourite. G2 Esports beat LEVIATÁN 2-1 to lock a spot in Shanghai, while LOUD swept MIBR... read more