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Posted on: 14 Sep 2026
Team Liquid have opened their Dota 2 offseason with a headline move: Danish offlaner Marcus "Ace" Hoelgaard is leaving the organisation after exactly one year, and the rumour mill already has a replacement lined up. According to a report from Cyberscore, Jordanian star Ammar "ATF" Al-Assaf – most recently of read more...
Posted on: 14 Sep 2026
Different year, same ending. Gen.G defeated Hanwha Life Esports 3-1 in the 2026 LCK Finals on September 13 to lift the Korean trophy for the second season in a row – and by the exact same scoreline against the exact same opponent as in 2025. The win also locks Gen.G read more...
Posted on: 14 Sep 2026
The last pieces of the autumn Counter-Strike calendar fell into place over the weekend. Regional qualifiers for PGL Masters Bucharest wrapped up on Sunday, handing the final four spots at the $1,250,000 event to Nemiga, DENDELE, Liquid and TYLOO. A few hours earlier, a rebuilt Virtus.pro had fought through the read more...
Posted on: 13 Sep 2026
Legacy have done it again in China. The Brazilian side swept G2 3-0 in the FISSURE Playground 3 grand final in Suzhou on Sunday, adding a third trophy won on Chinese soil to the CS Asia Championships titles they lifted in 2025 and 2026. For a Counter-Strike team that entered read more...
Posted on: 13 Sep 2026
One of the more unusual stories of the post-TI lull has landed in the Dota 2 scene: Nigma Galaxy offlaner Cedric “Davai” Alexander Deckmyn has issued a public apology for the nickname he carried through most of his career. Until 2025 he was known across the circuit as “Davai Lama” read more...
Posted on: 13 Sep 2026
The monthly Counter-Strike 2 ranking that decides who gets invited where has become a story in its own right this month. Valve published its September Valve Regional Standings (VRS) a day later than usual, and the knock-on effects have kept tournament organizers, analysts and the betting community busy ever since. read more...
Posted on: 12 Sep 2026
Semi-final Saturday at FISSURE Playground 3 in Suzhou delivered two three-map series, two overtime maps and a grand final nobody would have pencilled in after day one. Legacy edged MIBR 2-1 in an all-Brazilian semi that ended in overtime on Inferno, and G2 came from a map down to beat read more...
Posted on: 12 Sep 2026
Champions Shanghai does not start until Sept. 24, but for the teams that missed it, the 2026 VALORANT season is already over – and the roster market has opened early. Within 24 hours, three franchised organisations on two continents put their most recognisable names on the block: KRÜ Esports have read more...
Posted on: 11 Sep 2026
The last open question in the FISSURE Playground 3 bracket has been answered, and not the way the rankings suggested. G2 beat FURIA 2-0 in Suzhou on Thursday, reaching the semi-finals of a Big Event for the first time since they lifted the BLAST Open London trophy more than a read more...
Posted on: 11 Sep 2026
The playoff picture at FISSURE Playground 3 in Suzhou is taking shape. On the first day of stage matches, MIBR dismantled Alliance 2-0 to lock in a semi-final against fellow Brazilians Legacy, while the day before, G2 finally stopped the giant-killing run of Mongolia's 5star. For anyone following the CS2 read more...
Posted on: 11 Sep 2026
The VALORANT offseason in the Americas has barely begun, and ENVY have already stripped their roster down to the frame. Within roughly a day the organisation cleared five people to explore options elsewhere: veteran Daniel "Rossy" Abedrabbo first, followed by duelist Angelo "keznit" Mori, Max "Demon1" Mazanov, Conner "GLYPH" Garcia read more...
Posted on: 10 Sep 2026
The group stage of FISSURE Playground 3 in Suzhou produced its biggest shock yet on Thursday. 5star, a Mongolian side ranked 127th in the world, eliminated Astralis 2-1 to follow up their win over compatriots The MongolZ, while Legacy and BETBOOM won their group upper-bracket finals to skip the quarter-finals read more...
Posted on: 10 Sep 2026
Two weeks before the biggest event of the year, Team Liquid have pulled the trigger on a roster change that few saw coming. The EMEA organisation has benched Semyon "purp0" Borchev and promoted 18-year-old Serbian prospect Ognjen "GSR" Bondžić into the starting five for Valorant Champions 2026 in Shanghai, which read more...
Posted on: 10 Sep 2026
Day two of FISSURE Playground 3 in Suzhou turned into a bloodbath for the favourites. Two of the biggest names in the Counter-Strike 2 betting scene, FaZe and The MongolZ, are already on their way home in joint-last place, while FURIA and BETBOOM locked up playoff spots alongside MIBR and read more...
Posted on: 09 Sep 2026
Team Spirit's third Aegis in Shanghai was the headline, but a new 15-year dataset shows it was not an outlier. Esports Insider has tracked every player who competed at The International in Dota 2 from 2011 to 2026 – 1,282 player representations across 15 editions – and sorted them by read more...
Posted on: 09 Sep 2026
Riot Games has confirmed that the Open Qualifiers for the 2027 season of the Valorant Champions Tour will begin in November 2026 – and with them comes the most significant structural change to the circuit since the partnership era started in 2023. From next season on, teams outside the partnered read more...
Posted on: 09 Sep 2026
The 2026 League of Legends Champions Korea season comes down to three teams, and on September 8 all of them sat in the same room. Gen.G, T1 and Hanwha Life Esports each sent their head coach and two players to CHZZK LoL Park in Seoul for the LCK Finals media read more...
Posted on: 08 Sep 2026
Day one of FISSURE Playground 3 delivered exactly the kind of chaos a field without Spirit, Falcons, MOUZ and Vitality was always likely to produce. In the opening round of Group B in China, Alliance swept FaZe 2-0, and MIBR came from a map down to beat The MongolZ 2-1 read more...
Posted on: 08 Sep 2026
Global Esports are the champions of VCT Pacific Stage 2. The Indian organisation came back from 0-2 down to beat Nongshim RedForce 3-2 in Sunday's grand final in Busan, lifting the first VCT trophy in the club's history and taking Pacific's number-one seed into Valorant Champions Shanghai later this month. read more...
Posted on: 08 Sep 2026
The post-Porto lull in Counter-Strike lasted barely a day. FISSURE Playground 3 opens in China on Tuesday, September 8, with 16 teams, a $1,000,000 prize pool and a field that looks very different from the one that just fought over the BLAST Open Porto trophy. Spirit, Falcons, MOUZ and Vitality read more...
