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Posted on: 10 Aug 2026
Counter-Strike bettors spent the better part of a decade building intuition around one veto board. That board no longer exists. With Premier Season 5, Valve moved Cache into the Active Duty pool and pushed Overpass out, and the knock-on effects are still working their way through CS2 betting markets as read more...
Posted on: 10 Aug 2026
The VCT 2026 EMEA Stage 2 Play-Ins were meant to be a routine checkpoint for the region's partnered teams. Four days into the bracket at the Olimpic Arena in Badalona, that script has been torn up: the two sides promoted out of Challengers are unbeaten and one win from the read more...
Posted on: 10 Aug 2026
LGD Gaming will start The International 2026 in Shanghai with a mid laner nobody had on their bracket a week ago. On Aug. 10 the organisation confirmed that two-time TI champion Topias "Topson" Taavitsainen has joined the roster, one day after Santiago "TaiLung" Agüero Gustavo was ruled out of the read more...
Posted on: 09 Aug 2026
Blizzard is about to hand tank players their strangest toolkit in years. D.Mon, the new hero launching with Season 4: Heroes of Busan, lands in Overwatch on Aug. 11 — and unlike nearly every tank before her, her main weapon is a sword. A second MEKA pilot, built for melee read more...
Posted on: 09 Aug 2026
Riot Games is about to redraw the most closely watched patch of turf in competitive League of Legends: the bot lane. Patch 26.16, due on August 12, 2026, ships a package of marksman buffs and support-economy nerfs built to send the mage bot lane experiment back toward mid. How mages read more...
Posted on: 09 Aug 2026
The Black Ops 7 tournament at the Esports World Cup 2026 has closed its group stage at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, and the eight teams still alive are now playing for the biggest slice of a $1.8 million prize pool. The final major of the BO7 season delivered read more...
Posted on: 08 Aug 2026
Counter-Strike 2’s last route into the Esports World Cup 2026 opened in Paris this weekend, and the format is every bit as unforgiving as advertised. Sixty-four teams signed up for the EWC Open Qualifier. Sixteen double-elimination groups of four sorted them over two days. Only four will leave with a read more...
Posted on: 08 Aug 2026
The Rainbow Six Siege event at the Esports World Cup 2026 has reached the halfway point of its group stage, and the picture in Paris looks nothing like the one most people sketched out a week ago. Two days of play at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles pushed Wildcard, read more...
Posted on: 07 Aug 2026
Valve's August update to the Valve Regional Standings has landed, and the headline number belongs to Team Vitality. The organisation that spent most of 2026 as the default answer at the top of CS2 esports now sits fifth in the global list on 1,836 points — their first time outside read more...
Posted on: 07 Aug 2026
The group stage of VCT 2026 Americas Stage 2 has three match days left, and Thursday night in Sao Paulo confirmed the pecking order rather than shaking it up. NRG brushed ENVY aside 2-0 and Evil Geniuses swept FURIA by the same scoreline, setting up a closing weekend in which read more...
Posted on: 06 Aug 2026
The Overwatch Midseason Championship at the Esports World Cup 2026 is over, and the trophy went to the team that had already spent the whole year bullying the Asian circuit. ZETA DIVISION beat Twisted Minds 4-2 in a best-of-seven grand final at Paris Expo Porte de Versailles on Aug. 2, read more...
Posted on: 06 Aug 2026
A rule Valve quietly wrote into its tournament paperwork back in December 2025 has finally arrived where it hurts: the top tier of Counter-Strike 2. Skin trading and case-opening brands are no longer allowed to appear on broadcasts or player jerseys at licensed Tier 1 events, and BLAST Bounty Season read more...
Posted on: 06 Aug 2026
The Dota 2 Esports World Cup 2026 has wrapped up in Paris, and the $2 million event delivered the kind of result that quietly rewrites a season. PVISION lifted the trophy after a 3-1 win over BB Team in the best-of-five grand final, banking $750,000 and 1,000 club points — read more...
Posted on: 06 Aug 2026
The last major stop of the Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 season is under way in Paris, and day one went almost exactly the way the seeding suggested it would. The Black Ops 7 event at the Esports World Cup 2026 runs from Aug. 5 to 9 at the read more...
Posted on: 06 Aug 2026
The VCT 2026 EMEA Stage 2 Play-Ins get underway in Badalona today, and the bracket reads like a survival test rather than a formality. Twelve teams are packed into a double-elimination gauntlet running until 16 August, and only two of them will walk out with a place in the Stage read more...
Posted on: 05 Aug 2026
Riot Games is stepping into one of the most disruptive strategic shifts League of Legends has seen this season. After months of AP mages pushing traditional marksmen out of the bot lane, the balance team has confirmed that Patch 26.16 will hand ADCs a package of buffs while making support read more...
Posted on: 05 Aug 2026
Rainbow Six Siege has returned to the Esports World Cup, and the stakes in Paris are as high as they have ever been for the tactical shooter. Twenty-two teams opened play on Aug. 4 at the Paris Expo Porte de Versailles, competing for a $2,000,000 prize pool and, arguably more read more...
Posted on: 04 Aug 2026
MOUZ are champions again. The Hamburg-based side beat Team Spirit 3-1 in the BLAST Bounty 2026 Season 2 grand final in Malta on August 2, ending a trophy drought that stretched back 17 months to PGL Cluj-Napoca. How the final unfolded MOUZ opened with a 13-8 win on Dust2 and read more...
Posted on: 04 Aug 2026
FaZe Vegas are back on top of Call of Duty esports. At the Call of Duty League Championship 2026 (CoD Champs 2026), contested on Black Ops 7 at the Michelob ULTRA Arena inside the Mandalay Bay in Las Vegas, FaZe dismantled reigning champions OpTic Texas 5-2 in the grand final read more...
Posted on: 04 Aug 2026
The Esports Integrity Commission (ESIC) has provisionally suspended PlayTime midlaner Oswaldo "DarkMago" Herrera and coach Juan "Vintage" Angulo from all ESIC member competitions while it investigates a suspected breach of its Anti-Corruption Code during the Dota 2 Esports World Cup 2026. The suspensions landed hours after tournament organizers postponed PlayTime's read more...
