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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...
Posted on: 07 Sep 2026
Team Falcons have pulled out of competitive Dota 2. The Saudi-backed organisation confirmed on September 6 that its nearly three-year run in the game is over, ending the longest-standing five-man roster the scene has seen in years and removing one of the biggest brands from the post-TI landscape. What Falcons read more...
Posted on: 07 Sep 2026
Team Spirit are the champions of BLAST Open Porto 2026. The world's top-ranked Counter-Strike side beat MOUZ 3-1 in Sunday's grand final, adding a second straight trophy to the one they lifted at the Esports World Cup earlier this summer. The win also settles a score: barely a month ago, read more...
Posted on: 07 Sep 2026
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...
Posted on: 06 Sep 2026
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...
Posted on: 06 Sep 2026
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...
Posted on: 06 Sep 2026
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...
Posted on: 05 Sep 2026
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...
Posted on: 04 Sep 2026
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...
