Esports
Two Stories, One Headline: Inside Marathon's U-Turn and PUBG's 4.1 Million Signatures
Vietnamese Gamers Turn Their Backs: PUBG Drops from 651,012 to 197,202 Concurrent Players in Two Days as KRAFTON's Unilateral Bans Face Scrutiny
The Publisher as Courtroom: A Lifetime Ban From a Friendly Tournament, and Vietnam Left Holding Only a Boycott
Champions 2026 Day One: Not a Chinese Collapse, but a Format Trap
An Empty Checklist Is Not a Clearance: The Real Cost of a Null Result in the Esports Analysis Pipeline
Puyo Puyo Champions: From 3-0 to 0-3 — The Format, Not the Skill, Sent Paritosh to the Knockouts
EsportsTwo Stories, One Headline: Inside Marathon's U-Turn and PUBG's 4.1 Million SignaturesHook: The headline that hid two stories Last week I was reviewing an old...
EsportsNine Percent Versus a Permanent Ban: KRAFTON's Two-Speed JusticeNine Percent Versus a Permanent Ban: KRAFTON's Two-Speed Justice September 23...
EsportsA 2.5 Million Won Fine Against a 1.1 Billion Won Refund: The Arithmetic of KRAFTON's Trust DeficitHook: The Number Nobody Divided I didn't expect the biggest esports governanc...
EsportsPuyo Puyo Champions, Paritosh's 2-2, and Group B at the 2026 Asian Games: Walking Inside a Knockout BerthWhen the final chain fell in the fourth match, the board read 3-2. In the mat...
EsportsTeam Liquid's Mid-Lane Reset: MidOne In, Nisha's Question Still UnansweredHook On September 25, BLAST published the participant list for BLAST Slam 8....
EsportsVietnamese Players Turn Their Backs, PUBG Concurrent Players Halve — Mapping a Silent Revolt by Re-Queueing the VODSeptember 25, night. SteamDB on the left tab of my laptop, a Twitter list on...
EsportsPuyo Puyo Champions: A 2-2 Record Advanced, but the Ledger Reads 9-7Four rows on the score sheet: 3-0, 3-2, 0-3, 3-2. Late on Thursday night I...
EsportsVietnamese Gamers Turn Their Backs: PUBG Drops from 651,012 to 197,202 Concurrent Players in Two Days as KRAFTON's Unilateral Bans Face ScrutinyOn September 24-26, 2026, SteamDB logged PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS at a peak of...
EsportsThe Rulebook Never Said It, the Ban Says Forever: Inside KRAFTON and Two Locked Vietnamese AccountsI have read the PUBG Asia Stars 2026 event rulebook three times — first in th...
EsportsThe Tick-Mark of a Ban: Vietnam's PUBG Boycott and the Legitimacy Crisis of Publisher GovernanceI queued the VOD again, and the myth started buffering. What sits on screen i...
EsportsThe Load Ledger of Valorant Champions 2026 Opening Day: A 13-3 on Sunset, an Ace, and the Quiet Confession of China's No. 1 SeedAt 11:40 pm the power cut out in Mymensingh. The laptop battery showed 38...
EsportsBeyond the 2-2: Paritosh, Puyo Puyo Champions, and the Low-Sound Asian GamesBeyond the 2-2: Paritosh, Puyo Puyo Champions, and the Low-Sound Asian Games...
EsportsThe Format Subsidy: How Much of India's Knockout Ticket at Puyo Puyo Champions Was BorrowedHook: The Number Nobody Wanted to Read At the Aichi Sky Expo Hall in Nagoya,...
EsportsThe Publisher as Courtroom: A Lifetime Ban From a Friendly Tournament, and Vietnam Left Holding Only a BoycottHook Twenty-seven minutes after the final whistle, the video-on-demand player...
EsportsChampions 2026 Day One: Not a Chinese Collapse, but a Format Trap3:30 A.M. on the Scoreboard The scoreboard said 13-3. On Sunset, TYLOO took...
EsportsAn Empty Checklist Is Not a Clearance: The Real Cost of a Null Result in the Esports Analysis PipelineLast night, in my rented room near Shaheb Bazar, I opened an analysis file wi...
EsportsPuyo Puyo Champions: From 3-0 to 0-3 — The Format, Not the Skill, Sent Paritosh to the KnockoutsThe first thing that stops me when I open the score sheet is not a flashy com...
EsportsPUBG PC in Vietnam: An Unlicensed Ecosystem and the League That Disappeared From the CalendarI refreshed the calendar page three times. The Phase 2 slot for the PUBG...
EsportsLedger vs. Emotion: PUBG's Permanent Ban, 4.1 Million Signatures, and the Arithmetic of ProportionalityWinter, 2026. I was hand-logging 1,142 shots across Busan IPark's 36 K League...
EsportsAn Offence That Was Never in the Rulebook, Yet a Lifetime Ban: What Two Vietnamese PUBG Champions' Sanction Actually ExposedIt is nearly two in the morning in a room in Hanoi. The livestream is off; on...
EsportsValorant Champions 2026: How the Day-One Scoreboard Broke China's No. 1 Seed NarrativeHook When the scoreboard froze at 13-3 on Sunset, it wasn't the big number th...