Esports
Referee, Owner and Scoreboard in One Hand: Marathon's Pivot and PUBG's Ban Broke Esports Trust in a Single Week
Justice Without a Ledger: 4.1 Million Signatures, One Admission, and the Two-Stage Test of the Marathon Pivot
Valorant Champions 2026 Day-One Ledger: The 13-3 Sunset, something's 58-33, and the Fall of China's No. 1 Seed
Champions 2026 Day One: The Scoreboard Forgot, the Yoru Shot Remembered
A Friendly Match, Two Lifetime Bans: The Question KRAFTON's Ruling Never Answered
The Label Was Wrong: How an Azur Lane Cosplay Photo Set Entered an Esports Data Pipeline
The Label Was Wrong: How an Azur Lane Cosplay Photo Set Entered an Esports Data PipelineThe Label Was Wrong: How an Azur Lane Cosplay Photo Set Entered an Esports Da...
Referee, Owner and Scoreboard in One Hand: Marathon's Pivot and PUBG's Ban Broke Esports Trust in a Single WeekHook At two in the morning last week, two screenshots lit up my phone back to...
Justice Without a Ledger: 4.1 Million Signatures, One Admission, and the Two-Stage Test of the Marathon PivotI opened the spreadsheet. 3,800 matches later, the pattern was already there....
Marathon’s U-Turn and KRAFTON’s Admitted Error: Two Publisher-Governance Lessons From the Live-Service Era“The Next Chapter of Bungie” is the title of a blog post. Beneath it, two...
The Second Screen of the Ban: PUBG, Marathon and the Publisher-as-Judge CrisisThere are two numbers sitting side by side in my ledger. One is 4.1 million....
Vietnam Turned Its Back, PUBG's Player Graph Collapsed: Who Will Do the Math Behind the Numbers?On September 25, 2026, the SteamDB public graph showed PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS'...
Advancing at 2-2: Is Paritosh's Knockout Run a Gift From the Format or Proof of Talent?Last Thursday, watching the final round of group play, I was about to shut my...
Valorant Champions 2026 Day-One Ledger: The 13-3 Sunset, something's 58-33, and the Fall of China's No. 1 SeedBefore the final round on Sunset went quiet, the scoreboard had already writt...
MidOne for Nisha: A Data Autopsy of Team Liquid's Unannounced Mid SwapAt around half past midnight on September 25, I was scrolling the official...
MidOne for Nisha: What the Data Says About Team Liquid's Mid Lane, and What It Doesn'tOn September 25, the BLAST Slam 8 participant list went live. I scrolled it...
3-13 on Sunset and a 58-Kill Story: What Day One of Champions 2026 Actually Changed3-13 on Sunset and a 58-Kill Story: What Day One of Champions 2026 Actually...
PUBG Vietnam Ban Fallout: From 651,012 to 197,202 — Mapping a Governance CrisisSeptember 25, 2026. Two in the morning in Chicago, two screens on my desk: on...
Numbers After the Ban: Vietnam's PUBG Boycott and the Clock Nobody StartedFor three days between September 24 and 26, my notebook carried a separate...
Champions 2026 Day One: The Scoreboard Forgot, the Yoru Shot RememberedIt was ten past three in the morning in Barishal. The fan turning overhead, a...
Yoru, 58-33 and 3-13: Three Frames That Rewrote the Story on Day One of Valorant Champions 2026Hook On Ascent, when Ilia "something" Petrov's Yoru slid in through the side...
Champions 2026 Day One: The Real Story Buried Inside a 58-33 Line and a 3-13 MapThe scoreboard at Sunset reads 13-3. On the opening day of Valorant Champions...
A Friendly Match, Two Lifetime Bans: The Question KRAFTON's Ruling Never AnsweredIn KRAFTON's sanction notice, two different behaviours sat side by side under...