Esports
Vietnam's Ban, KRAFTON's Ledger: The Two Permanent Sanctions That Woke PUBG's Biggest Viewership MarketSeptember 25, 2:40 a.m. Sri Lanka time. The AC hums in my Colombo flat, the...
From NewJeans to Himass: The Ledger of Broken Trust in KRAFTON's Four YearsOn September 23, 2026, KRAFTON published its investigation report. The shorte...
Team Liquid's Mid Swap: MidOne, Nisha, and the Impossible Four-Day ArithmeticTeam Liquid's Mid Swap: MidOne, Nisha, and the Impossible Four-Day Arithmetic...
A 100% Promise, a 9% Reality: A Structural Autopsy of KRAFTON, from Loot Boxes to PUBG Asia StarsI kept the spreadsheet open until the stadium went quiet. In Seoul, on the...
The Nine Percent Ledger: From KRAFTON's Drop-Rate Case to PUBG Asia Stars 2026, the Accounts That Never BalancedThe Nine Percent Ledger Hook: The Figure That Was Never a Guarantee In June...
Nagoya's Puyo Puyo: Paritosh Advances at 2-2, and the Quiet Power of the Top-Three RuleNagoya, Thursday. The screen at Aichi Sky Expo Hall showed 0-3. India's...
The 9 Percent That Was a Lie: KRAFTON's Four Crises, One Broken Promise, and the Price of a CareerA player bought six premium bundles, not five. Before every purchase the...
PUBG's Curve From 651,012 to 197,202: A Data Post-Mortem of the Vietnam–KRAFTON CrisisSeptember 25, live SteamDB tab. The day's peak sits at 651,012; the lowest...
The Price of a Permanent Ban: PUBG's Vietnam Rupture and KRAFTON's Governance GapSeptember 26, two in the morning Bangladesh time. I was refreshing the live...
From Loot Boxes to Stream Sniping: Five Years of KRAFTON's Four Broken PromisesThe night of 23 September passed in Barishal under the blue light of a laptop...
PUBG, Vietnam and the Ledger of Two Permanent Bans: The Timestamp Between 651,012 and 197,202Hook: When the Fanpages Disappeared One by One On the night of September 24,...
Four KRAFTON Scandals, One Thread: The Rulebook, the Store and the Whistle in the Same HandIn late September 2026, the third day of PUBG Asia Stars was cancelled first...
A 3-13 on Sunset and an Ace on Lotus: The Three Signals Champions 2026 Day One Actually SentA 3-13 on Sunset and an Ace on Lotus: The Three Signals Champions 2026 Day On...
Vietnam Turns Its Back: PUBG Player Count Craters — But the Cause Is Not ProvenThe Indicator That Arrives First Sample first, opinion later — that is the...
India’s Paritosh Survives in Puyo Puyo Champions: Asian Games Progress, Not DominanceSaturday’s quarter-final at Aichi Sky Expo Hall in Nagoya will determine...
Vietnamese Gamers Turn Their Backs: PUBG Sees Sharp Decline in PlayersThe Steam concurrent player count for PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS fell from 651,012 o...
When a List Speaks Louder Than a Statement: BLAST, Team Liquid's Silence, and MidOne in the Mid LaneA List, Not a Statement On September 25, a document dropped that most people...
2-2 in a Nagoya Chair: Paritosh's Top-Three Luck and the Cold Light of Puzzle EsportsOn Thursday, the light inside the Aichi Sky Expo Hall in Nagoya was cold....
India's 2-2 Under the Shadow of the Top-Three Rule: The Naked Skeleton of Puzzle Esports in NagoyaIndia's 2-2 Under the Shadow of the Top-Three Rule: The Naked Skeleton of...
Champions 2026 Day-One Ledger: TYLOO's Second Half, something's 58-33, and One Life in the Lower BracketHook — Three Lines in the Notebook It was 2:17 a.m. in Sylhet. A second-hand...
58 Kills, a 13-3, and One Warning: Three Signals from Day One of Valorant Champions 20262:40 AM, a Khulna rooftop, two screens By 2:40 AM the tea had gone cold. On a...
Empty Cells, Crowded Arenas: Why 'No Data' Is Never 'No Risk' in Esports AnalysisIt is twenty minutes to two in the morning at my Melbourne desk. The tea went...
From NewJeans to Himass: The Ledger of Broken Trust in KRAFTON's Four YearsOn September 23, 2026, KRAFTON published its investigation report. The shorte...
Team Liquid's Mid Swap: MidOne, Nisha, and the Impossible Four-Day ArithmeticTeam Liquid's Mid Swap: MidOne, Nisha, and the Impossible Four-Day Arithmetic...
A 100% Promise, a 9% Reality: A Structural Autopsy of KRAFTON, from Loot Boxes to PUBG Asia StarsI kept the spreadsheet open until the stadium went quiet. In Seoul, on the...
The Nine Percent Ledger: From KRAFTON's Drop-Rate Case to PUBG Asia Stars 2026, the Accounts That Never BalancedThe Nine Percent Ledger Hook: The Figure That Was Never a Guarantee In June...
Nagoya's Puyo Puyo: Paritosh Advances at 2-2, and the Quiet Power of the Top-Three RuleNagoya, Thursday. The screen at Aichi Sky Expo Hall showed 0-3. India's...
The 9 Percent That Was a Lie: KRAFTON's Four Crises, One Broken Promise, and the Price of a CareerA player bought six premium bundles, not five. Before every purchase the...
PUBG's Curve From 651,012 to 197,202: A Data Post-Mortem of the Vietnam–KRAFTON CrisisSeptember 25, live SteamDB tab. The day's peak sits at 651,012; the lowest...
The Price of a Permanent Ban: PUBG's Vietnam Rupture and KRAFTON's Governance GapSeptember 26, two in the morning Bangladesh time. I was refreshing the live...
From Loot Boxes to Stream Sniping: Five Years of KRAFTON's Four Broken PromisesThe night of 23 September passed in Barishal under the blue light of a laptop...
PUBG, Vietnam and the Ledger of Two Permanent Bans: The Timestamp Between 651,012 and 197,202Hook: When the Fanpages Disappeared One by One On the night of September 24,...
Four KRAFTON Scandals, One Thread: The Rulebook, the Store and the Whistle in the Same HandIn late September 2026, the third day of PUBG Asia Stars was cancelled first...
A 3-13 on Sunset and an Ace on Lotus: The Three Signals Champions 2026 Day One Actually SentA 3-13 on Sunset and an Ace on Lotus: The Three Signals Champions 2026 Day On...
Vietnam Turns Its Back: PUBG Player Count Craters — But the Cause Is Not ProvenThe Indicator That Arrives First Sample first, opinion later — that is the...
India’s Paritosh Survives in Puyo Puyo Champions: Asian Games Progress, Not DominanceSaturday’s quarter-final at Aichi Sky Expo Hall in Nagoya will determine...
Vietnamese Gamers Turn Their Backs: PUBG Sees Sharp Decline in PlayersThe Steam concurrent player count for PUBG: BATTLEGROUNDS fell from 651,012 o...
When a List Speaks Louder Than a Statement: BLAST, Team Liquid's Silence, and MidOne in the Mid LaneA List, Not a Statement On September 25, a document dropped that most people...
2-2 in a Nagoya Chair: Paritosh's Top-Three Luck and the Cold Light of Puzzle EsportsOn Thursday, the light inside the Aichi Sky Expo Hall in Nagoya was cold....
India's 2-2 Under the Shadow of the Top-Three Rule: The Naked Skeleton of Puzzle Esports in NagoyaIndia's 2-2 Under the Shadow of the Top-Three Rule: The Naked Skeleton of...
Champions 2026 Day-One Ledger: TYLOO's Second Half, something's 58-33, and One Life in the Lower BracketHook — Three Lines in the Notebook It was 2:17 a.m. in Sylhet. A second-hand...
58 Kills, a 13-3, and One Warning: Three Signals from Day One of Valorant Champions 20262:40 AM, a Khulna rooftop, two screens By 2:40 AM the tea had gone cold. On a...
Empty Cells, Crowded Arenas: Why 'No Data' Is Never 'No Risk' in Esports AnalysisIt is twenty minutes to two in the morning at my Melbourne desk. The tea went...