SK Gaming has turned sponsors into shareholders, connected major brands around its home market and built partnerships that last for years. Its approach offers a valuable lesson for esports.

In sports we all know when a team lose the media and viewers always seem to point fingers at a particular player on the team that they view was the cause of the lose. Harry Maguire is a good example of this. So how about in esports? Which players in esports history have been unfairly scapegoated the most?

**大家好！**

**我是一名在上海的大学生，也是VALORANT粉丝。**

**随着上海冠军赛的临近，我开始考虑国际粉丝首次来中国可能会感到的困惑。**

**这些事情比如：**

**• 在上海出行 🚇**

**• 使用支付宝 / 微信支付 📱**

**• 找到好吃的当地美食 🍜**

**• 前往和离开比赛场地**

**• 比赛之间可以做的事情**

**• 语言 / 翻译**

**• 找到其他国际VCT粉丝一起交流 🤝**

**所以我决定在上海为国际和本地VALORANT粉丝创建一个小社区。**

**👉**

**这个想法不是为了出售门票或其他东西。我只是想让海外的VCT粉丝更容易享受上海和结识其他粉丝。**

**我还将在接下来的几周内分享一些免费的上海指南。**

**如果你要来上海冠军赛，你是从哪里来的？**

**你最担心/好奇的事情是什么？🇨🇳**

**我很想听听你的想法！**

Hello friends!

I would like to introduce the Simulation Premier League a new football/soccer sim league built around a custom simulation engine developed over the past few years. SPL has a full three-tier pyramid: Simulation Premier League, Simulation League One, and Simulation League Two. Clubs compete for promotion, fight relegation, earn prize money, and manage their finances across seasons.

Matches simulate automatically every day at 12:00 PM PST, with game threads featuring play-by-play commentary, team stats, and individual player performances. Alongside league play, clubs compete in the League Cup and Continental Championship. You can build a career as an 18-year-old free agent: sign contracts, develop your attributes through weekly activity, earn appearances, and be traded, sold, or loaned as you work your way up the pyramid. Or, take on the long-term challenge of running a club. Team Owners shape their club’s vision, finances, transfers, tactics, and squad building, either directly or through hiring Managers and Coaches.

We have just opened the Brand system a new type of General Manager experience. You control a brand and sign players and teams to sponsorship deals paying them money. How that team or player(s) performs impacts your "prestige" which can provide those players additional benefits and earn your brand even more cash for the next season!

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Hello ! I'm a Tournament organizer on faceit we host and live stream tournaments every 2 Saturdays, Our next tournament is currently live( Twitch : cause3effecttv - Twitch )

we just started the bo3 between teams "biggie cheese fan club" and YHUBEPCAM"
both level 10 faceit teams, all players in advanced / main esea experience.

We are doing a red trade up during the bo3 grand finals, and whatever knife the trade up gives us is the knife the raffle winner gets, it could be a paracord worth less than the trade up, it could be a karambit black pearl either way its yours ( our last stream we gave away a m9 ruby bayonet, we are dedicated to giving away whatever knife it is )

Were new but we also have 3 venues out in L.A that were actively trying to turn into LAN centers for Counterstrike and other games ! were 5 months into our production adventure and we'd love your support.

dont forget to like and subscribe to any and all of our socials to keep up to date with our future events.

All are Welcome to play !

Twitch : cause3effecttv - Twitch

Socials :
CauseandEffectTV (@Cause3EffectTV) / X

Instagra

Discord : https://discord.gg/xwDQnSZQj

I put all the live esports games I can find all into one place. No login, no cookies, no nothing, just a database of every game and it is all online. It is just links to the twitch and youtube feeds. The calendar is helpful. Enjoy you are welcome. This isn't a business, it isn't a brand I literally want nothing from all you negative people.

On the cusp of a pretty big deal to have a Esport tournament running in up to 200 locations. Virtual, but likely to have finals in person. Which game would you prefer to play, and if admission was free but contingent on raising at least $100 Via peer to peer fundraising for the charity would you participate? What prize is motivating to you?

Full breakdown - https://escharts.com/news/esports-world-cup-2026-viewership-recap

What do you think of the audience growth? Did you expect it to be this big? 🧐

Promotional Video for the Bish Bash Bosh Tourny !
Join us Aug 29th for C&E's Bis' Bash Bosh Tourney! #cs2 #faceit #counterstrike2

Hello ! I'm a Tournament organizer on faceit we host and live stream tournaments every 2 Saturdays, Our next tournament is August 29th, Casters, admins, Observers.
Were new but we also have 3 venues out in L.A that were actively trying to turn into LAN centers for Counterstrike and other games ! were 5 months into our production adventure and we'd love your support.

dont forget to like and subscribe to any and all of our socials to keep up to date with our future events.

Socials :
CauseandEffectTV (@Cause3EffectTV) / X

Instagram

Discord : https://discord.gg/xwDQnSZQj

Actually I am Primary Rusher But There A Problem I want A Higher Hs Rate + Reflexes To Improve This I train 10-12 hrs a day still Not Getting Into It

If Any Professional Can Help Me To Be Real I Am Cooked rn !

I don't really know how to train to. Become Top 1 esp. + Hs player

In sports we all know that the Stanley cup is one of the worst trophies in sports with how ugly it is, being too big and made out of nickel instead of gold or sterling silver but what about esports? In your opinion which esports trophy has the worst design? Personally I say EVO because it doesn't look like a trophy/award at all and it looks like those "fancy" plastic paperweights that my old high school uses.

Maybe it’s just me, but visually I thought the Esports World Cup looked really rough this year.

For an event with this much money behind it and one that is clearly trying to position itself as one of the biggest esports events in the world, I expected the overall production and presentation to look significantly more premium.

A lot of it just didn’t feel polished. The broadcast presentation, staging, camera work and overall visual package often made the event feel smaller and cheaper than it actually is.

That’s what surprised me the most. This isn’t some small tournament working with a limited budget, EWC has enormous resources behind it! You’d expect it to be setting the benchmark for what a modern esports broadcast can look like.

Instead, there were plenty of moments where other major esports events honestly looked considerably better.
Interested to hear what everyone else thought. Did the production look off to anyone else this year, or am I being overly critical?

Anime High Club and We Game Culture is hosting a social night on 8.27 starting at 7pm. This is a 21+ event. Free to enter and play in the mini tournaments! See y’all there!

We often see this trope in sports when hof voters induct a questionable player or person in. Like for example the pro football hall of fame has Jerome Bettis and Jerry Jones but what about in esports? Which player or people do you think will be the most debatable hofer that will cause a lot of debate if they were voted in?

The Esports World Cup incentive program has crowned its top earners.

All Gamers took first place with $7 million, followed by Falcons ($5M) and Vitality ($4M). NAVI, Liquid and Spirit rounded out the top six.

FURIA finished 20th, earning $200,000 from the incentive program.

So am thinking to make a discord server of esports fans and talk on call during esports matches if someone wanna dm me

For those who follow pick'em/bracket formats: most esports prediction games let you hedge across every match. Last Man Standing (LMS) flips that — limited "lives" and one pick per round, no repeats.

We applied it to CS2 with CS2 Survival (BETA live now, BLAST Open Porto Aug 26 – Sep 7):
• 1 life per phase.
• 1 team pick per GameRound, locked for the phase (no-repeat).
• Life lost on wrong pick or missed lock.
• Auto-reset next phase.
• Rounds track the real bracket with individual lock countdowns.
• Leaderboard: survivors > streak > points.

The no-repeat constraint is what makes it interesting — deep tournament knowledge beats hype picks. Curious if other scenes (LoL, Dota, Valorant) would want this format too.

🔗 https://cs2survival.com

Hi everyone,

I’m looking to connect with serious Rainbow Six Siege esports collectors or memorabilia experts regarding a rare official item.

If you can help or know the right collectors, please send me a DM. Thanks!

Team Spirit had just won big tournament in 3 game titles:

Dota 2 (The International 15)
CS2 (EWC)
ML:BB (EWC)

Are they currently the most successful org/team right now?

Idk just a random thought