Esports
Vietnam's PUBG Erosion: Permanent Bans, Viewership Concentration, and the Open Seam of Governance
What the BLAST Slam 8 List Revealed: MidOne in for Nisha, and the Question Team Liquid Has Not Answered
Three Seats, One 0-3 Sweep: Reading the Puyo Puyo Champions Group B Board at the 2026 Asian Games
Puyo Puyo Champions at the 2026 Asian Games: A 2-2 Record, a 0-3 Shutout, and India's Knockout Math
Puyo Puyo Champions at the 2026 Asian Games: Paritosh's 2-2 Record, the Top-Three Rule, and Saturday's Knockout — A Tape-Led Match Autopsy
License Default: PUBG PC's Dimming Circuit in Vietnam and the Risk Nobody Is Pricing
The Empty Ledger: When All Nine Analytical Dimensions Returned 'Insufficient Data' — And That Became the Most Valuable DatapointAt a Glance On August 13, 2026, a document landed on my desk. Its title was...
The List Came First: MidOne at Team Liquid and the Unfinished Ledger of Nisha's AbsenceHook: The File That Talked Louder Than the Club September 25, 2026. BLAST...
Two Vietnamese Players Banned, PUBG Player Count Collapses: Reading KRAFTON's Governance CrisisHook September 24 to 26, 2026. On the Steam concurrent-player graph, PUBG:...
Not the Numbers, the Rulebook: A Structural Reading of PUBG's Vietnam Ban CrisisSeptember 24, 2026. On the SteamDB graph, two extremes inside a single day: a...
The Himass–TanVuu Global Ban and Bungie's Marathon Pivot: Two Case Studies in Publisher Decision-MakingI opened the spreadsheet. Twenty-nine information points came up; after I ran...
Vietnam's PUBG Erosion: Permanent Bans, Viewership Concentration, and the Open Seam of GovernanceHook: Two Numbers at Three in the Morning In the last week of September, two...
BLAST's List, Liquid's Silence: The Ledger Behind the MidOne-for-Nisha Mid SwapHook: One Cell in a Participant List, Four Days of Runway On September 25, in...
MidOne in Liquid's Mid Slot: The Roster News a Tournament Entry List Broke, Not the ClubOn September 25, BLAST Slam 8's full participant list went public. I was...
What the BLAST Slam 8 List Revealed: MidOne in for Nisha, and the Question Team Liquid Has Not AnsweredOn September 25 BLAST published its full participant list for Slam 8. In Team...
Three Seats, One 0-3 Sweep: Reading the Puyo Puyo Champions Group B Board at the 2026 Asian GamesThree seats. Five competitors in Group B, four matches each — and the top thr...
Eight Won, Eight Lost, and a Top-Three Rule: Reading Paritosh's Survival at Puyo Puyo ChampionsI read the Group B table three times. Five names, four matches each, the...
Puyo Puyo Champions at the 2026 Asian Games: A 2-2 Record, a 0-3 Shutout, and India's Knockout MathThe Group B scoresheet closed at Aichi Sky Expo Hall in Nagoya with one line...
Zero Lines in the Rulebook, a Lifetime Ban as the Punishment: How KRAFTON's 'Friendly' Tournament Wiped Out Two Vietnamese StarsKHULNA — It was half past midnight and the Vietnamese cast of PUBG Asia Stars...
The Rule That Was Never Written: The Lifetime Ban on Himass and Tan Vuu at PUBG Asia Stars 2026 and the Gap in Publisher GovernanceThe organizers' apology letter was brief. It acknowledged weakness in...
0-3, 2-3, Still in the Knockouts: Paritosh, Puyo Puyo and the Arithmetic of the Top-Three RuleIt was 2:40 a.m. in Chengdu, and the scoreboard on my laptop was stuck at 3-0...
Puyo Puyo Champions at the 2026 Asian Games: Paritosh's 2-2 Record, the Top-Three Rule, and Saturday's Knockout — A Tape-Led Match AutopsyThe 0-3 on Thursday, and the Question the Scoreline Won't Answer When the fin...
License Default: PUBG PC's Dimming Circuit in Vietnam and the Risk Nobody Is PricingOn a Monday morning I opened the official PUBG Esports calendar looking for...