Esports
The Top-Three Rule and a 0-3 Jolt: India's Paritosh in the Puyo Puyo Champions Table
Vietnam Bans, PUBG's Player Curve: The Point Where the Data Goes Quiet
The Empty Page in the Rulebook: KRAFTON's Lifetime Ban and the Invisible Crack in Esports Governance
Zero-Three and Still Standing: The Arithmetic Behind Paritosh's Puyo Puyo Knockout Run
Global Esports vs Vitality: Shanghai's Three Rounds and the Zero-Margin Test on October 4Not Three Points, But One Round Thirty-four versus thirty-five. When Vitality...
Cosplay, Gacha and On-Chain Data: The Silent Contamination Inside Esports AnalyticsA file landed on my desk one February morning. The label said esports. Inside...
When the Publisher Is the Judge: Marathon's Quiet U-Turn and the Same Fracture Running Through the Himass BanIn May 2026, Dortmund beat Schalke 4-0 in an empty stadium. I was sixteen,...
When the Publisher Is the Judge: PUBG's Ban Shadow and Marathon's RoadmapIt was nearly two in the morning in Mymensingh and I was watching an old...
The Top-Three Rule and a 0-3 Jolt: India's Paritosh in the Puyo Puyo Champions TableThe table reads as four lines. 3-0, 3-2, 0-3, 2-3. A clean sweep of Mongolia'...
Two Publisher Decisions: Marathon's Turn and the Himass-TanVuu Sanction LedgerTwo numbers sit side by side in my ledger this week. One is 4.1 million — the...
Vietnam Walked Out, the Number Fell: Inside PUBG's Governance CrisisI plotted the SteamDB curve for September 25 and 26 three times. The first ti...
When a Spreadsheet Becomes the Announcement: Team Liquid's Mid Lane, MidOne at Thirty, and the Silence Around NishaThe document that appeared on September 25 was not an announcement. It was a...
The Transfer Written in a Participant List: Team Liquid's Mid Lane SwapOn September 25 a list went live, and it became the only official document th...
Vietnam Bans, PUBG's Player Curve: The Point Where the Data Goes QuietSeptember 25, 7:20 pm Seoul time. SteamDB open on the laptop, two hand-drawn...
The Empty Page in the Rulebook: KRAFTON's Lifetime Ban and the Invisible Crack in Esports GovernanceLate one night last month I was watching the PUBG Asia Stars 2026 stream. It...
Zero-Three and Still Standing: The Arithmetic Behind Paritosh's Puyo Puyo Knockout RunRead the last two results of Group B together and the arithmetic looks...
2-2 on the Scoreboard, the Truth Sat Inside the Format: Who Actually Wrote Paritosh's Knockout TicketIn his final group-stage match, Paritosh lost 0-3. He took not a single game....