Start with the one metric everybody grabs first. In esports it is nearly always the same figure, propped up as a baseline or a raw count: how many people are actually watching a given event, a given activity, sometimes just a single player. So, the Six Invitational 2026. Rainbow Six Siege’s world championship, February 2 […]

Two worlds, April 2026, shoved up against each other. One is the recent past. The other is whatever comes next. Catching them land in the same month felt a lot like a baton going from one hand to another. Both hold audiences that don’t drift off, and even though the two keep brushing past each […]

Counter-Strike is back, and properly so. 2026 opened with it planted in the middle of the conversation again, and the comeback arrived as an event for the record books. IEM Cologne Major 2026. A peak of around 2.75 million viewers, enough on its own to make it the most watched CS Major ever staged. First […]