Is esports betting legal in the UK? The UKGC's answer
Yes, for adults in Great Britain, through a Gambling Commission-licensed business. What the regulator's eSports and skins guidance says, read 18 Oct 2026.
Scrim Report — Esports, and the money watching it
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Which Dota 2 teams have betting sponsors? TI's name change
PARIVISION (PARI) and BetBoom Team are the bookmaker-sponsored Dota 2 teams this desk verified; TI 2025 listings showed BB Team. Here is why.
Which CS2 teams have betting sponsors? Valve's two classes
Most top CS2 teams carry a betting title sponsor, but Valve now bars skin and case sites from jerseys. The record, team by team, as of September 2026.
Which LoL and VALORANT teams have betting sponsors?
Fifteen months after Riot opened the category, two Tier 1 deals are public: MIBR x 1xBet and G2 x Winamax. What each reports, against Riot's rules.
GRID, assessed: what happens when one company owns the official feed
Nearly a year after GRID bought the IP assets of an insolvent Bayes Esports, one vendor sits across the official-data layer that most of the tier-one calendar prices against. An assessment of the shelf, and of the dependency.
PandaScore ships a Call of Duty kills prop — and the plumbing to render it
A Total Kills Over/Under on Game 1 of every match, then a market-templates manifest pitched to let an operator's front end draw it without an integration ticket. The product decision has moved upstream of the book.
Kalshi's esports stat contract, assessed on who is barred from trading it
A seventeen-page self-certification filed with the CFTC in March sets the terms for a US event contract on kills, rounds and Baron counts — and bars a long list of insiders without saying how any of them would be found.
The Esports Integrity Commission, assessed
A members' association with a public sanctions register running back to 2017, eight classes of membership, betting operators seated without a vote, and jurisdiction that stops precisely where the membership does.
ESIC interim-suspends LGD's TaiLung — a notice, not a finding
The Esports Integrity Commission has pulled a Dota 2 player out of member events while it examines suspected betting-related manipulation. What the 21 August notice does, and where its reach stops.
PandaScore and DATA.BET, assessed side by side
Two esports odds suppliers making very different promises in public — depth and history against breadth and turnkey delivery. What each choice buys an operator, and what it quietly costs.
Rivalry, frozen: the cease trade order and the pure-play problem
A sequence, in order: wagering stopped in February, three of four co-founders left in April, and the Ontario Securities Commission froze the shares over unfiled 2025 financials.
Licensed books keep widening esports menus
Esports betting is maturing inside regulated sportsbooks: standing catalogs instead of one-off approvals, deeper markets, and integrity conditions written into the rules.
ESL Pro Tour, assessed
The circuit as a competitive product: Katowice and Cologne at the summit, a legible ladder below — and hard questions about calendar power and the partner-team model.
The data-rights economy behind esports odds
Official server feeds versus scraping: why data-rights deals, not bettor demand, decide which esports markets exist at licensed books.
FACEIT, reviewed
The platform where competitive Counter-Strike actually lives, assessed as infrastructure: server quality, the anti-cheat, the subscription economics, and the smurfing fight it hasn't won.