Submissions for the second Call to Arms-ory are still landing on the Workshop, and enough has turned up since our first two roundups to justify another look. The deadline is closing in, which is usually when the strongest entries go live.The two themes are living very different lives, though. Pop Art is crowded: the brief is easy to read, the barrier to entry is low, and the competition is enormous.

When Valve announced the three categories for the second Call to Arms-ory, Fairy Tales looked like the safe bet. Everyone knows the stories, the reference material is endless, and nobody has to invent anything from scratch. The first wave of submissions bore that out: we went through it a month ago, and almost everything leaned on the obvious, a race to see who could draw Red Riding Hood and the

Sticker mechanics stopped being about slapping your favourite team's logo on a gun a long time ago. The last few waves of stickers handed the community a proper toolkit, and enthusiasts immediately started building things the game has never had, or has barely had: album covers, anime characters, internet memes going back a decade.We'd argue sticker crafting is still the most honest way to show a bit of originality. You

Another tier-1 event of the 2026 second season has reached the home stretch, and there are five matches left before we know the champion. Nobody has an excuse this time round: no online stages, no long breaks without practice. The teams flew straight from EWC to BLAST Open Porto to fight over a share of the $1,100,000 prize pool.As always, we've run the numbers on who takes the trophy, then