It took Valve less than a day to change their mind. On October 6, a new region-switching rule in the VRS knocked BC.Game out of the Asian race for PGL Major Singapore 2026. By the evening of October 7, a one-line entry had appeared on the exceptions list on GitHub: the asap, Magisk, mzinho, s1mple and Senzu roster is assigned to Asia and eligible for a Major invite.Yesterday we argued

A week ago, s1mple's road to the PGL Major Singapore 2026 looked all but paved. One surgical signing, a move to the Asian VRS, and BC.Game's invite odds rocketed from single digits to 85%+. Then, on October 6, Valve tore the whole thing down with a single line in the rulebook — one month before invites go out.As usual, the community split down the middle in minutes. Some call it

Remember when the Steam Market didn't look like a stock exchange, and the most valuable thing in half the server's inventories was a couple of Katowice stickers? In 2014–2015, CS:GO was still finding its feet. Cases dropped one per operation, and almost nobody used the word "investment" when talking about skins.There were far fewer skins back then, and even fewer you could actually afford. So the same finishes showed up

On October 1, Valve shipped a modest 700 MB CS2 update: some map fixes and a handful of new crosshair settings. Then it had to pull the patch after some players started crashing on launch, and pushed it back out shortly after. Somewhere in that scramble, something made it into the live build that was never meant for players' eyes: the developers' own debug tools.Valve almost never talks about what's