On November 7, Leonid "chopper" Vishnyakov confirmed to HLTV that he won't be returning to professional play. A day earlier, Team Spirit said goodbye to him after seven and a half years and called him "our legend."chopper was never quite like the scene's other stars. He openly called himself a bad captain, and yet he won Katowice, Cologne and a Major. When donk finished second in HLTV's 2025 rankings, chopper

The Singapore Major is only a few weeks away, and teams have already moved to Asia to prepare for the last and biggest event of the season. IEM Beijing is the first stop, and winning it would bring some much-needed confidence into the final stretch of 2026.Let's get one thing out of the way: we don't see this tournament as a reliable indicator. For one, Vitality aren't here. For another,

All 32 PGL Major Singapore invites are out, kickoff is less than three weeks away, and a fresh batch of stickers is expected by mid-November. Valve hasn't shown anything yet, but crafters aren't exactly waiting around. While the market tries to guess what Singapore stickers will look like, players keep squeezing everything they can out of what's already in the game, finding new ideas even on skins that seemed fully

It's November, and we all know what that means: Black Friday is coming. Checkout lines, slashed price tags, and piles of stuff nobody wanted until it went on sale.If the Friday's black, we figured, the inventory should be too. And with skin prices sliding lately, everything is already sort of "on sale." So we set out to build the cheapest all-black inventory we could, knife and gloves included. The receipt