GamerLegion's collapse: 10-2 up, three rounds from the quarters, and out
GamerLegion led 10-2 on the deciding map, three rounds from the EWC quarter-finals. MOUZ turned it around with xelex — until then his team's worst performer — transformed into the hero. The tournament's most painful defeat.
The day Spirit made history: two world championships, two games, twenty-four hours
On August 23, Spirit won Dota 2's The International in Shanghai and, hours later, the CS2 Esports World Cup in Paris. No organization had ever claimed two world championships in separate disciplines on the same day.
New wave against bots: 67,220 accounts banned and not one VAC ban
Valve executed another wave against bot farms between August 24 and 25: 67,220 accounts hit with game bans and not a single VAC ban. 87% of those accounts were created in the last twenty months.
Valve's "Teraleak": 12TB of internal material leaked, and no hacking required
A 12TB archive of Valve's internal data from 2003 to 2013 has leaked, including CS:GO, Portal 2, Left 4 Dead, and cancelled F-Stop material. There was no hack: the data sat on a server accessible without a password.