Which esports publishers allow betting sponsors?
Riot, Valve, Activision, Ubisoft and ESL FACEIT Group, row by row: who lets a bookmaker on the shirt or the stream, and the document each answer rests on.
Scrim Report — Esports, and the money watching it
The latest
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.