Which CS2 teams have betting sponsors? Valve's two classes
Most top CS2 teams carry a betting title sponsor, but Valve now bars skin and case sites from jerseys. The record, team by team, as of September 2026.
Reviews
GRID, assessed: what happens when one company owns the official feed
Nearly a year after GRID bought the IP assets of an insolvent Bayes Esports, one vendor sits across the official-data layer that most of the tier-one calendar prices against. An assessment of the shelf, and of the dependency.
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.
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.
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.
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.