Los Ratones face an all-or-nothing Best of 3 in their final match in the Swiss Stage of EMEA Master Summer 2025.
The rats are 3-3 in the Swiss bracket after back-to-back defeats in their promotion contests, where a win would have seen them progress.
Instead, Marc ‘Caedrel’ Lamont’s men now face a do-or-die contest to save their attempt at walking the ERL ‘Golden Road.’
DOWN BUT NOT OUT
Tomorrow is our last chance.
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Vici Gaming have announced its re-entry to the DotA 2 esports scene after a long absence. The organisation has a strong history in DotA,
After a period of dwindling performances, Vici Gaming left DotA in 2023, but are set to re-enter for the 2026 season, with a few familiar faces from years gone by.
In the announcement statement on Weibo, the organisation stated, “VG Esports Club would like to extend our best wishes to all the partners who have supported us for a long time and officially announce that after two years of precipitation, VG flag, set sail again for the dream!” (translated)
The move comes ahead of The International 2026, set to be held in Shanghai.
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Former Liquid Top Laner, Park “Summit” Woo-tae, has been suspended following cheating allegations regarding a LTA Promotion Tournament match against Disguised Esports.
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Megabonk and Cloverpit have hit rarely achieved landmarks as the indie roguelikes take hold of gamers, who evidently can’t put the games down.
The indie games, developed by Vedinad and Panik Arcade, respectively, have taken hold of streaming platforms with notable streamers embracing the ‘bullet heaven’ games.
Megabonk a megahit
Megabonk hit the rare landmark of 1,000,000 copies sold only two weeks after its initial release.
The game’s simple one-line description is ‘Vampire Survivors but 3D’, and that DNA is evident in the game, but with a more humorous and sardonic tone.
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2XKO has launched its Official Cinematic to celebrate the tag-team League of Legends-themed fighting game entering Early Access.
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French streamer and co-founder of esports org Gentle Mates, Lucas ‘Squeezie’ Hauchard, has held GP Explorer 3 at Le Mans circuit, October 3-5.
The three-day event featured musicians, famous race-car drivers and content creators from across the world.
Numbers reflect huge engagement with French content creators
Approximately 200,000 tickets were sold for the event across the three days, with ~80,000 attending the Sunday climax.
The event was also a streaming success, garnering 1,366,992 peak viewers according to streaming viewership aggregator StreamCharts.
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Astralis became the first team eliminated from ESL Pro League Season 22, as the Danish roster capitulated against FaZe Clan.
The Danish roster lost an uncompetitive Bo3 2-0, losing their pick of Ancient 13-7 before an even more abject Dust 2, which saw the roster once again failing to win a single T round.
The loss follows defeats to Aurora and Falcons, as Astralis exit ESL Pro League Season 22 with a 0-3 record in the main event.
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Red Bull’s League of Its Own event is set to return on November 29 as T1, G2, Karmine Corp, Los Ratones, NNO Old will all attend the showcase event.
Members of the Valorant community have come together on social media to celebrate Britain’s Jake ‘Boaster’ Howlett after an agonising 2-3 Grand Final loss saw NRG down Fnatic at Valorant Champions 2025.
A historic comeback saw Fnatic fight back from 11-1 down on map three to go on to force a fifth and final map, but NRG showed their mental resilience to take the fifth map and become VCT Paris winners.
Boaster, a player who always wears his heart on his sleeve, was visibly emotional after the loss, but the Valorant community have celebrated that vulnerability and the meaning it gives to the scene and its competitions.
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Fnatic beat 9ine 3-2 in the Grand Final of Fragadelphia Blocktober to claim the final available Major spot in dramatic fashion.
The event was the culmination of six months of chasing VRS points in order to ultimately earn a place at the PGL Budapest Major 2025, which will begin on November 24.
As the invite date was October 6, Frag Blocktober was the last event counted towards the VRS invites for the Major.