The Esports Advocate

Four Counter-Strike 2 teams tied to gambling companies will play the PGL Major Singapore under neutral names: BC.Game as GOSH, PARIVISION as PVISION, 1win as THE ONE, BetBoom as BB TEAM.

PGL's own exclusive 1xBet deal runs through 2029.

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China has cleared Savvy Games Group's $6B+ purchase of Mobile Legends publisher Moonton without conditions. The deal still hasn't closed. Once it does, PIF would own MLBB's leagues alongside ESL FACEIT Group and the Esports World Cup.

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Tencent will put ¥1 billion ($150M) into Golden Spatula, China's mobile TFT, over three years. Most of it is not prize money. The esports figure: a new 2027 annual title paying its solo champion ¥3M ($450K), about 3x what the EWC TFT winners got.

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Busan will start charging the International Esports Federation rent in January after a city audit ended the free office deal that brought IESF there in 2017.

Many foreign directors reportedly want the secretariat moved to Indonesia, Norway, or the UAE.

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The Dallas Cowboys owners' investment fund has fallen to 4.46% of FaZe owner GameSquare after FanEngine's sellers took 30% of the company. It bought about $1.65M of stock this spring. Those shares now sit about 43% below cost.

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