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Lead story

Tonight the Delhi LAN final gets decided

Semi-final 1 is live on the main channel with Ojas Deshpande on analysis. Semi-final 2 follows at 8:00 PM IST.

Live report

CS2 Tournament report

Kalari Esports take Semi-final 1 on Inferno and move to within one map of the Delhi LAN final

A 13-11 Nuke and a half-time turnaround on Inferno put the Season 9 leaders 1-0 up, with Bombay Bytes still to pick their comfort map.

Kalari lost the pistol on both halves and won the map anyway. The difference was the second A-site execute at 9-7, where VOLTX pushed three utility items into a single fifteen-second window and left GHOSTWIRE holding an angle that no longer mattered. Bombay Bytes have not lost a Bo3 at home since January, but they have also not faced a side willing to spend its entire Molotov budget on one round.

Map two is Anubis. Bombay Bytes are 6-1 on it this season, and the Cyber Clash grand final on 29 Aug 2026, 4:30 PM IST at Talkatora Indoor Stadium is worth ₹18,00,000 to the winner. Neither side is treating tonight as a formality.

13-11Nuke 16-13Inferno 48210Watching

Ojas Deshpande 22 Jul 2026 8 min read

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BGMI

Match 12 belonged to Kalari, and Erangel belonged to VOLTX

Nineteen kills, a third-party on the final circle and a rotation the analysts are still arguing about at the Bharat Battlegrounds Masters.

Rhea "RIFT" Malhotra21 Jul 20265 min read

Preview

Neon Nagas vs Cyber Cholas is the semi-final nobody wanted to schedule

Both rosters run a double-controller setup on Anubis and both hate playing it. One of them has to pick it tonight at 8:00 PM IST.

Naina Bakshi22 Jul 20264 min read

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Roster moves

Bombay Bytes lock GHOSTWIRE down to 2028 after the Nuke overtime run

The AWPer's buyout was reportedly the highest ever paid inside India. We asked three org owners whether the number makes sense.

Naina Bakshi20 Jul 20264 min read

Patch notes

Valorant 11.4 quietly changes how our qualifiers will be seeded

Two agent reworks and a map-pool rotation land before Qualifier 4. Here is what it does to the Vortex Cup meta, agent by agent.

Rhea "RIFT" Malhotra19 Jul 20267 min read

Industry

Indian esports prize money crosses ₹92 crore for the first calendar year

Mobile titles account for 61 per cent of it, but PC tournaments grew fastest — up 38 per cent year on year across the eight biggest organisers.

Ojas Deshpande21 Jul 20266 min read

Tournament report

Firestorm League Match 14: Deccan Dragons take a Booyah off ninety seconds of zone luck

ZEALOT's squad were third in the lobby on kills and still won the match. The Free Fire MAX points table now needs a calculator.

Naina Bakshi22 Jul 20265 min read

Roster moves

Rann Raiders bench HEXA for the Guwahati leg — and she says the call is right

A wrist injury, a fourteen-day rehab window and a stand-in from the Sunday draft. Ahmedabad's BGMI roster explains the rotation.

Naina Bakshi18 Jul 20265 min read

Game updates

BGMI 3.9 adds the ranked-lobby replay export our admins have wanted for two years

Server-side replays mean a disputed kill no longer depends on whoever remembered to record. Our protest window drops from 48 hours to 12.

eSportzCraazy Esports Desk17 Jul 20264 min read

Community

The Sunday stand-in draft crossed 1,000 solo players. Here is what the data says

Forty-one per cent of drafted players stayed with the same squad for a second week, and eleven of them are on a Season 9 roster today.

eSportzCraazy Esports Desk16 Jul 20266 min read

Industry

Two Tier-2 orgs, one payroll problem: what happens when a sponsor walks mid-season

We read three sponsorship contracts with a lawyer. The exit clauses are worse than the players signing under them realise.

Ojas Deshpande15 Jul 20269 min read

Tournament report

Vortex Cup Qualifier 3: Neon Nagas drop a map and still walk into the bracket

PIXIE opened 14 rounds on Lotus. Guwahati's Valorant roster is now unbeaten in eleven straight qualifier series.

Rhea "RIFT" Malhotra14 Jul 20265 min read

Patch notes

CS2 map pool rotation lands before the Delhi LAN — Anubis stays, and that matters

Three of our eight invited rosters have never won a Bo3 on Anubis. Cyber Clash seeding suddenly looks a lot less settled.

Ojas Deshpande13 Jul 20265 min read

Community

Inside VOD review Wednesdays: 38 analysts, 214 demos, no fee

The HQ Discord review rooms have quietly become the country's largest coaching programme. We sat in on four of them.

Naina Bakshi12 Jul 20267 min read

Game updates

Free Fire MAX moves its south routing to Chennai — our ping tests, before and after

We ran 4,200 sample pings from nine cities across a fortnight. Kochi gained 21 ms. Guwahati gained nothing at all.

eSportzCraazy Esports Desk11 Jul 20264 min read

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Three corrections were issued this season. All three are still attached to the stories they belong to.

Corrections issued by the eSportzCraazy desk during Season 9, with date, story and what changed
Date	Story	Change
09 Jul 2026	Vortex Cup Qualifier 2 report	Map score corrected to 13-9
24 Jun 2026	Vault 91 roster feature	Founding year corrected to 2022
30 May 2026	Firestorm League points table	Placement points recalculated

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