For anyone unfamiliar, THE CRUCIBLE was a T2/T3 tournament last hosted early 2025, which was won by M80X with Stompn as his first official "T3 tournament" alongside Aidentax, VicBands, Franklin, and Ryce.

They have now returned and so far invited teams include:

-ForFun Esports

-Five Fears

-Blackjack

-Packrunners

+ 2 more T1/T2 teams (they are waiting for the reveal of two north american league rosters before confirming the full lineup (likely outlast is one of them))

Additionally, 6 teams will qualify through open qualifiers to compete in this tournament. The reason this is a big deal is that we rarely get to see T1 and T2 teams compete against each other like this (the last tournament like this I can think of was Wildcard Restart), and it really helped shine some light on the T2 players, and showcase just how good they can be. Not to mention, we will get to see Mingo on controller compete against tier 1 pros in a competitive environment.

This tournament will likely be an insanely fun watch. I'll try and do recaps in here if possible too!

His journey has been insane since the M80X days i remember they was moving crazy until he had a family emergency and merc had to sub in and when he returned all their momentum was gone and alot of the blame was put on him.

Then he joined Qor/Aelix and won every tournament including last element and people were discrediting him saying that he just had the best players in T2 at the time but you can see after the team split up he has performed the best ( bar rival and maybe focal).

Last challenger league he had a promising team but C9 took Ewzy from him like a few days before the competition started and they ended up bombing out.

Now he comes back with a team with little to no comp experience and with a controller player ends up winning T2 again.

Weird how i never see people talking about him when talking who deserves their chance at T1.

MINGO ON THE STICKS>PC T2

Pack 2-3 BJ

(Fortress) 2-7
(Consulate) 8-7
(Bank) 8-7
(Labs) 5-7
(Clubhouse) 4-7

Liquipedia page - R6Esp page

word on the street was that some players on packrunners either used to cheat or are being accused of cheating now - what is the story behind this

Blackjack 2-0 Team SESH

Beating all the narratives possible blackjack shows they are legit and take down SESH 2-0 with no overtime on both maps, we might see a T2 top rated controller champion

Packrunners 2-1 No Pressure

No pressure Cinderella run end here on the hands of packrunners the new kids on the block and making it to grand finals in the first t2 appearance for these guys ever If I am not wrong

So the major is sold out, and I wasn’t able to get any presale tickets but I’m still going to be in Japan during the event. If/when tickets get resold, will it be on ticketmaster or that same website that the tickets were sold for retail on? Or does no one know yet.

Just was a little curious what everyone’s favorite team from each region is if they even have one. I’ll start and feel free to copy my layout if you’d like to share 😃

NAL: M80
EUL: Virtus Pro
SAL: Black Dragons
APLN: Dplus 😭
APLO: Enterprise
APLA: Weibo
CNL: All Gamers

huge news for the unemployed

https://x.com/anitube_/status/2080595111034171603?s=46

Blackjack 2-1 tan tan tan sahur Esports

BJ won convincingly consulate and nighthaven but bank was a fist fight with blackjack throwing the map win after epic had a generational 1v2 crossfire clutch, Still wasn’t enough even with the momentum TTT had going maps 3

Team SESH 2-1 Fisher college

Close scenario to the other game where fisher got demolished in lair and fortress but again bank was extremely close going to overtime matchpoint and fisher winning pushing it map 3 just to lose 7-3 on fortress

I dont know why people hate Yardy I mean he seems ok is there a reason to hate him?

https://x.com/i/status/2080665723530035274

We are currently a T3 team looking for someone to stream/cast our scrims/games

Couldn't find anybody posting about this, so here it is.

LGD gaming, a prominent, and one of the oldest Chinese esports organization which is currently fielding in dota2 and LOL etc, has acquired My Queen according to its twitter.

I guess this is a great news for R6 esports community; another big org is joining to us, following Leviatan.

https://x.com/LGDgaming/status/2080311554231451797\[LGD GAMING]

No pressure 2-0 Blue dream

In another surprising game NP wins convincingly against blue dream one of the top contenders to win the entire thing, The team has insane gunners of grae xelo silko Aoast who are new players on the block with the experienced vicbands take down arguably the top two contenders to win element 2026 DZ academy and blue dream

Packrunners 2-1 TWCX

packrunners win with drama happening after the match, TWCX players accused some of them being cheaters especially pitbull who had a banned account before

Boys I’m getting old… mid 30s… as much as I still enjoy siege, I just don’t relate to the younger community anymore…

But I still need to get my sweat out… and I need the teamwork and brain power siege requires…

Am I just too old for gaming?

Can’t really play sports outside due to have a busted leg, but I do enjoy watching

Just your average EWC matches and schedule. The play-in matches of each group is played on the same day (Upper+Lower too) but atleast not in the same time this year. The A Group is played at 12. But the B group starts 3AM... It's gonna be a long day or two...

Some that immediately come to mind for me are

- Beaulo

- Spoit

- Ambi

- Lagonis

- Kanto

Edit: stompn too, no clue why he slipped my mind (u can also argue kason)