Hot Spawn News Updates

As the Semi-Finals approach, it’s hard to believe we’re almost at the end of PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025! Counter-Strike’s return to Romania has been a blast, delivering tons of high-octane matches from a tournament organizer we don’t see too often outside of the Majors. Now, 16 teams have become four. Glory… Read more »

Let’s all be honest with each other for a moment – none of us saw Astralis beating The MongolZ in the Playoffs of PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, let alone in comfortable 2:0 fashion. I myself didn’t have Astralis picking up a single map here, especially after watching them get dumpstered in… Read more »

On Monday, Movistar KOI suffered their first loss in the LEC’s Winter playoffs against Karmine Corp (0-2). No more room for mistake, as MKOI has been relegated to the lower bracket, where any loss is synonymous with elimination. Javier “Elyoya” Prades and his team will face the winner of Team… Read more »

Master Bangkok started with a ridiculous 17-15 opening map win for EDward Gaming in their series against Team Liquid. The Champions holders took the momentum to claim a more dominant map two win and secure the overall series victory.  EDward Gaming shows why they’re Champions winners For EDG, victory means… Read more »

With the advent of Dota 2 Patch 7.38, I’m sure I’m not the only one kind of confused about the reworked neutral items system. Where once you were able to just pick and choose using tokens dropped by neutral creeps, Patch 7.38 has changed everything; you now have to craft neutral… Read more »

Coming into PGL Cluj-Napoca 2025, my Power Rankings had FaZe Clan pegged as the favorites to win the event. With the Group Stage complete and the Playoffs bracket set, I’m feeling pretty good about that prediction. I think even the most ardent haters would admit FaZe Clan are looking good… Read more »

Spoilers: No. Jokes aside, Team Falcons has accomplished a feat for the first time in over a year. They made Playoffs at a non-BetBoom Counter-Strike LAN. The last time we saw them in an arena in front of a crowd was IEM Katowice 2024. That was in January of last… Read more »

We’ve all known for a while that Virtus.pro has an electroNic problem. Even when Jame was still on the team, rumors were swirling that electroNic had made himself de-facto IGL. The former NAVI star clearly fancies himself an in-game leader, despite having no success in the role ever since first… Read more »

All Masters Bangkok teams fielded questions from the media on the eve of VALORANT’s first global event of the year. Here we look at the key comments from those widely considered tournament favourites; G2 Esports, Team Vitality, EDward Gaming, and Sentinels. G2 – Americas #1 First was G2, Americas champions… Read more »

The number 2 seeds of each region have a lot to do to make it to the playoff bracket for Masters Bangkok. Can any of these teams make an upset? Not every team at Masters Bangkok will get a win As sad as it is, it is the unfortunate truth.… Read more »