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June 2026 competitive digest

June 2026 paid its deepest money one rung below the marquee in MOBA, CS and CARBALL alike, and the clubs that answered that calendar most often were rarely the ones holding the month’s largest trophies.

The month across ESMO

Three games ran three different calendars in June and arrived at the same answer. MOBA listed $17.1m across 128 completed competitions, and the eleven residency-gated league blocks that carry the prestige held $4.79m of that against $10.3m spread over 90 open first-tier events. CS put $2.62m into its two majors and ran 89 first-tier city events at $115k apiece alongside them, $10.2m in aggregate. CARBALL was the loudest version of the same shape, because its mid-month qualifying round posted $4.72m across six regional brackets against the $1.30m main draw those brackets fed, and three of them paid $300k to a winner for a single day of work. Residency decided which doors a club was allowed to walk through and nothing more, while the point circuits attached to the open calendar answered a separate question. The money in June sat one rung below the marquee, and it was there every week.

That reshaped what a good month looked like, and it left the trophy table and the earnings table pointing at different clubs in all three games. In CS, QEA|HAVEX took 46 championships on a 379-78 record for $2.29m and still got no deeper than the opening playoff round at the first major of the month, while Raguna produced the single largest result anywhere in June and finished ahead of it on cash at $2.65m. In MOBA, the club with the strongest win rate of anyone playing 150 matches or more, Divine Gaming at 278 wins against 113 losses, never entered a league block at all and closed on $878k. In CARBALL, Młot Esports banked the largest total in that field, $693k from 239 appearances, around one decisive bracket afternoon, while Winterfox led that field on appearances, podiums and top-four finishes and still went out of its second-tier bracket at 2-3. Volume paid, conversion paid, and June declined to say which paid more.

What stopped the month feeling like three separate leagues is that a handful of clubs were living both answers at once, in different games. S1NAG entered 62 of the 90 first-tier MOBA events, won 22 of them and pulled $1.25m out of that circuit alone, and in CS the same club spent June at 85 wins against 106 losses with a single title and $123k, then sat at the head of the fee table regardless. YYC Bloodline won one of the four Americas MOBA blocks and led the CARBALL field on championships in the same four weeks, closing on 39 titles, 568 wins against 414 losses and a playoff run as deep as any recorded here. Neither of those months is legible from a single game article.

One caution about combined figures. MOBA, CS and CARBALL pay on very different scales and this record holds no shared rating across them, so a club’s month-wide number is a ledger of separate campaigns added together rather than a cross-game score. The same amount earned on the MOBA open circuit and in CARBALL brackets describes two different economies, not one standard of play. I use the ledgers below to show how much a club did, never to argue that a dollar in one game outranks a dollar in another.

The closing ten days then supplied the connection nobody planned. In every game the market went after the clubs that had just proved something, and the fees carried talent toward clubs that were winning somewhere else.

Best clubs

My pick is North Stars, and I hold it as a reading rather than a ruling. Across this field it leads on podiums with 91, on top-four finishes with 120 and on match wins with 660 against 413 losses from 1,077 appearances, and it sits second on championships with 45 and second on the month-wide ledger at $2.49m. It was also decisive on the day that paid most in CARBALL, taking one of the three $300k regional brackets at 6-1, and it was the only bracket winner from that round to reach the field of the month’s one completed headline event. Breadth and a decisive afternoon inside the same four weeks is a rare pairing in a month built this way.

The strongest case against me belongs to QEA|HAVEX, and it is not a weak one. It leads the field on championships with 46 and owns the cleanest record of any club carrying a heavy schedule, 379 wins against 78 losses, banking $2.29m. Its club ledger and its CS month are the same figure, which is either admirable focus or a narrower June than my pick’s, depending on what you think a cross-game edition should reward. Set against it, the deepest run it managed at the month’s first major ended in the opening playoff round, and it rebuilt its own lineup through the second half of June while it was still winning weekly events.

QEA Rez0x leads the ledger outright at $3.80m and played more than anybody at 1,172 appearances, with 34 championships and the two EMEA league blocks that closed the MOBA month at $200k apiece. What keeps it off first place on my card is the margin underneath the money, because 631 wins against 521 losses is the narrowest winning rate near the head of this table, and a total assembled across several calendars rewards presence at least as much as control.

Raguna owns the single biggest result of June and $2.65m, more than my pick collected, from 26 championships and a 313-150 record. That is a thinner base than the clubs above it, and it is a month that lives almost entirely in one weekend. YYC Bloodline closes the group with 39 championships and a playoff run nobody beat, gathered across two games rather than one, then ten closing days spent as a net seller rather than a buyer.

So here is the argument worth having, and it belongs at the head of the card rather than the tail. Does the widest month in this field, 120 top-four finishes and 660 wins gathered across more than one game, hold first place over 46 championships and a 379-78 record built inside a single game, and if you would swap them, name the one June result North Stars would have needed to stop you.

Notable transfers

June’s market had one club at the centre of it, and it was not one of the month’s champions. S1NAG sold S1|Veli on 22 June for $550k, the largest fee anywhere in this month’s record, and let S1|Merq go four days later for $400k, which headed the CS fee table on its own. In the same fortnight it was buying, paying $425k for MP|Attila on 13 June and $275k for YYC_P3AR on the day the record sale cleared. A club entering that many first-tier events across two games needs rotation more than it needs any single name, and the trading reads as selling from strength to buy depth.

The seller on that last deal is the other half of the story. YYC_P3AR and YYC_CrashOut both left YYC Bloodline inside the closing ten days, the second for $225k on 28 June to Heath84 Esports, a club that turned three deep Americas playoff runs into an outright block win and ended June on 28 championships from 333 wins against 185 losses. A club that had just led its CARBALL field on titles sent one player to the busiest schedule in MOBA and another to that Americas block winner inside a single week. That is either a squad being funded for July or a squad being taken apart, and June does not settle which.

CS ran the same script at higher speed. Grim Nexus took the single largest prize of the first major on an 8-1 run, sold paranoia for $250k to BaekZero nine days after that, and its recorded results stop on 21 June. QEA|HAVEX sold DemonoRg4n1ib3ar686 to the same buyer for $200k on 14 June while it was still taking the biggest share at weekly events, and that buyer turned its shopping into $1.48m and 19 titles of its own. Raguna then sold RG|Xylo for $200k on 27 June, the day before the closing major opened, and won the event it had just sold into. Managers who read a late squad sale as a warning sign spent that weekend being contradicted in public.

The one club that moved ahead of its results rather than behind them was Almiras, which paid $280k for Bidis on the first day of June. A fortnight later it was in the opening stage of the largest CARBALL draw of the month, and it closed June by winning the last Americas MOBA block unbeaten across six matches, finishing with 100 top-four finishes, second in this field. Cause or coincidence is a fair argument, and it is still the one piece of June trading that looks like a plan rather than a reaction.

Game digests

The three game editions carry the full month, including the roster-level cases this edition does not make.

ESMO Club GOAT debate

Seventeen recorded months now sit behind an ESMO club argument, and the honest place to start is with what this record still cannot do. Three games run inside it and not one of them prices a result the way the others do. June alone listed $17.1m across MOBA, put $10.2m into the CS city calendar on its own, and produced a CARBALL field whose largest club total for the month was $693k. A club figure that mixes games is therefore a ledger of separate campaigns added together rather than a cross-game score, and nothing supplied here offers a shared rating that would convert one into the other. Nothing below is normalized between the games and no composite is built from them. A month in which a club has no supported line is an unrecorded month rather than a defeat, and that distinction carries real weight in what follows.

My first choice across the whole record is QEA Rez0x, narrowly. It has now spent four uninterrupted months at or beside the head of the ESMO-wide ledger, and it has built every one of them across more than one calendar. March brought $3.08m, 144 championships, 184 podiums and an 810-223 record. April took that month’s championship lead at 128, with 170 podiums and 661-199 from 970 appearances across three sides, finishing $145k behind the month’s money leader. May led its field outright on money, championships, podiums, top-four finishes and wins at the same time, $3.62m and 98 titles from 1,404 appearances with a playoff depth of 11. June led the ledger outright again at $3.80m from 1,172 appearances, with the two league blocks that closed the MOBA month at $200k apiece. Its MOBA side, QEA Rez0x, carries the same four months on its own, $8.24m in aggregate, and June made it that field’s biggest earner on $1.84m with 12 titles from 50 first-tier entries. Four consecutive front-line months, assembled in more than one game each time, is the longest live shape of that kind anywhere in this record.

The deductions belong in the open rather than in a footnote. June’s 631-521 is the narrowest winning rate near the head of that table, and the championship count fell from 144 in March to 34 in June, so a ledger of that size rewards presence at least as much as control. The charge the May column left standing is also still standing, because across those four months nothing shows this club taking the largest single cheque of a month, and June’s biggest single payouts, $500k in CS and $300k in CARBALL, went elsewhere. If your standard is that the strongest club has to own the biggest day it entered, my pick fails that standard.

The strongest live alternative is QEA|HAVEX, and its run is now a month longer than mine. Through QEA|HAVEX it has held the front of CS for five consecutive months, 580-8 in February with an unbeaten worldwide title, 582-35 in March with a second one taken at 7-1, 520-23 in April, 464-87 in May, then 379-78 in June with 46 championships, the championship lead of the entire June field, $2.29m, entries in 67 of the 89 recorded first-tier city events and the biggest share in 32 of them, and a rating of 11.620 that led every side finishing the month with a winning record. June answered part of the standing objection too, since it took its route into the closing major without dropping a map for $300k. What holds it second on my card is footprint, because its club ledger and its CS month are the same figure, and it got no deeper than the opening playoff round at the month’s first major while rebuilding its own lineup through the back half of June. Rate how hard a club is to beat above how many calendars it touches and this is your first place, and I would not argue hard against you.

The longer-run accumulation benchmark is AVNG juster, and no recency pick erases it. Through AVNG juster it supplied front-line CS results in thirteen consecutive published months from February 2025 through February 2026, a line nothing else in this argument approaches. Inside it sit two $100k days taken off the runaway leader of the record’s opening month at 36-4, a 96-1 March, a 113-2 April containing three straight final wins over its rival of that stretch, still the only finals any two of these long-run cases have settled between them, a month-leading $2.37m on 585-44 in October 2025, the largest single CS month in this record at $2.95m on 628-19 in December, and January’s prize lead at $1.97m on 490-74. It is also the only contender to have produced front-line results out of the Americas, the Asia and Pacific area and the European calendars alike. March through June add nothing fresh for that side, which is unknown rather than decline. The older reservation is unchanged, since the supported club case is a CS case and its second board never commanded MOBA the way that roster commanded CS.

Yellow Sub - LMS is the other case being held open rather than argued down. It ran five consecutive months at the front, the ESMO money lead at $3.01m in December, $3.42m with 153 championships in January, February’s largest haul at $3.07m, $3.84m with 159 championships on 918-156 in March, then 117 championships at playoff depth 11 on 607-117 in April. Three of those months carried front-line results in both MOBA and CS through Underpass Sub - LMS and Yellow Sub - LMS. May and June renew neither game line, which is two months without a test rather than a fade, and a single month naming both boards again would put this case straight back in front.

Four finished peaks still shade all of it, and any one of them can be your first place if you rate the height of a completed run above the length of a live one. 🇵🇭 | AP is the only club in this record to finish in front of both MOBA and CS in the same month twice, $4.03m with 281 championships on 1,835-228 in May 2025 and $3.73m with 129 championships in June 2025. 🇵🇭| Scar Reign |QEA led the supplied club field three months running to $4.35m with 168 championships and 979 wins in September 2025, leading both games that month through PHI | Scar Reign at 533-28 and PHI | Scar Reign at $2.05m. Skillbox owns the earliest ceiling, $2.33m and 166 championships on 719-60 in February 2025, held loosely because the March 2025 edition credits its two sides to other clubs. AVNG DooM is the most recent of the four, an unbeaten worldwide CS title in March, both of April’s two richest CS fields taken the same way for $300k apiece on the way to that month’s highest club total of $3.01m on 560-45, then a May that led one game field on money and a second, separately scored one as well. None of the four has a fresh June result in this record. Untested is not beaten.

Two June names deserve naming without a promotion. North Stars took this month’s club pick on 91 podiums, 120 top-four finishes and 660-413 from 1,077 appearances, with 45 championships and $2.49m, and through North Stars it won one of the three $300k CARBALL brackets of the qualifying round and was the only stage winner from that round to reach the field of the month’s one completed headline event. It also posted $2.49m with 131 championships and 720 wins in January 2026, which makes it intermittent rather than brand new, though two front-line months five months apart is a pair of ceilings rather than a floor. Raguna now holds two straight months, $2.61m with 71 championships on 596-223 in May and $2.65m in June through Raguna, including the largest prize of the closing major, on the thinner base of 26 championships and a 313-150 record.

So here is the concrete thing to argue into July. Which would move you further, a fifth straight month from QEA Rez0x that finally takes the largest single cheque on the board, or one month in which QEA|HAVEX posts a supported result in a second game and turns the tightest loss columns here into a cross-game case?

Supporting evidence