david mcbeath
The 21-20 Golden Game: Texas Smash and the Economics of a Table Tennis League With No Ranking PointsOn 30 October, Texas Smash enter Week 4 of MLTT against three opponents:...
Texas Smash win two of three: reading MLTT through two-point gamesThe golden game closed at 21-20. Texas Smash beat Atlanta Blazers 17-4, a...
Two Points on a Knife's Edge: McBeath, Drinkhall and the Texas Smash Model in MLTTAt the third golden game of the weekend, the scoreboard stopped at 21-20. Not...
Rui Pinto and Lisbon's U-turn: When a Whistleblower's Shield Becomes a Test for the Whole Football IndustryThe day Rui Pinto was told his protective shield was about to be lifted was...
9...a5 and the Pragmatic Detour Through the Theoretical Storm of the King's Indian DefenseLast October, at a small chess club on Nguyen Chi Thanh Street in Da Nang, I...
USA TODAY Sports Launches a National High School Esports Championship: Media Rights Go Looking for the SchoolyardOn October 12, 2026, eight American high school esports teams began the group...
GOMEZ Sweeps Day One of the U15 European Event in Antibes: Six Rounds Left and the Small-Sample ProblemThe opening day of a nine-round round-robin never ends at the third round. Bu...
LCK 2026 Creates Consecutive Shocks with Two Consecutive Reverse Sweeps in Less Than 24 HoursHLE created a historic reverse sweep against T1 with a 3-2 score in the openi...
When Data Is Empty: Lessons from an Analysis Report with Nothing to AnalyzeI sat in Nagoya, the screen lighting up with a nine-dimension deep analysis...
Champions Shanghai: Four Americas Teams and the Opening Sweep — Reading the Data Before the HeadlineOn the fourth day of the opening round at VALORANT Champions Shanghai, I sat ...
Five Straight Points in Shenzhen: Satwik-Chirag and the Attrition Math Before the Asian Games11-21. That was the first-game scoreline in the China Masters final. An unusu...
V.League and the One Thing Money Cannot Buy in the Transfer MarketIn the last three V.League 1 seasons, the title has never left the hands of t...
Nine Dimensions of Esports Analysis: Why Clean Data Decides Every ConclusionOne Saturday night at the end of the season, the analysis room of an esports...
Mac Allister, Liverpool and the October 11 Fixture: The Voice of an Unsigned ContractOn the noticeboard at the Kirkby training centre, the October calendar is...
Inside the V.League Transfer Market: When Money Cannot Buy StandingIn mid-2026, in a closed meeting room in Hanoi, a negotiation that had lasted...
Systemic Data Failure: When Billiards Analysis Becomes Just 'N/A'In over twenty years of observing and analyzing professional billiards, I've...
India Sweep New Zealand 3-0 in Fukuoka, but Their AVC 2026 Quarterfinal Ticket Rests on Oman vs BahrainOn Tuesday in Fukuoka, India swept New Zealand in three straight sets: 25-22,...
PlayStation Withdraws from Physint: A Lesson in IP Ownership and the Transfer Logic of the Game IndustryIn the summer of 2026, Hideo Kojima posted a short line on X. He wrote that...
One Point and Zero Goals in Five Matches: Coach Nguyen Viet Thang Offers Resignation as Thanh Pho Dong Nai Slips Into Early V.League CrisisThanh Pho Dong Nai are enduring the worst start of any side in the 2026-2027...
FIVB's Challenge System and the Fight to Restore Trust at the NetSet five, score 14-13. The decisive rally: the visiting team's outside hitter...
