chad burchill
BLAST Payment Delays: Teams Choose PGL for 2027 EventOn an October 2026 evening, I sat in front of two monitors in my small...
Vietnam U17: 29 Names, Seven New Faces, and an Attack Left UntouchedOn the morning of September 17, Vietnam's 29-man U17 squad list was released....
What Football Can Never MeasureThere is a sound I have heard for thirty-two years as a writer, and to this d...
Vietnam-Korea PUBG: When Tournament Rules Are Written in Tears and a Wave of Game DeletionsThe moment I pinpointed it — the moment the organizers pulled Himass and TanV...
Indonesia's Paes and Romeny naturalisation: a zero-fee deal and its hidden billIn April 2026, a goalkeeper born in 2026 put pen to paper on Indonesian...
Arkhangelskiy and 22.91 seconds: Bahrain's first swimming goldWhen the electronic board stopped at 22.91 seconds, the gap between Michel...
Chaliha, the haze and a 10-21 swing: what the Super 100 exposed about BWF's tiered standardsGame one, Ashmita Chaliha lost 10-21. Game two, she won 21-10. Game three, sh...
Vietnam vs Pakistan: The Patrik Lê Giang Goalkeeper Knot and How Kim Sang Sik Handles a CrisisThe press conference in Jakarta was shorter than I expected. Kim Sang Sik sat...
The V.League Transfer Market: Parent-Company Money and Contracts Without FeesOn a V.League club's news page, the announcement of a new signing runs exactl...
What Do We Read V.League With When the Data Table Stays Blank?Last month, in a press room at a stadium in northern Vietnam, a young colleag...
The Eurotalents Camp in Luxembourg: Zhang Yining, Yan Sen, and China's Quiet Coaching ExportOn 1 September, in a training hall in Luxembourg, Zhang Yining stood beside a...
An All-Indian Final at the Asian U17: Tanvi Patri, Chengdu and the Map of Asian Junior BadmintonThe third game ended at 15-12. Tanvi Patri beat Shaina Manimuthu 11-15, 15-10...
The Rain in Bursa, Four Goals, and the Limits of a Single Data SampleBursa, minute 45. The scoreboard read 3-0, but what lodged in my mind was the...
Satwiksairaj and Chirag Shetty advance to China Masters semifinals, Srikanth eliminated in quarterfinalsIn the quarterfinals of the China Masters Super 750 held in Shenzhen, China,...
Maresca, Man City and Anfield: When the Verdict Leaves the CourtroomMaresca, Man City and Anfield: When the Verdict Leaves the Courtroom Enzo...
The Empty Deconstruction: The Data Gap Behind Badminton AnalysisI keep a professional habit. Every time I read a badminton analysis, I open a...
A24's $200 Million Gamble: The Elden Ring Adaptation and Lessons for the Film IndustryIn the context of the constantly shifting global film industry, reports that...
When a Game Studio Outsmarted Sony, Xbox Steps In: Analyzing the Physint Transfer and the Historic Kojima-PlayStation SplitAt an office in Tokyo during summer 2026, Hideo Kojima received a call he nev...
Courtois Invests in Fusion Group: A 2.4% Stake, $484,000, and Astralis's Liquidity ProblemA single tweet can be worth more than a contract. But once real money is on t...
TABLE TENNIS WORLD THIS WEEK: WHEN DATA IS EMPTY AND THE ANALYST IS PRESENT IN ABSENTIAIn a small room in the outskirts of Guangzhou, I just received a Stage-2...
