{"id":634032,"date":"2026-07-24T06:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/?p=833345"},"modified":"2026-07-24T06:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-07-24T06:30:06","slug":"valves-sticker-overhaul-squeezes-counter-strike-esports-teams-as-polymarket-expands-into-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/2026\/07\/24\/valves-sticker-overhaul-squeezes-counter-strike-esports-teams-as-polymarket-expands-into-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Valve\u2019s Sticker Overhaul Squeezes Counter-Strike Esports Teams as Polymarket Expands Into Space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"432\" src=\"https:\/\/static.news.bitcoin.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/valves-sticker-overhaul-squeezes-counter-strike-esports-teams-as-polymarket-expands-into-space-768x432.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium_large size-medium_large wp-post-image\" alt=\"Valve\u2019s Sticker Overhaul Squeezes Counter-Strike Esports Teams as Polymarket Expands Into Space\" style=\"float:left;margin:0 15px 15px 0\" \/>Counter-Strike esports orgs say Valve\u2019s first capsule-free Major \u2013 the biggest and most prestigious tournaments in the scene \u2013 produced a fraction of the sticker income teams had expected, threatening a revenue stream that has financed smaller teams for years. The shift came amid a New York gambling lawsuit, even as prediction markets and crypto [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bitcoin.com\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Counter-Strike esports orgs say Valve\u2019s first capsule-free Major \u2013 the biggest and most prestigious tournaments in the scene \u2013 produced a fraction of the sticker income teams had expected, threatening a revenue stream that has financed smaller teams for years. The shift came amid a New York gambling lawsuit, even as prediction markets and crypto [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":634033,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-634032","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bitcoin","8":"category-featured"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634032","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=634032"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/634032\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/634033"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=634032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=634032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/e-bitco.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=634032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}