In-house tournament: Nacus takes the opener

Twelve players, six divisions, one Saturday. The first in-house of the season ran on placement points inside your own division, with cross-division bonus rounds on the Friday guild night to settle the ties.

Nacus won it. He led the board from the third round on and finished 165 points clear, which is about as close to boring as an in-house gets.

The podium

Ekko dragged it to a decider and still came up short. His own verdict afterwards was that Nacus is simply the better player, which we are contractually obliged to print. Dr Wu took third off the back of a near-perfect Warcraft block, dropping a single pull all night.

Atomic Climber was fourth and the only player to win a bonus round in a division that wasn’t his own.

Final standings

#	Tag	Division	Record	Points
1	Nacus	Valorant	48-12	2,480
2	Ekko	League of Legends	44-15	2,315
3	Dr Wu	World of Warcraft	41-17	2,190
4	Atomic Climber	Fortnite	39-20	2,046
5	Kibblesnatch	Marvel Rivals	36-21	1,932
6	Static Hound	Valorant	34-23	1,875
7	Sable Fang	Fortnite	32-24	1,790
8	Grimwatt	League of Legends	30-26	1,704
9	Byte Collie	Marvel Rivals	29-27	1,655
10	Moonhowl	World of Warcraft	27-28	1,588
11	Pipsqueak	Palworld	25-30	1,502
12	Trenchcoat	Palworld	23-31	1,431

What it changes

Nothing here is permanent — the board wipes at the end of the season. But Nacus now has to be beaten twice to lose the top spot, and nobody in the bottom half is mathematically out of it. Every score above is live on the front page and moves after each guild night.

The next in-house is the first Saturday of the month. Signups go up in Discord a week out, and it is open to anyone holding a tag, whichever division you play.