{"id":45398,"date":"2026-07-09T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/esl-joins-valve-in-banning-cs2-skin-trading-and-gambling-sponsors-for-teams\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T07:57:08","slug":"esl-joins-valve-in-banning-cs2-skin-trading-and-gambling-sponsors-for-teams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/09\/esl-joins-valve-in-banning-cs2-skin-trading-and-gambling-sponsors-for-teams\/","title":{"rendered":"ESL joins Valve in banning CS2 skin trading and gambling sponsors for teams"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESL FACEIT Group (EFG) has banned esports organizations from promoting CS2 skin trading, case-opening, or skin gambling sites. The move comes after Valve implemented a similar ban last year.\u00a0 EFG updated its rules on Tuesday ahead of the second season of 2026. Under sponsor restrictions, it adds&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.esports.net\/news\/cs2-skin-trading-sponsor-ban-esl\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ESL FACEIT Group (EFG) has banned esports organizations from promoting CS2 skin trading, case-opening, or skin gambling sites. The move comes after Valve implemented a similar ban last year.\u00a0 EFG updated its rules on Tuesday ahead of the second season of 2026. Under sponsor restrictions, it adds&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":45399,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45398\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/topxnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}