4Stack #3 — answers & breakdown

Thursday, July 16, 2026

Straight esports. If you follow one scene closely this is easy in that scene and brutal everywhere else — which is exactly the split we wanted.

The sixteen cards in this puzzle were: League of Legends, Dota 2, Valorant, Rocket League, FaZe Clan, Team Liquid, Cloud9, G2 Esports, Faker, s1mple, Bugha, Scump, Daigo, Justin Wong, SonicFox, Tokido.

The four stacks

Esports titles

League of Legends, Dota 2, Valorant, Rocket League

The four pillars of team-based competitive gaming. Rocket League is the youngest and the strangest of them, given it is fundamentally car football.

Esports orgs

FaZe Clan, Team Liquid, Cloud9, G2 Esports

Organisations, not games. All four field rosters across multiple titles, which is why none of them belong in the group above.

GOAT-tier pros

Faker, s1mple, Bugha, Scump

One legend per scene: Faker in League of Legends, s1mple in Counter-Strike, Bugha as the 2019 Fortnite World Cup solo champion, Scump in Call of Duty.

Fighting game legends

Daigo, Justin Wong, SonicFox, Tokido

The fighting game community operates almost entirely separately from the sponsored-org world above. Daigo's 2004 parry against Justin Wong at Evo is still the single most replayed moment in competitive fighting games.

Want to try it yourself? Play puzzle #3 — archive plays don't affect your streak. Or jump into today's puzzle.