Zest.win Weekly Recap: September 21–27, 2026 Picks

252 esports predictions graded at 59% overall: our Counter-Strike 2 model hit 60% while League of Legends landed at 54% across September 21–27, 2026.

Our models graded 252 predictions for September 21–27, 2026, landing 148 hits for a 59% overall hit rate, essentially level with our long-run 60% winner accuracy. Counter-Strike 2 shouldered the heavier slate with 195 graded calls at 60%, while League of Legends came in at 57 graded and 54%. Both halves produced a long-odds hit worth remembering, and both produced a short-priced miss worth owning.

League of Legends

31 of 57 graded picks hit (54%).

League of Legends: all-time accuracy by target

Counter-Strike 2

117 of 195 graded picks hit (60%).

Counter-Strike 2: all-time accuracy by target

Counter-Strike 2 did the heavy lifting this week: 117 hits from 195 graded picks, a 60% return that sits right on our all-time series_winner and map_winner marks of 61%. The standout call was NEXVOID over Legion at 5.36 in ESL Challenger League Asia, a genuine long shot that landed and one of the better reads our model has made on a wide price. The persistent soft spot is the opening pistol, where all-time accuracy sits at 54% and 53% across pistol_1 and pistol_2, and the week's worst miss was the opposite kind of call — Rare Atom at 1.31 against The Huns, a short price that never paid. Elsewhere the Asian and South American cups gave us good value on underdogs, with METANOIA Wolves over Yawara at 4.15 and Desi Boyz over Without a Roof at 4.53 both converting.

League of Legends was the weaker half at 31 hits from 57 graded, a 54% week that fell well short of our 63% all-time series_winner rate. The call worth remembering was Nightbirds over G2 NORD at 7.00 in the EMEA Masters Summer Main Event, a rare big-odds hit that shows the model still finds real edges in that bracket. The miss that stung was FlyQuest at 1.26 against Shopify Rebellion in the LCS Summer Playoffs, our most expensive short price of the week, and the LCS playoff slate generally punished our favorites. League-wide, first_blood remains the least reliable target we track at 53%, and this week did nothing to argue otherwise. We finish the week slightly under our own baseline, with the long-shot hits real and the short-price losses just as real.

Every prediction we publish is graded in public: League of Legends track record · Counter-Strike 2 track record.

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