What is the GRID Data Platform, and what does it do? I thought I'd start my 'miniblog' series off with some of the fundamentals. @GRIDesports builds and operates the GRID Data Platform, technology designed to collect, enrich and distribute data from games. The overarching goal being to empower a sustainable, data-centric ecosystem. Let’s dive into a bit more detail about each of these steps in the pipeline. 1. Data Collection 🧲 Enter, GRID Game SDK. This software is provided to game developers, allowing them to extract data (in real-time) about what is happening in the game, down to the most granular details. These details are then transmitted in small chunks, reducing the infrastructure load and easing integration efforts. 2. Data Enrichment 🏦 As the data arrives at the platform, the first thing necessary is to aggregate all of the small details, building up one comprehensive, usable state. Once this is done, further enrichment occurs, which includes calculating derivative data points, generating deeper statistics and insights, and running the data through models to generate predictions. 3. Data Distribution 📨 What use would this all be if no one could use it? So finally, the GRID Data Platform has a suite of APIs (the GRID Data Feeds) that enable people to consume the different types of enriched data produced (live data, statistics, predictions, etc.), so that they can build their products on top of it. Additionally, the GRID Data Portal framework makes rich UIs available on top of the data, making it accessible for a variety of use cases. That's what the GRID Data Platform does, in a nutshell. There’s a lot of fun challenges involved in the details of scaling and operating such a platform. These will be some tales for another day! #esports #gaming #data #platform #engineering

We're looking for partners to take FIA Esports to the next level, making motor sport more accessible for all 🏎️ 🏁 #FIAEsports

Concentration of power, capabilities and economic wealth is the biggest risk in AI. We need open science and open-source more than ever!

As @IEM Rio gets underway, a throwback to Kraków! It was incredibly humbling to see the GRID logo on one of the biggest stadiums in a sport I have loved since I was 13 💙🧡 (keep watching until the end!) Thank you to everyone who helped make this happen, and to @CounterStrike for being awesome :-)

I've been talking about the importance of official data accessibility in esports for many years now. In the age extremely cheap automation, this is simpler and doesn't just apply to esports: Accessibility of official data is key.

100% great advice. For a while I wanted to start a coding bootcamp that purely taught and progressed students by contributions to open source projects. It would be much more effective at training developers rapidly than the "build a terminal noughts and crosses in Java" projects.

Really interesting concept

A very Happy New Year to all 🎇 As the first day of 2026 comes to a close, I've had some nice time reflecting on some key moments of 2025. A few of my personal highlights: ✅ Successful GRID product launches that set the direction for the coming year: GRID Play and GRID Bet. 🎙️ Speaking on a panel ("You had me at in-game data" :-)) at GRID's own Gamescom side-event. 💡 The Product Engineering full-team meet up with plenty in-depth discussion on the most key technical challenges, and how we're going to solve them. Looking forward - 2026 is a year I'm really excited for. Not only are there are many more GRID milestones in the works (#staytuned 📻), but it's also just exceptionally exciting to be working in technology at such a transformative and impactful time in history. Thank you to everyone who made 2025 what it was, let's make 2026 just as great 🫶

The software industry's AI transformation is fascinating. There's still plenty for engineers to do (and plenty that can go wrong if they don't do it), but the empowerment these tools offer when used well is mesmerising. What is extremely interesting is the development of techniques and best-practices that work at scale in order to channel this investment into sustained high value output. Lots to do here, but the reward is huge!

Very cool, keep up the great work!

Really excited to see this happening! Good luck to all participating - can’t wait to see what people build 🚀

We’re excited to announce that Sportstensor is partnering with @GRIDesports to transform official esports data into market intelligence. Data is everything in predictive modelling. Scraping websites that scrape other websites dilute alpha before you even start. Public data gets you to the starting line but that's where everyone else is too. Trusted by Riot Games, Ubisoft, BLAST, ESL FACEIT Group, and other esports rights holders, GRID pulls data straight from the source: the game servers themselves. No intermediaries. No degradation. This is the edge that gets you to the finish line. Together we're building intelligence on official data to capture the $2.8 billion esports market. Ushering in the next wave of market intelligence that will flow into @almanac_market and @polymarket. Official data. Predictive power. Market truth.

Reflecting today on a great week at @gamescom last week. Nice as always to see some old faces, but also meet many new ones, and get a chance to speak with partners and others in the industry about innovative new ideas and solutions, and the technology that stimulates them. For the first time, we also ran a @GRIDesports event together with our partners, @Getgud_io, with a focus on how the landscape is changing with regards to use cases revolving around in-game data, and the importance to invest early in an infrastructure that allows you to tap into the potential it holds for studios, big and small. Fascinating discussions, technology and games in every direction as far as the eye could see, and the odd Kölsch in between 🍻 - 10/10

After a great Devcom, it’s time for Day 1 of @gamescom! Ready for a day talking non-stop about in-game data - the best kind :-)

It's brilliant to be working with the @LegionTD2 team at @ninjakiwigames, the first partner to launch for GRID Play. As you might expect from a title with such strategic depth, they really understand the key role data plays in the engagement of their player base and development of their game. I'm very excited for this partnership!

A deep dive into some of the interesting data points collected during @IEM Cologne. Also Includes further confirmation that donk is indeed still donk... medium.com/grid-esports/dama… #iemcologne #esportsdta @GRIDesports

The moment Cologne got a @CounterStrike Major.

A beautiful sight - the @GRIDesports Data Platform up and running at @IEM. What a moment, 7 years since initially launching with the London FACEIT major in 2018.