Zero Input, Nine Dimensions: Esports Analytics' Integrity Crisis and Blockchain's Role

Late that night the analysis engine printed nine pages, and on every page the same sentence kept returning: “Not applicable — insufficient information, cannot assess.” No game title. No patch number. No team, no player, no tournament, no roster move, no financial event. Only a flawless skeleton, politely admitting its own emptiness. What appeared on screen was really a silent failure of data integrity — exactly the kind of failure the esports industry buries under highlight reels every day. We brag about pick-ban rates, we argue