Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Half-Life TV
The 20 closest esports news alternatives to Half-Life TV, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 7 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Half-Life TV? The closest matches are Liquipedia, VLR.gg and GameRant. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Half-Life TV
Half-Life TV hltv.org
Wikidata: software for the broadcasting of gaming matches on the Half-Life engine
Summary by Claude
News website and forum covering professional Counter-Strike 2 esports, with match results, live scores, tournament coverage, team and player rankings, and statistics.
- Who it’s for
- Counter-Strike players and esports fans
- Business model
- Advertising and betting affiliate partnerships
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Half-Life TV’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Half-Life TV
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Half-Life TV, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read hltv.org’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Liquipedia
esports encyclopedia
Very close cos 0.929 - 02
Valorant esports coverage | VLR.gg
Valorant esports coverage - competitive news, schedule, match results, team rankings, stats, and forums
Very close cos 0.925 - 03
GameRant - Breaking News, Reviews & Everything Else in the World of Video Games
GameRant delivers content written by gamers for gamers with an emphasis on news, reviews, unique features, and interviews.
Very close cos 0.925 - 04
video game website
Very close cos 0.923 - 05
Bleacher Report | Sports. Highlights. News. Now.
Fan easier, fan faster and fan better with Bleacher Report. Keep up with the latest storylines, expert analysis, highlights and scores for all your favorite sports.
Very close cos 0.922 - 06
kicker.de
German association football website
Very close cos 0.919 - 07
CBS Sports | News, live scores, schedules, Fantasy, and more
CBS Sports delivers today's top sports news, live scoring, stats and player info for NFL, NBA, MLB and more of your favorite leagues.
Very close cos 0.915 - 08
Sports Scores, News & Schedules | theScore
Live sports scores, breaking news, schedules, and updates across the NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, NCAAs and more. Stay up to date with every game on theScore.
Very close cos 0.915 - 09
Human Verification
sports website founded in 2009
Very close cos 0.911 - 10
Chess.com - Play Chess Online - Free Games
Play chess online for free on Chess.com with over 250 million members from around the world. Have fun playing with friends or challenging the computer!
Very close cos 0.909 - 11
Live Football Scores, Fixtures & Results | LiveScore
Get Live Football Scores and Real-Time Football Results with LiveScore! We cover all Countries, Leagues and Competitions in unbeatable detail. Click Now!
Very close cos 0.913 - 12 Very close cos 0.913
- 13
ScreenRant: Movie News, Movie Reviews, Movie Trailers, TV News
ScreenRant debuted in 2003 and has grown into the largest source of breaking entertainment news & original features for movies, TV, comics, + more!
Very close cos 0.911 - 14
Vercel Security Checkpoint
news site about bitcoin and digital currencies, owned by Digital Currency Group
Very close cos 0.908 - 15
Polygon: Gaming and Entertainment News, Culture, Reviews, and More
Your source for the latest in video games, sci-fi, fantasy, tabletop games, anime, horror, books, and comics.
Very close cos 0.910 - 16
FOX Sports News, Scores, Schedules, Odds, Shows, Streams & Videos | FOX Sports
Watch FOX Sports and view live scores, odds, team news, player news, streams, videos, stats, standings & schedules covering NFL, MLB, NASCAR, INDYCAR, NBA, NHL, college sports & more!
Very close cos 0.908 - 17
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters, & software
Slashdot: News for nerds, stuff that matters. Timely news source for technology related news and B2B software reviews & comparisons.
Very close cos 0.907 - 18
MLB.com | The Official Site of Major League Baseball
Coverage includes audio and video clips, interviews, statistics, schedules and exclusive stories.
Very close cos 0.906 - 19
Official Site of the National Hockey League | NHL.com
The official National Hockey League website including news, rosters, stats, schedules, teams, and video.
Very close cos 0.904 - 20
Ars Technica - Serving the Technologist since 1998. News, reviews, and analysis.
News and reviews, covering IT, AI, science, space, health, gaming, cybersecurity, tech policy, computers, mobile devices, and operating systems.
Very close cos 0.906
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to hltv.org’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Half-Life TV uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Half-Life TV is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fec9dce5630b-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS edna.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- DocuSign TXT docusign=ce7033ad-95f5-4b5c-8ceb-1f0625b2d69c
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=H9_D3DoWTfJfQL_ZKNRt7EkqtGgID0zNTwk382ufRtU
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Half-Life TV adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 13/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on hltv.org 8/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on hltv.org 8/20
- nginx · not on hltv.org 7/20
- Atlassian · not on hltv.org 7/20
- Amazon SES · not on hltv.org 6/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on hltv.org 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 4/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on hltv.org 4/20
- jQuery · not on hltv.org 4/20
- PHP · not on hltv.org 4/20
- Yandex Webmaster · not on hltv.org 4/20
- Apple Business · not on hltv.org 4/20
- Next.js · not on hltv.org 4/20
- OneTrust · not on hltv.org 4/20