AUGUST 16, 2026
👑 TheHockeyNews ended the day holding the hill · 5 crown changes · 19 dethronements · 245.0K engagements
August 16, 2026, on the Buffalo Sabres front. The crown changed hands 5 times before the day was done. When the last hour closed, TheHockeyNews stood on top of the hill, having held the summit for 12 of the day's 24 tracked hours.
The day's decisive strike came at 15:00 UTC, when TheHockeyNews ripped the hill away from NHLxForum. The lines below the summit churned too: 19 overtakes were logged across the elite ranks in total.
Between them, the 8 tracked armies fired 245.0K engagements across the day. The single hottest hour belonged to NHLxForum, who detonated 19.2K engagements in the 04:00 UTC hour alone.
In sheer volume, NHLxForum was the loudest army of the day with 41% of tracked engagement, ahead of TheHockeyNews (37%) and BuffaloSabres (8%).
BATTLE LOG · ALL TIMES UTC
FINAL STANDINGS OF THE DAY
covering the 8 elite armies tracked hour-by-hour · 24 hours observed · signals by LunarCrush 🌗