Editorial policy

Which sources count

In order: Valve’s own publications (the Counter-Strike blog, the game site, Steam Support and the Steam Subscriber Agreement), the Valve Developer Community, then HLTV and Liquipedia for competitive record-keeping, then manufacturer documentation for hardware. A claim that exists only in a forum post, a video or a marketplace listing is not a source.

How numbers get on a page

Every figure, date, threshold and rule on this site is traceable to a published source, and the widget or paragraph that uses it links that source. Where a number is community convention rather than an official publication — the colour bands of the Premier rating are the clearest case — the page says so in the same breath. If we cannot source a field, the field does not appear.

Drafting and editing

Drafts are produced with machine assistance and are then checked against the sources above before publication. Nothing is published that a human editor has not read end to end.

Corrections

Mistakes are corrected in place, and the correction is dated on the page. Patches and map rotations change the guide itself, not only the news item — a guide that still describes the old pool is a broken guide.

Pages about odds

The Odds Desk explains how a market is written: what decimal, fractional and American prices mean, what a price implies as a probability and why those implied probabilities add up to more than one. It names no operator, links to none and recommends none. It is reference material for readers of legal age in their own jurisdiction, and it is not advice.