Frequently Asked Questions
Everything you need to know about our fantasy CS2 platform
FragDraft is a fantasy esports platform for CS2 (Counter-Strike 2) tournaments. Create fantasy drafts by selecting players from real tournaments, compete against other users, earn XP, unlock achievements, and climb the leaderboard.
We currently support CS2 (Counter-Strike 2) tournaments across the calendar, including tier 1 and tier 2 professional events, not only the Majors. Check the Tournaments page to see all currently running and upcoming tournaments.
Yes! Creating an account, joining tournaments, and creating fantasy drafts is completely free. Earn XP, unlock achievements, and compete for titles on the leaderboard. You can also see how FragDraft compares to other CS2 fantasy games.
You can browse tournaments and view player stats without an account. However, to create fantasy drafts and compete on the leaderboard, you need to create a free account.
Yes. CS2 fantasy leagues let you compete in your own standings on top of the global leaderboard, and they are free.
Private league: invite-only. You create it and share an invite link or invite friends by username, so only people you invite can join, ideal for a group of friends.
Public league: open to everyone. Anyone can find it under the Discover tab and join.
You can create a league in a minute and be in more than one at a time.
A league war is a contest between two leagues. One league challenges another over a chosen battleground: a single tournament, a whole event, or a season.
Each side's recently-active members play as normal, and the side with the higher average score wins. Wars are separate from a league's own standings and never fold into them.
Wars between two public leagues are publicly watchable on the league wars page.
Yes, and there is no bot to install. The owner pastes a Discord webhook URL into the league (News tab, or League settings → General). Your announcements, season champions and league wars then post into that channel, under the league's own name and logo.
To get the URL: Server Settings → Integrations → Webhooks. It is free. Full walkthrough.
Click the "Sign Up" button in the navigation bar, enter your email and choose a password. You'll receive a verification email to confirm your account. Once verified, you're ready to start drafting!
If you rank 1st or 2nd on the monthly referral leaderboard, you may be eligible for a special reward. To receive it, go to "Profile & Settings" and paste your Steam Trade URL. You can find your trade URL on the Steam website under Inventory → Trade Offers → Who can send me Trade Offers.
Optionally, you can also link your full Steam account; this shows your Steam profile and avatar on the leaderboards, but is not required for rewards.
Visit the "Tournaments" page from the main navigation. Live tournaments are displayed at the top with a "LIVE" badge, followed by upcoming tournaments. Click on any tournament to view details and create a draft.
Navigate to any tournament from the Tournaments page. On the tournament details page, you'll see a draft panel on the right side (or at the bottom on mobile). Select your players and submit your draft before the tournament starts.
Select a roster of CS2 players competing in a specific tournament. You have 25 energy to spend on players, each player has an energy cost based on their rating. As the tournament progresses, your players earn points based on their real in-game performance. Your total score is compared against other users.
Player scores are calculated based on a comprehensive formula that rewards both individual performance and match outcomes. Here is a detailed breakdown of the scoring rules:
- Kills: +2 points each
- Deaths: -1 point each
- Assists: +1 point each
- Headshots: +0.5 points each
- FK Diff: +2 points per net opening duel won
- Flash Assists: +0.5 points each
- Maps Won by Favorite Team: +10 points per map
- Game/Map Won: +5 points each
- Match Won (Bo3/Bo5): +10 points bonus
Note on Performance Metrics: HLTV rating, ADR (Average Damage per Round), and KAST% award small base bonus points, rewarding smart picks (e.g. choosing a high-ADR player earns a few extra points). These metrics can also trigger conditional boosters if you have them: for example, a "Rating Prodigy" booster applies a small multiplier if your player's rating exceeds 1.1. Boosters are a minor amplifier, good player picks and accurate predictions are what drive your score.
The favorite team feature allows you to select a team competing in the tournament. When your favorite team wins maps during the tournament, you earn bonus points on top of your drafted players' scores.
- You earn +10 bonus points for each map your favorite team wins
- The team can be from any organization competing in the tournament
- You can select your favorite team before the tournament starts
- The bonus applies across your entire draft - it benefits all your players equally
If your favorite team wins 5 maps in a tournament, you earn +50 bonus points (5 maps × 10 points). This is added to your total draft score along with your players' individual scores.
Your favorite team and the total bonus points earned from map wins are displayed on the leaderboard and in the detailed score breakdown, so you can see exactly how much your team selection contributed to your final score.
You can edit your draft at any time before the tournament begins. Once the tournament starts, your draft is locked and cannot be changed.
Drafts automatically lock when the tournament begins. The exact start time is displayed on each tournament page. We recommend submitting your draft early to avoid missing the deadline.
Each draft consists of 5 players, the same as a CS2 competitive team. Choose your roster by analysing player stats, recent performance, and team matchups.
Boosters are special modifiers you can apply to your drafted players to increase their fantasy points. They come in four rarity tiers (Common, Rare, Epic, Legendary) with varying power levels and energy costs.
- Apply boosters to individual players in your draft before the tournament starts
- Each booster has an energy cost, you have a separate 10 booster energy budget (distinct from the 25 player drafting energy)
- Boosters multiply specific stats (kills, assists, headshots, weapon-specific bonuses, etc.)
- Higher rarity boosters provide bigger multipliers but cost more energy
- Conditional boosters trigger only when certain performance thresholds are met (e.g., "High Impact" booster applies +7% if ADR > 70)
- Strategic deployment is key - apply boosters to players likely to meet the conditions!
- Craft boosters using shards you earn by playing
- Purchase booster packs from the Shop with shards (Starter, Epic, Elite packs)
Shards are a currency you earn just by playing. Collect enough shards and you can craft boosters of a specific rarity so there's no luck involved, you pick exactly what you want.
- Top 3 finish: +10 shards
- Top 10 finish: +5 shards
- Participation (11th+): +3 shards
- Daily login: +3 shards every day you log in
- Achievements: +2 to +75 shards each, depending on rarity
- Referral milestones: Earn shards when your cumulative active referrals hit milestones (1, 3, 5, 10, 25, 50, 100)
- Referral monthly leaderboard: Every ranked finisher earns shards each month
- League wars: Win an event or season league war and the winning side splits a shard pool, scaled by how much each member contributed. (Single-tournament wars pay a booster pack to the winners instead.)
Tournament shards are awarded automatically when a tournament ends and final standings are confirmed.
- Craft boosters of a specific rarity from the Shop
- Buy booster packs in the Shop (Starter, Epic, Elite)
- Buy cosmetics in the Shop: pets, avatar borders, and titles
More cosmetics, including profile backgrounds, are coming soon.
- Common booster: 5 shards
- Rare booster: 10 shards
- Epic booster: 20 shards
- Legendary booster: 40 shards
Visit the Shop to see your shard balance and the crafting progress bar. When you have enough shards for a tier, click the milestone button to craft a booster of that rarity instantly.
Brass is the Season Pass currency. You earn it by claiming pass tiers as you play, on both the free and the premium track. It is never sold: there is no way to buy Brass with money, so every skin redeemed with it was earned by playing.
- Real CS2 skins on the skin shelf in the Shop, delivered as a Steam trade offer
- Premium cosmetics in the Shop
- Next season's premium pass, if you save up for it
- A verified email address
- A saved Steam Trade URL (Profile & Settings)
- A payment history in good standing
The referral program is the other way to earn skins: top finishers on the monthly referral leaderboard receive them as prizes.
Pick'em is the daily prediction game. There is no drafting and no roster: around ten matches open for picks each day and you call the winner.
Correct picks earn points, which you bank to climb the Pick'em leaderboard. Play it on the Pick'em page.
Only the day's featured slate can be picked. That is around ten matches, chosen automatically by tournament tier, match format and how evenly matched the two teams are on recent form. The rest of the schedule stays on the page for reference. A busy day carries several times that many matches, and picking all of them would be volume, not judgement.
Each side of a match carries a line: a points value set by how the community is split.
- An even split is 1x, or 10 points
- Heavy favorites drop toward 0.5x, or 5 points
- Big underdogs climb toward 3x, or 30 points
The line is stamped onto your pick the moment you make it, so later movement never changes what it is worth. Percentages stay hidden until 5 people have picked a match, shown as Early line, but the multiplier is always visible.
Every correct pick adds its points to your pot and extends your chain. A wrong pick clears the pot. Banking moves the pot into your score for good, multiplied by a bonus that grows with the chain (correct picks in a row):
- 1: 1x
- 2: 1.2x
- 3: 1.4x
- 4: 1.6x
- 5 to 6: 2x
- 7 to 9: 2.5x
- 10 or more: 3x
Only banked points count. You can bank at any time from the chain meter on the Pick'em page, and any pot you are still riding banks itself automatically overnight, so points you earned today are never lost to tomorrow's wrong pick. Riding a chain across days is a choice, not the default.
A match opens for picks 24 hours before kickoff and locks when it starts. You get one pick per match and cannot change it afterwards. Drafts work differently: you can edit those right up until the tournament begins.
Your pick is voided and does not count either way. Your chain, your pot and your streak are untouched, and the pick is left out of your win rate. Forfeits are treated the same.
By banked points. There is a seasonal view, covering picks made in the current quarter, and an all-time view.
An unbanked pot has its own column and does not count until you bank it. When a season closes, any pot still riding is banked for you at its bonus.
Correct count, best chain and win rate are shown for context and break ties, but never set the rank. Win rate appears once you have 10 resolved picks.
Each day you are matched against one opponent over that day's slate: a rival if one of them picked yesterday, otherwise the player closest to your accuracy, otherwise the Crowd. Both records sit side by side on the Pick'em page and update live. It is for bragging rights, with no points attached, and you get a new one every day.
Your streak counts consecutive days with at least one correct pick. It is separate from your chain and your score, and pays shards at three milestones:
- 7 days: 5 shards
- 14 days: 10 shards
- 30 days: 20 shards
The Oracle ladder tracks lifetime correct picks. Each rung unlocks a title and a booster pack:
- 10 correct: Oracle: Apprentice
- 50 correct: Oracle: Adept
- 200 correct: Oracle: Master
- 750 correct: Oracle: Grandmaster
No. You cannot put money in and you cannot take money out. Points are a ranking number, not a currency, so they buy nothing. The only thing at risk is the points in your own pot.
FragDraft is built as the free, skill-based alternative to CS2 gambling sites, and the minimum registration age is 16. You can see how we compare to other ways to play.
FragDraft has a referral program that rewards you for inviting friends. Share your unique referral link and earn shards, XP, and exclusive rewards when your friends join and play. Rewards come from two sources: milestone rewards (based on lifetime active referrals) and a monthly leaderboard (ranked by new activations each calendar month).
Go to your profile and open the Referrals tab. Your unique referral code (format: FD-XXXXXX) and a full shareable link (fragdraft.win/r/YOUR_CODE) are displayed there. Click Code or Link to copy to clipboard instantly.
A referred user starts as "pending" after signing up with your link. They become "active" once they complete their first tournament draft. Only active referrals count toward your milestone progress and the monthly leaderboard.
Milestone rewards are based on your all-time total active referrals and are claimed manually from your profile's Referrals tab.
- 1 active referral: 5 shards
- 3 active referrals: 15 shards
- 5 active referrals: 20 shards
- 10 active referrals: 50 shards
- 25 active referrals: 100 shards
- 50 active referrals: 150 shards
- 100 active referrals: 300 shards
Each milestone is claimable once. Go to your profile → Referrals tab and click Claim next to any unlocked milestone.
Every calendar month, users compete on the referral leaderboard based on new active referrals generated that month. The leaderboard resets on the 1st of each month.
- 1st place: CS2 skin + 2 shards
- 2nd place: CS2 skin + 2 shards
- 3rd place: Epic Pack + 2 shards
- 4th–10th: Starter Pack + 2 shards
- 11th–50th: 2 shards
- 51st+: 1 shard (if you referred at least 1 active user that month)
No. Referral codes must be used at sign-up, either by visiting the referral link before registering or by entering a code during registration. It is not possible to apply a referral code to an existing account.
No. Self-referrals and multi-accounting are strictly prohibited and constitute fraud under our Terms of Service. Accounts found to be abusing the referral system will be permanently banned and forfeit all rewards, including any referral rewards already earned.
Winners are determined by total fantasy points accumulated by their drafted players throughout the tournament. Final standings are calculated when the tournament ends.
Tournament and player data comes from PandaScore, providing comprehensive coverage of CS2 tournaments with accurate, real-time statistics.
Tournament and player data is updated in real-time during live matches. Match results, player statistics, and leaderboard standings refresh automatically as games progress, typically with under 5 minutes delay.
We cover tier 1 and tier 2 professional CS2 tournaments across the calendar, not only the Majors. Some smaller or regional tournaments may not be available if they're not covered by our data providers. If you'd like to see a specific tournament added, please contact us through our support channels.
Live tournaments are currently in progress with matches being played. You can track your draft's performance in real-time. Upcoming tournaments haven't started yet - these are available for drafting, and you can still create or edit your lineup until the tournament begins.
You can reach our support team on our Discord server. Please include relevant details like your username, tournament name, and a description of the issue. We typically respond within 24 hours.
Yes. All passwords are hashed and encrypted. We use JWT tokens for authentication with short expiration times. Your Steam credentials are never stored, we only use Steam's official OAuth system. We never ask for your Steam password.
Yes! If you've traveled to a different country or region you can request our support team to update your region by reaching out on our Discord server.
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