What we publish, how we measure our accuracy, and material you're free to reuse.
cs2pickside picks a side in upcoming Counter-Strike 2 matches and publishes the reasoning behind each pick. Once the match has been played we go back and review it, and the outcome joins a record anyone can check. The misses stay in that record. A prediction service that only shows its wins is telling you nothing you can weigh.
One pick a day is free to read in full. The rest sit behind a subscription, and the accuracy record stays open to everyone, paying or not — it is the part you need in order to decide whether the rest is worth anything.
For every pick we weigh recent form and results, the head-to-head history between the two sides, the map pool each of them is likely to want, and any roster or stand-in news that changes what a team is. Each pick carries a stated confidence level, so a coin-flip is never presented with the same weight as a mismatch — what the confidence levels mean is written out in full.
We do not attribute the work to a named tipster, and we do not sell a method as a feature. What we put up for judgement is the record, not the process behind it, and the record is published whether it flatters us or not.
A pick counts as correct when the side we named won the match, and as wrong when it did not. There is no third category, no "close enough", and no quiet removal of a pick that aged badly. Every reviewed match is listed in the archive with the pick we made and what actually happened.
The headline figure is the share of reviewed picks that were correct, broken down by confidence level so you can see whether our confidence was worth anything. The full method is in how we measure prediction accuracy.
This is match analysis, not betting advice and not a tipster service. We do not tell anyone to stake money, we do not publish odds or stakes, and we have no arrangement with any bookmaker. What a match prediction is and is not sets out the difference at length, because it is the one readers most often blur.
Nothing here is a guarantee. A pick at our highest confidence level is still a pick that loses sometimes, which is precisely why the record is published rather than described.
People who follow competitive Counter-Strike and want a second read on a match before it starts — a fantasy roster to fill, a pick’em bracket to submit, or an argument to settle. The guides are the fastest way in if you have never read one of these before.
Quote the picks and the accuracy figures freely, with a link back to the page the figure came from — the numbers change as matches are reviewed, and a link is what lets a reader see the current one. Ready-made descriptions of the site are below, in the two lengths a directory listing usually asks for, along with the logo files.
