How ISL works

Choose them from the “Which player is this for?” dropdown (only unclaimed players on your team show). Empty means everyone's logged in, use New team member instead.

Hit Create invite link and send it to that one person.

They open it and sign in with their email. They're attached to that profile, stats and all, and just add a SteamID if it's missing.

Hit Create invite link. Nothing to fill in.

Share it directly with them (a DM, not a public channel).

They open it and sign in with their email. A fresh profile lands on your roster; they finish it on My profile (alias, photo, SteamID).

Each member is a Player, Moderator, Captain, or Coach. Moderators can help with the lineup and screenshot uploads. Coaches get full captain controls but never appear in the playing five. There's one captain at a time; hand it over from the roster if needed.

Move players between active and benched. Upload your team logo and edit notes. Team name, abbreviation, country, and color are set by league moderators (they're brand and stats anchors), so reach out if one is wrong.

Every format works the same way: both captains rank the season pool from most to least wanted, and the system runs the veto automatically. Best-of-1 is six bans — the last map standing is played. Best-of-3 and best-of-5 interleave picks. You never see the opponent's ranking.

Choose exactly five, then lock the lineup. You can pick anyone except players who've marked themselves unavailable; "not answered" players are still pickable (they often confirm to you off-site).

Twenty minutes before kickoff, your locked five and the picked map(s) go public on the match page. That's the broadcast moment for spectators.

For each affected map, hold Tab for the full scoreboard with player stats and screenshot it (any player on the team should have one, that's why the habit matters). Upload it on Team admin for that match.

Each team uploads its own. The system reads the scores and player stats; if both agree it scores on its own, if they disagree a moderator reviews.

Connect (GOTV) on Caster launches CS2 and joins the delayed relay — and sets engine_no_focus_sleep 0 + fps_max 120 for you, so alt-tabbing to OBS won't drop the stream. That applies on a cold launch only; if CS2 is already open, hit copy cmd and paste it into the console instead.

Not exclusive Fullscreen. In fullscreen, alt-tabbing to OBS minimises CS2 and the engine throttles — you fall behind the relay and get kicked ("Client delta ticks out of order"). Borderless keeps it rendering while you work in OBS.

NVENC (NVIDIA), QuickSync (Intel) or AMD VCE — not x264 (CPU). Software x264 steals the CPU CS2 needs to keep up with the GOTV relay on the same machine.

When you start streaming on the official channel, toggle Go live in the console — the public "Watch live" link then shows on the landing page and match page (works before kickoff for a pre-show). Toggle it off when you're done.

Draft and publish seasons, and choose the spotlight season (the public default) and the active one (where you and captains edit) — usually the same. A season carries its map pool, reveal offset, roster-lock and start/end dates; lock a finished one to freeze it.

Create teams and assign captains (a player can hold a place on only one team per season). Team color is auto-assigned; name, abbreviation, and country are locked anchors. Lock and unlock player identities, set photos, and override a SteamID when a player can't.

Create and edit matches, set maps and scores, and move status. Map names come from the season pool, never free text. Changing a match's date by a lot, or postponing it, offers to reset that match's stale lineup and map picks.

Approve pending uploads (the OCR writes player stats on approval), step in when two teams' screenshots disagree, and backfill historical screenshots into older matches.