Editorial Policy

The standard we hold ourselves to

Publishing about the subject without saying how you work is asking for trust you have not earned. This is how we work.

The drafting process

1. The writer collects what they already know and marks the parts they cannot support.
2. Those parts are checked against a primary source, an operator document, or direct experience.
3. What survives step two goes into the draft. What does not is cut.
4. A second person reads the draft for claims that sound firmer than the evidence behind them.

Picking subjects

A subject earns a page when somebody has asked about it twice, or when we went looking for the answer ourselves and came back empty handed.

What we will not publish

• Anything promising a result we cannot demonstrate.
• Pages written backwards from a search term.
• Advice we would not repeat to somebody sitting across a table.

How we date articles

Published means published. We do not bump dates to look active, and an edit only changes the modified date when it changes what the article actually tells you to do.

Commercial links

Some links on this site are commercial. They never buy a rewrite of the surrounding paragraph.

We have never taken a criticism down because somebody asked, and the asking tends to tell readers more than the original complaint did.

Who signs the work

Every article carries the name of the person who wrote it and links to their profile. We do not publish under a house byline, because a house cannot be asked to explain itself.

Kai Denton, CS2 strategy and tactics writer. Kai has played Counter-Strike competitively since the early CS:GO days and spent years breaking down how professional teams approach the game. He writes about tactics, economy and the decisions that separate average players from those who consistently rank up.

Mira Ashford, Esports and competitive gaming writer. Mira covers the competitive gaming scene with a focus on CS2, from tier-one tournaments to the mechanics that make the game worth watching. She is interested in what esports reveals about teamwork, pressure and preparation.

Jake Solis, Gear and hardware reviewer. Jake tests mice, monitors, headsets and peripherals with a single question in mind: does this actually make you play better? He approaches gear reviews from a player perspective rather than a spec sheet.

How mistakes are handled

Corrections go to info@cs-kaiyuangame.com. Include the address and the sentence. Anything factual is fixed without argument. Anything that changes what the article recommends gets a dated note underneath, so the change is visible.