Challenge parties

Challenge host and prize provider: CS2 School — Road to Pro, represented by Yaroslav Issakov ("Host"). Platform provider: Louis Rädisch & Gabriel Pechstein POVlib GbR ("Flashback"). The Host funds, confirms and pays the prizes. Flashback provides registration, FACEIT data processing and the provisional leaderboard; Flashback does not assume the Host's prize-payment obligation.

This challenge is not sponsored, endorsed or administered by FACEIT, Valve, Steam or Skool. Their names and services are used only to identify the connected platforms.

Eligibility

You must be at least 18 years old, reside in a country where participation and receipt of a cash prize are lawful, have an active CS2 School — Road to Pro membership when you register and when winners are verified, hold a Flashback account, and connect your own FACEIT account. One natural person, one Flashback account and one FACEIT account only. Employees and representatives of the Host or Flashback who can influence administration or scoring are not eligible for a prize.

Flashback charges no separate entry fee for this challenge. Any CS2 School membership payment is made to the Host for its independently provided coaching/community service, not to Flashback for a chance to win.

Registration

Registration is open from Thursday 27 August 2026, 00:00 UTC until Monday 14 September 2026, 00:00 UTC. You may join during the first seven days after play starts. A late joiner's Elo and eligible match window begin at registration, so joining later never credits earlier matches.

By selecting “Accept rules & join”, you accept this rules version, the Platform House Rules shown with it and the Flashback Terms of Service. Flashback records the acceptance time and a cryptographic snapshot of the accepted version.

Duration and eligible matches

The challenge runs for exactly 30 days: Monday 7 September 2026, 00:00 UTC through Wednesday 7 October 2026, 00:00 UTC, covering 7 September to 6 October inclusive. All times are UTC.

Only CS2 FACEIT matches on your connected account count. Premier, custom matches, matches on another account and matches outside your personal eligible window do not count. A match counts when FACEIT records its start before the deadline; it may finish afterward. The leaderboard can continue settling for late FACEIT results after the countdown reaches zero.

Match discovery, Elo snapshots and performance statistics come directly from the official FACEIT Data API (match history and match stats). This challenge does not use or require Flashback's custom demo downloader or demo-analysis pipeline for registration, eligibility, scoring or prize qualification. A missing or unavailable demo therefore cannot reduce or block a participant's standing.

Scoring

The leaderboard uses a difficulty-weighted Elo concept. Total score is the weighted sum of:

• Difficulty-weighted FACEIT Elo climb — 80%
• ADR — 8%
• First kills — 4%
• K/R — 4%
• K/D — 4%

Each metric is normalized against the best eligible field value and multiplied by its weight. The five weighted values are added for the total score.

Positive Elo gain is multiplied by a bounded difficulty factor based on average Elo: 1.0x at or below 1000 Elo, increasing linearly to 2.5x at or above 2500 Elo. A 200-point concave soft cap applies diminishing returns to large swings. Elo losses remain at face value and are not multiplied by the difficulty factor.

Players who already have a valid FACEIT Elo baseline qualify after their first eligible FACEIT match. Players without a valid Elo baseline must complete 10 eligible FACEIT matches. FACEIT placement matches remain eligible: each placement win contributes +25 raw Elo and each placement loss contributes -25 raw Elo. FACEIT's seasonal reset and re-ranking adjustment itself is excluded. If placements begin after the challenge has started, Elo earned before the reset remains in the challenge score; after the new Elo is revealed, only subsequent Elo movement is added.

Tie-breakers

If total scores are equal at the precision shown by the platform, ties are resolved in this order: higher raw Elo gain, higher ADR, more first kills, higher K/R, higher K/D, then the stable internal participant identifier solely as a final deterministic technical tie-breaker. Eligibility verification and confirmed data corrections are applied before tie-breakers.

Fair play and verification

Cheating, smurfing, boosting, account sharing, multiple accounts, deliberate deranking, match fixing, false identity or eligibility information, exploiting platform/API defects, or harassment connected to the challenge is prohibited. The Host or Flashback may request reasonable evidence needed to verify identity, age, membership, account ownership, matches and compliance. Only data reasonably necessary for verification may be requested.

A participant may be temporarily suspended while a credible issue is investigated. A final disqualification requires reasonable evidence of a material violation. The participant will receive the material reason and a reasonable opportunity to respond unless immediate action is required to protect the competition; even then, an opportunity to respond must be provided before the final prize decision where reasonably possible.

Prizes

The Host pays USD $300 in cash prizes. In addition, ISK provides six coaching sessions, valued at USD $125 per session (USD $750 total coaching value). The total estimated value of all prizes is USD $1,050; USD $750 of that amount is coaching value and is not paid out as cash.

• 1st place — USD $150 cash plus 3 coaching sessions with ISK
• 2nd place — USD $100 cash plus 2 coaching sessions with ISK
• 3rd place — USD $50 cash plus 1 coaching session with ISK

The Host confirms winners after the settlement and verification period and arranges a lawful payment method directly with each winner. Winners are responsible for taxes or reporting obligations that apply to them; mandatory withholding duties of the payer remain unaffected. No participant may be required to pay a fee to claim a prize.

Finalization, corrections and appeals

Standings displayed during the challenge are provisional. Verified late, duplicate, incomplete or incorrect FACEIT data may be corrected. A scoring, date or prize change after the start is permitted only where objectively necessary for law, security, competition integrity or a material technical failure; it must be proportionate and announced to affected participants. Advertised prizes may not be reduced merely because participation or commercial expectations differ.

The provisional final standings will be published after settlement. Raise a data, eligibility or rules appeal through contact@flashback.gg and the Host's Skool support within seven calendar days after publication and, where reasonably possible, before payout. The Host and Flashback will review timely appeals in good faith and give the material outcome. This process does not shorten limitation periods or remove statutory court or consumer rights.

If an event outside reasonable control makes fair completion impossible, the Host and Flashback may pause, extend or cancel only to the extent reasonably necessary. They will prefer resumption or a fair award based on completed eligible play where that does not materially disadvantage participants.

Platform House Rules

Flashback provides the technical registration, match tracking and provisional standings. The named challenge host confirms eligibility and winners and is responsible for funding and delivering advertised prizes unless the challenge rules expressly identify Flashback as the prize provider.

The host or Flashback may investigate, suspend or disqualify a participant only on reasonable evidence of a material rules violation, cheating, manipulation, account sharing, smurfing, false eligibility information or abuse of the platform. Except where an immediate temporary suspension is reasonably necessary to protect the competition, the affected participant will be told the material reason and given a reasonable opportunity to respond before the final prize decision.

Automated standings can be corrected when verified source data is late, incomplete or wrong. Any correction or operational change must be objectively necessary, proportionate and announced to affected participants; it may not be used to arbitrarily change the scoring or advertised prizes after the challenge starts.

By joining, you accept these Challenge Rules and the Flashback Terms of Service. Mandatory statutory rights remain unaffected.