Player guide
How to play EsportsQuiz
EsportsQuiz has two daily modes built on a database of professional Counter-Strike and Valorant careers: Who Am I?, where you identify a player from the teams they played for, and Line-ups, where you name a championship roster. Both run five rounds per session. This page explains every rule and how points are calculated.
Mode 1 — Who Am I?
A round starts with a single team from the mystery player's career, shown with the years they were on the roster. Every time you pass, one more stint is revealed in chronological order, so the picture gets clearer but the round is worth less. Answers are typed into an autocomplete of real pro nicknames, so spelling variants like dev1ce and device or s1mple and simple are both accepted.
| Teams revealed | Points if correct |
|---|---|
| 1 team | 100 |
| 2 teams | 80 |
| 3 teams | 60 |
| 4 teams | 40 |
| 5 teams | 20 |
| Full career | 10 |
Only players with at least three career stints enter the pool, so every round has enough of a trail to be solvable without guessing blindly.
Mode 2 — Line-ups
You are shown five anonymous roster slots from a championship-winning or deep-run team and must name the organisation and the year. Wrong guesses unlock hints in a fixed order, each one costing points:
- 1. Flags and placement — nationalities of the five players plus how far the team went.
- 2. Roles — in-game leader, AWPer, entry, support, or controller/duelist/initiator/sentinel for Valorant.
- 3. Masked nicknames — first and last letter of each nickname.
- 4. Championship — the event itself, which usually gives the year away.
A round is worth 100 points with no hints and scales down to 20 points once the championship name is on screen. The team-and-year answer field autocompletes, so Astralis 2018 and astralis 2018 both count.
Difficulty tiers
Every player in the database is tagged easy, medium or hard based on how many elite (tier-S) events they have appeared in — CS Majors, Valorant Masters and Champions, and tournaments with prize pools of at least US$500,000. Because Counter-Strike has a far longer tier-S history than Valorant, thresholds are relative per game rather than absolute:
- CS2: easy from 26 elite events up (karrigan, FalleN, dev1ce), medium 8–25, hard 0–7.
- Valorant: easy from 6 elite events up (Derke, f0rsakeN), medium 2–5, hard 0–1.
Players who never appeared at an elite event are not in the quiz pool at all, which keeps rounds fair for viewers who follow the international circuit rather than every regional league.
Streaks and the leaderboard
Playing on consecutive days extends your streak; skipping a day resets it. Scores are stored per session and aggregated into daily, weekly and all-time boards. You can play anonymously, but scores are only saved once you are signed in.
Where the data comes from
Careers, transfers and roster snapshots are compiled from public tournament and transfer records and reviewed by hand before publication. Rosters change constantly, so if you spot a stint with the wrong years or a missing team, it is a data issue rather than a scoring bug — corrections are applied to the database and take effect on the next session.