CGames USA covers competitive gaming in the United States — how the leagues and circuits are structured, how collegiate esports operates, what the route to a professional roster actually looks like, and where the money comes from.
What we publish
Explanations, not coverage. Scores, roster moves, transfers and tournament results are reported quickly and well by a large number of outlets, and there is no reason to add a slower version of that. What is missing is the layer underneath: who is allowed to enter a competition, who pays for it, what a contract actually contains, what a scholarship is really worth, and what happens to everyone involved when a publisher changes its mind.
That is the gap this site writes into, and it is why the pages here are built to stay useful for years rather than for a news cycle.
Editorial stance
Structure over spectacle. The interesting question about a league is rarely who won it. It is how it is funded, who can get into it, and what it is exposed to.
No invented precision. A great deal of specific detail about esports circulates without a traceable source — prize figures, salaries, buy-in prices, viewership numbers, roster terms — and gets repeated until it looks settled. We do not publish specific results, prize pools, earnings, standings, rosters or dates for any organisation unless we are confident they are correct. Where a number would help and cannot be stood behind, the page explains the mechanism instead and, where the maths allows, provides a calculator you can put your own figures into.
The arithmetic is checkable, and you should check it. Every tool here is simple enough to verify by hand, and the formulas are published on the page alongside the tool for exactly that reason.
No dream-selling. Writing aimed at aspiring players has a strong incentive to be encouraging. The seat counts, the earnings arithmetic and the career lengths are what they are, and a reader deciding how to spend five years of their life is better served by the real numbers.
Editorially independent. We take no money from publishers, leagues, tournament organisers, teams or collegiate bodies, and none of them have any say in what appears here. Where they are discussed, they are discussed as subjects.
On money and careers
Nothing here is financial, tax, legal or career advice, and this site is not a licensed adviser of any kind. The prize calculator performs arithmetic on figures you enter; what any of it means for your own tax position depends on circumstances only a qualified professional can assess. Contract terms in this industry vary enormously and should be reviewed by someone qualified before signing.
What we do not do
No sponsored posts, no paid links, no affiliate placements, no product rankings, no team or player rankings, and no AI-generated filler presented as research.
Corrections
Structural claims about how leagues, circuits and collegiate programmes work do go out of date, sometimes within a season, because the entities described here restructure frequently. If something is wrong or has changed, we fix it and note the correction on the page rather than quietly editing it away. Get in touch — a correction with a source attached is the most useful message anyone can send.