This page explains how Scrim Report works: how we assess this niche, what our scores mean, how commercial relationships are disclosed, and how to reach us when we get something wrong.
How we assess this niche
We review the infrastructure of competitive gaming — matchmaking platforms, tournament circuits, and the industry around them — the way you'd audit a utility, not unbox a gadget. That means using platforms and following circuits firsthand where possible, and always reading the paperwork: published rulebooks, terms of service, licence registers, regulators' standards, and companies' own announcements. Where betting is involved, we cover licensed, regulated markets only, and integrity questions — data rights, market monitoring, match-fixing risk — are treated as core product quality, not a sidebar. We never publish betting tips or picks.
Numbers and specifics are attributed ("per the announcement", "per the regulator", "as of this writing") — claims we cannot verify are hedged as such rather than repeated as fact, and we never invent quotes, statistics, test results, or dates.
What our scores mean
Scores run 0–10 and are editorial judgments, not averages of sub-scores. A 7 is a solid product with real trade-offs. An 8 is an easy recommendation for the right reader — and can still carry serious structural criticism, because in this niche the best products often hold the most concentrated power. A 9 is rare and means we struggled to find a meaningful fault. Every review lists genuine cons — economics, calendar power, integrity gaps — and if we can't find any, we haven't looked hard enough.
Disclosure
Scrim Report is a commercially supported publication. Posts that contain affiliate links, and posts that are sponsored, carry a disclosure at the top of the post, and sponsored links are marked as sponsored in the page's code. Sponsors never see, edit, or approve editorial copy, and no score or conclusion can be bought — see the advertising page for what is and isn't for sale.
Bylines
Scrim Report publishes under house bylines maintained by the editorial team. Our editor byline, Robin Cho, is a disclosed house pen name — the accountable editorial identity under which reviews and assessments run — and news runs under "Staff, Scrim Report". We do not publish fabricated author biographies or invented credentials.
Corrections
If we've published an error — a date, a deal term, a rule reading, anything — we want to know. Reach the editorial desk via the contact page. We correct promptly and note material corrections in the post.