Deadfrag Manifesto

Welcome to Deadfrag, the place for competitive Deadlock. We're the team behind GotFrag and Dotabuff, and we're taking this seriously.

If you don't know about GotFrag, it was the home for competitive Counter-Strike starting from 2002 - news, match coverage, player stats, forums where the community actually talked to each other. GotFrag and our peers at the time helped build the competitive Counter-Strike scene.

Deadlock feels like the start of something. Valve's new 6v6 shooter with MOBA mechanics is gaining steam, and the competitive scene is just starting to form. Teams are figuring out the meta. players are emerging. Nobody knows who the greats will be yet.

We're trying to build the place where all of that gets documented. Event and series pages that tell a story. Player profiles that track careers from the beginning. Team pages where you can see an evolution over time. News when there's news worth writing.

We're early. A lot of this is still rough, but we'd rather build in the open with the community than wait until everything is perfect. If you see something broken, tell us. If you have ideas, we're listening. If you want to help, make a post!

This isn't just a site "we" publish and "you" read - get involved! Submit community news: write about a tournament you watched, a team you're following, a play that blew your mind. The forums are here for real conversations, not just hot takes that disappear in a feed. The best community content gets elevated. Your voice matters here.

Competitive games need places where the community can gather and have a permanent and durable history, not just Discord servers and Reddit threads that become lost to the sands of time, but something more - integrated and permanent. Somewhere the history gets written down.

Deadfrag is a place where the competitive Deadlock scene can flourish. Come build it with us.