Terms of Service

You need to be thirteen or older to hold an account here.

You need to be eighteen or older to be a pro-gamer on this site. That means anyone who takes money through it in any form: fan payments, sponsorships, sales from your profile or prize money. There is no exception to this and no guardian workaround.

Under eighteen you cannot register as a pro-gamer, so you cannot enter a bracket, earn a rank or appear on the ladder. From eighteen, with a parent or guardian’s approval, you can hold a fan account: watch every match, follow the players you like, and back them.

To take money through this site you must be at least eighteen years old and you must show your real name and your real face on your public profile. That applies to fan payments, sponsorships, sales from your profile and prize money alike, and it is not optional.

A patron is paying a person, not a performance. Nova (opens in a new tab) already shows how well a bot can play. Nothing else would stop someone pointing a fleet of bots at the ladder, inventing a roster of gifted players who do not exist, and collecting real money from real fans on their behalf. An adult name and a real face on every account that gets paid is the thing that stops it.

A free account can watch everything and stay anonymous for as long as it likes. Playing is different: entering a bracket means holding a paid subscription, and from the moment you hold one your name and your photo are public and stay public.

Be respectful to OPLeague staff at all times. Playing here is a privilege, not a purchase.

Paying for a subscription at any tier buys you a seat, nothing else. It does not buy special treatment, and it does not buy the right to be unpleasant to anyone. Disrespect toward any member of staff can end your account at any time, whatever you have paid.

This is about conduct toward people, not opinions. You can disagree with how the league is run, publicly and loudly, and say so to our faces. That is not disrespect.

Messaging exists in one place so far: in the OPLeague Launcher, two players who have challenged each other can write to each other to agree a time. Nothing on this website lets a fan send a player a private message. We wrote this rule down before we built messaging, so that nobody found out about it the day it arrived.

We reserve the right to read, keep and act on messages sent through OPLeague. We are not promising to read them. Nobody sits here watching a queue, and there is no automatic scanning of what you say. Reserving the right means we are allowed to look when there is a reason: somebody reports a message, somebody tells us a person is at risk, or the law requires it of us.

The reason is children, and we would rather say so plainly than bury it. You can hold an account and a public profile here from the age of thirteen. Anyone who takes money through the site is eighteen or older. So an adult with a card and a child with a profile can end up in the same conversation, with money already somewhere between them. A site that allows that and has given itself no right to look is a site that cannot act when a parent writes to it.

If we do look, we may keep a copy, pass it to the police or another authority where we are required to, and close the accounts involved. We will not sell it, use it to advertise to you, or publish it. What we keep and for how long is in the Privacy Policy, in the same words.

None of this changes what you should already assume. A message on any site is not private the way a sealed letter is. If you would not want it read, do not send it here.

A player’s personal beliefs are their own business. How they treat people here is ours. We will not close an account for what you say or how you behave off-platform simply because an angry crowd asked us to.

There is one exception, and it is serious crime: above all, harming a child in any way, shape or form, or the promotion of it. We take each crime, whether credibly suspected or convicted in a court of law, seriously and case by case. A parking ticket is not that. Driving drunk almost certainly is. The Anti-Cancel Culture Policy says how we draw the line, and it is part of these terms.

We do not care how large your following is or how much you bring in. A gamer who uses their standing here to groom children, or who transgresses against a child in any way, is removed without mercy and without a second thought, whatever it costs us, and a prior conviction for harming a child that reaches us is treated the same way.

A paid subscription is what gives you the launcher, the league network and Nova, and it is what puts you on the ladder. A free account gets none of that; it watches. Subscriptions renew until you cancel, you can cancel at any time from your account settings, and you keep everything until the end of the period you already paid for. Your profile, your results and your ladder place stay afterwards, because you earned them.

You are paying for access to the platform, and only for that. You are not paying for a copy of any game. Nothing in your subscription is a purchase of, or a license to, a game that we did not make ourselves.

The higher tiers buy reach, storage, faster payouts, entry to the brackets marked Pro-only, and higher ladder stakes, meaning a win moves your rating further and so does a loss. No tier buys a softer bracket, a bye, a reschedule, a rematch, a map veto, or a point for a game you did not play, and none ever will.

Game names and trademarks belong to their respective owners. OPLeague is not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by any of them.

We have no authority over a game made by anybody else, and we do not sell, host, copy or otherwise distribute one. No part of your subscription is payment for a game. What you pay for is the league: the brackets, the ladder, the launcher, the server and Nova.

The launcher works with a copy of a game that is already on your own computer. It finds it, checks which build it is and sets it up to play here. It never sends a game to us or from us. Where a publisher offers a download, we link you to the publisher; where there is none, we say so rather than finding you a copy.