Alpha · Free & open source
A free, open-source platform for running your own CS2 matchmaking: queues, parties, map vote, ratings, demos and stats. You bring the servers.
Team Ember
11
Mirage
MR12 · RD 21
Team Slate
9
Ember
Slate
Everyone votes · 15 seconds
7 maps · BO1
Once everyone accepts, all ten players vote. The map with the most votes is played, and a tie is settled at random.
Built with
Preview
Ten players queue, everyone accepts, the map is voted for, and the server loads it and pulls them in. No lobby links, no passwords passed around, no admin standing by.
Features
Matchmaking, servers, rankings, demos and stats in one platform, so your community stops stitching together bots, spreadsheets and borrowed servers.
Players join a queue and get matched with others at their level. Everyone accepts, picks the map, and connects automatically.
Register the CS2 servers you already run. FLICKED gives a free one to each new match and takes it back when the match ends.
Every player has a rating. It goes up when they win and down when they lose.
Every match is recorded, so you can rewatch it, clip highlights or check a report.
Kills, deaths, damage and more for every round, saved in your own database.
Self-host
FLICKED runs on hardware you control, from a box under the desk to a rack in a datacenter near your players. Nobody else sets your rules, holds your players' data, or decides when the lights go off.
$ git clone https://github.com/flickedgg/FLICKED.git
$ cd FLICKED
$ docker compose up -d
# then register your CS2 servers and open the queue,
# following the setup guide in README.md
01
Clone
Grab the source from GitHub.
02
Register
Add the CS2 servers you already run.
03
Play
Open the queue to your community.
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Hosted platforms do a lot well, especially anti-cheat. FLICKED is for communities that would rather have control. Here's the honest trade.
FLICKEDHosted platformsOpen source
Every line of FLICKED is on GitHub. Read it, fork it, run it, send a pull request. It's alpha software: things will change and break. If something's off, that's worth reporting, not assuming it's expected.
The stack
alphaFAQ
Something missing? Open an issue on GitHub.
Yes. FLICKED is free and open source. Running it costs whatever your own hardware or VPS costs. There is no subscription, no premium tier and no per-player fee.
No. FLICKED is an independent community project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Valve Corporation or any existing competitive platform.
It does not, and one is not on the roadmap. Anti-cheat is a specialist field where the opposition works full time, so a system worth trusting takes a dedicated team and sustained investment. Shipping a weaker one would give players a sense of protection that isn't real. Server owners are free to run a community anti-cheat alongside FLICKED. In practice, FLICKED suits communities with known players, active admins, and recorded demos to review reports.
Not automatically. You register the servers your community already runs, and FLICKED assigns a free one to each match and returns it to the pool when the match ends. Creating and destroying servers on demand is a separate infrastructure problem, and one this project cannot test properly at its current scale.
It's alpha. Expect things to change and break between releases. It suits communities happy to run early software and report what they find. It's not ready for a prize-money tournament this weekend.
A machine you control, Docker for PostgreSQL, and at least one CS2 server. The README on GitHub has the current setup steps.
Open an issue, pick one up, or send a pull request. Right now, bug reports from real communities running real matches are the most valuable thing you can give.
Stop renting your community from someone else's platform. Clone FLICKED, run your first match, and tell us what broke.
Free · Open source · Self-hosted · Alpha