Kills and headshots, map spans, and the participation rule that keeps your pick alive even when a player gets subbed out after a handful of rounds.
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CS2 is one of the 12 sports on the Payday board, and it works like the rest of them: pick a player, call MORE or LESS on a projected number, and build an entry of 2 to 10 picks. What changes is the shape of a Counter-Strike match — maps, substitutions and pauses — and the rules that handle it.
Kills and headshots. A kill counts when a player eliminates an opponent during a live round, or immediately after a round ends before the hard reset — gun kills, sniper kills and utility kills all count. Team kills and self-kills do not.
A headshot counts when the killing blow is a headshot. Rifle, pistol, SMG and sniper all qualify — only the final blow decides it, so damage earlier in the duel makes no difference.
This is the one that surprises people, and it works in your favor. A CS2 pick becomes action the moment the player loads in and starts Map 1. Once that happens the projection will not void — not if they are subbed out later, not if they disconnect, not if they only play a few rounds.
Their stats are graded from the rounds they actually played, and the pick stands. Participation alone is enough to keep it alive.
Every CS2 projection states which maps it covers: Map 1, Map 2, Map 3, or a span like Map 1–2. Only the maps listed are graded. Anything outside that span is ignored, and Map 3 never counts unless it is named.
The catch is on spans. If a projection covers Map 1–2, both maps have to be played. A match that ends 2–0 means Map 2 never happens, and a Map 1–2 projection voids — even if the player already cleared the number on Map 1. If you are taking a span in a best-of-three, you are also taking a view on the match going the distance.
Three cases: the match never begins, a map inside your projection's span is not played, or the match is abandoned before the required map finishes. If a map is paused, completed rounds still count — but if it never resumes, it cannot be used for grading.
Overtime counts. Reconnections count. A player reduced to a handful of rounds still counts.
Finishing exactly on the number — 20 kills on a 20.0 line — is a push. The pick is removed from the entry and the payout adjusts around the legs that remain, the same way a void behaves.
Official Counter-Strike match data. No unofficial sources, no manual edits.