Nine titles, rolled out in four stages. The order isn't which game is biggest — it's which can be made to work soonest, weighted by how well its population fits age-banded play.
Why hosting decides the order
When the publisher hosts the match — Warzone, Apex, Hunt — the result only exists on their servers, so it has to be recovered through screenshots, OCR and a dispute queue. When we host the server — CS2, Halo, R6, Hell Let Loose — the result is authoritative the moment the match ends. No upload, no review, no argument. That makes a self-hosted game dramatically cheaper to run and dramatically harder to cheat, which is why they land in stage 2 rather than last.
One nightly lobby that actually fills. Warzone for the audience, Apex because it is the one with a LiveAPI.
Points race · teams of 4 · pc, playstation, xbox
Heaviest 30–45 of any FPS
The dad-gamer heartland, and the single best population match for age-banded play. Publisher-hosted, so results come from screenshots until something better exists.
Points race · teams of 3 · pc, playstation, xbox
Skews 18–28
Younger than the rest, but the only game here with an official LiveAPI — so it is where automatic result reporting lands first, via the desktop companion app.
Add the self-hosted games. Own the server, own the result: no screenshots, no OCR, no dispute queue.
Round-based · teams of 5 · pc
Strong 25–40
The best technical fit in existence: own the server, get the demo file, settle the match with zero human review. FACEIT and ESEA already prove the model at scale.
Arena · teams of 4 · pc, xbox
Strong 30–45 nostalgia
Badly underrated here. Excellent custom-game support, arena scoring that is trivial to compute, and a demographic that grew up on it and never left.
Objective and tactical formats, where map knowledge and rotation beat reaction time.
Objective · teams of 4 · pc, playstation, xbox
Strong 30–50
Objective and vehicle play rewards map knowledge and rotation over raw aim, which is exactly the thesis. Community servers help but results still need capture.
Round-based · teams of 5 · pc, playstation, xbox
Good 25–40
Tactical, round-based, and custom matches are first-class. Utility and map control decide rounds far more often than reaction time.
Objective · teams of 6 · pc
Arma-adjacent, likely heavy 30-50
Best raw fit on the list and the biggest open question. Self-hostable through approved partners, an Arma-inspired tactical map, and a persistent economy where managing risk and money is a real skill axis that has nothing to do with reflex. Two weeks into early access with no tournament scene yet. BLOCKER: base mode is 100 players across three teams of 33, which is not a roster size — teamSize 6 here is the configuration we NEED, not one we have confirmed. Rent one community server and find out before building anything.
The oldest-skewing communities and the free-to-play funnel widener.
Objective · teams of 6 · pc
Very heavy 30–50
The oldest-skewing community of the lot, self-hosted servers, and a culture that would take a league for grown-ups seriously. Long matches are the only catch.
Extraction · teams of 3 · pc, playstation, xbox
Very heavy 30–45
Culturally the purest fit anywhere — patience, sound and positioning beat twitch, by design. Smaller population and publisher-hosted, so it waits.
Points race · teams of 4 · pc, playstation, xbox, mobile
Mixed
Free to play and easy to recruit into, which makes it a cheap way to widen the funnel once the core leagues are full.
| Stage | Game | Audience | Format | Team | Hosting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Call of Duty: Warzone | Heaviest 30–45 of any FPS | Points race | 4 | Publisher hosts |
| 1 | Apex Legends | Skews 18–28 | Points race | 3 | Publisher hosts |
| 2 | Counter-Strike 2 | Strong 25–40 | Round-based | 5 | We host |
| 2 | Halo Infinite | Strong 30–45 nostalgia | Arena | 4 | We host |
| 3 | Battlefield REDSEC | Strong 30–50 | Objective | 4 | Partial |
| 3 | Rainbow Six Siege | Good 25–40 | Round-based | 5 | We host |
| 3 | WARDOGS | Arma-adjacent, likely heavy 30-50 | Objective | 6 | We host |
| 4 | Hell Let Loose | Very heavy 30–50 | Objective | 6 | We host |
| 4 | Hunt: Showdown | Very heavy 30–45 | Extraction | 3 | Publisher hosts |
| 4 | Farlight 84 | Mixed | Points race | 4 | Publisher hosts |