Gaming and Esports Editing and Proofreading Services

Game three, twenty minutes in, a player's connection drops. Whether the match is paused, replayed from a save, or awarded — and whether the team that was winning keeps the advantage — is decided by an official reading a ruleset on a phone with two hundred people watching. If the ruleset does not cover it, whatever they decide becomes the precedent, and it will be argued about for a year.

We edit what tournament organisers, leagues and esports operations produce — rulesets and competition regulations, penalty and appeals procedures, player and team agreements, admin and referee handbooks, broadcast and production documentation, prize and payment terms, code of conduct and integrity policies, and the announcements issued after a contested decision. Our editors work on rules applied live in front of an audience.

The ruleset and its penalty ladder is the document that keeps a competition legitimate, and its failure is a set of principles with no procedure for the situations that actually occur. Every serious dispute in this sector is about an incident the rules did not anticipate. We work through these so the common incidents are covered by name — disconnections, pauses, crashes, wrong configuration, a spectator with information, a player who is late — with what happens to the game state in each, since these are the events that recur every weekend; so the pause rules state who may pause, for how long, how many times, and what happens on an unjustified pause, because the pause is the most abused mechanism in competition; so the penalty ladder is published with the offence, the sanction and who imposes it, given that consistency is the only thing standing between an organiser and an accusation of favouritism; so the escalation from a warning to a game loss to a match loss to a disqualification is written with what elevates an offence, as repeat and intent both matter and neither is obvious; so the appeal route names the person, the window and what may be appealed, since a decision on a matter of fact and a decision on a rule are different; so the admin's discretion is defined with its limits and a requirement to record the reason; and so the rules state which version is in force and when they were last changed. Rulesets written this way survive a contested final.

Everything you send is treated in confidence, including rulesets, incident reports and player correspondence. We are editors rather than referees, organisers or lawyers, and we offer no view on rules, decisions or competitive integrity. What we can do is make the ruleset cover the situations that keep happening.