Season 14 · Day 31 · Free, in your browser

Sign them or raise them.
Then find out if you were right.

An esports management sim with a match engine that records every round. Build your roster from the transfer market and your own academy, set tactics map by map, and take your team through leagues, ladders and championships against other managers.

Create your team See a match first

14 seasons in. Kaldheim has won the flagship event 7 times — that record is on the table.

A CPL Manager match in progress: both team panels, the round scoreboard and the map.

The match

Not a coin flip with a loading bar

Every round is simulated and recorded: who took the opening duel, who traded it back, who held the site alone. Tactics are set per map and per side, and afterwards you can read exactly where the round turned.

From one real match

u know? 4kilos

14-16

dW ⊗ The Idle Potatoes

30 rounds simulated
198 kills recorded
70 of them headshots
37,061 damage dealt

Damage, KAST, survival, trade kills and open-duel records are kept for every player in every round — the same numbers you use to decide who keeps their place.

Watch the full match No account needed — it is the match the clip was taken from.

The plan

You draw the round. The engine plays it.

Every player gets a route, a facing and a job — where to walk, where to hold, what to do once the bomb is down. The simulation runs what you drew, round after round, and hands back the record of how it went.

The tactic editor on Train: numbered waypoints for five players, sight cones clipped by walls, grenade lines, and the per-player pathing list. — The pathing view: nine waypoints per player, each with a facing the engine clips against the map's walls, plus grenade lines and the plant point.

Per map, per side, per buy Separate plans for attack and defence, and for full buys, pistol rounds and ecos — the engine picks the right one when the round starts.
Waypoints, not autopilot Each player follows their own path and holds the angle you set. Whether that works is down to their aim, their nerve and who they run into.
It comes back as evidence Rounds won, plants landed, post-plants held — recorded per tactic, so you find out which of your plans actually works and rewrite the ones that do not.

Rounds run on manager plans: 2,401,100
Distinct tactics used: 27,589
Plant rate: 51%
Post-plants held: 52%

Talent

Two ways to build a roster

Careers run from thirteen into the late thirties and peak somewhere in the mid-twenties, so every signing is a bet on where a player sits on that curve — and every prospect is a bet on whether you can get them there before someone outbids you for the finished article.

Raise them

Prospects arrive between thirteen and seventeen with their ceiling hidden. Scout them, interview them to reveal what they could become, then decide how many seasons you are willing to spend getting them there. This is a real tryout — the faint track behind each bar is the ceiling.

Unsigned prospect

Primary skills

total skill

215 /726

AIM

/88

HND

/91

QCK

/91

DET

/93

AWA

/92

TMP

/91

GMS

/85

MOV

/95

Special abilities

No special skill

Favorite weapon

Favorite map

train

Or sign them

The transfer list runs on live auctions against other managers, and a finished academy prospect is worth something to somebody else. This is what a senior professional looks like once the ceiling is no longer a mystery.

Veteran

Senior professional

23yo (day 23)

Primary skills

Total skill

754 /754

AIM

/95

102

HND

/94

103

QCK

/99

105

DET

/93

101

AWA

/97

104

TMP

/93

GMS

/91

MOV

/92

Experience

125 TO LVL 22

Leadership

79 TO LVL 7

Special abilities

Training

A whole career, one drag at a time

Twenty-three seasons: a thirteen-year-old you gambled on, a player worth building a team around, and eventually a veteran whose legs have gone. He grows until twenty-seven, and from twenty-eight the game starts taking it back — a little at first, then faster every season. The face ages with him.

15 — in the academy total skill 231

vantage

Lucas Bergström

15yo (day 23)

Primary skills

Total skill

231 /754

AIM

/95

HND

/94

QCK

/99

DET

/93

AWA

/97

TMP

/93

GMS

/91

MOV

/92

Experience

500 TO LVL 2

Leadership

79 TO LVL 7

Fame

Talents

0 points

Special abilities

No special skill

Favorite weapon

Favorite map

train

15 — in the academy 38 — retirement

The business

Somebody has to pay for all this.

Wages, transfers and training come out of a balance, and sponsors are where most of it comes from. Better sponsors want a team worth being seen with — so how visible you are is a stat of its own.

An offer on the table

FreshBite

A trusted partner in delivering fresh and delicious food options.

Gives CPL 6,000 per week Up to CPL 8,500 more from missions

Sponsor missions

Win 6 league games CPL 4,000
Play 10 scrims CPL 2,500
Complete 4 tryout interviews CPL 2,000

An example contract. Which offers reach you depends on your media rating — and you need a PR manager on staff before any of them arrive.

Seven rungs of being noticed

Winning, streaming, signing someone famous and simply being watched all earn media points. They move you up a seven-level rating, and every level opens better contracts than the one below it.

Off-Radar
Emerging
Recognized
Spotlight
Headliner
Prime-Time
Global Stage

LVL 5 Perks

Requires 50 media points Unlocked

+5% sponsor revenue

Tank top merch unlocked

+5% viewership revenue

The silverware

Somebody wins these every season.

Three competitions run in parallel, and they reward completely different things — one good week, one consistent season, and one long climb. They sit in your cabinet permanently, with the season they were won on them.

The Championship

One a season, named for whoever is backing it that year, and the only trophy every team in the game is chasing at once.
Master League

The top of a seven-division pyramid. Forty teams are in Master; everyone else is trying to be promoted into it.
World Ladder

One table, every team, all season. No divisions to hide in — you are ranked against the whole game.