We don’t vet anyone. Here’s how to vet them yourself.

Less than you might assume, and we would rather be specific about it than let a clean interface imply otherwise.

• That an email address or phone number reached them once, at signup. That is the whole of our identity check.
• How many events they have actually completed on Fragnet.
• What players rated them afterwards, and what those players wrote.
• What they have written in their own listings.

We do not know their legal name, their address, whether the brand belongs to them, or whether they have the money to cover the prize pool they advertised. No document was uploaded and none was checked.

Events hosted

A count of tournaments they have run to completion here. It is the strongest signal on the page because we observed it rather than being told it. It is not a guarantee — somebody can run nine clean events and mishandle the tenth — but it is a record.

Rating and review count

Left by players who actually participated. Read the reviews, not just the average: five reviews at 4.6 tells you far more than a bare 5.0 from one. Look at what the critical ones say, and whether they are about the same thing.

The “New organizer” badge

It means exactly what it says: no completed events here yet. It is not a warning, and everyone starts there. But a new organizer advertising a large prize pool is a combination worth a question, because there is no track record to weigh against the claim.

The absence of a signal

There is no verification badge to look for, so its absence tells you nothing. Anybody displaying one is not displaying it from us.

Ninety seconds, and it filters out most of what goes wrong.

1. 1.Read the rules field. Three lines of rules on an event with an entry fee means nobody has thought about disputes yet.
2. 2.Check that the listing states how the entry fee is collected and how the prize is paid — method and timeframe, not just an amount.
3. 3.Do the prize-pool arithmetic. Slots multiplied by entry fee should plausibly fund the advertised pool. If it does not, somebody is subsidising it; ask who. Sometimes the answer is a sponsor and it is fine. Sometimes there is no answer.
4. 4.Open the organizer’s page. Events hosted, rating, and what the reviews actually say.
5. 5.Check they are reachable outside Fragnet — a Discord or a stream link on the listing that leads somewhere real and populated.
6. 6.If anything is unclear, ask before you pay. An organizer who will not answer a direct question about payouts has told you something.

• A prize pool the entry fees cannot fund, with no sponsor named.
• No stated payout method or timeframe, or a payout that keeps moving once the event is over.
• Payment demanded to a personal account with a name that matches nothing else about the organizer.
• Urgency that the slot counter does not support — “last 3 slots” on an event showing 40 remaining.
• A brand name that closely echoes a well-known esports organisation.
• A cluster of five-star reviews that all arrived on the same day.
• Rules that do not exist, or that consist of “be fair, admin decision final” and nothing else.

1. 1.Keep the evidence: the listing as it was, your payment record, and the messages where terms were agreed.
2. 2.Report the listing or the account. The categories are scam or non-payout, fake or misleading listing, abuse, cheating, and spam.
3. 3.Leave an honest review. It is the signal the next player will read.
4. 4.If real money is involved, treat it the way you would any other payment to a stranger — your payment provider and local consumer protection are the routes that can actually recover funds.

This happens constantly to new organizers, and it is fixable. Six things make you obviously real:

1. 1.Rules long enough to answer a dispute you have not had yet.
2. 2.An entry-fee note stating the method, the deadline, and what happens if the event is cancelled.
3. 3.A payout note stating amount, split, method and timeframe — including what happens on a tie.
4. 4.A prize pool your entry fees can visibly fund, or a named sponsor if it cannot.
5. 5.A Discord or stream link that leads somewhere populated.
6. 6.A first event that is small and free. A completed free event buys you the track record that makes the paid ones credible.

• Organizer guide