Editorial policy
This page describes how Crick Patrol produces what it publishes. It is short because the rules are short, and it applies to every piece on the site.
How we assess this scene
Esports coverage lives or dies on verifiable facts, so we build from what can be checked: official organiser and publisher announcements, published formats and rulebooks, broadcast play, and points tables. Figures are always attributed — "per the organisers", "per the announcement", "as of this writing" — and anything unannounced is labelled unannounced. We watch the competition we write about; where we can be in the venue, we are. We do not invent statistics, quotes, viewership numbers, roster news, or firsthand history, and we do not present a rumour as anything but one.
What we will not cover
Crick Patrol carries zero gambling content. No betting coverage, no odds, no fantasy-cash or real-money gaming products — as editorial or as advertising. We cover the game and the people who play it; the betting economy around esports is permanently outside our beat.
What scores mean
When we score something — an event, a format, a roadmap, a product — the score is an editorial judgment of the whole: what it delivers, what it costs the people it is sold to (including players), and how honestly it is presented. As a practical guide: a low score means we would tell a team or fan to skip it; a middling score means genuinely useful with real caveats; a high score means it leads the scene — and still lists its cons, because a review without cons is an advertisement. No score is for sale, at any price, to anyone.
Disclosure
Crick Patrol is commercially supported and may earn affiliate commissions or advertising
revenue from links. Any paid or affiliate content carries a disclosure notice at the top of
the post, and paid links are marked rel="sponsored". Sponsors get clearly
labelled space; they do not get editorial control, and they do not get conclusions.
Bylines
The site publishes under house bylines maintained by the editorial team. Reviews and assessments run under Arjun Mehta — a disclosed house pen name, in the tradition of publications that write under a collective identity — which is the accountable editorial voice of the site. News items run under Staff, Crick Patrol. We do not fabricate journalist biographies or credentials.
Corrections
We correct errors of fact quickly and visibly. If you spot one — a date, a prize pool, a team count, a format detail — write to us through the contact page and flag it as a correction; that queue moves fastest.