Marek Duda

Marek runs the ratings. Every score published here goes through him, and every change to one has to be argued past him first.

Background

He traded CS:GO skins through the 2016 boom and the crash that followed it — first as a player, then for two years on the support side of a trading platform, where the job was reading terms of service and explaining to people why their withdrawal had not arrived. That is where the habit of reading the fine print before the front page comes from, and why the con lists on this site tend to run longer than the pro lists.

What he covers

Licensing and ownership, the rating method, the house-edge and rake numbers behind every game, and the archive of sites that have shut down. He writes the verdicts, decides what each of the four factors is worth, and re-opens a review whenever an operator changes its rake, its terms or its blocked-country list.

Rule he works to: if a fact cannot be found on the operator's own pages or produced by testing it, it does not go in the review.