Administration Overview
Administrators get deep control over how a 5Stack instance behaves, from who can do what, to matchmaking rules, branding, integrations, and the infrastructure running underneath.
Roles & access control
5Stack uses a role hierarchy. Each role includes the permissions of the ones below it:
| Role | Typical use |
|---|---|
| User | Default for everyone who signs in |
| Verified User | Trusted players |
| Streamer | Can broadcast / spectate demos |
| Moderator | Can sanction players below their role, moderate chat and news comments, review a finished match's chat log, use RCON, and manage players on community servers |
| Match Organizer | Can run matches and access the organizers chat |
| Tournament Organizer | Can run tournaments |
| Administrator | Full access, including all settings |
Many features are gated by a minimum role rather than a hard admin-only switch, for example a minimum role to stream, to spectate, to create matches or tournaments, or to connect to password-protected dedicated servers. This lets you open features up to trusted players without making them full admins. A few areas are strictly administrator-only, such as branding, site-wide alerts, the render queue, and GPU nodes.
Roles are assigned from a player's profile; see Roles & Players.
What admins can configure
- Roles & Players: roles, the player directory, name approvals, and player maintenance jobs.
- Moderation & Sanctions: sanctions, warnings, and the automatic sanctions for abandons, VAC bans and tournament no-shows.
- Matchmaking & Ranks: match types, Elo ranks, lineups, map pools, and per–game-type server configs.
- Branding & Theming: name, logo, login page, and the color theme.
- Servers & Regions: server types, automatic CS2 updates and version pinning, match server controls, tuning, and regions.
- Game Modes: the plugins, cvars and launch parameters that make a match play differently, and which modes are ranked.
- Integrations: Discord notifications, Twitch linking, match imports (Valve/FACEIT), Steam Presence, chat retention, attachments and GIFs, web push, and analytics.
- System & Monitoring: metrics, logs, database performance, backups, and the render queue.
The admin controls for demo settings, highlights, streaming, player cameras, voice chat, and the utility library and practice servers are covered on those feature pages.
Site-wide alerts
Alerts in the Administration menu posts temporary banners at the top of every page for every visitor, for outages, maintenance and other notices. Each alert has a Severity (Info, Warning or Critical), an optional title and expiry, and can be made Dismissible or not. Messages can carry links: write [label](https://example.com) or paste a bare URL. Links to your own site open inside the app; other sites open in a new tab.
Empty sections stay out of the navigation
On a fresh instance, Tournaments, Events, News and Highlights don't appear in the navigation until there is something in them. Players who can create tournaments, events or news posts still see those links, so the first one can be added.