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External Matches ​

5Stack isn't limited to matches played on your servers. You can pull in matches from elsewhere, your public CS2 (Valve) matches, FACEIT matches, or any demo you have, and get the full 5Stack treatment: scoreboard, replay, match analysis, and stats, all alongside your native matches.

Linking and share-code imports live under Settings → Linked Accounts, and everything here only appears when an admin has turned on Allow CS2 match imports.

Connect your Steam match history with two codes from Valve:

  • Auth code: your Steam Game Authentication Code, created once per Steam account from Steam's help page.
  • Share code: a recent Match Share Code, copied from Watch → Your Matches in CS2. Any match from the last 30 days works as a starting point.

Press Link match history, and 5Stack scans Valve for your recent matches straight away. After that it keeps checking: every hour for players who have signed in during the last week, and on demand with Poll now. Competitive, Premier, Wingman, and Rush matches are imported. You can Unlink at any time.

With the 5Stack Steam bot as a friend, 5Stack looks a match up a minute after it ends instead of waiting for the next hourly check. If Valve hasn't published the match yet, it tries once more a few minutes later.

Import a match by share code ​

The match history Valve hands out can miss matches. To bring one in by hand, paste its share code, or the share link CS2 copies from Watch → Your Matches, into Import a match by share code and press Import. This works whether or not your match history is linked.

FACEIT matches ​

When external imports and FACEIT are enabled, your FACEIT matches import automatically too. See FACEIT Integration for the details, including how per-match FACEIT ranks are captured.

From FACEIT or Leetify in your browser ​

The 5Stack Match Importer browser extension imports the matches from the FACEIT or Leetify page you are looking at, and counts the ones you have not imported yet.

Upload a demo ​

Administrators can upload a CS2 .dem by hand from Upload a demo above the match list on their own profile, handy for one-off matches or when no automatic source applies. A demo can be up to 2 GB; it uploads straight to storage in 64 MB parts.

Duplicates ​

Before importing, 5Stack checks whether it already has the match. A match brought in a second way, by share code and by upload, under a renamed file, or by another player, is recognised by its map, its round-by-round winners, and most of its players. A demo recorded on one of your own 5Stack servers is never imported, since that match is already in 5Stack.

Tracking imports ​

Imports are processed in the background, two at a time. While you have imports in flight, a Pending imports list shows each one with its map, start time, and status (Queued or Parsing), filterable by status, and you can Clear an entry.

An import that fails drops off the list. Most failures are demos older than 30 days, which Valve no longer hosts. A sweep every 15 minutes fails any import whose job stalled or was lost, so nothing sits in the list forever.

TIP

Imported matches only get automatic highlights when an admin turns on Include imported matches, so imports don't flood the render queue.

Admin ​

External match importing is enabled (and FACEIT configured) by admins, see Integrations.