What do you buy?
5 real round situations a day. Four buys each, and the reasoning for all four once you have committed to one.
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- Five graded buy decisions every day
- Up to 300 XP a day, and unlimited practice
- Your streak and your grade history
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How it works, and what is actually being claimed
5 scenarios a day, the same for everyone, changing at midnight UTC. Each gives you a side, a round, your money, what your team can spend and what a loss would pay. Four buys. Pick one, and every option's reasoning appears — including the ones you passed on, which is the part worth reading.
The numbers are facts and the grades are opinions, and this game keeps them apart on purpose. No scenario contains a price. Every option is a shopping list of items, and the cost you see is calculated from the same weapon data as the weapon pages — generated from the game files — plus the armour and kit costs published in the economy guide. The loss bonuses and round rewards come from the same constants behind the economy calculator, so the two can never disagree. When Valve changes a price, this game changes with it and nobody has to remember to update it.
The grade is our read. Buy decisions do not have a single correct answer — the same money on the same round supports several defensible plays depending on map, position and what you think they are doing. That is exactly why the game grades in four bands instead of marking right and wrong, why a risky buy still scores, and why the reasoning is shown rather than just a verdict. The grades follow mainstream competitive convention: buy as five, save as five, and never leave one player broke while four are rich. Disagree with one and you may well be right.
Scenarios are written by hand, not generated, for the same reason. Generating one would mean generating its correct answer, and that would be inventing a verdict about tactics. There are 12 in the set today and adding more is an edit to a single file — if you have a situation you think belongs in here, it probably does.
The share grid carries how each round went and never which buy you picked, so posting a result cannot spoil the day.