# Create a live draft for Esports

> Draft your esports roster live across any title — assign lanes and roles, auction the carries, and lock in your IGL. Real-time, synced for your whole league, and everyone you invite plays free.

Canonical: https://livedraftit.com/create-live-draft-for/esports

Draft your esports roster live across any title — assign lanes and roles, auction the carries, and lock in your IGL. Run a snake draft, a budget auction, or a hybrid of both — all in real time. Free to set up, $9 to take a draft live, and everyone you invite plays free.

Invited players free · Snake · Auction · Hybrid · Synced live clocks

## A board tuned for esports

Filter and sort players by position, team, and your own custom ratings so the right pick is always one tap away.

**Positions on the board:** Top, Jungle, Mid, Bot / ADC, Support, IGL

**Draft the biggest names:** Load players from across League of Legends, CS, Valorant and Dota — for example: T1, G2 Esports, Cloud9, Fnatic

## How to run an esports draft

1. **Build the player pool for your title.** Upload a CSV of pro players with their team, role and your own rank — or one row per organisation if you draft teams rather than individuals. Custom rating columns carry KDA, rating, or whatever your league actually scores on.
2. **Pick a format that matches the meta.** Snake works when talent is evenly spread. Use a budget auction when a handful of players are clearly above the rest, and hybrid when you want to auction the top names and snake the rest of the roster.
3. **Draft live with the whole server watching.** Share one join link in Discord, set a pick clock, and go. Spectators can follow a public draft without an account, and the OBS ticker overlays picks live if you are streaming it.

## What matters in a esports draft

The board is only half of it — here is how esports leagues usually approach draft day.

Esports drafts break the usual fantasy assumptions because roles do not carry across titles. A League of Legends board needs five distinct lanes, a Counter-Strike board is built around an AWPer and an IGL, and a Rocket League board is three players with no positions at all. Decide the shape of a roster before you decide the pool.

Roster churn is the other difference. Pro line-ups move mid-split far more often than in traditional sports, so leagues that draft more than once a season tend to keep the pool as a CSV they re-upload rather than a fixed template — re-import the updated list, then duplicate the previous draft to keep the same settings.

Auctions suit esports better than snake drafts when one or two players are obviously the best in the region. A snake draft hands them to whoever wins the coin flip; an auction makes everyone pay what they think a carry is worth, and an anti-snipe timer stops the last-second sniping that plagues Discord-run drafts.

## The full draft engine, included

Every feature works for esports out of the box. No add-ons, no per-seat fees. Every format, live chat, spectating, auto-pick, photos on the board and anonymous auction bidding are standard; the full list is on [the homepage](https://livedraftit.com/#features).

$9 to run one draft, or $49 once for every draft you ever host. Start with one and it counts toward Lifetime. Everyone you invite plays free, forever. No seats, no per-player fees, no account upsell. 30-day money-back guarantee — no reason required. Details: [pricing](https://livedraftit.com/pricing).

## Esports draft questions

### Can I run a Esports draft with my own rankings?

Absolutely. Upload a CSV of players with your own ranks and custom columns, or start from a Esports template and tweak it. Your board, your rules.

### Does LiveDraft-It support Esports auctions?

Yes. Run a full budget auction for your Esports pool with per-manager budgets, minimum bid increments, anti-snipe extensions and optional anonymous bidding — or mix an auction and a snake draft together with the hybrid format.

### Is there a Esports template I can use?

Browse the template marketplace for community and system Esports datasets, or build your own in minutes and optionally share it with everyone.

### Can I run a fantasy esports draft for any game?

Yes. Nothing on the board is tied to a specific title — you define the positions, the pool and the rating columns, so League of Legends, Counter-Strike, Valorant, Dota 2, Rocket League or a game that launched last week all work the same way.

### Can I draft teams instead of individual players?

Yes. A row on the board is whatever you upload. Plenty of esports leagues draft organisations for a tournament rather than players for a season — build the CSV that way and the draft behaves identically.

More questions about pricing, formats and invites are answered on [the homepage](https://livedraftit.com) and the [pricing page](https://livedraftit.com/pricing).

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- [All sports](https://livedraftit.com/create-live-draft-for)