CS2 server setup

Manual installation guide for setting up CS2 servers with the enhanced MatchZy plugin.

Recommended: Use CS2 Server Manager for automated setup. It installs everything you need with one command.

Prerequisites

Follow the official CounterStrikeSharp getting started guide: Getting Started

After completing the guide:

meta list

If CounterStrikeSharp is installed correctly, you can also verify it with:

css_plugins list

Important: This project requires an enhanced fork of MatchZy that emits additional events used for automation.

cd /path/to/cs2/game/csgo
unzip MatchZy-*.zip

Restart your CS2 server.

Type css_plugins list in server console. You should see MatchZy listed.

Add these to your server's autoexec.cfg or server.cfg:

rcon_password "your-secure-rcon-password"
hostport 27015

Once the server can be reached by RCON, add it in MAT under Servers.

MAT configures MatchZy Enhanced automatically over RCON (webhook URL, demo upload URL, auth headers, etc.) when:

Make sure MAT has:

A configured Webhook URL in Settings
SERVER_TOKEN set in MAT’s .env (used as the X-MatchZy-Token header for demo uploads and server-to-MAT requests)

Your CS2 server must be able to reach the MAT API.

curl http://your-tournament-ip:3069/api/events/test

Should return something like:

{ "success": true, "message": "events route is working" }