This will be the place to look to for all you FAQ. Also things to improve our competition will be greatly appreciated, whether it be criticism or complements. CyberGamer wants to know.

_{(however do note that this WILL NOT be the place for information about the CG Ladder info, Dates and thus to do with that will be placed in another topic)}

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What are the standard classes for use in Team Fortress 2 Competitively.
Well you will mainly see the use of 4 classes. That is 2 scouts, 2 soldiers, 1 demoman and 1 medic. Although this can be varied to use of different maps.

What maps are used in competitive play?
In short TF2 uses only one type and that is Control Point maps, however this can be then separated into two groups, Push maps and Attack/Defence maps. Push maps are mainly 5 point capture maps. Examples of these are Well, Badlands, Granary. A/D maps are Dustbowl and Gravelpit.

What are the different types of status a team can have on the ladder.
There are main types.

• Free - Free status refers to a team which can be challenged. A team will usually get this either after losing there protected status or after winning a challenge.
  


• Protected - This status is given to teams who have successfully defended a challenge from a lower ranked team. This lasts for Forty-Eight (48.) hours, in which the team cannot be challenged. Protected teams can still issue challenges.
  


• Vulnerable - This status is given to teams who have failed to defend or win a challenge. However there is two variants of this status.
  
1. If you challenge a team above you and lose, you will be vulnerable for Forty-Eight (48.) Hours.
2. If you are defending a challenge, and lose that challenge, you will be vulnerable for Twelve (12) Hours.
Vulnerable teams cannot issue challenges.


• Challenging - This status is when a team is challenging a team up to 50% or 4 places above their current rank. In order to gain that rank they must win the match.
  


• Defending - This status is when a team has been challenged and has to attempt to hold there rank by winning the match.
  

How do I record a Demo?
Simple. Firstly make sure you have enabled console in keyboard/advanced. Then once thats done, all you need to do is open console before your game, then type as follows.
record "myteam_v_anotherteam_cgo"
Note however the quotation can be changed to whatever you please, as long as there are no spacing in the naming of the record file. Once you have done your match, open console and type stop or stopdemo to stop the recording. You can then either go to the file which will be located in your Team Fortress 2/tf folder or press Shift+F2 and click load to open up and play the demo ingame.

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_{***Note this post will be updated as more FAQ are written***}

Edited 4 times, last edited 7/5/09 - 4:13pm.

Sounds good.

I'm not a fan of TF2 but im keen to give it a try competitively.

Fix your servers! Last night our server first didnt have the right password or map so we had to get an admin to set it up. Then the server hit 40fps at big fights, which is really really bad. If that was a final match I would of cut myself.

+ for having amril aye
yeah the servers are being moved to another box. Zellogs informed me of this later on last night.

Nothing major for now but was looking around and noticed when adding a demo/stv there is no maps listed for TF2.

Ah that is a good point twisted. I'll tell asterix of this and see what we can do.

Update #1.

updated the update to add a little more info... please correct me if i'm wrong

sandman going to be banned ?

It is being decided atm. The main issue is which is being discussed, is whether to just ban the sandman, or to do a global unlock ban on all classes.

a decision wont be to far away.

Just to confirm: we can play on any server if the CG server is being dodgy right? Just as long as both teams agree etc

Yes, because of our server problems, it is fine to play on any server, as stated as long as the general scoring and rules are followed.

Can we get fastlane added to the map list ?

Yep twisted im in the process of doing this. looking at a few maps. Stay tuned.

From rules post:


ivo, is it going to be done like GA where u have map 'pools' ?
is it worth asking ppl what they think? or just leave it at choose 3 maps?

also why cant u offer times at half past?
they are only on the hour