Getting Started

Competitive Team Fortress 2 can be an extremely rewarding and enriching experience, but if a player is starting from scratch it can be also a bit difficult to grasp the amount of information you will come across. This page aims to help you being integrated into the competitive community and knowing the basics of the game.

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Watching competitive

Competitive matches at the top level are often casted by organizations such as TeamFortressTV or VanillaTV, etc.

These casts provide a valuable resource for newbies eager to learn the game, so it is also recommended you watch VODs or casts of high level games.

Some popular channels that cover matches are:

VanillaTV

TeamFortress.TV

BlackOut TV

Leagues and Tournaments

Depending on your location, there are various different leagues, even for the different formats. Some areas even have as many as 2 or 3 leagues, with choices between free to play or pay to play leagues, as well as community run leagues (i.e.: ETF2L) or professional leagues (i.e.: ESEA). Some of these organizations also run periodic cups for these gamemodes or even for other gamemodes such as bball or ultiduo.

Europe

• ETF2L - 6v6 / Highlander
• Wireplay - 6v6 / Highlander
• ESEA - 6v6
• UGC - Highlander / 6v6
• The Round Robin - Highlander
• ESA - 6v6

North America

• ESEA - 6v6
• UGC - Highlander / 6v6
• The Round Robin - Highlander
• CEVO - 6v6 / Highlander
• IGL - 6v6 / Highlander

Asia

• AsiaFortress - 6v6

Oceania

• Ozfortress - 6v6 / Highlander
• NZFortress - 6v6

Game Costumization / Optimization

Competitive players often customize their game to get the most out of it and to fit it to their playstyle, this includes Custom HUDs, Configs, and even other kinds of third-party tools. If you want to adjust the game to your needs you should take a look at those pages.

Other Guides

There are some existing guides made by other community members or organizations that also cover some of the basics of competitive tf2, they also contain very relevant information so it would be wise to take a look at these:

• ATF2L Getting Started Guide
• Cadred Getting Started Guide
• Noob's Guide to Finding Competitive Teams
• ETF2L 6v6 Newcomer Guide
• AsiaFortress Getting Started Guide
• AsiaFortress Setting Up and Game Costumization Guide
• Introduction to European Highlander
• Guide to getting into competitive TF2 by Cocktorpedo