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This site could use some. I don't know enough 'wiki' to not stuff this up, does anyone know wiki-fu? An About template (disambiguation hatnote), intext citation which point to footnotes, stub articles, ??? . I created Template:Hatnote already. Maxim (talk) 19:17, 1 July 2013 (WEST)

Competitive Team Fortress 2

In Competitive TF2 there are two main game modes: Highlander (9 vs 9) and Sixes (6 vs 6). Although these two game modes are the most common, they are not the only ones. Many members of the community make their own game modes, such as Ultiduo, BBall, Dodgeball and many others.

Highlander

In the game mode Highlander there are two teams of 9 players each, one of every class. In a Highlander or HL match, teams play a variety of maps and modes, such as: Payload, Control Points and King of the Hill. Highlander is played in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. The two main leagues for Highlander are UGC Highlander, for North America(and some EU) and ETF2 League, for Europe.

UGC Highlander

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UGC Highlander can be found here: (http://ugcleague.com/home_tf2h.cfm). In the UGC League there are five divisions that teams may join: Platinum, Gold, Silver, Steel and Iron (in order from Highest to Lowest). UGC League also hosts some European Highlander, but it's European league is not as big as ETF2L's league.

ETF2L Highlander

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ETF2L Highlander can be found here: (http://etf2l.org/leagues/recent-seasons/highlander-season-4-home/). In ETF2L there are seven divisions that teams may join, but there may only be six teams per division: Premiership, Div 1, Div 2, Div 3, Div 4, Div 5, and Div 6(in order from Highest to Lowest). ETF2L does not support North America and is mainly used for the European Competitive scene.

Sixes

In the game mode of Sixes there are two teams of 6 players each. The standard setup for 6 vs 6 is as follows: 2 Scouts, 2 Soldiers, 1 Demo and 1 Medic. Other classes are allowed, but are restricted in their numbers. In Sixes you will find that the only modes played are Control Points and King of the Hill. Sixes is played in North America, South America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand and Asia. The three main leagues for Sixes are UGC Sixes and ESEA Sixes for North America, and ETF2L for Europe.

UGC Sixes

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UGC Sixes can be found here: (http://ugcleague.com/home_tf26.cfm). In UGC Sixes there are four divisions that teams may join: Platinum, Silver, Steel and Iron(in order from Highest to Lowest). Just like in UGC Highlander, UGC Sixes does support Europe, but is not as large as ETF2L is.

ESEA Sixes

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ESEA Sixes can be found here: (http://play.esea.net/). ESEA is a Pay to Play league, they also require a client that must be downloaded before being able to participate in a ESEA match. In ESEA there are three divisions for Sixes: Invite, Intermediate and Open(in order from Highest to Lowest). This league is the Top of North American Sixes. High Rollers Gaming, currently the top team from this league will be traveling to Europe to i49 (Insomnia 49) to take on the top teams of Europe.

Maps

We should standardize how we do maps. Are we going to include the version (b1, rc3, etc.), or do we just leave it at the actual name (ex. koth_pro_viaduct)? I don't like including version numbers because they change. Either way, it should be one or the other, we shouldn't have some maps include the version and some ignore it. --Koobadoobs (talk) 20:58, 1 July 2013 (WEST)

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It's good that the map names on the list of this week's maps are in their proper form (cp_steel, cp_metalworks_rc4), but it is not a good idea to have these link to pages of specific maps versions.

Some example canonically named pages:

• Steel
  • If a koth_steel is released, would we have to update the name of the page to Steel (Control Points), or do we go by the most famous principle?
• Viaduct (Pro)
• Waste (Payload)
• Waste (KOTH)
• Some Random Map (Pro) (Payload)
  • That doesn't look so good.

or perhaps we name them all:

• cp_steel
• koth_pro_viaduct
• pl_waste
• koth_waste

and we leave it to the person writing the page to state that the latest version of koth_pro_viaduct is koth_pro_viaduct_rc4, in a navbar.

The new task would be to include changelogs of the maps features, so that readers understand how their map is different to the one being played at the moment, or different to the latest version.

Are there any better ideas for naming map pages? -Maxim (talk) 06:00, 2 July 2013 (WEST)

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Looked around the site, and I'm seeing more love for the second idea I posted above. -Maxim (talk) 06:13, 2 July 2013 (WEST)

• Maplist
• King_of_the_Hill
• 5CP
• Cp_granary

The problem is, this convention looks really ugly when in the title of the page (see:Cp_granary) The first letter is forced to be capitalised (no good), and you can't see the underscore as it's covered by the line break. A layout change needs to happen should this one be implemented. -Maxim (talk) 06:13, 2 July 2013 (WEST)

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Class Headings (Offense, Defense, Support)

They are misleading and of little relevance to the competitive formats played. Would like to remove that heading as per Koobadoobs -- http://teamfortress.tv/forum/thread/9921-comp-tf-a-competitive-tf2-wiki/3#post-147997

Now it's been changed to Generalists vs Specialists... which is really just the 6s mentality and doesn't fit in with how HL plays out... should we just leave it? I'm beginning to think just leaving them without headings is the best way to go--Koobadoobs (talk) 19:32, 2 July 2013 (WEST)