I.. didn't mean it in that way.
Meant it more like the home of competitive leagues and tournaments. Ultiduo, bball, highlander, etc. That sort of thing.

There's about a week left before the start of our first official season. Currently, it looks very likely that the highlander season will be cancelled, since only 3 out of the 23 highlander teams have actually readied up.
As far as 6v6 goes, we've got 11 out of 24 teams readied, so that season is definitely happening. Would love to get 16 teams readied up before January 1st though, so if you haven't readied your team up yet, please do so immediately.

If the highlander season does end up being cancelled, we may host another Ultiduo season. This time, it'll be a 4 week round robin, with two matches per week, followed by a single elimination playoff. Ultimately, I want to have at least two ongoing seasons, for testing purposes. Whether that's highlander and 6v6, or ultiduo and 6v6. Kinda up to you guys.

http://tfcleague.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/UltiduoSeason2.fw_-e1485649379426.png

Soldier + Medic = Love?

The second season of TFCL's Ultiduo is definitely happening, and soon. Just securing some sponsors right now, and will update once I have something more concrete. I'm personally throwing $60 into this, so at the very least, there will be a $60 prize for first place. ($30 per player)

Season 1 Updates - http://steamcommunity.com/groups/eTFCL#announcements/detail/558845768046520794?tscn=1485904819

In short, Highlander has been cancelled. Also week 1 schedule for 6v6 will be posted tonight around 9 eastern.
Make sure your team is readied up before then if you want to participate in the first match. You can still register your team for week 2, but that lowers your odds of getting into playoffs. So if you miss week 1, you've still got options.

glhf

Week 1's schedule has been posted to the site.
Also, big ass article here - http://tfcleague.com/2017/02/01/welcome-tfcls-6v6-season/

So basically you are competing with UGC, and FaceIt is also doing that? I'd be happy to see TFCL and FaceIt replace UGC and ESEA, but I don't think a lot of others would, and that's why trying to make the whole community switch platforms isn't going to work too well. I'm not sure what the solution is, but maybe if you can get a lot of experienced admins on your staff, or got someone big in the community to endorse this project, it would have a better chance of success.

FACEIT supports only PUGs and small tournaments; they do not operate a complete league. (They operate the ECS professional league, but that's restricted to CS:GO as it only exists to stop the ESL/ESEA/DH/WESA/MTG monopoly of the CS:GO esports industry)

Neither FACEIT nor TFCL are at a capacity or interest where they could replace ESEA's purpose in NA TF2.

Nor do I really want to replace ESEA. ESEA's basically the biggest thing we've got right now, and I don't see TFCL replacing ESEA any time soon. I mean, if we get thousands upon thousands of dollars in sponsorships, then I can see it maybe having an impact on ESEA. But like, let's be real here, that's not going to happen for years, if at all.

Ultimately, TFCL is a league where everyone can come and play for money or prizes, without any upfront fees or premium memberships. You simply come in, create or join a team, and compete just like you would in another league. Except with TFCL, you get both medals as well as prizes.
Also trying to make TFCL a great introductory place for players new to competitive TF2. Once we get some teams and more support from the community, there will be an entire division dedicated to teaching the newer guys how to play their chosen format and class. A sort of coaching service built into the platform itself.
Then there's also the automated scrim thing, due out this March. Let's face it, newer teams can have difficulty finding scrims each week. Creating a scrim service that's built right into the league itself is my way of hopefully simplifying the whole process for newer teams and players, while also adding an extra convenience for seasoned teams just looking to get their scrim on.

So, to compare TFCL with ESEA really isn't fair, as I'm trying to create something completely new and different. Sure, it's still a league by the end of the day, but if I can offer a service that makes it easier for newer players to jump into the competitive community, shouldn't I try to do that?

Also, if TFCL were to replace any single league, it would likely be UGC. UGC is a pretty barebones league, and they're not really going out of their way to draw in new players, and teach them the ropes of TF2. Their administrators are also said to be rather unprofessional at times, if not outright abusive. It's pretty much a common consensus that UGC isn't the greatest league for newer players to start out in, but there isn't really another alternative aside from a paid league such as ESEA. So, I created that alternative.

Besides, if for some odd reason TFCL never takes off as a serious 6v6 league, I can always just host regulated bball and ultiduo tournaments, with prizes and medals. Those are always popular, and the upcoming second season of Ultiduo already has some big names attending, so it's sure to be a great and fun season for everyone involved. The first season had b4nny and nursey take the title, and the prize. Hopefully this upcoming season will bring with it a bit more competition, largely because of the higher prize and extra promotion on both TFTV and the official TF2 blog.

TFCL is still a bit messy under the hood, given as how it's still technically an alpha right now. But aside from some odd mechanic design choices, we're already offering a full TF2 league, even as we stand right now. TFCL is more or less at the same feature level as UGC, and we're nowhere near being finished. There's just so much more to add, and so much more that we can do to enhance the competitive TF2 experience.

Also, in regards to Faceit. I don't really see them as any kind of real competition for TFCL, ESEA, or even UGC. If anything, Faceit is a potential threat to TF2 Center, or one of the other pug services out there, like mix champ. Though, it is worth mentioning that TFCL will have a similar service, albeit one intended only for smaller games, like MGE or bball. The original intention with a TFCL pug-like service wasn't really to compete against faceit, but more as a way to answer a question we've been asking for a long ass time; how do we host MGE tournaments, and not have them be cancer to administrate? The answer was a live 'channel' or 'room' that automates the entire process, with the help of a server plugin. You join the channel, and it puts you into a server. Once you're in the server, you fight. If you win, you stay in the server, and await your next opponent. If you lose, you're automatically kicked from the server, and your rank on the channel is updated. It just keeps grabbing new players until there are none left. We codenamed this "koth" since that name fits pretty damn well. Kinda figured since we were building this tech anyway, may as well let anyone and everyone create their own channels, essentially turning it into a pug service.

tldr
TFCL is a league designed to help new players into comp TF2, while also offering enough features and services for the more experienced players to use and enjoy. Idea is to fill a niche, while still offering a 'pro' league that has prizes and medals.

so basically you want to replace ugc.

Ultiduo Season 2 has officially been announced, and includes a $300 prize pool.

PRIZE BREAKDOWN

First Place: $200
Second Place: $60
Third Place: $30
Fourth Place: $10

More information here - http://tfcleague.com/2017/02/17/ultiduo-season-2/

Now, I'm off to bed. Was up all damn night working that shit out, and am dead tired. Later guys!

nice of you to donate to the b4nny and nursey fund

i've never understood why people are so cynical like this. the season he is setting up has no buy in, so you lose nothing in playing in it. yeah b4nny and nursey may win ultiduo a lot but you should still have the mindset of having fun and if you are taking it seriously, learning and improving from playing in it.

shut the fuck up

dirtymort does ur brain actually think or do u just go off of any stupid impulse u have

why is Baloo the only map that's gonna be played

Most of my decisions are pretty well thought out. As of now I've been awake for 31 hours doing school stuff so I cant really say that theres a lot of thought going into my actions. I'm also at a point where between school and sports I know I wont be playing videogames for much longer, so i don't really care if people I don't know don't like me. As a result i kinda just say whatever dumb shit i want to, regardless of whether or not its uncalled for or rude. Thats a pretty honest answer to your question.

dirtymort does ur brain actually think or do u just go off of any stupid impulse u have

Mostly because last season, almost no teams even bothered playing the other map, so I figured I'd just go and make baloo the main map this time around. That can change if you have any map suggestions?

koth_ultiduo_r_b7 is the best ultiduo map

Do you have a download link?

Also, anybody else want me to add that?

Preferably as the sole ultiduo map.

http://fakkelbrigade.eu/maps/koth_ultiduo_r_b7.bsp

Alright, so I hate making decisions like this.
Which map do you guys think we should use?
http://www.strawpoll.me/12361488

how about you can choose which map you want to play on

Alright, so here's the map info.

The first two weeks will be played on ultiduo_baloo.
The final two weeks will be played on koth_ultiduo_r_b7.
The playoffs will be played on a mix of the two regular season maps.

Whoever posted this is awesome.
Anyway, so yeah. In case you haven't figured it out already, TFCL will be powering a Toronto LAN.

http://tfcleague.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/TorontoLAN.fw_.png

I'll post more when I can.

Can't wait to meet my boys in the flesh.

the gathering of the canadians

We'll all gather around the local Timmies with our double double's in hand. Once that's done, the niceness goes away, and we turn into fraggers.

Then after the show is all over, we'll celebrate (whether winners or losers) with more Timmies, and then bid everyone farewell.

OK if you're actually going to make it entirely baloo you should off yourself while your at it that map is literally and MGE competition with the added bonus that whichever teams medic hits more arrows wins.

Just because a bunch of retards decided not to play the og ulti map doesn't mean it's not worth playing (in fact if you play only one you should definitely play stock) and furthermore who is going to complain about map variety?
It is true that most of the other maps like the gullywash and badlands are aids to play (iirc the other custom ones are dick cheese as well because they're basically baloo clones with slight variations) but then you can limit it to those two good ones or let people choose...

edit: posted on mobile cause i got triggered without reading the rest of the thread looks like the decision has already been made so disregard this