Gratz on the new release TF2Pickup team! It's good for TF2Center to have some competition again and I really like that you're trying to get a higher skill level in your games.

Been using this since forever, it's amazing. All is ned is more support, best EU pug system for 6s, BBall and Ultiduo. y'all better check it out.

Great site, been part of the team for quite a while since Crafz first started developing it, despite all the shortcomings and bugs at the start I could see he had started something big. There were days we reached 70 pickups a day if I remember well.

Shame it had to die down but it was a necessary step to completely redo the site with a more responsive and bug free interface.

Hope to see it working full force again, and by that I mean with constant pickups, because the admins will always be there to help.

I don't think we're competitition to tf2center, don't take this as an official admin view on it, but speaking personally I think we're aiming at a different and higher skilled playerbase while tf2center is aiming at the same playerbase as tf2lobby.

First things first: I think the site looks nice and it looks like a great service.

Having said that, I don't understand why we need two different sites to divide skill levels; we're fracturing our community by doing so, and we're really too small to have 5 different websites for pickup games. Not sure which site is the best solution, but they all seem to do the same exact thing at the moment.

Wait is this site for EU only?

Currently we only have European Servers at our disposal from Simrai.

Its not fracturing the community, the site targets a different playerbase than tf2center at least in my view. A higher skilled one. Since you need a minimum of hours (350) to join any pickup and mumble is required for every pickup.

Also tf2pickup was here long before tf2center beta was even launched, and tf2pickup was and is the first site to offer web ultiduo and bball pickups, and as of now has every major format available (HL, 6s, bball, ultiduo)

I want to say thanks to all who joined our very first HL pickup! <3 Here is picture and a player list of all who were playing!

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/792934719485477511/ADA2B6DE2842F612FD8512F3E5777BC447265FFC/

Thank you! - Remco, Mike, GIGA, turkuaz, Dark preche, Kuferl, Gabaa, LillCeder, Derpy, taro, Swi, Camilo, Swedish Santa, Kaneco, Mr.Solitude, Me(other guy), LazyDuck

Someone needs to partner with this and get it implemented with American servers *cough enigma *

There is NO tf2 pickup website in NA that I'm aware of. lobby/tf2center aren't pickups, they're lobbys where anyone can join as long as the slot is open.

I'd like to see pug.na/tf2mix type of pickups (ex: captains) but with a nice GUI where it won't discourage players from joining because of the fact that they have to use IRC.

Been using that since I'm in Europe. Unfortunately it was always kind of empty because the skill level was really higher than tf2center. I hope it gets more attention now with a release!

GIGA looks so cute :>

or the justplay.tf guys

I want it. Daddy, buy it for me.

You should make an mvm party section.

As we finish the European version, we can think about na.TF2Pickup.net. SimRai.com confirmed like a two months ago that they would sponsor us with servers if the website is active and growing. But any ideas are welcome...

Yea, thats the thing we are missing atm. Hope to see more people coming...

We've been thinking about feature like this because one of our coders - Wiethoofd is kind of maniac on MvM..so :D

Also guys, the servers were updated and everything is ready for playing! See ya on! :)

I'm excited to see this update and I'll definitely be back playing some pickups again regularly!

Hopefully it will be in na too because i feel sorry for people who want to improve and are stuck with tf2center.

Would love to give this a go. When are the peak times that pickups are played? The website has been deserted every time I have checked.

And as for 'higher skill', that term seems quite nebulous. I am div 5, would I be out of my depth?

Cheers

Usually the games are happening around 18-19cet i think. But there is always players for ultiduo or bball so. About the skill, there is no requirement(like divs or smth) for skill. All you need is to have ETF2L profile and 350hours of TF2. :)

It sucks trying to find a good game of mvm with randoms. It takes way too long.

amazing site. they even have ultiduo

Sorry if I didn't make myself clear, generally my experience with lobby is that the majority of players are div6 or have no official league experience. And if they have experience higher than div6, they don't really play serious.

While tf2pickup is a slightly more serious and competitive atmosphere and you get a lot of players even from div1-prem playing among div4-5-6 players, as long as everyone is aware of how the game works, the skill level itself shouldn't matter much. Which is why I said we cater to a slightly different audience. And if you want to get better I would always recommend tf2pickup over tf2center.

every time i check this thread i keep hoping that its a post on how they implemented NA servers

https://encrypted-tbn1.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcQuzvH7c-I940nO1lvhvW_e6-GNyVp7S9-x9So3MxtKyXP9f5iQ

sorry mate but that won't happen until we finished the EU version. Because the Na version will need quite some changes again, as an etf2l account is required to play. We will see how we change that. Also we're using etf2l divisions to make somewhat balanced teams.
And we have enough things we want to finish first.

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مشكوووووور

Great work so far!
Kind people, helpful admins, well balanced games...
Rising amount of group-members and a rising amount of pickups played...
This project is going very good and I'm looking forward to whats going to come

Cheers Soul aka Trine

Our domain provider is getting attacked
This is causing problems with loading the website, there is nothing we can do about it :/

There is also no ETA for a fix :|

More info: http://status.namecheap.com/

The website is stable and online again. (it was like 2 days ago online but..little bit unstable)
Fixed the VAC/itemserver problem on the gameservers.
Added colors for the donators. More info about the donators features coming soon...