Might be different in Europe but I have always found lobbys to be pretty good on the trolling side myself. Almost everyone on there thinks they are amazing and think every one else is inferior and therefore there never is good team play but thats not the same as trolling.

Biggest problem with lobbys is that if you're new you will never get a game, everybody will just kick you. Attitudes like that are holding comp. TF2 back.

Yeah thats a better URL but to echo what #11 said there is a drive to center everything on this site to try and grow the community and TF2 as an esport so yano if it integrates with teamfortress.tv properly the URL wouldn't matter too much.

On that note rkmarty would you not consider at least talking to people before you go off doing this. While this all sounds awesome and I'm all for improving TF2 Lobby (as awesome of a system that it is it could definitely do with some improvements) I think co-operation is vital to competitive TF2's success. Talk to floor_master, talk to enigma, talk to tf.tv. We all want to make comp TF2 better and we can do so more effectively if we work together. IMO at least.

I think TF2 is on the verge of really taking off as an esport, I think if we get viewer numbers up sponsors will be more interested and if you get sponsors interested Valve gets interested and we get more money to grow the sport. Easy to use cheap tournament systems like you are talking about are precisely what we need right now to get more people interested.

Anyways whatever you decide this sounds really cool and I wish you the best of luck with it. Keep us posted!