Well guys by now most of us have been hampered by timeouts while playing and as initially thought that it was a problem after update we can say that DDoS attacks are on TF2 SA servers.  Just get you an explanation of whats going on let me get you guys a reference from the vanillatf2.org site:

“For the past couple of months, the European TF2 scene has been under attack of a rather old DoS exploit that exists in all servers running the Orange Box engine. The script kiddie floods the server with bogus requests for the server and player info. Responding to these requests takes about 4 times as much bandwidth and much more CPU power than asking for it. This makes it possible for a single attacker to take down a gameserver.”

Please guys increase your timeout value in console and you will still remain on the server type in console “cl_timeout 180” you can even make 500 if you want but really 180 seconds it’s good enough as the default value its 30. It sure seems these attacks are automated and only last 30/35 seconds, the default timeout period for players IIRC.

We will follow some of the guidelines to fix the problems but so far on the Euro scene has worked only temporaly and as soon as servers get players on the attacks occur but there are still some work arounds ok.

We will keep you informed.

This is a list of all the teams I would like to help other teams, every team will be assigned to one team. This way your team can focus on improving/helping one team and dont have to worry about everyone coming to you and you not having enough time to help them. So please, the teams getting the help try and just ask the members from the team assigned to you, there will allmost always be someone online from the team I’m sure:

Eq           —–>   CyB

Ventus   —–>   love

Frenzy    —–>   The Temps   

Severe   —–>   

Zodiac   —–>   PcZ    

CM          —–>  

Then please everyone get your teams sorted on www.ladder.tf2.co.za and Dogaming ect, see this: NEWS. We need 16 Teams, we can do this and this is really good exposure for TF2SA.

The captains of Severe, Zodiac and CM please let me know which team you would like to help out, this is the list of teams left:

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Hey Guys and Gals,

TF2 is looking really good at the moment. I have been asking around lately and have come to realize that there are so many guys in TF2 SA that wants to play competitively but are either too scared of the “BIG” teams or don’t know where to start or what to do. So I will make a basic guide that will explain what our goal is in this community and what new teams should do to get started.

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