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There are plenty of places where people can play competitive TF2 games in Europe, with a wide variety in skill, some in general rules, and ways to get into the game, but the goal ultimately is the same for each service – people enjoying competitive games, regardless of skill level of the players.

By making this post we would like to highlight some European services where you can play competitive games, depending on the gamemode(s) you are interested in.

EU Newbie Mixes – 6v6

You are new to competitive TF2 and would like to learn more about 6v6, but the whole process just seems too intimidating and you don’t know where to start? Then EU Newbie Mixes, powered by newbie.tf & TF2IsPwn, are the right thing for you! You can learn how to play 6v6 in a low pressure learning environment, aided by experienced coaches who will teach you rollouts, map callouts, how to attack and defend a point and much more.

EU Newbie Mixes are run every Friday night starting at 20 CE(S)T, depending if there are enough players. If you are interested head over to their website newbie.tf and join their Discord!

PS: Are you an experienced player (= Mid or above) and would like to teach newbies how to play every other week? Then contact Samus on Discord (Samus#1445) and ask for more information.

tf2pickup.org – 6v6, Highlander, BBall

tf2pickup.org is a project made by maly, which started in July 2019 as a small service for the Polish TF2 competitive scene named tf2pickup.pl. The aim of the project was to include as many new players as possible, but hosting traditional double mixes for that was pretty difficult.

The service made players get into games faster by having a better and more balanced matches organized. At first it was only the Polish service for 6v6 game mode, but soon enough they learned there was a demand for more game modes, and interest from other countries. After tf2pickup.pl‘s initial success, hl.tf2pickup.pl launched for 9v9 Polish Highlander pickups and was followed by tf2pickup.es for Spanish 6v6 pickups. At the moment the majority of the European countries can play pickup games in their own native language, moreover there are plans to expand it even further, eventually for a service for Europeans in general, with English language in use.

Every single tf2pickup.org community has common values, but the most important one is use of the same national language, which in most cases is different than English. That gives a unique opportunity to allow people to play in their native language. The communities manages their own pickup sites themselves and apply their own rules. Pickups are balanced by setting up “skills” for players for each class available in a played format on each website. Having them balanced amongst the entire community gives a way to have balanced games. Skills are managed by site admins for each website, since they know their communities the best.

Currently operational websites are:

• Polish 6v6 Pickups: https://tf2pickup.pl, 9v9 Pickups: https://hl.tf2pickup.pl
• Spanish 6v6 Pickups: https://tf2pickup.es
• Portuguese 6v6 Pickups: https://tf2pickup.pt
• French 6v6 Pickups: https://tf2pickup.fr
• German 6v6 Pickups: https://tf2pickup.de
• Dutch 6v6 Pickups: https://tf2pickup.nl
• Finnish 6v6 Pickups: https://tf2pickup.fi
•  Scandinavian 6v6 Pickups: https://tf2pickup.se
• Romanian 6v6 Pickups: https://tf2pickup.ro
•   ex-Yugoslavian 6v6 Pickups: https://yu.tf2pickup.eu
• Czech & Slovak 6v6 Pickups: https://tf2pickup.cz
• Israeli 6v6 Pickups: https://tf2pickup.co.il
• Turkish 6v6 Pickups: https://tf2pickup.web.tr
• Russian 6v6 Pickups: https://tf2pickup.ru 9v9 Pickups: https://hl.tf2pickup.ru
• American 6v6 Pickups: https://tf2pickup.us
• Brazilian 6v6 Pickups: https://br.tf2pickup.org 9v9 Pickups: https://hl.br.tf2pickup.org
• European BBall Pickups: https://bball.tf2pickup.eu

The most anticipated websites at the moment are European 6v6, 9v9 and Ultiduo Pickups (tf2pickup.eu, hl.tf2pickup.eu and ultiduo.tf2pickup.eu respectively). They will be started up in the future as additional ways to play balanced games for the entire European community.

RAHMIX – 6v6, Highlander, BBall, Ultiduo

What is RAHMIX? Well RAHMIX is a friendly, local and global, pug and mix Discord server – for any div; any region! It is the biggest European PUG Discord in the world, and they are expanding to other regions including North America, South America, Asia and Australia. Their Discord name comes from a name of a popular European TF2 competitive player, Rahmed.

RAHMIX offer a variety of ways to play with the community:

• Automated discord bot PUG system. No need to add up to a lobby voice chat deafened. Simply queue up, ready up and pick or get picked – all in chat!
• 6’s and HL FFA and High pugs. Free for all queues that allow all divisions to queue together – first come; first serve! And for those looking for more try-hardy matches, high pugs only allow d1+ to queue – high pugs are quality pugs!
• 6’s hosted mixes. For teams that can’t or don’t find other teams to scrim, we provide a simple, tried and tested hosting system – imported all the way from asia!
• Worldwide Mentorships. Get mentored, for an individual or a teamn from top d2 to prem mentors, and their equivalences, from across the world!

RAHMIX has their own bespoke discord rahb0t, coded by the amazing Not Steven, that dispenses your league’s division role – whichever that may be.

Head on over to RAHMIX and invite your friends too!

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