About protfx

protfx is the easy way to get a pug going. Add up, ready up, get picked, play. The site does the rest, from finding a server to keeping score.

How a pug happens

The whole thing runs itself. You can only be in one place at a time: added up, drafting, or in a game.

That's 6v6 and Highlander. Ultiduo and BBall have no captains and no draft: first come, first served.

The 6v6 page: a card for each Role, what's still needed underneath, and the ready-up bar once it starts.

1. Add up and ready up

Open the format you fancy and tick the classes you're happy to play. Tick Captain too if you're up for picking a team. That's it, you're added up.

As soon as there are enough people, two captains and a full set of classes, a ready-up starts on its own. Everyone gets 45 seconds to hit Ready.

Miss it? No problem. You just sit that one out, and nothing happens to you.
Stepping away for a bit? Turn on Pre-Ready and your browser will ready you up for anything that starts in the next couple of minutes.
If not enough people ready up, everyone stays added up and it tries again when the numbers are there.

2. The draft

Two captains are chosen from the people who ticked Captain, one RED and one BLU. RED picks first, then BLU gets two, then RED two, and so on down the list until both teams are full. Each pick has 60 seconds on the clock.

Once both teams are full, the server draws three maps, the ones played recently less likely, and everyone who was picked votes for one, captains included. The vote runs for 30 seconds and closes early once everyone has voted; until then you can change your vote or take it back, and everyone can see who voted for what. Most votes wins, and a tie is drawn. Not voting never earns a cooldown.

Captains don't pick their own class. Whatever's left open on their team at the end is theirs.

If medics are scarce, the ones who added up as medic are kept for medic, so nobody ends up without one.
Didn't get picked? You stay added up exactly as you were, ready for the next one.
A captain who lets the clock run out gets a cooldown. Everyone else goes back to being added up.

The draft board: whose pick it is, both teams so far and each team's average rating. Under it, once the teams are full, everyone who was picked votes on the map.

A game page's timeline: the server, who joined, every round, any subs, and the result.

How a sub gets found, whether the game, a captain or an admin asked for one.

3. The game

Once the draft's done, a server is booked for you and the connect details show up on your game page. Just connect and play.

Have to leave? It happens. A sub request goes out, people volunteer, and one of them takes your place. The game carries on.

Try to be on the server within 5 minutes of the draft finishing, and back within 3 if you drop. After that a sub request is opened for you automatically.
Being subbed out counts as a penalty, so it's worth a quick word to your captain first if you can.
Captains and admins can ask for a sub too, and an admin can call a game off if it's gone wrong.

4. After the game

Every game you finish moves your rating. You start at 1500 with a wide margin, and the margin narrows the more you play. If you've played ETF2L, your first rating starts closer to where your division suggests. After five games you get a band on the leaderboard.

Your player page keeps track of the rest: your rating over time, your win-loss record as a player and as a captain, your current streak, which classes you play, and how you've done against, or alongside, anyone else on the site.

Awards are worked out from the games, never voted on. A winner and two runners-up each.
The Statistics page shows the bigger picture: how many games get played, when, on which maps, and which side wins on each.
Every game and every player has a share card, so links look nice when you paste them in Discord.

Before
1500±500

won
as Pocket

After
1587±431

Most Games who played the most

Best Medic best win rate as medic, five games or more

Most Subs who stepped in the most

Biggest Climb who gained the most rating

Your rating is a number and a margin of uncertainty. The leaderboard sorts everyone into bands, and the awards are counted over the last thirty days and over all time.

Ultiduo and BBall: first come, first served

An Ultiduo page: a Court for each map. Baloo is full and readying up, Grove needs one more, and Ultiduo has just started filling.

Ultiduo and BBall are two against two, so nobody captains and nobody drafts. Each map has a Court of its own, side by side on the format's page, and each Court has four Slots: a Soldier and a Medic a side in Ultiduo, two Soldiers a side in BBall.

Click any open Slot to take it, and another to move. Once all four Slots on a Court are taken, those four get 45 seconds to hit Ready, and the game starts the moment all four have. You play the Court's map, so there's no map vote either.

Miss the ready-up and you lose your Slot, nothing more. Whoever did ready keeps theirs while the Court fills up again.
Leave while your Court is readying up and it's off for all four, so you wait a little before you can take a Slot again. It isn't a cooldown; the Rules say how long.
From there it's a game like any other: the server, subs, your rating and the leaderboard, with each format keeping its own.

Everything's out in the open

Player fenrix Can't add up captain sub chat request admin Why Cooldown: let a draft pick time out (2nd in 7 days) Until today 21:19

One row from the Restrictions page: who, what they can't do right now, why, and when it ends.

There are no secret bans here. The Restrictions page lists everyone who's currently restricted, what they can't do, why, and when it ends. Automatic cooldowns show up there too, and so do the admins.

Cooldowns are automatic and short to begin with. Letting a draft pick time out, or getting subbed out of a game, gives you a 15-minute cooldown the first time. Do the same thing again within a week and it gets longer. Stay clean for a week and the count resets.

Think a restriction is wrong? Appeal it from the banner on your own page and an admin will get back to you.
Everything an admin does is written down and can't be edited afterwards.
The changelog says what's changed on the site and when.

Questions?

Ask an admin. You'll find them on the Restrictions page, or use Request Admin in your account menu: the admins online see it straight away, and it waits for the rest.

Found a bug or have an idea? Tell us on the feedback board and upvote what you want most. The developer answers each one.