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Rules

Not many, and all of them enforced: the first three by the site itself, the rest by the admins. Nothing here is hidden. Every cooldown and every restriction is on the Restrictions page, with the reason.
  1. 1

    Captains, pick on time.

    RED picks first, then it snakes. Every pick has 60 seconds on the clock, and the clock is the same for everyone.

    If you don't: the draft is cancelled for everyone and you get a cooldown from captaining. Everyone else goes back to being added up.

    Pick 7 · BLU to pick · 0:07
    Ten seconds left on the pick. You'll hear it too.
  2. 2

    Connect when your game starts, and stay.

    Be on the server within 5 minutes of the draft finishing. If you drop, be back within 3 minutes.

    If you don't: a sub request is opened for your slot, on its own. Whoever takes it plays; you get a cooldown. Having a word with your captain first doesn't stop the sub, but it's the decent thing to do. If a third of the players or more haven't connected when the time is up (4 in 6v6, 6 in Highlander, 2 in Ultiduo, 2 in BBall), the game is aborted instead: no subs, no cooldowns.

    draft done 5 min to connect 3 min to come back sub request + cooldown
  3. 3

    ETF2L bans count here.

    Banned on ETF2L? Then you're banned here too, for exactly as long. The site checks your ETF2L record when you sign in.

    If you are: you can't play, substitute, be a Captain, chat, send Admin Requests or use voice (the Lounges and Team Channels) until the ban runs out. There's nothing to appeal on this site; take it up with ETF2L.

    Player plume ETF2L Can't start sub captain chat support voice Why ETF2L ban: cheating Until 3 Nov 2026
    Straight from ETF2L, reason included.
  4. 4

    Don't grief.

    This is a community-run site. Throwing games, abusing the sub system, going AFK on purpose, winding people up for the sake of it: anything that spoils the pug for the other eleven.

    If you do: an admin restricts you, from an hour up to a month, and the reason goes on the Restrictions page for everyone to see.

    Player ymir Can't start sub captain chat support voice Why Threw the last two games on purpose Until 7 days · 27 Sep
    An admin's call, with a reason and an end date.
  5. 5

    Keep the chat civil.

    Banter's fine. Abuse, slurs and spam aren't, and the admins read the chat.

    If you don't: your messages are removed from everyone's screen at once, and your chat is restricted. You can still play.

    1. corsa gg, close one
    2. 3 messages from jinx removed by an admin
    3. Nadia_ anyone for one more?
    chat restricted until tomorrow
  6. 6

    One account per person.

    Play from your own Steam account, and only that one. No alts, no smurfs, no borrowing a mate's.

    If you don't: both accounts get restricted.

    Balder Balder_2 since 2024 since last week
    Both of them, not just the new one.

Then the map. The server draws 3 maps, recently played ones less likely, and everyone who was picked, captains included, votes for one. The vote runs for 30 seconds and closes early once everyone has voted; until then you can change your vote or take it back. Most votes wins, and a tie or no votes at all is drawn. Not voting is never a cooldown.

Ultiduo and BBall. No captains and no draft, so Rule 1 doesn't apply there; the rest do. Take any open Slot on a Court, and the game starts once all four on it are ready. Give up your Slot while your Court is readying up, whether you leave, move to another Court or add up in another format, and the ready-up is off for all four. You then wait 30 seconds before taking a Slot again, and a dropped connection counts too. It isn't a cooldown: nothing is recorded.

Cooldowns

15 min 1st time 1 h 2nd 6 h 3rd 1 day 4th 7 days 5th and on By how many times within a week
The two things that earn a cooldown: letting a Draft turn expire and being Replaced out of a Game. Each is counted on its own ladder.

A cooldown is automatic, and what it stops depends on what earned it:

  • Letting a Draft turn expire: you can't be a Captain until it's over.
  • Being Replaced out of a Game: you can't play, substitute or be a Captain until it's over.

How long it lasts goes by how many times you've done the same thing, counting a week back: 15 minutes for the first, longer for each one more, up to a week.

Anything from further back no longer counts: stay clean for a week and you're back at the bottom of the ladder.

  • You'll see your own cooldown as a banner on the format page, with the time left.
  • You can still watch and chat during a cooldown, unless an admin has said otherwise.
  • Cooldowns are automatic. Admins don't hand them out and don't shorten them, but they can lift one on appeal.

Restrictions and appeals

Admins can restrict a player for longer, and from more than a cooldown stops: they can't play, substitute, be a Captain, chat, send Admin Requests or use voice (the Lounges and Team Channels). Every restriction has a reason and an end date, and all of them are listed on the Restrictions page along with the admins themselves.

  • Think it's wrong? Appeal it from the banner on your own page. One appeal per restriction, and an admin answers it.
  • Everything an admin does is written down and can't be edited afterwards.
  • Need an admin for something else? Request Admin, in your account menu, sends them a short message, up to three at a time. The admins online see it straight away, and it waits until one of them takes it.
Player fenrix Can't start sub captain chat support voice Why Cooldown: let a Draft turn expire (2nd in 7 days) Until today 21:19
Cooldown 58 min left

You let a Draft turn expire. You can't be a Captain until 21:19.

Appeal this
Tell the admins what happened… 500 characters
What the Restrictions page shows everyone, and what you see on your own page: the reason, the time left, and the appeal underneath.

Teams

A Team is a standing group of Members in one Format (at most 12 Members in 6v6, 18 in Highlander, 6 in Ultiduo, 6 in BBall). You can be on one Team per Format, and you stay on it until you leave, are removed, or it is disbanded.

While you wait on the Waitlist, are Restricted from playing or banned on ETF2L, you can't start, join or be invited to a Team. A Restriction never takes you off one.

The Captain and the Co-captains

  • rename the Team and edit its tag and description
  • invite a Member by their Alias, and withdraw the invite
  • withdraw an invite
  • accept or decline a Join request
  • remove a Member
  • make a Member a Co-captain (two at most)
  • demote a Co-captain (the Captain alone)
  • set the Main roster and the Subs (a Co-captain places the Members and themselves)
  • open the Team's Vacancy (any of the Format's Roles and a note, for 30 days), edit it and close it
  • upload a Logo, which an Admin approves before anyone sees it

The Captain alone

  • hand the Team over: make a Co-captain the Captain

Every Member

  • leave the Team at once (the Captain makes someone else the Captain first; the last Member's leaving disbands it)
  • step down as Co-captain
  • accept or decline an invite
  • ask a Team with an open Vacancy to take you, with a note
  • withdraw a Join request
  • list yourself as a Free Agent in a Format where you have no Team (for 30 days), and take it down
  • Nobody adds you to a Team. You join only by accepting its invite, or by its accepting the Join request you sent to a Team with an open Vacancy.
  • You can always leave, at once. Your Team history keeps your time there.
  • Nobody at a Team disbands it under you: a Team is disbanded only when its last Member leaves, or by an Admin.
  • Nobody at a Team edits your Alias, your Ratings, your Stats or your ETF2L profile, or deletes your history.
  • A Team never takes a Member of another Team: you leave one before you join the next.