Team FuncomTeam Funcom

Originally, put in place by and for Funcom employees as a diversion, the Team Funcom site quickly gained popularity among skilled players in North America. These players eventually formed the first stable community of gamers for the Team Funcom site and servers.

As with any company, employees come and go. The original employees who founded the Team Funcom site and server handed over the reins to newer employees who eventually passed on custodianship to the community itself.

Currently, any website or game server related to the Team Funcom name is lovingly sponsored by that original community of skilled players. Ex and current Funcom employees drop in from time to time to appreciate the gesture and get owned.

As previously mentioned, everything here is community sponsored. Regular donations by our community keep the wheels turning. Please feel free to contribute if you enjoy your time here. First, spend some time with us.

The crowd of regulars has diversified recently and consists of good people from all over the world. Players of all ranks of skill are welcomed, and if you're new to the game (or maybe even a veteran), there is much we can teach you.

Team play on vanilla servers is the general rule. Cheaters, Exploiters, hackers and griefers will be warned, kicked and banned in that order.

What do we have planned for the future? We're just planning to be here for as long as the games are good and people show interest. We hope to continue to grow our community, and welcome those from all walks of life.

If your community would like to challenge us to a friendly community vs. community type match, just send us an email using the form on the right, or make a post on the forums. Someone will contact you to set up a date and time, decide on rules, etc.

• There are several ways. The easiest would be to open Steam, click on Servers, then click on the Favorites Tab. From there, right click on the main window, and click "Add server by IP address". Paste 74.63.54.119:27015 into the field and then click "Add this address to favorites". From there you can just double click on the text that says "Team Funcom TF2 Server...", and you will be connected to our server. Adding us to your favorites can also be done within TF2, by following the same procedure after clicking on "Find Servers" in the main menu.
• Alternatively, you can also click on the Internet tab in the Server browser, and sort by name, then scroll down looking for us. Our current server name is "Team Funcom TF2 Server - HL Stats, Mixed Rotation, Prizes".
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• 74.63.54.119:27015 You can use this IP address to add us to your favorites.
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• The Team Funcom community is run primarily by the community itself. Administrative issues are dealt with by The Board, but the direction of the community is shaped and molded by the community members. For more information about the specific roles of The Board and Administrators, see here.
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• Any of The Board members or Administrators can help you with a problem player or user on the forum. To get in touch with them, go to our forums, register, and send one of them a private message.
• Alternatively, if you need immediate assistance, try signing on to our IRC channel, as you can almost always find an admin there. For more information about our IRC channel, see here.
• Current Board Members:
  Tai
  Mriswith
  Polonius
  ProdigyXP
  wb
  
• Current Administrators:
  Xonze
  Dean Wormer
  Tavataar
  Motstandet
  Tripletrailer
  
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• A Regular is someone who plays on our server often, makes posts on our forums from time to time, and is generally active in the community in some way. Regular status is achieved by spending a decent amount of time on our server, and making at least a few posts on the forums. The Board ultimately decides when a player receives Regular status. Regular status has a few perks. First, you are eligible to receive prizes. For more information about Prizes, see here. Second, Regulars get access to their own private forum, closed from public view.
• To become a Regular, just start playing on our server and/or make an introductory post on our forums in the Introduce Yourself forum. As you spend more time on the server, we'll get to know you and you us. After a while, The Board will give you your new privileges.
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• Prizes are awarded to individuals that show exemplary performance or substantial improvement over the course of a season on our server. At the end of each season (every three months starting January 1st), The Board chooses 4-6 players they felt showed the best effort, performance, communication, drive, and teamwork during the Season. These players are then awarded a Steam game under $15 or so of their choice. The player's name is then shown on our front page for the duration of the next season. Players cannot win awards more than once. Along with the award winners, the top five point scorers of the season are displayed on the front page.
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• The names on the front page are players who have won a prize for the past season, or scored the most points during that season. For more information on awards and prizes, see here.
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• Blog posts on the front page can only be made by users of Regular status or higher. To learn more about becoming a Regular, see here.
• To make a post, simply click on the Blog/News link at the top of the main page, and then click the New Post link on the right sidebar. You must enter a title and some text. Please refrain from any childish or silly posts. Any posts that do not adhere to our forum rules will be removed.
• At this time, the only HTML allowed in blog posts are links, and must be entered using HTML. A correct link is formatted like this: <a href="http://www.teamfuncom.com">Link Text Here</a>.
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• Our game server runs a version of HLStatsX, to provide a more comprehensive overview of statistics on our server. To view your stats and stats for the server in general, see here.
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• The IRC link at the top of the page takes you to a web client that will connect you to our IRC server. Our IRC server is a place where users of our server hang out to chat while at work or at home. It's generally a relaxed place to discuss whatever's on your mind.
• The IRC chat room is also the fastest way to reach an admin if we're not on your Steam friends list. If you have a problem with the game server or the forums, just sign on to IRC, as there's almost always an admin in the channel.
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• Our server is kept running by our community. Your donations are what pay for the server. If you would like to donate to help keep us running, please contact an admin as our usual method of making donations is currently unavailble. Your donations will only be used to pay for the server, nothing else.
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• Personal Conduct: Players are expected to keep their language clean and treat fellow players with respect at all times. Use of discriminatory slurs will not be tolerated and will result in punishment without warning. This includes, but is not limited to, slurs based on gender, race, ethnicity, sexual preference, vulgar or crude language, or pornograhy. This also extends to any text chat, voice chat, nicknames, and/or custom sprays.
• Teamwork: Players are expected to actively work toward achieving the objective with their team. Those who continually disregard the interest of their team and the objective will be subject to removal from the server. This includes extensive idling, spectating, crafting, and/or trading.
• Cheating/Exploiting: Any player caught cheating and/or exploiting will be banned. Admins, and only admins will decide who cheats and who does not. If you believe you have seen someone cheating/exploiting please report them via the forums!
• Scripts: The use of scripts to alter game mechanics, such that an individual is given an advantage, obtained not by ability, but through computational process, is prohibited. Ultimately, what constitutes this will be decided by the community Regulars through the online forums.
• Weapon Restrictions: There are no restrictions on any weapons. Players may spam grenades and rockets to their hearts content. If a team is struggling against certain tactics, they should formulate a counter. Complaining is not an option.
• You may be kicked at any time for any reason without warning including not following the server rules, annoying other players, making room for server regulars, or anything else that may deemed appropriate by the administrator.
• All rules are subject to change and enforcement at any time.
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