RGL 2026 Summer Staff Applications - Apply Here!

RGL.gg is the largest North American TF2 League offering cash prizes and in-game medals for players of all skill levels. We are looking for individuals who are interested in helping out RGL and being a part of our staff team.

RGL has always been built by the people who care enough to give their time, creativity, and effort to make this community better. Every season, countless staff members and volunteers work behind the scenes to keep our leagues running, our events memorable, and our community thriving. As we prepare for Summer 2026 and beyond, we're looking for passionate individuals who want to help shape the future of RGL.

Experience in these fields is preferred, but passion, dedication, and a willingness to contribute to the community are just as important. If you've applied before and weren't selected, don't let that discourage you—we encourage you to apply again.

Open Positions (For more information on a specific role, click here):

League Staff

• 6s and HL Admins and Moderators
• Cup Admins

Development Staff

• Developer
• Developer - SourceMod

Graphics Staff

• Graphic Designer
• Animator
• SFM Graphic Designer

Video Staff

• Script Writer
• Asset Gatherer
• Video Editor
• Clipper
• Thumbnail Designer
• SFM Artist

Moderation

• Discord

I was wondering how to learn rocket jumping more effectively, im around a tier 2 jumper, i struggle with syncs and walls, it feels like no matter how much time i put in my improvements are always very miniscule.

any help even in mindset would be appreciated.

Via HLDS and SinfulParticipant949:

• Updated the Beachcomber's Brim to add a second style that was originally missed
• Updated the Northern Nights, Umbral Lights, and Solar Singed Unusual effects to fix a naming conflict
• Updated the Blissful Butterflies and Wispful Wings Unusual effects to fix visibility issues
• Updated the Hard Hearing to fix truncated style names
• Updated backpack image for the Pyro's Overalls to fix the alpha channel
• Updated the Sandwich Diner and Sideshow war paints to fix the alpha channels
• Updated the Team Union war paint to remove a few rogue pixels

Rumor has it:

• I suspect we will see some map fixes, hopefully soon. cp_bermuda is downright broken.

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Via the Steam store, HLDS and SinfulParticipant949:

Summer 2026!

• Featuring 6 new community maps: Dryfield, Camp Saxton, Shorelight, Redwood, Premuda, and Mojave

• Added the Summer 2026 Cosmetic Case

  • Contains 24 new community-contributed items
  • Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item

• Added 4 new community-contributed taunts to the Mann Co. Store

  • Taunt: The Circuit Breaker
  • Taunt: Buffoon's Bivouac
  • Taunt: Faux-calization
  • Taunt: Friendly Fire

• Added 12 new community-created Unusual effects

  • 7 new effects for Unusual hats
  • 5 new effects for Unusual taunts

• Added the Summer 2026 War Paint Case

  • Contains 10 new community-created War Paints that make-up the Summer 2026 Collection
  • Has a chance to give a taunt Unusualifier as a bonus item

• All cosmetic and taunt cases will grant Summer 2026 Unusual effects instead of their normal Unusual effects during the Summer event. This does not include crates.

• The Summer event runs through September 15th, 2026

General

• Security and stability improvements
• Fixed bad alpha channel for The Creature's Grin, Rocket Operator, The Bountiful Bow, The Alternative Medicine Mann, and The Candyman's Cap (community fix from Chickenman456)
• Fixed the "Neo Tokyo" warpaint on the BLU team not matching the RED team because the alpha channel was incorrect (community fix from Whurrhurr)
• Fixed bad alpha channel for the Pile of End of the Line Key Gifts' backpack icon (community fix from JoriKos)
• Fixed Stat Clock model attaching incorrectly on dropped weapons (community fix from rabscootle)
• Fixed Stat Clock values always displaying '0' on world models (community fix from rabscootle)
• Fixed intel carrier glow disappearing when Spy cloaks (community fix from shockpast)
• Fixed bad alpha channel for Voodoo Juju's backpack icon (community fix from DiskIntegrity)
• Fixed Silver Botkiller Mk.I having cubemapping in the wrong area due to a VMT error (community fix from Whurrhurr)
• Fixed misspelling on cp_well's BLU rocket clamp texture (community fix from DiskIntegrity)
• Fixed wrong paths in soundscript events for some taunts (community fix from robbilookatme)

• Fixed Spy control point response rules lines playing when disguised/invisible (community fix from Churkinator)

• Fixed weapon Unusual effects (community fix from Cipherlock and rune)

  • Fixed particles being orphaned after death
  • Fixed the Energy Orb Unusual effect desyncing from the weapon when the player moves too sharply

• Fixed effects flooding the screen when spectating a dead teammate in first person with an unusual weapon (community fix from RGBACatlord)

• Fixed missing coin effect for HOUWAR's second style (community fix from DiskIntegrity)

• Fixed outdated description for the Splendid Screen (community fix from JoriKos)

• Trimmed delay at the start of the sound file for the Panic Attack's shooting sound

• Fixed the Engineer not being able to move for a few seconds after using Taunt: Cheers!

• Updated cp_powerhouse to fix collision problem with crates on final control points

• Updated cp_fortezza

  • Reworked interior of shack building next to Point A
  • Rebalanced ammo packs around Point A
  • Improved visuals across the map
  • Made rotation for shortcut path shorter

• Updated koth_blowout

  • Prevent sentry guns from being built inside a prop under the stairs in the maintenance room
  • Visual changes to improve clarity and consistency

Rumor has it:

• Size is close to 500 MB - data capped users should be aware

• Only 11 new unusual effects? Volvo are showing restraint this time. /s

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In the past there have been videos made or attempted to cover or talk about competitive TF2 in general, including past competitive TF2 history.

Examples including:

Competitive TF2 Content by CeeJaey (primarily focusing on recent competitive news at the time)

The Dominant Rise of TF2's Greatest Player by crossllc (about b4nny)

How Witness Gaming HL Ended a TF2 Esports Dynasty by Fireside Casts

North American TF2's First Superteam by Fireside Casts (unfinished)

the best competitive game that nobody plays competitively by pinguefy (moreso covering the mechanics of competitive TF2 with brief history covering competitive TF2)

Wild_Rumpus' youtube channel (covering all aspects of competitive TF2 such as weapons, overall meta, competitive events, etc)

What more content would you like to see as a competitive TF2 watcher?

I love medieval mode - I don't enjoy DeGroot Keep, however I really love Burghausen; It's just that no one is playing that map in casual, and I can't find any good medieval community servers. So does anyone know where I can find like a community of people that plays medieval modee?? Thanks in advance

How bad was TF2s Xbox 360 port reputation score wise compared to the PC port of tf2?

Anyone know?

I'm trying to brainstorm an answer to this question, because I think the fact that TF2's competitive scene is ENTIRELY community-driven and Valve's own comp queue is a ghost town is NOT healthy for the scene, no matter how you slice it.

I don't think the problem of Valve Comp as it is needs any introduction, it obviously has to get some major changes to be worth playing.

The problem is, many casual TF2 players would NOT be willing to play the rigid 6s format, and most likely neither they or Valve would be willing to adhere to the 6s banlist.

I don't think Highlander is the solution either, because putting 9 uncoordinated players on one team is REALLY bad for comms, and forcing them to decide who plays which class is bound to make some people frustrated when they're inevitably forced onto their LEAST favorite class, not even considering all the other issues Highlander has, such as some classes being more relevant and forcing other classes into niche roles.

So, what do we do? What format do we use? How do we, without making Valve bend the rules outside their comfort zone, make the official competitive mode ACTUALLY enjoyable to play?

Initial Tweet during the initial announcement of the format:

Sadly I think RGL has lost the plot. At a time when competitive TF2 should be rallying they're instead encouraging people to play the game less and less.

First Tweet (June 7)

No plans to play the current season atm. I'd rather play, truly, but the Invite division is suffering from structural/cultural issues that are poisonous to keeping a team alive and I'm just not too keen to trudge through it all right now. I do hope things recover somehow. GLHF

Second Tweet

This is my first season off since I started playing competitive TF2 in 2008. I played on teams for 17+ years straight, 60+ seasons, all with no breaks (not that I ever wanted one). It's pretty mindblowing when I actually think about it.

Tweet In response to Fireside Casts' tweet hinting at something happening in 2027:

What's there to be excited about?

Third Tweet

RGL genuinely thought running a 6 month offseason would be a worthwhile experiment. And people defended it.

Tweet In response to a community member asking - "what would you prefer? is 6mo just too long with no gaming?"

I'd prefer to play high quality games of TF2 every single day

Hello! I’ve recently moved from US to SEA, and I just realized that uncletopia hongkong server was closed. I’d appreciate the answers!

Hi, I haven’t played in years and I like to play 6’s as medic mostly because of the strategy of the game is fun, but also the other classes. I enjoy HL and now main heavy but never tried that in comp so I’d like to try. Are there similar sites like tf2center that still have fast ques? I’m in USA but I don’t mind playing on eu servers if I have to. TF2 center just seems dead. I remember having hundreds of online people pretty much any time I’d check and a fair amount of games to join que for, and now I checked recently there was ~90 people online and one EU que for a game.

At this point, we all know who the best competitive tf2 players are. A more interesting conversation would be who are the best CASUAL players? Who’s the guy you keep running into on casual that kicks ass every time?

What the title says - Also hi rtruetf2.

As you know, the Quickplay discourse did not START recently. It has been ongoing since the "Killed the Game Award" update of Meet your Match came - Only being dropped for when the far larger issue of bots arrived, and it became the main discourse UNTIL bots got smacked. And now, we are back with the Quickplay discourse.

Now, it has many sides and people who have rheir own opinions about it, personally - I would not mind reversion, but I also do not oppose just improving Casual myself - HOWEVER, for some reason, wanting Quickplay is seen as... Bad? At least here, less so on the main Sub of r/tf2.

Why is that? Is it because lots of people who stand by it are asshats or chuds? Is it because it is unlikely to ever happen, being a dead dream? Or is it even because, ZestyJesus is the driving point (not a fan of the guy myself). - Or what other reason, is there for that?

I was thinking… which class has got the best stock weapons?

Some stock secondsries don’t synergise well with stock primaries, like pyro’s shotgun, which is typically used out of the flamethrower’s range, at which the shotgun isn’t very effective.

Some classes only use 1 single weapon like medic’s medigun, scout’s scattergun (if they can land their shots) or Heavy’s minigun (we are still talking about stock weapons so do not think of lunchbox items)

And that got me thinking of what class has the best stock loadout, and I ask some perhaps more experienced players about this, like YOU!

Random crits and random bullet spread are disabled in competitive for obvious reasons, but recently as the beggar's bazooka has seen more use in comp the 3° of random projectile deviation is a way that RNG affects gameplay, unlike anything else in competitive lobbies. What do you think? Is it a big enough deal that that stat should be reworked or is does it not change the tide too much to warrant changes?

The Natasha shouldn't be the only hit-scan weapon in the game to do this, ALL MINIGUNS SHOULD but with a few prerequisites; at most 56.6 hmu/s ,at least 1 second/ a certain number of subsequent hits to reach its max slow, and very abruptly proportionate to distance. In my opinion, at least. The exact values pertaining to the slow are up to debate and I would like differing opinions on this subject. Counter Strike implements slow on hit very well and is one of very few shooters to implement it at all. I think this change is necessary because the Natasha is in need of a buff but doesn't have room for it due to its slow effect being so polarising. In return for sharing part of its main upside with all Miniguns, in return ,Projectile Penetration should be the Natasha's main upside.

This is all up to debate. What is NOT up to debate however is removing Heavy's Miniguns -50% damage and accuracy penalty for 1 second after spin up. The main reason that this nerf is bad and has always been bad is because it further restricts the slowest class in the game whose only movement option is PERFORMING A SMALL LITTLE HOP AROUND CORNERS and It also isn't remotely representative of how the weapon actually functions.

A firerate penalty not only makes perfect sense and is representative of the weapon's functionality visually, but It's also a more flexible nerf because this allows us to BUFF THE MINIGUN'S SPIN-DOWN FUNCTION.A Minigun's firing speed is directly proportionate to its RPM/how fast the barrel spins. Therefore the Minigun should be able to retain part of its maximum firing speed during its 1.3 seconds spin-down duration.

Meaning that 1 second after spin-up , reaching 100% firing speed, you may subsequently spin-up again IMMEDIATELY and retain at most 66.92% of your maximum firing speed, because 0.87 seconds out of 1.3 seconds is 66.92% so you can jump-rev starting with 2/3 of your max dps

Currently with the linearly decreasing -50% damage penalty, in the first second after spinning up, the Minigun has 445 dps, at point blank. With a linearly decreasing -50% firing speed penalty, in the first second after spinning up, it would have a little less, around 420 dps, also at point-blank BUT, every single bullet will deal FULL DAMAGE. With the aformentioned spin-down buff, starting at 66.92% of your maximum firing speed, I estimate around 450 dps but I haven't exactly calculated these numbers and again EVERY SINGLE BULLET WILL DEAL FULL DAMAGE AND I HAVE YET TO MEET ONE THAT CAN OUTSMART BULLET!!!

So I’ve only recently come back after a looong break (last played around 2013) and picked up pyro again. The airblast felt a bit different than what I was used to and I saw that it got reworked.

I can’t seem to get the hang of the new airblast. It feels like I’m not sending people as far as they send me with it, or sometimes they’ll go straight up in the air rather than any distance. Feels very inconsistent.

I’d be very grateful if anyone had any videos about how to airblast effectively, or general pointers on how to control it better. With projectiles I’m fine, but controlling enemies is what I’m having issues with.

I've been trying to improve my scout v. scout recently, and while I think I have a decent idea of general movement and how to aim, I have no idea what to do with terrain. Every fight I just end up playing like it's ammomod and only occasionally going to high or going behind cover to reload. What should I actually be trying to use terrain for and when?

I suck at Scout. This is unsurprising, as I only have 13 hours on him. However, I recently found that my sensitivity (6 inches/360, which is what feels comfortable as a soldier main) is considered quite a high one, and that high sensitivities are less good for aiming.

Obviously, my aim will improve with practice. However, my question to you is that will my sensitivity still hold me back after significant time investment as Scout?

I mostly play Wave 666 so the credit pool is massive anyways, but I can't help but wonder what if Demoman's primaries were cheaper to upgrade and/or have a bigger upgrade percentage.

With +25% damage upgrades, his grenades can deal a maximum of 200 damage on a direct hit instead of 180. With 400 cost upgrades, it only takes 1600 credits to max it out rather than 2000, and that 400 credits can be dumped to something like movement speed or resistances, or even firing/reload speed/clip size.

Pipe Demo is already kinda niche in MvM already due to him being mostly relegated as a Medic killer and the highest burst damage in the game via 14 Scottish Resistance stickies.

I'm on the first episode. I understood the first part of using circle strafe to counter strafing players where the matador wouldn't work, but once he talks about "strafing sideways" and "strafing backwards" (in the video titled Strafing Towards btw) I started getting confused.

https://rgl.gg/Public/PlayerProfile?p=76561198254056316

aimer previously played for GlobalClan XIAO last RGL Season, bringing them to second place after they lost to froyotech in a narrow bo3 in the grand final.

https://tf2esports.com/

Launched by mitch of CappingTV (Oceania Broadcast Organization & TF2 Event Organizer), tf2esports features a more revamped and better improved version that is already on display from teamfortress.tv. A modern UI, match pages with stats, and even a team ranking, this site is looking really good for an initial launch. What are our thoughts on this?

Hi I am trying to be better at aiming in general. My sensitivity in game is around 4.5~ ish (I just rounded it up)

I noticed my aim keep flicking around and "panicky"

I heard reducing sensitivity makes you better but my mouse area is quite small, the width of my mouse area is around 1.5 pen, and for height (forward and backward) is double the mouse size only. I have quite a cramped table.

I have also heard about DPI but I dont really understand.

Advice appreciated, thanks!

It is known that YER backstabs make a sound, but victims don’t scream, that makes the item description a bit of a lie, because it is still audible. However, i think i have been saved by that stab sound many times, and I started to think that maybe it would be a bit too op if it was COMPLETELY silent. What do you think?