So, this past weekend, I tried to set up a TF2 tournament with some friends. Nothing super serious, but serious enough that we wanted to keep track of certain things, largely for bragging rights. The settings we wanted were largely perfectly covered by the Team Fortress 2/Source Dedicated Server’s tournament settings. Unfortunately, these are largely undocumented. There was no page of “how to: run a TF2 tournament”. Indeed, many of the settings in the TF2 server config file are largely undocumented at best. This got me thinking about the standard thought process. It seems that we still have too much of a culture, even with something as communal as gaming, of “If I know it, why should I have to write it down?”. For everything I did, it seemed like it was a constant battle of “here, google this one specific option to put in your config file. I’m not going to tell you about the others.”

C’mon, geeks. Get it together.