This is long overdue I know.

http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=22765

Valve has finally released matchmaking in two modes: Casual, and competitive. In the process they have completely overhauled the main menu and changed how even the basic format is being played by default. I will leave you to read the updates and form your own opinions if you haven't already done so.

As a result of these changes Valve's quickplay no longer points you to default vanilla servers run by Valve and these no longer exist. Instead, it will point you towards either casual (12 vs 12) or competitive (6 vs 6) servers. If you want to play a vanilla game of tf2 you will have to find a community server, which are few and far between since they have mostly been killed off (save for the popular one's with things instaspawn, ads, and 24/7 same map horseapples) that many regular members don't care for or would prefer not to see.

Some of you might not know this, but back in the day when there was no quickplay period, everyone played on community servers and for the most part it was great! There were so many of them that if you found a bad apple it was easy to just blacklist it and move on but today it's very difficult seeing the state of community servers the way it is.

I would encourage everypony to try and find and or start some community servers so we can, ideally, get things back to the way they were.

If you have any questions, please don't hestiate to ask! :3