Team Fortress 2's history of 6vs9 games

    The first time a team of nine mopped the floor with a team of six probably happened during tf2's beta status in 2007 when a few players disconnected and their team got wreckt. However that is not what we're here for today. I'd bet you're more intested in the deliberate attempts to balance a game with six high skilled and nine average skilled players.

Asymmetric Accolade

The medal was added to the game on January 15th 2015. It was awarded to all the people who took part of the 6vs9 events(with the exception of Pros vs Youtubers). 

Wiki page

(sexy isn't it?)

Clash of the steam titans

The first instance of such an event taking place was held on July 8th 2009. Unfortunately I didn't find a video of the event or any information on how it went down, but there is a list of players posted in the steam group. I find it fascinating to dig thorugh archives that probably nobody had looked for over a decade.

List of players

6v9 2:Electric Boogaloo

The second event didn't seem to make a big impact. It didn't even have a poster. However it was undeniably held on January 16th 2010.

Page of the event

Lazy Sunday: European Edition

 

The European Edition took place on June 6th 2010. Unfortunately no video coverage.

Battle of both worlds

The battle of both worlds took palce on June 26th 2010. It's the first 6v9 event that is uploaded to Youtube, albeit the quality is very 2010.

The game

Heavy

 Winter Wasteland

Winter wasteland took place on Jan 8th 2011. It was the first instance where amongst the pros b4nny played.

The game

Tf2 blog post

European Thunder

European Thunder was held on March 6th 2011. It was casted however it's not on youtube, However the Pubstar team's Engie uploaded a few clips form the event.

almightybob's best bits

list of players

Spring Cleaning: Communities vs. Pros

This event was held on May 14th 2011. It doesn't have a banner, nor an uploaded video. However this was under a new team of organizers. This was the first Communities vs Pros event hosted by eXtelevision. The premise was that they would take one person from nine different sub-communities of tf2.

Trailer

Summer Sizzler: Communities vs. Pros II.

Summer Sizzler was held on September 17th 2011. It was a special one, because amongst the players was Robin Walker, the creator of Team Fortress 2.

The game

Cold War: Communities vs. Pros III.

Cold War was held on February 11th 2012. 

The game

Pros vs. Youtubers (teamfortress.tv)

(image is KingRaja's thumbnail of the event)

After a few years of not having these    big 6vs9 events on September 15th 2015 nine       youtubers     took on the challenge of fighting     Froyotech. 

The game

KingRaja's video

Pros vs. Youtubers (Essentials.tf)

Then on August 16th 2017 the last big 6vs9 event was played. Since it's relatively recent the quality is pretty good and it's frankly pretty entertaining.

The game

These are most of the 6vs9 events worthy of mentioning. I left out a few that didn't have a cool poster and wasn't properly documented. However feel free to message me with links,videos or anything that should be added to the article.

Please visit the Pubstars vs Pros wiki page. It doesn't feature a lot of the events but you can check out the player lists there. wiki page

My thoughts:

It has been a special few days going through the old discussions and posts in the Steam groups and it's incredible to me how small tf2 was around 2010. When such an event happened, the whole community came together and enjoyed the game. When choosing players for the Communities vs. Pros events some of the communities had less than 300 members. Today every unknown Easter-European server has more than 1000 members in it's Steam group. Maybe these kind of events should be brought back. Anyways, thank you for reading and keep on playing!

Old forums to visit in your freetime:

SPUF69 - the organizers of the original events: link