The Teamwarfare Network: Two Decades of Play.
Structured competition meets thriving community. We are the home for serious leagues, friendly game nights, and every player in between.
The Definitive Matchmaking Hub
For over two decades, the Teamwarfare League (TWL) has evolved alongside the gaming landscape, but our mission remains singular: to provide a superior, community-built online gaming experience. We are not just a league; we are the definitive matchmaking hub for every style of play, connecting you to teammates, opponents, and organized community events across a wide selection of titles.
Today, the TWL Network is built upon two fully integrated pillars - Competitive and Casual - ensuring every gamer, regardless of skill level or preferred genre, has a dedicated, high-quality home.
The Casual Pillar: Connection, Community, and Uncovered Gems
The Casual pillar is dedicated to fostering a friendly, low-stakes environment where community and connection come first. We believe great games deserve a great place to be played socially.
A Nice Place to Play
Play low-stakes matches and connect with friendly gamers instantly. We host organized, moderated open gaming nights and fun events where the focus is simply on enjoying the game and meeting friendly, low-drama players. When the pressure is removed, skill improvement is a natural and welcome byproduct. We aim to return to that lost feeling of togetherness by connecting players to deploy together in cooperative and multiplayer titles.
Uncovered Gems
It’s not just about the latest, billion-dollar releases. The TWL Network provides a dedicated home for overlooked titles, specialized game mods, and unique formats that struggle to find a stable community elsewhere. We actively collaborate with various gaming cultures to ensure we are supporting great gaming communities that don't often enjoy the spotlight, extending the life of your favorite games for years to come.
The Competitive Pillar: Structured Play for Serious Rivals
For the serious player who thrives on sustained challenge, the Competitive pillar offers the integrity of structured leagues and the unique balance of the TWL ladder system. This is where you come to prove your skill against peers who share your commitment to organized play.
Balanced Challenge
Our ladder system is the foundation of our competitive integrity. You climb the ladder until you hit your true skill ceiling. This structure consistently places you against similarly ranked opponents, ensuring exciting, close matches and minimal blowouts. Every competitor starts at the bottom and naturally works their way up, guaranteeing sustainable, high-quality rivalry.
Never Eliminated
The reward of the ladder is finding your rightful spot among your peers. Unlike traditional single-elimination formats, losing a match won't end your season or eliminate your team. It simply affects your rank, encouraging you to play again and again. By challenging teams above you, the system guarantees you settle among peers, ensuring every game is a true test of skill, not a mismatch. This stability fosters long-term commitment and player recognition.
The TWL Network Difference
This iteration of Teamwarfare is backed by the same group of dedicated volunteers who met and bonded in the TWL community years ago. With world-class, integrated infrastructure and an unparalleled benefit of experience gained over two decades, we are focused on the big picture: building strong communities that speak to the way we like to enjoy games.
How You Can Start Today:
Connect to our Discord and start talking and gaming immediately. The TWL Network is a group-agnostic environment—use it to find teammates, clan mates, opponents, or collaborate with us and organize something awesome for your community.
Join the TWL Network. Find your game. Find your people.
TWL History
Originally launched on January 18, 2001 by co-founders Will ‘Polaris’ Everett and Myles ‘Triston’ Angell, TeamWarfare League (TWL) was a website originally developed to provide a competitive outlet for players of Starsiege: Tribes. Carried on the backs of its countless volunteer staff, TWL was able to evolve into a multi-gaming platform providing competitive outlets via ladders and leagues for a multitude of multiplayer games, both on console and on PC.
Through the years TWL saw well over 850,000 players join at least one of the over 130,000 teams registered across over 150 supported games. TWL quickly grew into one of the largest gaming communities on the planet. Through its history, one thing stood out amongst the rest; TWL was run entirely by a community of selfless gamers that banded together and volunteered their time to help share their love of competitive gaming with the rest of the world. From coding to admins and everyone in between, TWL would never have been possible without the efforts of the volunteers that made the organization so successful.
TeamWarfare League was sold in 2014 and in 2015 that ownership was stripped due to a breach of contract. Later that year a group of former admins gained ownership of the domain. When that group failed to successfully re-launch the project, the domain was simply lost and put up for sale. In 2019, a small group of former TWL admins regrouped and formed to create Rebound Gaming Network (RGN) in 2019 and hosted several highly successful community events.
A matured view and heightened demand prompted reconsideration of how TWL should return and relaunched in 2021 with several core TWL admins. Rather than being a "league" TWL is now seen as a network poised to connect communities and enhance gaming options for all, still carried on the backs of volunteers that seek to provide a fun, friendly, and inclusive competitive outlet for gamers of all skill levels.