Scoreboard

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The scoreboard is a screen accessible with Tab ⇆ ( on the Xbox 360, on the PlayStation 3) or at the end of a match when Tournament Mode is enabled. It displays player information, server name, team scores, duel score (if the player is running a duel), and so on. Information is given about each player, such as what team they are on, how many points they have, and what class they are playing as.

Details

Number of points each team has
Steam avatar (if the player is currently friends with another player, it will show up that both are friends)
Player class (only visible for teammates)
Player score (See Points below)
Killstreaks
A user's ping. If the player is a bot, it will display the word 'BOT' in place of a ping number.
Casual Mode/Competitive Mode medal if player is playing those modes.
Number of dominations (set as trophies with a small number beside it)
Dominated icon (if another player is dominating the player)
Domination target (if the player is dominating another player)
A portrait of the player's current class
Spectators
The player's name
Assorted gameplay statistics
Map name and Server name

Mann Vs. Machine Scoreboard

In Mann Vs. Machine, a different scoreboard appears with different information:

Avatar
Wave progress and enemies left in the wave
Class
Tour number (Mann Up mode only). Note: This is directly pulled from the relevant Tour of Duty badge.
Score (see Points below)
Damage (to robots only)
Tank damage
Support (See Points below)
Credits collected
Squad Surplus Voucher
Ping
Class avatar
Player name
Mission name

Points

Points are the basic scoring unit in Team Fortress 2, and are awarded for different successful offensive and defensive actions. Performing these actions also often earns a voice response from the player's current class, and earning Bonus points displays a number on-screen in magenta if the option is enabled. The three players on the winning team that score the most points in a round are the MVPs for that round.

Points can be awarded in fractions; for example, a kill assist is worth ½ a point. However, fractions of points are rounded down when displayed on the scoreboard; having a single ½-point does not affect a player's score at all, and a player must complete two ½-point actions to have their score increase by 1. Points are also rounded down before the subscores from each category are added together, so having two ½-points in two different categories is not displayed as 1 point, instead both being rounded down to 0 and added together afterwards. As a result, having an odd number of ½-points in several categories will cause a player's score to show as lower than expected.

Note: Support points do not count toward the player's overall score.

Note that one action may result in being awarded points for two or more reasons; for example, earning a headshot with the Huntsman awards points for the kill, headshot, and bonus points for the specialized kill.

Action	Category	Points Earned
All classes
Kill	Kills	1
Kill assist	Assists	½
Capturing a control point or the Intelligence	Captures	2
Capturing the Intelligence in Mannpower mode.	Captures	5
Pushing the Payload cart for 10 seconds¹	Captures	2
Scoring with the JACK in PASS Time	Captures	2
Scoring with the JACK in PASS Time	Bonus	2
Passing or receiving the JACK in PASS Time	Bonus	1
Passing or receiving the JACK in PASS Time	Support	250
Intercepting or stealing the JACK in PASS Time	Bonus	2
Defense	Defenses	1
Building destruction	Destructions	1
Revenge	Revenge	1
Dealing Damage	Damage	1 for every 600 damage points dealt
Killing a Medic who has full ÜberCharge	Bonus	2
Killing a Medic who has full ÜberCharge	Support	500
(MvM only) Resetting the bomb	Bonus	10
(MvM only) Resetting the bomb	Support	2500
(RD only) Collecting power cores	Bonus	1 for every 10 cores captured
(RD only) Collecting power cores	Support	25 for every core captured
(RD only) Capturing a reactor core	Bonus	1 for every 10 cores stolen
(RD only) Capturing a reactor core	Support	25 for every core stolen
Scout
Healing with Mad Milk	Healing	1 for every 600 health points healed
Healing with Mad Milk	Support	1 for every health point healed by teammates
Stunning an enemy with a baseball	Bonus	1 (regular stun)
	Bonus	2 (moonshot)
	Support	250 (regular stun)
	Support	500 (moonshot)
Extinguishing a teammate or yourself with Mad Milk	Bonus	1
Extinguishing a teammate or yourself with Mad Milk	Support	250
Marking an enemy for death	Support	1 for every 4 damage dealt by teammates
Soldier
Healing with Black Box	Healing	1 for every 600 health points healed
Healing with the Concheror	Healing	1 for every 600 health points healed
Healing with the Concheror	Support	1 for every health point healed by teammates
Assisting damage with the Buff Banner	Support	1 for every 4 damage dealt by teammates
Pyro
Extinguishing a teammate with Compression blast/Manmelter	Bonus	1
Extinguishing a teammate with Compression blast/Manmelter	Support	250
Destroying a Spy building with Homewrecker/Maul/Neon Annihilator	Bonus	1
	Support	250
(MvM only) Airblasting a Sentry Buster or Giant robot	Bonus	1
(MvM only) Airblasting a Sentry Buster or Giant robot	Support	250
Heavy
Healing with Dalokohs Bar/Fishcake/Sandvich/Second Banana	Healing	1 for every 600 health points healed
Giving a teammate a dropped Dalokohs Bar/Fishcake/Sandvich/Second Banana	Bonus	1
	Support	250 + 1 for every point of health healed
Engineer
Teleporter use by a teammate	Teleports	½
Teleporter use by a teammate	Support	(MvM only) 250
Destroying a Spy building with Wrench or one of its reskins.	Bonus	1
	Support	250
Healing with a Dispenser	Healing	1 for every 600 health points healed
(MvM only) Ammo dispensed from a Dispenser	Support	25 for every set of ammo dispensed
Destroying a projectile with the Short Circuit	Support	50
Medic
Healing	Healing	1 for every 600 health points healed
ÜberCharge	Invulns	1
(MvM and Perks only) Reviving a teammate	Bonus	5
(MvM and Perks only) Reviving a teammate	Support	1250
(MvM only) Deploying a projectile shield	Support	1 for every point of damage blocked²
(MvM only) Deploying a Medi Gun Übercharge	Support	1 for every point of damage blocked²
(MvM only) Deploying a Kritzkrieg Übercharge	Support	1 for every point of damage dealt
(MvM only) Deploying a Kritzkrieg Übercharge	Support	2 for every point of damage dealt to a Tank^{2 3}
Sniper
Headshot kill	Headshots	½
Headshot kill with the Huntsman	Bonus	1
Headshot kill with the Huntsman	Support	125
Extinguishing a teammate or yourself with Jarate	Bonus	1
Extinguishing a teammate or yourself with Jarate	Support	250
Jarate-ing a target	Support	1 for every 4 damage dealt by teammates
Spy
Backstab kill	Backstabs	1
Headshot kill with the Ambassador	Headshots	½
(MvM only) Sapping a target	Support	1 for every 2 damage dealt by teammates

Notes:

¹True for the majority of maps. Certain maps can have differing time requirements; for example, Upward requires 50 seconds of cart pushing for one capture point.

²Damage calculated is not affected by Crits or fall-off.

³The Heavy's Primary Weapons have a 75% damage reduction against Tanks which is not included in this. Thus, the Medic gains support points equal to 2x base damage = 8x actual damage done.

Related settings

In Advanced settings, players can change the appearance of their scoreboards with alternate class icons and ping showing as values.

Enable mouse input on the scoreboard

Alternate class icons.

Having this setting enabled allows the player to use their mouse when the scoreboard is active. Left-clicking on teammates shows their stats, while right-clicking allows easy trading, muting, and visiting their profile. It is also possible to enter tf_scoreboard_mouse_mode 2 in the console command to enable a scoreboard view that only enables the mouse cursor after clicking the screen. Note that, due to a bug, this currently does not work in Spectator view.

Display ping values as text on the scoreboard

Having this setting enabled shows the ping of players as numbers instead of the yellow, red, and green bars.

Display alternate class icons on the scoreboard

Enabling this setting swaps the default class icons with more realistic versions. The Alternate class icons are properly shaded and have a yellow circle behind them, presumably for better contrast.

Update history

September 20, 2007 Patch

Fixed crash on opening the scoreboard after having changed between windowed and fullscreen.

October 25, 2007 Patch

Fixed scoreboard team scores label getting cut off.

December 20, 2007 Patch

Prevented players from hiding their name in the scoreboard.

January 25, 2008 Patch

Added an option to auto-save a scoreboard screenshot at the end of a map to the Multiplayer->Advanced dialog.

March 19, 2013 Patch

Fixed a scoreboard bug where domination count was reduced by 2 when a dominated player left the server.

June 18, 2014 Patch (Love & War Update)

[Undocumented] The scoreboard now displays support points and damage dealt on non-MvM maps.

December 17, 2015 Patch (Tough Break Update)

Re-ordered some of the columns.
Added an image to represent player ping values instead of the actual ping values. Added an option in Adv. Options.

December 22, 2015 Patch

Added Ping column header when viewing ping as text in the scoreboard.
Added the player count for each team.

January 12, 2016 Patch

Fixed the scrollbar overlapping the ping column in the scoreboard when mouse input is enabled.

January 20, 2016 Patch

Fixed not seeing team names in the scoreboard on dedicated servers using tournament mode.
Updated the campaign stamp images in the scoreboard and win panel.

February 2, 2016 Patch

Fixed not seeing team names when using custom scoreboards.
Fixed leaderboards occasionally not displaying when changing map.

August 16, 2016 Patch

Added report player context menu on scoreboard.
- Requires mouse input mode on the scoreboard (see Adv. Options).

August 29, 2016 Patch

Fixed the scoreboard badge panels not updating properly when teams would change sides on attack/defend maps.

September 27, 2016 Patch

The scoreboard now shows the connection status for missing and connecting players.

February 14, 2017 Patch

Fixed a case where the scoreboard would not update properly when players volunteer to switch teams in Casual Mode.

November 17, 2017 Patch

Fixed the scoreboard not displaying the proper images for Jungle Inferno Campaign Pass owners.

Bugs

The scoreboard mouse input doesn't work properly in any server after playing in a server where one team can have more than 16 players, such as Death Run servers.
If an Engineer that is holding a Building dies without being finished off by an enemy, the Engineer is awarded with 1 destruction point.
The Domination counter on the scoreboard does not go higher than 16, even if a player dominates more than 16 enemies.^[1]
In Mann vs. Machine, if you start recording a demo or you lose connection for long enough then many values in the scoreboard will change to not include previous waves.^[2]

Trivia

As points are rounded down within each category before being added to form a player's total score, headshots with the Huntsman can appear to count as 1, 2, or even 3 points.