For everyone who wants to set up a tourney training server, here are the relevant cvar settings i use (and which are also used on the official tournament servers).
I omitted most of the technical stuff you'll have to choose for yourself anyway (like map list, which vcalls to allow, etc).
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// These settings are actually technical stuff, but i recommend it
g_antilag 3
sv_maxrate 10000
tts_logprivatemessages 1
tts_emptyservernomapchange 1
tts_emptyservernomapchange_maxtime 180
// Basic settings
g_dm 1
g_grappling_hook 1
g_minstagib 1
// Now here are the settings that are relevant to game balance.
sv_servermodelsonly 1
tts_gamecommencing 1
tts_gamecommencing_delay 3
timelimit_override 20
fraglimit_override 30
g_minstagib_ammo_start 11
g_minstagib_ammo_drop 8
g_balance_minstagib_nex_refire 0.8
tts_laser_jumpinterval 0.9
g_respawn_delay 1
g_forced_respawn 1
g_minstagib_invis_alpha 0.00
tts_powerups_invis_cloaktime 1.00
tts_powerups_reuse 0
g_balance_powerup_strength_time 30
g_balance_powerup_invincible_time 30
sv_airaccelerate 5.5
sv_accelerate 5.5
sv_maxairspeed 220
sv_maxspeed 400
tts_powerups_invis_fire_recovertime 0.90
tts_powerups_invis_fire_alpha 1.0
tts_powerups_invis_flicker_average 2.0
tts_powerups_invis_flicker_deviation 0.5
tts_powerups_invis_flicker_duration 0.8
g_minstagib_speed_moverate 1.25
g_minstagib_speed_jumpheight 1.8
tts_spawnshieldtime 1.5
sv_defaultcharacter 1
sv_defaultplayermodel "models/player/nexus.zym"
sv_defaultplayercolors "68"
sv_defaultplayerskin "1"
// Since you probably want to make it a 1on1 server
// with a few spectators, i recommend something like this
maxplayers 10
tts_maxactiveplayers 2
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For most of these settings, you also need my mod, which you can download from http://totclan.game-server.cc/tts
