# Storing players' team numbers
**URL:** https://discourse.ioquake.org/t/storing-players-team-numbers/897
**Category:** dev
**Created:** [June 6, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://discourse.ioquake.org/t/storing-players-team-numbers/897 "2017-06-06T18:09:21Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@sentry](https://discourse.ioquake.org/u/sentry)
#### Post date: [June 6, 2017, 6:09pm UTC](https://discourse.ioquake.org/t/storing-players-team-numbers/897/1 "2017-06-06T18:09:21Z")
I’ve coded some various functions that need to be able to retrieve each player’s team number (such as a custom /players list). I was initially using persistant[PERS\_TEAM], but then I realized if a player is spectating someone, it returns that player’s team number instead of their own.
So, the method I’m using right now to store the player’s team number is:
```auto
// [ClientUserinfoChanged: 2 n\Test\t\3\model\ranger/pm\hmodel\ranger/pm\c1\4444\c2\5\hc\100\w\0\l\0\rt\3\st\0
else if( strcmp(first,"ClientUserinfoChanged:") == 0 ){
int x = 1, team = 0;
for (i=0,cl=svs.clients; i < sv_maxclients->integer; i++,cl++){
if(!cl->state){ continue; }
if( i == atoi(second) ) {
// Retrieve team number
while( strRemoveAll(line," ") );
char *pch;
pch = strtok( line, "\\" );
while (pch != NULL) {
if( x == 4 ) {
team = atoi(pch);
pch = NULL;
} else {
pch = strtok(NULL, "\\");
}
x++;
}
// If client joined a different team, update team number and timestamp of join
if( cl->teamNum != team ) {
cl->teamNum = team;
}
}
}
}
```
However, I don’t really like this solution and was wondering if there’s a better way. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks!
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### Author:  [@zturtleman](https://discourse.ioquake.org/u/zturtleman)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2017, 12:57am UTC](https://discourse.ioquake.org/t/storing-players-team-numbers/897/2 "2017-06-07T00:57:01Z")
You can check if spectator’s team was replaced by team of the client they are following.
```cpp
if (ps->pm_flags & PMF_FOLLOW) {
team = TEAM_SPECTATOR;
} else {
team = ps->persistant[PERS_TEAM];
}
```
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### Author:  [@sentry](https://discourse.ioquake.org/u/sentry)
#### Post date: [June 7, 2017, 1:12am UTC](https://discourse.ioquake.org/t/storing-players-team-numbers/897/3 "2017-06-07T01:12:02Z")
Perfect! That’s just what I was looking for. Thank you.