How to NOT get autobalanced

In this tutorial I'm gonna show you how to avoid autobalance in one simple step...

Disclaimer

I did NOT find this trick. It was shown by TF2 YouTuber named Delfy. Here is his video:

How to do it

If you see "You will be moved to team BLU/RED in 5 seconds if the teams are still not balanced"
You have 5 seconds to open console (~) and type "retry".
This will disconnect and instantly reconnect you to the server. You will lose all your points by doing this, but you will also avoid autobalance!

The end

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[Marthos]

This should work:
bind "key" "retry"

[GentleSeal]

if anyone still around, or the authro is here. How would I be able to bind a key to type this?

[♥Strvmpet♥]

auto balance is weird, it was last point and we were about to win and then i got autobalanced, 3 seconds later I lose

[Marthos]

From my experience i would say that server can't do that.
Just look at scoreboard while playing. Sometimes I see that BLU team already has 8 connected players and like 4 still joining, and RED has only 4 connected players and couple joining. And I'm like "just move the connecting players from BLU to RED", but the server is like "nope, I'll let them join and then we can speak about balance"

[Marthos]

Autobalance is not shuffling all the players, it is transfering one or more players to opposite team. That's why this trick does work (i used it like 20 times, works each time).
When server finally recognizes that teams are unbalanced it starts taking players from one team (let's say BLU for example) and throwing them to the other (RED). Now let's say that you are the chosen one. Server is politely informing you that you're gonna join RED in 5 sec. But when you type "reconnect" in console the server is like "omg he disconnected from the server, guess i must pick another one". In time when you are reconnecting the server menages to "balance" the teams. You reconnect and voilà! You're still playing in BLU.

[Marthos]

You probably did it too late.
Game moved you to the other team and then you reconnected so you ended up there

[why]

it does not work :C

I tried, ended up on the other team when I reconnected.