to simplify the problem a bit:


You told the game where players can start while playing Team Deathmatch, but when you test your maps the game loads the map into a regular Deathmatch game (not TeamDeathmatch). The problem, therefore, is that you haven't told the game where to put players for any gametype OTHER than TDM. You need spawns for EACH gametype in order to be able to play that gametype (ie, TDM spawns aren't active when you play DM, and DM spawns aren't active when you play TDM, and etc and so on for all the gametypes).

And......... all that depends on what gametypes you have specified your map can play in your arena file..
Even if your map is for SD specifically then you should still have spawns in it for DM, that way if someone loads your map in this mode by mistake it allow you to spawn properly.

Grassy