function onPlayerRequestSpawn( player )
{
    // pointless to enforce a certain team because there aren't enough players on the server
    if(GetPlayers() < 2)
        return 1;

    // array to store teams
    playerTeams <- [];
    local tmpPlayer;

    // quick loop to count players on each team
    for(local i = 0; i < GetMaxPlayers(); ++i)
    {
        tmpPlayer = FindPlayer(i);

        // check if player is valid
        if(!tmpPlayer)
            continue;

        // check if player is spawned or not
        // pointless to check the team of an unspawned player
        if(!tmpPlayer.IsSpawned)
            continue;

        // check against local player
        if(tmpPlayer == player)
            continue;

        if(playerTeams[tmpPlayer.Team])
            ++playerTeams[tmpPlayer.Team];
        else
            playerTeams[tmpPlayer.Team] = 1;
    }

    // check if the array is empty or not
    if(playerTeams.len() < 1)
        return 1;

    // sort using a lambda expression
    playerTeams.sort(@(a,b) a <=> b);

    // grab the first item off the array
    local first_team = playerTeams[0];

    // switch for efficiency. do your code here
    switch(first_team)
    {
        case 0:
            break;

        case 1:
            break;

        case 2:
            break;
    }

    // return 0, we didn't process the spawn anyway
    return 0;
}