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After a month and a half of counting, sorting, and organizing, the folks at TF2Maps are ready to show off the best of this year's 72hr TF2Jam! This is their biggest showcase yet at 140 entries!
This year's event received 908 entries, shattering last year's total of 345 and the previous all-time record of 742 set in 2017! The previous donation record (around $10,000 in donations from 1122 different donors) was also shattered by raising a total of $17,916.40 from 1616 different donors! The money was donated to Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF), an international, independent organization that provides medical assistance to people affected by conflict, epidemics, disasters, and more. Way to go, TF2 Community!
For more information, check out the showcase thread on TF2Maps! You can also join the TF2Maps Discord and follow TF2Maps on Twitter!
Gertrude's Gallery of Garments is a brand new TF2 community costume contest! Submit your best creations to the TF2 Steam Workshop! There will be prizes for the best entries!
Details can be found here! Don't delay! The deadline for submissions is Friday, September 30th, at 11:59 PM EDT!
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Team Fortress 2 is returning to Insomnia, with teams from around the world competing for their chance of a £5,000 prize pool and a chance at glory! The event takes place from Friday, August 26th, to Sunday, August 28th. EssentialsTF will be bringing all three days of action live from the Insomnia Gaming Festival hosted at the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, UK.
Signups for the tournament are here. The event will be streamed both at the event and online by EssentialsTF over at their Twitch page, so you can watch the event in-person or in the comfort of your own home. For the latest information, be sure to check out LAN.TF and the EssentialsTF Twitter.
LuckyLukeTF2 is back with the Top 12 special for 2021! Just like previous years, this edition features some of the best plays collected from monthly episodes for the year of 2021! Check out the action above or on LuckyLukeTF2's YouTube channel here!
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This weekend, August 6th and 7th, the top four RGL teams will be flying out to Foxborough, MA, to prove who the best team in North America is and earn their part of the $5,800+ prize pool!
Catch all of the action live on the RGL Twitch stream!
Schedule - Day 1 (Saturday, August 6th)
12pm Eastern - Quarter Finals
4pm Eastern - Semi-finals / Lower Bracket Semi-finals
Schedule - Day 2 (Sunday, August 7th)
12pm Eastern - Lower Bracket Finals
4:30pm Eastern - GRAND FINALS
For more information about the LAN or if you're interested in being an in-person spectator, go to LAN.RGL.gg!
The PASS Time Federation is opening sign-ups for their third season! With new twists and changes, Season 3 is looking for players itching to try out something special! Even if you've played PASS Time before, you'll want to check it out!
The new season won’t start until both the NA and EU branches have their team slots full (8 teams for each), but if the number of qualified teams reaches 24 then the divisions will be split into NA/EU High and Low. There will be in-game medals and a prize pool of keys for the first place team!
Sign-ups are already underway! Registration will run until August 27th, so gather your mates for a rousing 3-4 weeks of deadly soccerhockeybasketball!
Join the PASS Time Federation Discord for more information, and get ready to PASS some Time!
The avocados are going on vacation this year! BlapBash is officially back for 2022 raising money for SpecialEffect to put fun and inclusion back into the lives of people with physical disabilities by helping them to play video games!
The two-day livestream event will take place on July 30th and 31st starting at 12pm CEST / 6am EDT for 12 hours each day and will feature many familiar TF2 personalities & communities. They’ve got an avocado-jam-packed schedule featuring a variety of events inside and outside of TF2, including their largest ever TF2 crate unboxing and giveaway yet! Catch all the action on the EssentialsTF Twitch channel.
And of course, the famous BlapBash medals are back once again to be claimed starting with a minimum $10 donation. They've also brought back their original medal, now the BlapBash Advocator, as a new reward tier! To donate, head over to the BlapBash donation page and find more info about the event!
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Ready up on the plate, slugger! You might have a bat in hand, but you're playing catcher, too!
Another Fortress Faceoffs event is starting soon, so get yourself a ticket to the front row! A unique game mode is in play, combining an American classic with another sport of unknown origin! That's right, it's baseball-dodgeball season! Teams of five Scouts will compete against one another with only one hit of health, taking their pick of skillful leaping or clumsy cleat-eating as baseballs zip through the sky like a Grand Slam out of Fenway! Do your best to dodge the fastballs or you'll be struck OUT for the round! Overcome the AWAY team in a first-to-five frenzy and topple the bracket to become champion of Major League Mayhem! Be part of the fifth Fortress Faceoffs event and make it to the Top 8 to have your MVP plays streamed live!
For this event, bonus regions like South America, Asia, and Oceania can participate for big prizes as well (though games won't be streamed).
In the future, some Fortress Faceoffs events will only be announced on their social platforms (Discord, Steam, Twitter). Watch for new not-so-secret announcements to make sure you can be part of the games and fun!
Sign up today to get your free entrance and overpriced water! The big game starts August 5th @ 1PM EDT / 13:00 CEST (for NA and EU respectively) and will last around 3 days. For more information about event rules, prizes, and more, join the Fortress Faceoffs Discord and claim your spot in the Hall of Fame!
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Gentlemen and gentlewomen, rejoice! Soon, it will be time to celebrate the 10th anniversary of our streak of heroic cowardly defenses from the robotic nuisances merciless machines. It's because of this occasion that our greatest adversary, Gray Mann, has arrived with a plethora of presents, one of which included a pipe bomb that was not defused on time. Moreover, he has sent his robotic armies for the umpteenth time to try and force us into submission, and recon says that these machines are bigger and badder than ever before. Grab your weapons and Military-Grade Cakes, because it's time to celebrate!
Operation Anniversary Annihilation is a brand new Mann vs. Machine event brought to you by Moonlight MvM that features 6 intermediate, 12 advanced, and 7 expert missions across 17 maps. Complete the waves to earn up to 3 in-game medals! Event servers are available worldwide in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
In addition to sending Gray Mann back to his retirement home, you can also donate to the International Fund for Animal Welfare to support animals in need. Earn up to 3 in-game donor medals for donations of $5, $10, and $15 USD, respectively. Click here for more information on how to donate.
Interested in learning how to create your own MvM waves? Well you're in luck because new submissions are being accepted for the next event! Check out the submission forum for more information. All content creators with an accepted submission will earn a special in-game creator medal!
Have fun, but don’t delay! This tour will implode in just 30 days on August 15th, 2022!
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Get ready! The annual TF2Maps 72-Hour Summer Jam is back for 2022, and the whole community is invited to take part! The 72-Hour Jam starts Friday, July 22nd, at 5pm GMT, and lasts until Monday, July 25th, at 5pm GMT!
For anyone new to the concept, the 72-Hour Jam is a TF2Maps tradition where the community dedicates 3 days of their time to producing cool content themed around Team Fortress 2! This includes maps, models, war paints, animations, videos, paintings, drawings, mods, fan-fiction, woodwork, stonework, legwork, homework, and everything else in-between so long as it's related to Team Fortress 2! Let the waves of creativity rush over you! Post your creation(s) on their web site to show them what you made, and they'll give you a genuine in-game medal to flaunt over random passersby!
This year, the Jam’s charity drive is supporting Doctors Without Borders. Anyone who donates $5 or more to the drive is eligible to receive this year’s in-game charity medal. Donate here!
For more information, check out the thread on TF2Maps or join the TF2Maps Discord. And be sure to follow TF2Maps on Twitter for live coverage during the event!
LAN's are finally back, and so is the LAN Downunder! Teams and players from around Oceania will meet this weekend to crown another LAN champion at the GIC Arena in Melbourne, Australia!
The event will feature a six round Swiss stage, followed by single elimination playoffs on day 2. There can only be one winner! Who will it be? Tune in at 11pm AEST to CappingTV for some jam packed action!
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One of the biggest tournaments in competitive Team Fortress 2 history is happening this weekend at Localhost TF2 LAN! All the top teams in North America - froyotech, Witness Gaming, Like A G6, (and others!) - are back for more as they fight to be crowned kings of the East Coast!
Catch the action on Saturday and Sunday, June 25-26, starting at 12:00pm EDT, streamed live on b4nny’s Twitch channel.
Find out more about how to attend, support and follow the tournament on the official event page.
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After nearly a decade of fruitlessly throwing endless streams of Merc bodies at hordes of evil robots, it's about time to shake things up a bit! What could possibly be more effective than that, you ask? It's simple: become a horde of evil robots! The folks at Potato.TF aren’t entirely certain whether this is legal, safe, or even humane, but they're going to find out one way or the other. After all, science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT!
Operation Rewired Rampage is a charity event created and hosted by Potato.TF. Players are now robots and must fight their way to RED’s base. Blast your way through more than a dozen community-created maps and missions this summer and experience MvM like never before! Servers are available in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Click here to get started!
In addition to destroying robots (as robots), there is a charity fundraiser supporting Direct Relief! Donate as little as $5 to receive an in-game medal! Have the link to your Steam profile ready and click here for more information.
Destroy those robots while you can! The event will end on August 26th, 2022.
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Last month, the TF2 creative community wrapped on another annual creation jam and now you can check out the showcase of all the finished works! All made in the timeframe of 72 hours, this year's jam brought in 345 entries and raised $10,155.82 for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital!
Check out the Showcase thread HERE! Want to be involved next time or get into the thriving content creation community? Join the TF2Maps Discord!
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Red alert, mercs! April is drawing near, and an unusual yet familiar virus has fallen upon the robotic hordes once again. The aptly named "Meme Machines" are back to wreak havoc, blunder about, and provide a healthy helping of the best medicine money can't buy—laughter! Now sign up for the cheapest insurance plan you can find and grab your guns, because it's time for a comedy session!
Operation Peculiar Pandemonium is an April Fools Mann vs Machine tour brought to you by Moonlight MvM that once again pits the Mercs against a meme-fueled robotic onslaught. Complete all the waves in this intermediate-difficulty tour to earn a special pink tank medal! Event servers are available in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia.
In addition to wrecking the meme machines, you can also donate to the charity fundraiser for The National Breast Cancer Foundation of Australia. Up to three pink donor medals are up for grabs for donations of A$6 (US$5), A$20 (US$15), and A$33 (US$25). Both cash and TF2 items are accepted. Click here for more information on how to donate.
Have fun, but don’t delay or else the meme machines will conquer the world by April 11th!
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