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You like Team Fortress, we like Team Fortress, let's play some Team Fortress together! Developers from things such as Minecraft, Skyrim, and Team Fortress, unite with community personalities in a mix up match up battle for charity supporting Child's Play. There's a number of free slots available to be won. If you're interested in joining the match, stop by the TF2 Mixup site and donate! All the specifics are available on the Mixup Match 4 site.
Starting today, March 2, ESEA is offering up full coverage of the ESEA Season 10 LAN Finals live from Dallas, Texas, where the remainder of the season's $80,000 prize pool will be awarded! Coverage includes Counter-Strike 1.6, Counter-Strike Source, and of course, Team Fortress 2.
The broadcast schedule can be found on ESEA.net. Streams are available on ESEA.net, ESEA News, and Twitch.tv Hub. The ESEA Orange channel is dedicated to Team Fortress 2 and will feature commentator eXtine.
Season one of Highlander was a huge success with over 300 teams signing up for the league. How better to follow up? Season two! Sign-ups are open for this next season of Highlander at ETF2L. Better get your team together as signups close March 11 and the season starts Sunday, March 18.
It's been pointed out to us that there's a regularly updated comic series running on Deviant Art by "spacerocketbunny" called "Be Efficient Be Polite." We're booking the rest of the afternoon off so we can catch up and read it all.
Alliance of Valiant Arms, the popular Free-to-Play game on Steam, is having a special Weekend Deal to commemorate their latest update which includes Steam achievements! Now through Monday at 10AM Pacific Time, all in-game purchases will net you double the G Coins in A.V.A.! Additionally, a new A.V.A. themed item, the "Black Rose", has been added into Team Fortress 2. Complete the AVA achievement, "1st One Down", to unlock the TF2 item and you'll also receive the TF2-inspired "Holy Mackerel" for your A.V.A. character! Click Here to download and start playing. Must have Steam installed.
French Tournament News
This weekend 16 Team Fortress 2 teams are gathering in Rennes, France, for Insalan 7. With over one hundred people playing Team Fortress 2 the LAN is expected to push records for Team Fortress 2 in France! HiScoreTV is planning to broadcast the games throughout the weekend so be sure to tune in.
Update!
We neglected to mention that Vanilla TV will also be broadcasting matches in English as well. The final match is scheduled for 2PM CET.
Save 15% when you pre-purchase Jagged Alliance - Back in Action on Steam before February 7th and get three new items in TF2.
The next release in the Gaming Heads TF2 12 inch statue line, the Medic, will be available for pre-order on Tuesday, January 31st via the Gaming Heads website.
CEVO is host to a new tournament, "The Vanilla Challenge." Teams will compete for cash prizes with first place receiving $1000 and a spot in the main division in their upcoming season nine. Maps have not yet been announced.
We're already a few episodes behind but somehow we doubt you'd be surprised by that tidbit. Every Monday eXtv puts together a segment called eXtravision featuring Team Fortress 2 news, tournaments, replays, and much more.
Payload. New levels. TF2Maps.net. Delicious! This new level design competition focuses around designing a map with an all new dynamic payload element. Not sure what that is? Neither are they because that's up to you! Intrigued? Visit their news posting on TF2Maps.net for details. The contest ends April 30 9:00PM UTC. Submissions will be accepted one week before the deadline.
United Gaming Clan's season 6 highlander league starts January 23. Teams can sign up until January 30 to compete in the ten week season.
Sign ups are still open (Four for the KritzKast Low-Fi Offclass Cup until Saturday 12:00AM EST. Interested in something a little different? Players are limited to no more than two of each: Pyro, Sniper, or Spy and only one Heavy, Engineer, or Medic. There's a few unlocks white listed as well, more details can be found in their announcement. Specific sign up details are available here.
Thanks to some talented community translators, there's now a Russian version of 'A Smissmas Story' available for you to read here.
Update: Zde je odkaz na českou verzi komiksu, vytvořenou členem komunity SC.
The second annual holiday-themed "Australian Christmas" update, features two retro-futuristic “Dr. Grordbort” class packs for the Engineer and Pyro, designed by Weta Workshop’s Greg Broadmore.
In addition to the class packs, the update will also ship 14 new holiday-themed weapons, hats and cosmetic items by the TF community’s item creators, using the Steam Workshop. “CP_Foundry,” a new five-cap control point map designed by Valve’s TF2 team, comes with 12 map-specific achievements.
As part of the holiday celebration, over 50 items in the Mann Co. in-game store will be on sale for up to 75% until January 2nd, 2012. Additionally, the in-game item drop rate will be doubled for the first week of the event.