If fighting is sure to result in victory, then you must fight! Sun Tzu said that and these players sure as hell believe it! Essentials.TF are bringing monthly tournaments to TF2 in both the EU and NA regions for August, sponsored by Marketplace.tf.

There's only a few days left to sign up for the EU monthly and not much longer than that for NA. You can sign up to play in EU here and to play in NA here. There's plenty of prize pool to play for and medals to be earned just for playing, so join us for some weekend combat.

If you're just looking for some good games to watch, you can watch it live on the Essentials.TF Twitch channel. Want to know more? Take a look at our announcement articles for the EU Monthly and the NA Monthly on Essentials.TF.

The Blapature Co. Charity Bash, a 24-hour Team Fortress 2 charity livestream, kicks off this weekend! Starting on Saturday, July 28th, at 7pm CEST, join a host of personalities from the Team Fortress 2 community as they raise money for Child's Play Charity. Everyone who donates at least $5 will receive a special in-game medal. There are additional medal styles available for larger donations! During the stream we'll cover a large variety of gameplay types and content, including competitive TF2, custom community servers, TF2 trading and more!

The stream will be broadcast live on the Essentials.TF Twitch Channel. To donate cash, visit the event donation page. You can also donate in-game TF2 items through Scrap.TF. Donating at least $5 worth of items will still earn you a medal!

• Added NHBL Heavyweight Champion Season 7 tournament medal
• Added TF2Maps 72hr Summer Jam 2018 community medal
• Added Chapelaria Ultiduo Gladiator Season 2 tournament medals
• Added Newbie Highlander Season 2 tournament medals
• Added Newbie Prolander Season 3 tournament medals
• Added Rally Call 2018 community medals
• Fixed tooltips for Fabricator items being truncated on OS X and Linux clients

RGL.gg is bringing Prolander to Australia! Thanks to STN.tf and CPU Servers, we are hosting our very first Australian One Day Cup. This will be a FREE tournament open to players of all skill levels, and best of all, half of the teams that enter will win keys! During the cup, you will be playing against teams of similar skill, so you don't have to worry about playing against the top players. Additionally, if you don't have a team, you can queue as an individual player and be placed into a team by us!

The cup is on July 21st, starting at 4pm AEST. Every team will play at least three matches, on payload and king of the hill maps, with the cup will lasting about six hours. New team registration ends on July 18th. Players who are looking for a team can post in the LFT section of the RGL cup website. More information and registration is at the Cup.AU.RGL.gg website.

• Added tournament/community medals for HLMixes, Hydro.tf, Ready Steady Pan Season 4, and Blapature
• Tweaked Competitive Mode MMR calculations
  • MMR mobility increased somewhat across the board
  • Players who have high game counts relative to the rest of the player base should see fewer adjustments of 1 or 0 MMR
• Updated pl_enclosure_final to fix a displacement hole in stage two
• Updated Test Run items such that the discount is not valid if the item is already on sale in the Mann Co. Store
• Updated the models for The Frontier Djustice, The Rotation Sensation, and the Elf Esteem to fix display problems with unusual effects
• Fixed some currencies not properly calculating the Test Run discount, which prevented being able to purchase the item
• Updated the localization files

Signups for Ready Steady Pan Season 4 are finally open! We're very excited for all the frying pan action throughout the season, but one thing you may be asking yourself is "where do I signup?". The website is open for team and user registration over at Pan.tf, where you can also look for teams and players on the forums. Signups end on July 2nd, so be sure to get your teams ready for the ultimate pandemonium that is Ready Steady Pan!

NOTE: Preseason matches start during the week of July 25th.

For those who are new: Ready Steady Pan is a semi-competitive league involving the frying pan as the only damage dealing weapon allowed, as well as food and jumper weapons. If you want to connect with others participating in the season or want to get in contact with the many helpers that are volunteering, you can check out our Discord server on our website.

LuckyLukeTF2 is back with the Top 10 Plays from the Copenhagen LAN 2018! The Top 10 Plays is a monthly series and you can catch up on all of the episodes here.

DanishActionHero has also created an exciting video of the best frags and moments!

• Several fixes to address exploits and stability issues
• Fixed server crash related to the CTriggerAddTFPlayerCondition map entity
• Fixed client crash when playing Mann vs. Machine
• Fixed client crash on exit
• Fixed Scouts not being able to pick-up the Sandman's baseball
• Fixed broken Unusual effects for the Exquisite Rack, the Stainless Pot, and the Universal Translator
• Fixed broken Strange Filter store images for Brimstone, Maple Ridge Event, and Pit of Death
• Updated r_screenoverlay command to accept '0' as well as 'off' to disable overlays. This fixes some community mods that were incorrectly expecting 0 to disable the overlay, resulting in unexpected behavior.
• Added "Reset All Achievements" button to the Achievements dialog
  • A small number of achievements are based on player stats and will be awarded again when Team Fortress 2 is restarted unless the player stats are also reset
  • Resetting achievements will not allow you to receive achievement-based items multiple times
• Players who consistently demonstrate a pattern of negative behavior in-game (based upon excessive reports from other players and several other factors) will now receive a temporary matchmaking ban
• Added RGL.gg tournament medals
• Added Copenhagen Games tournament medals
• Added PURE League tournament medals
• Added Beginnings 5 tournament medals
• Added ozfortress Season 22 tournament medals

RGL.gg is back for the one year anniversary of its Pick/Ban Prolander league! This time the North American league boasts a prize pool of $4,000! The league is broken down into 4 divisions, so you can easily play against people of your skill level. Whether you want to try to take down froyotech or if this is your first time playing competitively, there's a place for everyone in this friendly, welcoming community!

It's also free to play for all divisions outside the Invite division. If you need to find a team to join, try posting in the Players Looking For Team section of the RGL website. New team registration ends on June 14th and the league starts on June 21st. Join this growing, fun and fresh new competitive format.

Register today at RGL.gg website.

• Fixed a server crash related to Flamethrower particles
• Fixed a client crash related to matchmaking parties
• Fixed a client crash related to the ConVar tf_flamethrower_boxsize
• Fixed a memory leak in the main menu
• Fixed some languages having missing characters in the ConTracker menu
• Fixed the voicemenu command being used to lag servers
• Fixed a rendering issue with Unusual effects for the Antarctic Eyewear
• Fixed some War Paint weapons not being valid trade-up items for the Civilian Stat Clock
• Fixed an animation bug related to the Thermal Thruster and changing class while holstering it
• Fixed matchmaking players being able to sit at the MOTD so they can't be kicked by players in the match. They will now show in the scoreboard on their assigned team and will be valid vote-kick targets by members of their team.
• Updated the Autobalance system to skip asking/waiting for volunteers. Instead, it will go straight to switching candidates to balance the teams.
• Updated model/materials for the Valhalla Helm to fix some clipping issues
• Updated the localization files
• Updated pl_enclosure_final
  • Fixed players being able to get stuck in closing dropdown door in stage 3
  • Fixed missing team filter for small resupply room in stage 3
  • Removed unnecessary env_wind entity messing with env_dustmote entities