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!

• Fixed the Spy being able to disguise after picking-up the intelligence
• Fixed some missing Announcer voice lines during the Competitive post-match summary
• Fixed some view model draw animations not using the snap command
• Fixed the Mann vs. Machine mission selection dialog sometimes drawing under the category controls
• Updated the Cold Cosmos Unusual effect to fix a parenting issue
• Updated Contagious Eruption, Daydream Eruption, and Volcanic Eruption Unusual effects
  • Fixed the highlight glow detaching itself from the effects and moving in the direction the player is moving
  • Fixed the effects being almost invisible in bright areas
• Updated the Kazan Karategi to fix clipping issues with the Pyro's arms
• Updated the Tropical Camo to fix the rigging and the normal map
• Updated the Boston Brain Bucket and Pest's Pads
  • Added Blank style that was originally missed
  • Fixed style names not aligning with the styles
• Updated the Bandit's Boots to fix a clipping issue with LOD1
• Updated The Chaser to fix some clipping issues and correct the backpack icon
• Updated item schema and localization files with community fixes
• Updated/Added some tournament medals

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!

• Added the Summer 2022 Cosmetic Case
  • Contains 25 new community-contributed items
  • Adds 11 new community-created Unusual effects (29 variants total)
• Fixed a server crash caused by Sniper trying to eat his gun (switching to Sniper while Heavy is eating a Sandvich)
• Fixed an occasional lag spike when showing the kill cam for some players
• Fixed a regression where spotlights and spawns could not be parented
• Fixed a regression with incorrect prop lighting on some maps such as Barnblitz
• Fixed incorrect team colors for the default style of The Caped Crusader when using the itemtest command
• Fixed missing materials for some Strange Filters in the Mann Co. Store
• Updated/Added some tournament medals
• Updated the localization files

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!

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!

Important Links:

• Discord
• Twitter
• Twitch
• YouTube
• Steam Group
• Challonge Community (Tournament Brackets)

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!

Important Links:

• Charity Info
• Server List
• Steam Group
• Discord

• Fixed payload cart not rolling back
• Fixed soundscape regression
• Fixed being dropped from the server when refunding upgrades in Mann vs. Machine
• Fixed jiggle bones on the inspect screen
• Added some tournament medals