The ultimate place of competitive pandemonium has returned! The place where you can show off your mad skillets! The one and only: Ready, Steady, Pan!

Ready Steady Pan is a semi-competitive league involving the frying pan as the only damage dealing weapon allowed. As both a fun (and loud) format, and a way of introducing players to the 6v6 format and mindset, the basic requirement is for every player to have a Frying Pan equipped. Classes that cannot equip the pan are banned, i.e. Engineer and Spy, alongside Heavy and Medic for their high health and health regeneration abilities respectively.

You can find several links such as rules, help articles, and the map schedule on their website, pan.tf. You can also join their Discord server at discord.pan.tf.

Signups for Season 5 started September 27th, and the season officially starts October 21st!

• Fixed an issue with saving navigation meshes when editing maps
• Updated the localization files

• Fixed the Iron Lung hiding the Engineer's helmet
• Fixed Scottish Resistance stickies not always being visible through walls
• Fixed the Festive Sapper not playing a timer sound while attached to buildings
• Updated/Added some tournament medals
• Updated the Bottle Cap and the Shutterbug cosmetic items to fix styles that were missed when the items were originally added
• Updated Twitch API to the current version
• Updated the localization files

Attention all Wizards, Witches, and Mad Scientists! Welcome to Particle Mayhem! Your time to shine is now, and Particle Mayhem wants the best Unusual particles and protective clothing!

Particle Mayhem is a brand new TF2 community event and contest where content creators can come together and make crazed Unusual effects, wacky cosmetics, and dangerous experiments that may or may not harm another living being.

Visit the Project Mayhem website for more information!

Earlier this 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 387 entries and raised over $6,500 for The Trevor Project!

You can check out the Showcase thread HERE! For those looking to donate - cash donations have been extended until August 27th! Want to get involved next year or just looking to get into the thriving content creation community? Join the TF2Maps Discord!

The biggest event on the Competitive TF2 calendar is back again! Teams and players from around the entire world will be heading to the National Exhibition Centre in Birmingham, England, to the Insomnia Gaming Festival for their chance at glory and a share of the prize pool. Taking place from Friday, August 23rd, to Sunday, August 25th, the event will feature three days of non-stop action and the highest level of competition the game has to offer.

If you wish to support the event there is an ongoing fundraiser where you can donate money or purchase a range of items; money raised goes towards the production, prize pool, and supporting the North American team, Ascent.NA, attending to represent their region.

Signups for the tournament are here . However, if you can t make it, the event will be streamed both at the event and online by EssentialsTF over at their Twitch page . For the latest information, be sure to check out LAN.TF to follow the tournament live.

Scream Fortress is coming early! You're used to News posts about competitive events, but this will probably be the last post you were expecting! Beginning September 16th, there will be a community-run, competitive, Highlander, Halloween tournament fully loaded with bosses, spells, pumpkin bombs and best of all: real life medals for every participant! (You can view the medals HERE!)

The goal of this event is to enjoy all of the Scream Fortress Halloween maps. It should be treated as a very casual event with the intention of just having a good time! While the event is primary North American for the time being, all players of every region are welcome to join.

More information can be found using the links below:

• Website
• Discord
  
  

The Moscow LAN is an annual TF2 6v6 competition and it's back to shake-up the community one more time!

The event will take place in Moscow at the Winstrike Arena on August 10th-11th. It will feature the best players from all around the country as they come together to make their way through two days of intense competitive gameplay.

It's free to watch, both "physically" and "virtually"! If you can't go and visit them, they'll be broadcasting all the action live on KritzKast's Twitch channel!

For more information, head over to the LAN website or Discord server.

• Added the Summer 2019 Cosmetic Case
  • Contains 22 new community-contributed items
• Added tournament medals
• Fixed and exploit where stickybombs could not be destroyed or pushed by the enemy team
• Fixed Medi-gun/Wrench items not dropping for the Mann vs. Machine rewards
• Fixed not seeing the team-goal hints during Casual matches
• Fixed a scale problem with the Brazil Fortress Halloween medals
• Updated the localization files