Hello everybody! We made some minor updates on the servers/maps that we should announce.

• Added koth_pro_viaduct_rc4 to 6v6 and Highlander map pool
  
• Added ultiduo_badlands_b1 to Ultiduo map pool
  
• Updated all whitelists on the gameservers with the newest versions from whitelist.tf

Moreover, you might know (or not :< ), but the European Team Fortress 2 League (ETF2L) is being re-designed by the amazing guy Cherry and we will have very own TF2Pickup.net widget on their index page. Here are some pictures of the upcoming design and the widget of TF2Pickup.net on ETF2L - THE Picture.

Share your opinion about the the design (if you like it or not) in this topic and don't forget to join a Highlander, 6v6, BBall or Ultiduo pickup on TF2Pickup.net.

Regards,
LaMqTa (and the rest of the staff)
TF2Pickup.net

If the min. amount of time required is 350, something is wrong. I have almost 3k hours in TF2 and it tells me I do not have the required amount of TF2 played. I just made an ETF2L account too.

probably had problems with steamcommunity. just try it again, it should work
(and sorry for the late response, always forgetting to check here as well :P)

lange's announcer voice is like an angel

True, true.. <3

Hello everybody! We did some changes in the menus and now we have F.A.Q - http://tf2pickup.net/help so we would like your help people! Suggest us what we can add more to this page. Something that has been confusing you all the time...something that we need to explain. Moreoever, we are open for suggestions on what we can add to the website. Share them up and if we add that feature that you suggested, you will have it for free on the website as soon as its ready. Features that we already have in mind are:
- Pre-ready up
- Mumble Relay
- Warning option for admins
- Custom Emoticons for donators
- Custom nickname(Steam Based)
- Custom Stream title
- Custom Picture when writing your nickname

Also more announcers are coming this/next week! :)

Much love,
TF2Pickup.net Staff

Hey guys, some really important stuff going on this weekend.
As many of you (hopefully) know, there is the Tip of the Hats event going on.
We from TF2Pickup.net proudly announce that we will support them as well, with the help of our community. We will donate a certain amout of € for each pickup played during the event.
Furthermore we will do a raffle for all people who played pickups.
Head over to our site and check out the details for it: http://tf2pickup.net/toth

This weekend Tip of the Hats is raising money for One Step Camp. TF2Pickup.net decided to help out and donate a set amount of money per played pickup this weekend.

[h1]For each pickup played between 17:00 CET on March 29th and 5:00 CET on March 31st TF2Pickup.net will donate:[/h1]

• Highlander pickup - €1
  
• 6v6 pickup - €0,50
  
• BBall/Ultiduo pickup - €0,25

Each pickup will raise the donation amount for Tip of the Hats and support charity.

• Starting at 20:00 CET on March 29th we will stream on the TF2Pickup Twitch channel and cover pickups that are currently active on TF2Pickup.net, have interviews with TF2 legends and raffle some items.
  
• Casters/Hosts: Haydn & konr with Ducky on camera

Subscribe to the Twitch channel to get notified when we go live.

Raffles
If you've played in at least 5 pickups you will automatically enter a raffle to win all Donator Perks for an entire month, or pick one of the many available announcers to tell you to ready up or if it's time to play. Playing medic you will also enter you in another raffle to earn all donator perks for a month!

For more information about this event check out our special TF2Pickup the Hats page!

Come play and help raise money by playing Team Fortress 2! Don't forget to bring your friends, team mates and/or Balloonicorns and check out the Tip of the Hats stream!

The TF2Pickup.net Staff!

Hello ladies and gentlemen.
Last two days were really exciting for us. We broke our record for pickups in one day and broke our record for people online. At this point we want to say thanks to all players who joined us this weekend and helped raising the money for Tip of the Hats. They raised ~$105.000 for the kids for One Step Camp, by the way, which is amazing. But lets show our shiny stats aswell now:
During the event we had:

• 68 6v6 pickups = €34.00 = $46.92
  
• 15 9v9(HL) pickups = €15.00 = $20.70
  
• 18 BBall pickups = €4.50 = $6,21
  
• 17 Ultiduo pickup = €4.25 = $5.86
  
• [h1]In total = €57.75 = ~$79.70[/h1]

We then decided to add another $70 and donate $150, as we were really pleased by the amount of pickups played.
We want to say thanks to the all people who were on the stream of Tip of the Hats, who promoted us and gave us a great shoutout there. Big thanks to Haydn, Konr and Ducky, who worked on the stream on Saturday when we did our first pickup broadcast. Unfortunately, Lamqta forgot to turn the recording of the stream so we don’t have VODs from it. Big shoutout to Arie who provided us with a server for mumble during the weekend when we had problems with ours. (that caused the crashes on the mumble and the webserver if you are still wondering). And now its time to announce our winners from our raffle.

• Level 5 donator rank for 1 month – tea, S!IMON and Tritone for “Medics of the event” (per gametype)
  
• 5x Level 5 donator ranks, lasting 1 month – zEaK47, Raptor, Pepis, zen, hedokingoglu
  
• 10x Announcer for a week – esk, Adeel, turkuaz, s0rex, Fuddles, FlamingBear, 0verflow, Oliver Targos, tiagoo, Beater

The winners of the announcers should contact admins through steam/tf2pickup to get their announcer.
Furthermore we will do a item raffle soon, as Kuferl won the 200 unboxed crate raffle and we will use some of those items.
And in conclusion, we should add that’s not the last time we do broadcasting of our pickup channel. We are working on something that might give us the chance to stream every weekend.

Thank you all who played this weekend.
TF2Pickup.net Staff

With the recent popularity and thanks to our amazing donators we were able to upgrade a couple of our web/content/mumble servers and prepare us for the future and our soon to come NA pickups!

Some things that have recently been changed or added:
[*]BBall now has a 2 seconds respawn (and its own whitelist)
[*]Pre-ready timer - Ready yourself up for a few minutes so you can go AFK/grab a drink/...
[*]Browser notifications for different phases of the pickup (Readying up)
[*]New mumble server (type !mumble in chat for the info)
[*]Enable Pyrovision (April Fools theme) temporarily with !pink in chat (!normal to disable)
[*]More announcers (some will be added soon):

• Pyrovision version of Team Fortress 2 responses (for everyone!)
  
• Pyrovision Admirable (Donator lvl 1)
  
• Salamancer - Team Fortress 2 Shoutcaster/SalTV (for everyone!)
  
• Jon - BlackOut Gaming TV Cameraman (Donators)

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Preview all available announcers on a special page we made for that, change the announcer on your Profile and don't forget to check out the Donator perks to see when you can pick your favourite announcer or how to donate in items!

Add up (and pre-ready!) and have fun playing on TF2Pickup.net!

TF2Pickup.net Staff

Leave your feedback or suggestions here and please report any bugs or issues.

Shizno's dream comes true.

We're looking for someone who can (help us to) develop a ranking system for TF2Pickup.net that is not based on the etf2l divisions (as it is now).

It's for balancing the pickups in the best possible way of course.

Mainly looking for people who can develop most of it on their own, but if you got a good idea how make it the most accurate (and can't program), you're welcome as well.

Simply add me on steam so we can talk about details etc ;)

With ETF2L 6v6 Season 18 starting soon and a Comp.tf Ultiduo Tournament this weekend we have some changes on TF2Pickup.net!

[h1]Changes to Map Pools & Whitelists[/h1]
[*] Re-added ultiduo_nicecicles to the Ultiduo map pool

[*] Added ctf_turbine_pro_rc4 to the 6v6 map pool

• ETF2L ruleset: Best of 3 of a first to five 10 minute rounds
  
• TF2Pickup.net ruleset: time limit of 30 minutes + win limit of 15 captures
  • The difference in ruleset is to circumvent having to execute configs in pickups

[*] Updated whitelist to the ETF2L Season 18 whitelist

• Added Scout unlocks: Fan O'War, Sun-on-a-Stick
  
• Added Pyro unlocks: Homewrecker, Neon Annihilator, Sharpened Volcano Fragment
  
• Added Demoman unlocks: Ali Baba's Wee Booties
  
• Added Heavy unlocks: Family Business, Eviction Notice, Warrior's Spirit
  
• Added Engineer unlocks: Southern Hospitality
  
• Added Sniper unlocks: Razorback, Bushwacka, Shahanshah, Tribalman's Shiv
  
• Added Spy unlocks: Red-Tape Recorder, Your Eternal Reward, Cloak and Dagger

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[h1]Comp.tf European Ultiduo Cup[/h1]
This weekend the first European Comp.tf Ultiduo Cup will be held, and with sign-ups still open you can form a team and maybe win some prizes while competing in Team Fortress 2.

Ultiduo is a 2 vs. 2 format where a Soldier and a Medic pair fight another Soldier/Medic pair on a King of the Hill map. These maps differ slightly from normal King of the Hill maps because they have 5 minute timers counting down after capture instead of 3.
[*]Sign-ups close this Friday, May 2nd at midnight

• 1 key per player to sign up

[*]Cup will start this Sunday, May 4th at 15:00 CEST/14:00 BST
[*]Casted on the Comp.TF Twitch Channel

[*]Format: 1 Medic + 1 Soldier vs. 1 Medic + 1 Soldier
[*]Maps:

• ultiduo_baloo
• koth_ultiduo_r_b7
• More maps might be added to the pool and will be announced later

[*]Whitelist: TF2Pickup.net Ultiduo Whitelist

• Soldier weapons: Stock + Black Box, Gunboats, Disciplinary Action, Equalizer
• Medic weapons: Stock + Blutsauger, Crossbow, Overdose, Solemn Vow, Ubersaw
• Use ID 598 when creating a server reservation on serveme.tf
  
• TF2Pickup.net uses the above settings by default for Ultiduo

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[*]Prizes:

• Besides the keys from the prize pool provided by Comp.tf there are some items provided by TF2Pickup.net and whitelist.tf who are sponsoring this tournament with:
  • 1st place:
    • Soldier: Strange Disciplinary Action
    • Medic: Specialized Killstreak Crusader's Crossbow Kit
  • 2nd place:
    • Soldier: Specialized Killstreak Disciplinary Action Kit
    • Medic: Specialized Killstreak Ubersaw Kit
  • 3rd place:
    • Soldier: Killstreak Escape Plan Kit
    • Medic: Killstreak Ubersaw Kit

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[h1]TF2Pickup.net Ultiduo Raffle[/h1]
To promote Ultiduo on TF2Pickup.net we decided to do a raffle for everyone who is playing Ultiduo pickups this week to practise or warm up competitors for the aforementioned Comp.tf Cup:

To enter the TF2Pickup.net Ultiduo Item raffle[*]Be a member of the TF2Pickup.net Official Steam Group
[*]Read and accept the TF2Pickup.net Rules
[*]Play at least 5 Ultiduo pickups

• Pickups played between April 28th and May 4th will automatically enter you in the raffle
  
• A sub being requested for you or rage-quitting won't count that pickup as entry

[*]Prizes:

• User with the most Ultiduo Pickups: Strange Disciplinary Action
• Random picked user: Killstreak Shotgun Kit
  
• Random picked user: Lord Cockswain's Novelty Mutton Chops and Pipe Strangifier

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Have fun playing!
The TF2Pickup.net Staff

So I wanted to try this out to get into a more competitive scene but when I logged on it stated I did not meet the requirements.

My Tf2 hours are at 1,100hr's and I don't see any other restrictions I fall under so any idea why this would be happening?

DaMeiN, at the moment we have a restriction that you need an ETF2L profile to be able to play. This is so we have some way to detect possible 'skill' based on team/match history and we have a consistent user name (so we don't need to use/filter Steam user names). Also there are only 10 European servers and no NA/AU/SA servers/support yet.

If there are more TF2 Leagues with APIs to figure out a skill/div/team rank and consistent user names we can add those to be one of the 'required' leagues to create an account to keep track of your pickup history.

Hello everybody! We haven't posted any news since May..but thats because we've been busy with exams/work and uni projects! We are back with some great news! So i will directly copy-paste our last news post on our official steam group!

But thats not all. Today we decided to create and start a new project called "Highlander special". We decided to create a steam group, where people can post annoucements and motivate each other to join our, especially highlander, pickupbot and use it whenever they want! Here is the steam group [Click]. Also i would like to give some more information about the upcoming changes on the map pools. We decided to test this weekend and hopefully add some of the newest(or maybe not so new) TF2 competitive maps like logjam, craneways, derecho and more... so stay tuned about more information! :)

p.p We are really sorry that the USA part of the website is not ready for lauching yet...but it will be soon..really soon. ^^

fucking admirable announcer

I simply don't have as much time as I'd love to contribute towards TF2Pickup, therefore we're looking for another developer to help us out.

We're mainly looking for people who have knowledge (and experience?^^) with PHP and general HTML/CSS/JS, as this would be your main part.

People with node.js/socket.io experience would be welcomed too, as I'm not an expert on that ;)

If you got any questions or want to apply add me!

TF2Pickup.net Chrome Extension was released a while ago, get it @ Chrome Web Store

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1586689/tf2/screenshot-small.png

They have ultiduo
r8 8/8

I am infinitely jealous of you euros.

This is beautiful.

Would really love for US TF2Pickup because #tf2mix died, meaning the only open PUGs now are ESEA, which obviously isn't accessible to UGC players unless they're willing to pay for premium. Outside of ESEA, there's only inhouse groups.

I don't know when this is coming because last I heard we we're short in dev time as Kuferl is currently busy with other things. But if you don't mind the pings and funny accents you can always play EU pickups, I have seen quite a few americans playing on the 1-2 am pickups lately.

I'm working on something... Just give it a little longer

A quick quote of mine from congrats to cinq and #tf2mix

And its also really mean to say "its valve project" when Kuferl/Wiethoofd are doing this for free and in their free time. The offer for NA Devs/Coders is still available, if anyone wants to give it a shot add me/kuferl or wieth. :)

We passed the 1000 pickup mark this month, this was our most successful and active month ever. That's over 30 pickups a day and the month is not even finished yet. This is a clear example that this community is very much alive for people who doubt it, also afaik this is the most active month in the history of any kind of tf2 pickups.

http://i.imgur.com/BTxyvj9.png

I'M SO JEALOUS

Just start playing scout there pretty fun tbh

real nice to see stats like that, kudos guys

there is basically nowhere to pug in na unless you want to shit on low open players who are 11 years old. we need this badly.