Just a quick reminder to let you all know this monthly is MON-WEDS to work with what players told us a bit better.

It's also only a couple hours each day instead of upto 5.

Did you/your registered team leader accept my friend request on steam so I can match it with the tournament system and get your paypal info?
If so please ping me a message and I will sort it straight away

Oh, it cut off my title, GG

*sponsored by Marketplace.tf

:)

The Essentials.TF NA Monthly Tournament for August 2018 sponsored by Marketplace.tf sign ups are now open.

Sign up here and check out the full article here!

It's MON-WEDS now with shorter days

Sign-ups close Sunday the 12th 23:59 EDT.
Check-in starts at 19:30 on all days.

Anyone can sign up with a team and play for free, the format is designed to play a less grueling amount of games over several days and should see more equal games played.

Map Pool:

cp_prolands_b4b
cp_process_final
cp_gullywash_final1
cp_granary_pro_rc8
cp_snakewater_final1
cp_sunshine
koth_product_rc9

Schedule (13th-15th):

Day 1:
Open Round 1: 20:00 EDT
Open Round 2: 20:45 EDT
Open Round 3 & Invite Round 1: 21:30 EDT

Day 2:
Open Round 4 & Invite Round 2: 20:00 EDT
Open Round 5 & Invite Round 3: 20:45 EDT
Quarter-Finals: 21:30 EDT

Day 3:
Semi-Finals: 20:00 EDT
Finals: 21:45 EDT

Day 1 will not be streamed, that's why they're different

The Essentials.TF Monthly Tournament for August 2018 sponsored by Marketplace.tf, sign ups are now open.

Sign up here and check out the full article here!

Sign-ups close Sunday the 5th 23:59 CEST.
Check-in starts at 19:30 on each day.

Anyone can sign up with a team and play for free, the format is designed to play a less grueling amount of games over several days and should see more equal games played.

Map Pool:

cp_prolands_b4b
cp_process_final
cp_gullywash_final1
cp_granary_pro_rc8
cp_snakewater_final1
cp_sunshine
koth_product_rc9

Schedule:

Day 1:
Open Round 1: 20:00
Open Round 2: 20:45
Open Round 3 & Invite Round 1: 21:30

Day 2:
Open Round 4 & Invite Round 2: 20:00
Open Round 5 & Invite Round 3: 20:45
Quarter-Finals: 21:30

Day 3:
Semi-Finals: 20:00
Finals: 21:45

We're currently 4 teams short of making this cup happen. If you missed it, the new place to sign up is https://essentials.tf/tournaments

I received the sponsor money for the first two monthlies and have been working on paying it out today. I have at least added all the TLs from those monthlies to get paypal emails. If any team who has placed top 4 would like to talk to twitch about the hold up is then feel free to pm me on discord and I can put them in contact with them to talk.

I forgot to add to the article that we'll be looking to make a way to sign up as an individual and be put into mix teams

You are now my favourite player

8 more teams and we hit minimum requirements to play the tournament. I know right now the system to sign up is a pain, but if you help us out by signing up and playing this month from next month we should have a new system that lets you maintain a team, sign up with a single click each month and we will be adding features in the lead up to iSeries.

We're also looking for staff, so if you're looking to help out with NA monthlies join us on discord and let us know

We're currently short 5 teams to be able to play tomorrow, sign ups are open until 30mins before the event so you still have time. We finally had confirmation of medals so you should also get that too when they're added to the game (they're a similar style to the iSeries ones)

Sign up here

We're still waiting on Twitch atm, but once things go through we shouldn't have the problem again for the rest of the year.

EU Monthly payments have been going out over the last couple of days as Kaidus can confirm.

We're also still waiting on Valve for a reply so we can get medals into the game for participants in the monthly cups, but once they're in the game we plan to hand them out for previous events.

Thanks for being patient with us, we're still at the mercy of sponsors and Valve, but once a couple things are cleared out, it'll all be running smoothly.

We also have started working on some new tools to make signing up and playing much easier.

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Essentials.TF Monthlies have arrived at the month of May! STN Trading and Demos.tf continue to sponsor the EU edition, while the NA edition will be sponsored by Twitch.tv. The rules are the same as the Monthly before, but there are a few changes in this month’s whitelist. Check the post below for further details!

EU Monthly Sponsored by STN Trading and Demos.tf:
Play dates: 5th-6th May
Prizepool: €1000
1st Place: €600
2nd Place: €300
3rd Place: €60
4th Place: €60

Signup Here

NA Monthly Sponsored by Twitch:
Play dates: 12th-13th May
Prizepool: $1000
1st Place: $600
2nd Place: $300
3rd Place: $60
4th Place: $60

Signup Here

The rules will remain the same for this month. However, there have been several changes regarding the whitelist. Multiple items have been added, and those are: the Fists of Steel, Atomizer, Beggar’s Bazooka, and the Sydney Sleeper.

We're currently at 11 teams signed up for the NA monthly, we only need 5 more teams to make sure the event happens but we only have one more day to go.

If you were considering signing up please do, if only to support the event and allow us to keep running these for the rest of the year.