Time for another irritating and shameless bump disguised as a content update: here's rayiner's interview with herr_p

Thanks to everyone who came to watch last night, we hope it was enjoyable. Come at 21:15 CET again tonight to twitch.tv/maincall to see Lowpander take on E-SHOCK ESPORT

It's been a while! Stop by twitch.tv/maincall tomorrow at 21:15 CET for some D1 casting action, getting us up and running.

I believe enough in the mapmaking nous/general willingness to pour time into useless side projects of this community to put a call out there for a bball style bumper cars map. There is a very good chance that if it got made, maincall.tf would run a bumper cars cup, and who doesn't want to see that? If the answer is you, please leave immediately. Thanks.

Yes! I've been talking to Chris, our competition's admin, and he has a bunch of questionably plausible ideas, but do not worry, there will be more in the future, for all sorts of formats.

Part 2 of WARHURYEAH's critically acclaimed Demoman Bible is now up, go check it out

OK, so this is a pretty important one:
http://maincall.tf/announcements-and-recruitment-maincall-wants-you
The gist is that hashtagchan has stepped down so supposedly I'm now running things around here. Also, we want you (please help us) to make content for us, because we have shamefully low numbers right now. Read the article for more info.

Yes, we're shit, we need to make more content, and we know it. But more on that later. For now, have an article on how the maincall 6s team have been doing:
http://maincall.tf/team-talk-logjam-cup-and-tftv-invitational-4-sponsored-by-tt-esports/

While we'd love to get them out as soon as possible, I'm afraid you're right in saying that they're not top of the list. Since hashtagchan is going to be screen printing them himself (so you can all steal his residual DNA and clone him if you want) it might be a little while. Rest assured that we will be posting here when they're ready.

Hey guys, apologies again for being shit/late/other derogatory but probably accurate term.
Here's the write-up, for those that are curious. There's a lower bracket one being ground out by our team of small east-asian children as I speak, and I'm sure they'll be more than happy to post a link here when they're finished.

Hello you. Fancy seeing you here. Can I get you a drink?

We have more changes. Everything is in a state of flux here. All the keys on my keyboard keep sghaycbba fygcavhh.

The games we will be casting in this once in a lifetime event will be:
The Upper Bracket Winner’s Finals (31st of August 7pm BST)
The Upper Bracket Loser’s Finals ( 31st of August 7:45pm BST)
The Upper Bracket Grand Finals (31st of August 8:30pm BST)
The Lower Bracket Loser’s Finals (1st of September 7pm BST)
The Lower Bracket Grand Finals (1st of September 7:45pm BST)

We are very happy to announce that we can now offer a third place prize for our High Bracket and 2nd and 3rd place prizes for our Low Bracket thanks to TF2Pickup.net and Whitelist.tf! The updated prizes are:

In the upper bracket, first place will receive:

Dishonored, Strike Vector, FEZ, Monaco: What’s Yours is Mine, Spec Ops: The Line, Mirror’s Edge
A year of serveme.tf donator access
3 months of TF2Pickup.net donator access
£90 of cold hard money
6 absolutely stunning posters made specially for you by our very own hashtagchan (coming soon!)

Second place nets you:

Super Hexagon, Orcs Must Die! 2, Guacamelee! Gold Edition, Bioshock, Antichamber, and Mafia 2
6 months of serveme.tf donator access
2 months of TF2Pickup.net donator access
6 class specific killstreak kits
£30 of equally cold and hard money

And coming third means you get:

1 month of TF2Pickup.net donator access
12 keys
6 class specific stranges

In the lower tournament, first place goes away with:

Dustforce, Thomas was Alone, VVVVVV, Cave Story+, Little Inferno and Surgeon Simulator 2013
3 months of serveme.tf donator access
3 months of TF2Pickup.net donator access
6 keys

Second place gets:

2 months of TF2Pickup.net donator access
6 class specific killstreak kits
6 keys

And finally, for third place in the lower tournament, there are:

1 month of TF2Pickup.net donator access
6 class specific stranges

Now that you have seen the amazing tf2 prizes/real monehs we are offering I’m sure you’re regretting not signing up if you haven’t. However, if you have signed up there’s a couple things you should know:

You should add the team leader of the team you will be playing before your match rather than organising it through us.
Status and score screenshots are to be taken and uploaded to your challonge match page. For the Low Bracket this is here: http://challonge.com/tpctf2 and for the High Bracket it is here: http://challonge.com/tpchb
Please make sure you’ve got 6 players on your ETF2L roster or in the description before the results deadline for the first game (30th August, 7:45 BST / 6:45 CEST)

Also if you feel like reading some probably hideously inaccurate descriptions of our high bracket teams, this is the place to go: http://maincall.tf/obligatory-peoples-cup-hype-article/

Well now that Coolbeans has done his introduction I suppose I should probably follow suit.

I'm asymmetrical toast as you can see, although in the strange realm of "the real world" my name is Theo and so that's another thing you can call me.

Officially, I'm the "other editor" at maincall. That basically means that hashtagchan doesn't have to read every article that one of us writes before it goes through because I will be reading half of them.

I'll also be doing some casting (I'm one of the aforementioned no name D5 shitters)

Feel free to add me with any concerns, I'm out of the country currently but will be back at my PC on Tuesday and will be responsive from that point on. Until then I'll be checking this thread every so often in my vain attempts to be of use.

Seriously, the guy's a madman on production values. He scares me sometimes

Games begin on the 28th, and will continue until the tournament is done, which will obviously depend on how many sign ups we get and therefore how we structure the tournament

EDIT: I've been informed that the 28th is not a set date. However, the finals will definitely happen on the 1st.

Hey, just had my first look at this map today, and I love it already. One thing which I would imagine is only a small tweak but I think would be quite cool (and wouldn't really impact gameplay) would be to have the forward forward spawns (the ones on mid) be in the little shacks with the angled roofs. Just a suggestion, I look forward to seeing where this goes.