Insomnia Gaming Festival

Team Fortress 2 returns to Insomnia, with teams from around the world vying for a £5,000 prize pool and glory! The event will take place from Friday, August 26 to Sunday, August 28. EssentialsTF will bring all three days of action live from the Insomnia Gaming Festival held at the National Exhibition Center in Birmingham, UK. If you want to sign up for the tournament, you just have to enter here and find out how.

BlapBash 2022

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 12 p.m. CEST / 6 a.m. EDT for 12 hours each day. It will feature many familiar TF2 personalities & communities. Catch all the action on the EssentialsTF Twitch channel. More information here.

Major League Mayhem Tournament

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! More information here.

Operation Anniversary Annihilation

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. Click here to get more information.

TF2Maps | 72-hour Summer Jam

TF2Maps' annual 72-hour Summer Jam returns this 2022, and the entire community is invited to participate! The event kicks off on Friday, July 22 at 5 p.m. (GMT) and runs until Monday, July 25 at the same time! For anyone new to the concept, this is a TF2Maps tradition where the community spends 3 days of their time producing cool Team Fortress 2 themed content. This includes maps, models, warpaints, animations, videos, paintings, drawings, mods, fan-fiction, woodwork, stonework, legwork, homework, and everything else as long as it's related to Team Fortress 2! In addition, it also has charitable purposes! If you want more information, click here.

Operation Rewired Rampage

After nearly a decade of fruitlessly throwing endless streams of Merc bodies at hordes of evil robots, it's time to shake things up a bit! What could be more effective than that, you ask? It’s simple: become a horde of evil robots! The folks at Potato.TF aren't entirely sure if this is legal, safe, or even humane, but they'll find out one way or another. After all, science isn't about WHY, it's about WHY NOT! Operation Rewired Rampage is a charity event created and hosted by Potato.TF that will run until August 26th. Players are now robots and must fight their way to RED's base. Fight your way through over a dozen community-created maps and missions and experience MvM like never before! Servers are available in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australia. Click here to find out more details!

2021 Winter Jam Showcase

Last month, the creative community of TF2 were involved in another yearly jam and you can already see the results of the finished work. Everything was done in a 72 hour time period, this year’s jam attracted 345 visitors and raised $10,155.82 for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital! Do you want to take part next time or enter the prosperous content creation community? Join the TF2Maps Discord! More information here.

Bowmann Brawl Tournament

Get those arms ready, mates! There is about to be an uprising! Sticks and stones break bones, but words make the announcements even better! The Fortress Faceoffs team is back with a new event to try out some old-style archery. That’s right, come and take part in the Browmann Brawl tournament, with teams of five players competing between themselves to see who has the most observant eye and the least serious injuries. The battles will take place in five impressive maps designed to test who is best! If you want more information about this crazy tournament, just click here.

Don't miss the Dueling Doubles Tournament

Now is the time to celebrate the holidays with friends and family... a perfect time to join your best friend and fight together! The Fortress Faceoffs team has partnered with Divergent Media to give us a very special gift. Bring your friends to compete in a 2v2 tournament with a unique twist on a very popular game mode! Players will fight pairs of any two classes with a catch: each one has a limited selection of weapons in their arsenal. Sign up for Dueling Doubles to get your spot before they run out! If you want more information, enter here.

Operation Hexadecimal Horrors is here!

Old church bells are ringing out, tombs – once occupied ­­– now lay empty, and never-before-seen creatures of the night have risen from their slumber with one sole purpose: to be shot! Operation Hexadecimal Horrors is inspired by Halloween and includes 48 missions spread over more than 10 new maps, some returning and all very spooky indeed. The campaign is only available until 30 November, so what are you waiting for? Servers are available in North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Australia. On a totally different topic – and less spooky – a charity event in support of The Trevor Project will take place alongside the campaign. There will be medals for those who donate $5 or more! Go here to find out how you can donate and how to play! Check out the news on the Team Fortress 2 blog here.

Take part in a charity event with the Team Fortress 2 team!

The Team Fortress 2 team have another charity collaboration coming up. This time round, it’s the A Drop of Delight initiative from Just a Drop. The twelve-hour charity event will take place on 19 September from 18:00 CET and will be broadcast live on Twitch. Take part in the event alongside TF2 content creators and competitive players, helping to provide clean water in developing countries and win some prizes for your character at the same time! To find out all the details surrounding the event, click here.

BlapBash 2021 is here!

Team Fortress 2 personalities and communities got together at the end of August to raise money for SpecialEffect in an event which included classic matches and a ton of surprises. You can catch the best bits on their Twitter and the entire thing on the Essentials.TF. Twitch channel. Also, medals have returned to BlapBash! Get one by donating $5, which you can do until 12 September. Find all the information here.

The RGL.gg Grand finals are here!

The Grand Finals for RGL.gg’s Spring 2021 events are ready to go. Many teams have competed for a place in the playoffs, but only two teams are remaining in the 6v6 format. Foyotech and GlobalClan will face off on April 22nd at 11 PM EDT for $12,000. If you’re looking forward to witnessing this spectacle, you can do so on RGL.gg’s official Twitch Channel. If you want to know more about the competitive scene in Team Fortress 2, events and tournaments, click here.

GGtoor Locked and Loaded #2

Phoenix Red offers the players a new Team Fortress 2 Tournament: the GGtoor Locked and Loaded #2! You can sign up your team by clicking here. You can follow a live broadcast of the Tournament on KritzKast’s Twitch Channel, o check out the edited videos on KritzKast’s Youtube Channel. Stay tuned, and don’t miss a beat!