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.

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

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!

Thanks <3

Hello! This is our main channel where we will stream our events on the pickups. We would love to have it added to your streamlist. Here is more info for TF2Pickup.net here - in this topic -
Our country for not is just europe. Let's hope in future that we will have global pickups and we can be international.

Channel Link: http://www.twitch.tv/tf2pickup

Thanks in advance! <3

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

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

The map looks awesome. It has been added to TF2Pickup.net We got some more updates aswell - check them out

The website is stable and online again. (it was like 2 days ago online but..little bit unstable)
Fixed the VAC/itemserver problem on the gameservers.
Added colors for the donators. More info about the donators features coming soon...

The map does look amazing. We added it to our Ultiduo Pickup map pool. So if you want you can join TF2Pickup.net and try it right away. Also don't forget to check the TF.TV Topic and join our Official Steam Group!

p.p The first 5-10 ultiduo pickups will be this map for sure. So hurry up to join and test it ou! :)
p.p2 Unfortunately, the servers do not have loadout but tomorrow this should be fixed!

Usually the games are happening around 18-19cet i think. But there is always players for ultiduo or bball so. About the skill, there is no requirement(like divs or smth) for skill. All you need is to have ETF2L profile and 350hours of TF2. :)

As we finish the European version, we can think about na.TF2Pickup.net. SimRai.com confirmed like a two months ago that they would sponsor us with servers if the website is active and growing. But any ideas are welcome...

Yea, thats the thing we are missing atm. Hope to see more people coming...

We've been thinking about feature like this because one of our coders - Wiethoofd is kind of maniac on MvM..so :D

Also guys, the servers were updated and everything is ready for playing! See ya on! :)

I want to say thanks to all who joined our very first HL pickup! <3 Here is picture and a player list of all who were playing!

http://cloud-2.steampowered.com/ugc/792934719485477511/ADA2B6DE2842F612FD8512F3E5777BC447265FFC/

Thank you! - Remco, Mike, GIGA, turkuaz, Dark preche, Kuferl, Gabaa, LillCeder, Derpy, taro, Swi, Camilo, Swedish Santa, Kaneco, Mr.Solitude, Me(other guy), LazyDuck

Hello everybody! I am here to present you our project - TF2Pickup.net. Started in February 2013 by Crafz and Trath. After a change of staff and developers in 2014, the relaunched version of TF2Pickup.net now supports all popular competitive gamemodes. SimRai.com is providing all the European servers. TFTrue is keeping the whitelists up to date thanks to whitelist.tf and also uploads the logs used by TF2Pickup.net for ELO/player rankings to Logs.tf.

But what exactly we offer?

• Easy login with your Steam account
  
• ETF2L account is required to register for consistent usernames
  
• Mumble is required when playing a pickup
  
• ELO playering ranking is used to balance pickups
  
  
• See which map is played in the next pickup
  
• Pre-ready, so you can ready up and grab a drink
  
• Medic-Friendpick when adding up as medic
  
• Browser desktop notifications when you have to ready-up
  
  
• Auto-connect status on match pages (Mumble and game servers)
  
• Logs and SourceTV demos can be found on match pages when pickup is done
  
  
• Servers located in Netherlands, & France provided by SimRai
  
• Always up to date whitelists provided by whitelist.tf & TFTrue
  
  
• Easy sub requesting on the match page with 1 single click
  
• Report users directly from your match page to get an admins attention
  
• Active admins and moderators who will try to take care of any problems
  
  
• Add your Twitch.tv channel to your Profile
  
• Easy switching between custom announcers
  
  
• Donator features that will make your experience in the website even more exciting
  • Custom pickup bot announcers
    • Team Fortress 2 in Pyrovision
      
    • Casters & TF2 Celebrities
      • Admirable (also in Pyrovision), Jakeowaty, Salamancer, ThePledge
        
      • Lange - Creator of SizzlingStats/SOAP DM
  • Different/custom colored username
    
  • Showing you're streaming without playing in a pickup

Before joining the pickups you should check the rules and if you need help you can contact the admins through their Steam Group.

Also don't forget to join/follow/like:
- Our Official Steam Group - [Link]
- Our Official Facebook Page - [Link]
- Our Official Twitter - [Link]
- Our Blog - [Link]
and leave us feedback in this topic or directly on our Steam Group!

Regards,
Alexander 'LaMqTa' Kolev
TF2Pickup.net Staff

This thing looks amazing. It will be tested asap and i will let you know what i think about it! Awesome! <3