Art Pass Contest

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The Contest

The Art Pass Contest is a recent contest announced to the community on the TF2 Official Blog. It asks that players take a recent attack/defend map design created by Valve, texture it, and then submit it for the chance to have it included in the next major Team Fortress 2 update.

Guidlines and Deadline

Various guidelines and rules have been given, such as no advertisements, or anything that doesn't belong directly to the submitter without direct permission.The latest the map may be submitted is Saturday, September 25, 2010, at 11:00am UTC. A complete list of these guidelines can be viewed here: [1]

Prizes

The grand prize is the map's inclusion into TF2. Other prizes will likely be revealed at a later date.

Accompanying comic and video

A comic explaining the possible origin of the contest can be viewed here: [2] A layout of the map is also included in a short video on the same page.

Trivia

  • Robin Walker can be viewed in this comic as a short-tempered blond man, with noticably large tower of hats, which continues off the page.
  • Corey Peters, and employee mentioned briefly in the "A Week In The Life of the TF2 Team" blog post, makes an appearence as the employee who delivered the news of the missing map to robin walker.
  • A shady hacker is seen distributing the map to the internet, who bears a strong resemblance to the Spy, wearing a Fancy Fedora.
  • A copy of "Hat Wearing Man" can be seen on Robin's control panel.

External Sources

The TF2 Official Blog[3]