On November 14th, TF2 community member and contributor Miggy had passed away. Miggy was notable for his contributions towards anti-cheat efforts including during the LMAOBox ban waves, as well as the founder of the TF2 Florida LANs (FLan.tf) as well as the Ferocitygaming clan.

A message was posted to r/tf2 with the following details regarding Miggyâs passing and his struggle with terminal cancer:   

Hello, my name is Soxxie. I am in the former owner of the APP servers and a contributor to the Ferocity Gaming Community. I’m sorry to say that I’m here to tell you that Miggy passed away this evening at at 10:15 EST November 14th, 2017. I spoke with three members of his family not long ago who told me he died peacefully surrounded by his loved ones.

Miggy had been fighting a very hard fight against cancer for the last three months. In the last few weeks, he was diagnosed as terminal and sent home from the hospital into Hospice Care.

Miggy was a community server owner, contributor, an anti-cheat mod, and the developer of the anti-cheat sourcemod plug-in IntegriTF2. Please remember the compassionate and amazing person he was. Anyone who was close with Miggy and would like to send their condolences or message to his family, feel free to add me on Steam. You can also post them here. I will make sure they get to the right people. 

Update: His family is planning his service, they hope to live stream his service. And are planning a memorial to honor miggy’s online life.

There is a UGC League thread for Miggy here. The aforementioned r/tf2 thread is here, and a Teamfortress.tv thread here. 

Our condolences go out to Miggyâs family and friends. Miggy: thank you for the work you have done for competitive TF2 and TF2 as a whole, and the people in this community whose lives you have touched. Peace out, ayy lmao.

Last month, we brought you the first-ever easy-to-use content license so you could start creating and selling products inspired by your favorite Valve games and gaming hardware.

Now, we want to find the champions among you. Who will create the first killer Valve 3D printed miniatures, toys, jewelry, Steam Controller mods, and characters? To get your creative drives going, weâre launching the Valve Design Contest to reward the best designs with epic prizes from Valve and Shapeways. The grand prize winner will receive a coveted Team Fortress® 2 Grey Medic statue and $500 in Shapeways printing credit. Four additional runners up will win other Team Fortress® 2 statues, plus $100 in Shapeways printing credit. Both the grand prize winner and all runners up will also receive the Team Fortress® 2 soundtrack on both CD and LP.

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