The North American TF2 Competitive offseason is kicking off with a bang! Fireside is hosting the Fireside Cup, a $600 (with potential to increase via fundraising), two week cup featuring the best North American sixes players in the region. Not to mention, some of the best teams like Like A G6 will be participating! There is one kicker to this cup though: apart from the traditional sixes composition of two scouts, two soldiers, one demoman, and one medic, only one off-class can be on the field at any time.

This will force teams to put a little more creativity into how they approach any given scenario throughout the game. Gone are the days of the Engineer reinforced Heavy / Pyro / Sniper last hold! The first week will be a best of two group stage, and the next week will follow with a best of 3 playoffs to decide the winner of the cup.

The cup will take place on the weekdays between May 13 - May 23 and will be broadcasted by Fireside and EssentialsTF. Come tune in and watch the best of North America duke it out.

Important Links:

• Announcement
• Twitch Stream A
• Twitch Stream B
• Youtube Stream
• Tournament Page
• Official Fireside Website

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed a crash caused by using -dxlevel commands
• Fixed some ABI compatibility regressions for server plugins/mods
• Fixed a crash under 64-bit caused by some custom HUDs using Half-Life 2 HUD elements which assume the player is Gordon Freeman
• Fixed a crash when opening options/going into game (mostly affecting Windows 7 users)
• Fixed the snd_cull_duplicates command not working
• Fixed a hang when importing cosmetics into the Workshop tools to upload
• Fixed an issue selecting surround sound audio settings (Headphones, 4, 5.1, 7.1, etc.)

An update to Team Fortress 2 has been released. The update will be applied automatically when you restart Team Fortress 2. The major changes include:

• Fixed an issue where the game would be falsely detected as malware by some anti-viruses
• Fixed a crash relating to using some Unicode characters on Linux