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Revision as of 21:11, 14 October 2010
The Art Pass Contest is a 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 and detail 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.
zpqrei of TF2Maps.net has stated on the Steam Forums that he is making a pin to be given to all those who participated.
Promotional flythrough video
Winners
On October 14, 2010, Valve posted on the TF2 Official Blog stating the winners. The winners were:
- Tim 'YM' Johnson
- 3DNJ
Special mentions include:
- Acegikmo
- Gooba
- honeymustard
- TerabyteST
Accompanying comic
A comic explaining the possible origin of the contest was released, followed by a layout of the map in a short video.
Page 1
The scene parallels that of the Administrator and Miss Pauling in the WAR! Update comic. Robin Walker can be viewed in this comic as a short-tempered blonde man with an enormous tower of hats, which continues off the page. Corey Peters, an employee mentioned briefly in blog posts, makes an appearance as the employee who delivers the news of the missing map to Robin. Finaly, a shady hacker wearing a Fancy Fedora, is seen distributing the video of the map to Youtube.
Comic Trivia
- Corey Peters is wearing a shirt with the logo for Portal 2, an upcoming Valve game.
- Robin is shown looking at the User hat checklist template, presumably for his wiki user page.
- A copy of "Hat Wearing Man" can be seen on Robin's control panel.
- There is a coffee cup stain on a button labeled Camera Beard. This is a reference to the alarming number of Camera Beard drops that occurred after the WAR! Update, suggesting that someone had left a cup atop the button to cause the drops.
- Another button depicting the Golden Wrench has been taped over, presumably to prevent any more from being awarded.
- Robin is also watching the popular Yeah Toast! Machinima video, featuring the Engineer.
