RSP

RSP (Acronym for Ready Steady Pan) is a variation of the 6v6 competitive format, revolving around the use of the Frying Pan. The tournament's simplified format is intended to be an easy way of introducing players to the 6v6 format and mindset.

Seasons

• Season 1 (June 26th 2012) The season was played during the TF2 Retrospective event, also known as RETF2, which happened at the Euskal Encounter XXII, at Bilbao (Spain).
• Season 2 (July 6th 2013 - July 8th 2013) Featured during the Retrospective2 event.
• Season 3 (October 22nd 2017 - January 6th 2018) From season three on, players were able to join the tournament by registering themselves on pan.tf, a dedicated website for the tournament.
• Season 4 (June 17th - July 2nd 2018)

Class Limits

Classes are limited as such:

• 2 Scouts
• 2 Soldiers
• 2 Pyros
• 2 Demos
• 0 Heavy
• 0 Engineer
• 0 Medic
• 1 Sniper
• 0 Spy

Engineers and Spies are excluded from the tournament, as they cannot equip the Frying Pan. Medic and Heavy are excluded for their passive health regeneration and large health pool, respectively. Snipers have been limited to one per team, due to the effect Jarate had in matches during previous seasons.

Weapons

The Ready Steady Pan tournament uses its own whitelist, which only allows players to equip the Frying Pan as their main damaging weapon, alongside select other non-damage-dealing weapons. The Machina is also allowed, in order to prevent accidental misfire. The currently allowed weapons are:

Scout

Secondaries

• Bonk! Atomic Punch
• Crit-a-Cola
• Mad Milk

Soldier

Primary

• Rocket Jumper

Secondary

• Batallion's Backup
• Buff Banner
• Gunboats

Pyro

Secondary

• Thermal Thruster

Demoman

Primaries

• Ali Baba's Wee Booties
• Bootlegger

Secondaries

• Sticky Jumper

Sniper

Primary

• Machina

Secondaries

• Jarate
• Razorback
• Darwin's Danger Shield

Multi-Class

Secondaries

• B.A.S.E. Jumper

Melee

• Frying Pan
• Golden Frying Pan

Maps

Season 4

• pl_tapline_b5
• koth_stallone_b2
• cp_powerhouse
• koth_trainsawlaser_pro_rc1
• cp_warmfrost_rc1
• koth_product_rc9
• cp_depankeep
• koth_ashville_rc1
• cp_alamo

Previous seasons

Season 3

• cp_process_final
• koth_warmtic_rc4
• cp_gullywash_final1
• koth_stallone_b2
• koth_trainsawlaser_pro_rc1
• cp_warmfrost_rc1
• koth_airfield_b7
• koth_product_rc8

Season 2

• cp_sdnaldab, a mirrored version of Badlands
• cp_foundry
• cp_yukon_final
• cp_5gorge
• cp_badlands
• cp_process_rc2
• cp_gravelpit
• cp_junction_final
• cp_gullywash_final1
• koth_viaduct
• koth_arctic
• koth_lakeside_final
• koth_pro_viaduct

Popularity

Even though this competitive format was originally played during the first two seasons of RETF2, making it originally popular mostly in Europe, the gamemode acquired much more notoriety due to how unique it was, and due to the long hiatus the format has been enduring between Season 2 and Season 3, and the numerous players who really wanted this format to come back, bringing the 3rd edition of the Ready Steady Pan tournament to gain much more participants than before, with players from Europe, America and also Oceania gathering altogether in one unique tournament which was, of course, much bigger than the previous ones.

The format became quite popular on the TF2 competitive scene due to the matches being funny and entertaining to watch for the common player, enjoyable to play at for the competitor, and finally pretty easy to setup since it was possible for players during the Season 3 to host their matches via serveme.tf with the said maps and whitelist that comes with the gamemode.

External links

• Official Ready Steady Pan website
• Ready Steady Pan Steam group
• Ready Steady Pan Discord server