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 doesnt belong directly to the sudmitter without direct permission.The latest the map may be submitted is Saturday, September 25, 2010, at 11:00 am UTC. A complete list of these guidelines can be viewed here: [1]
Prizes
The grand prize is the maps 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]
