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Now that the first and second videos are out Tempest finally gets to wax lyrical about his experience in the match with Notch and Robin Walker. Be sure to visit the official TF2 Mixup site then give praise to Salamancer and NVC for their brilliant casting and LuckyLuke for his slick editing.

November signals the end of Halloween and her full moon event but not before we give our final verdict on Monoculous and Valve put up the high rez art work for all to abuse. Speaking of art in November, there’s to be an early signing of The Sacrifice taking place in Portland, Oregon.

This week we’ll see the first matches of the ETF2L Highlander League, Both Agro and Chronos will be competing. Sadly though, Agro won’t get to play in his brand new and bubbly unusual VR goggles.  But it could be worse, he could be made to play TF2 in a bucket.

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We’re joined by Eric Ruth, who’s pretty much been hooked into the comp scene following his involvement in the 3rd TF2Mixup. He’s also super excited about Halloween and since the best Valve have to offer so far is a vague promise and last year’s Horseless Headless Horseman it’s lucky that the Facepunch Emporium have released the Night of the Living Update. While we’re on that topic, the KK140 post show this week was with Smashman, NotLU web builder.

Valve have been busy with updates and fixes to try and make TF2 stable. They also set the Lo-Fi to be usable in crafting, though why you’d want to craft away one of the most exclusive hats in the game is beyond us.

Ozfortress have their sixth winter league grand finalthis week, with much more to follow in the next couple of months. They’ve also a battle of the sexes with Male vs Female and the World’s first 4v4 KotH event (sneak peak at the poster) to round off the year.

Asian Fortress is accepting sign ups for their two day Highlander-Saxton Hale Halloween event. Eric (Team ERG) and Agro (KritzKast: Distinguished Ducks) face off in the build up to the ETF2L Highlander League, forcing Chronos to pick sides and everyone else to place bets.

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Mann Co. celebrates their 1st year of sales with a bunch of hats and a some server fixes with inevitably ended up breaking the servers and making the game crash out. Still, as far as Agro is concerned it’s all worth while as he now gets to play with the Reserve Shooter. There’s much more to the update than items. Fortunately we have Ruskydoo, creator of the Hibernating Bear Pack and our own Lo-Fi Longwave on hand to take us through the new Steam Workshop for item generation.

Deep breath, we’re nearly there, told you it was a big update. There’s a bunch of new customisable objects for you to decorate; a pin, a photo tag, a clan badge and a ruddy great sign on a stick (at great personal expense we may add). Gullywash the comp map that’s been in pretty much every 6v6 match since the dawn of TF2 time has finally been recognised and included in the game. Also the High-5 taunt we talked about last week is finally here.

We let Ruskeydoo loose on Bay Raitt’s blog post, discover sneak peek pictures of the TF2 toys and coo over the Football Manager 2012 and Dungeon Defenders crossover items.

If glimpses of Gullywash are setting your comp blood to boil, there’s good news in the form of the ETF2L Highlander who have opened their doors to sign-ups this week. Epsilon esports does work for charity in their TF2 marathon and the TF2 Mixup Website is revealed.

Last but far from least, we have content from our listeners. Russell Champoux draws our attention to GameMaster’s mashup of fan-made taunts an best of all, Neph becomes player of the week for his realisation of the Lo-Fi Longwave, earning him an in-game one too.

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It’s all fanfares and clarion calls here. Agro and TF2 both celebrated their birthdays this week and Tempest is riding around in Happy Town too. Less than 24 hours before recording this Tempest was playing in the Mixup Match 3 with a really cool group of people: Robin Walker, Jon Lippincott and Bay Raitt from Valve, Notch from Mojang, Daniel Brynolf from Oxeye, Simon and Lewis from Yogscast, Total Biscuit, Freddie Wong, Eric Ruth, LaroLaro, Torden, eXtine as well as some other incredibly lucky pubbers (Miss Meow, Bree, Ensi and Ravidge).

If you’re not up on what a mixup match is, think of it as a bunch of rag-tag players from all over, playing together for their own entertainment and hopefully yours too. To get a better idea have a look at the Official TF2 MixUp Match website, made by Tempest.

In the time between watching MUM2 and MUM3 you may want to get started on the Dark Horse machinima contest for your chance to with a unique real hat (and a signed copy of The Sacrifice).

You’ll find all the videos we’ve talked about in the show today on our YouTube channel. Make sure you check out Agro playing Parkour Fortress, Mister Mild’s Heavy Revelation, the alternative Meet the Medic and ZePyromancers’ The Mac Update Adaption!

Lastly, a shout out to all the guys over in South Africa! VanillaTV has covered their monthly One-Night Cup.