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It’s good to have someone on the kast who actually knows what’s going on, we have Ruskeydoo. He’s made a fair crack with experiments to figure out what the Ullapool caber changes mean.

With Christmas (in Tempest’s case literally) round the corner, Valve add back in the Naughty and Nice Winter crates. A search function is added to the Mann Co. store. Players who owned the the free Faerie Solitaire game before December 13th get the Genuine Faerie Solitaire Pin. Steam Game Guides appear on the beta version of Steam. But the biggest story this week is the Steam Community Market. Finally there’s a legitimate way to buy and sell 2nd hand items. All money goes back into your steam wallet and Valve takes a share of the profit, again.

In other Valve news, theirs reason to believe that the Steam Linux beta will be opened up soon and Value opens a studio in San Francisco.

Finally, back to the community for news that the next Ready Steady Pan Tournament will see 70 teams for North America and Europe, though only 5 teams have signed up in Asia to date.

PotW goes to SuperSoupy for his festive video entitled “How the Spy Sapped Christmas”, shown below.
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This week’s show was edited by our new guest editor, DougRattmAnnThEpyRo – our thanks to you good sir.

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Just to keep you interested before you start reading the rest of the episode. This week we discuss redundant Caber tactics, Play with toys and rip Samuel Jackson a new asshole. Got your attention? Good. Now your with us, I’ll tell you in more detail about how we talk about big picture being available for the masses. Plus we have a great discussion as to why the Caber nerf was justified but also upsetting. After that, how could we not talk about VGA10. Sorry i should rephrase that. How could we not talk about VGA10 and how Sam Jackson shouldn’t host it. (If Sam Jackson is reading this. I have huge respect for your body of work, So please don’t quote the bible and kill me)

However, We couldn’t get through this episode with out talking about toys. We’ve got a toy for everybody. If your into sandvitches (I’m looking at your Ruskey) then ThreeA have given an extra 200 Sandvitches for valve to sell on their store. However if your looking to buy one of them. your already too late. However your not too late to pre-order your sniper Gaming heads Statue. It may cost a lot, But boy to they look good. Lastly we have been given a sneak preview of the NECA Action figures for the Pyro and Demoman. If you haven’t pre-ordered yours, check out our blog post to help you find the best place for you.

In the rest of the TF2 world, we talk about the Finals of the Round Robin Mentor Tournament. Please have a watch, its a good game. While your at it, watch this charity match over at Bar Room Heroes. You get to root for either the young-lings or the elderly folk. Plus there is a possibility that we may have another ready steady pan tournament. All in all this turns out to be a great episode.

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It seemed like the show was going to be a little light on content this week. Luckily for us, we know how to turn a small amount of news into a large amount of debate. Ranging from what F2P players can actually do, to how we should organize our backpack. This is due to the minor update with massive affect on traders. Including the New “Upgrade to Premium Gift” and the back being able to expand to 2000 slots. But also news in the world of trading is the new restriction that forces players to have steamguard on before any trade can take place. Some are not happy with this, Personally we are.

This week also saw the end of the Saxxy voting. Now its a case of waiting til Friday for the winners to be made public. Except of cource for the best overall winner, which will be announced on GTTV for the Spike tv Game Awards. We also take the time to remind you to follow the TF2mixup’s Facebook page. Although your chance to play in the match may have passed, We can tell you that there will soon be a way to get hold of in game items signed by some of the famous players of the match. So keep your eyes pealed for more info coming soon.

Are you into Comp? Are you into Stats? Do you like numbers? Do we have a site for you. Take a look at Logs.tf and see in amazing detail how some people play, What classes are more vulnerable on certain maps and how many kills people really get. When you add onto that the new pyro poster on the valve store (that we said was coming in episode 191….called it) and the steam sale, its very easy to see how what some would consider a slow week actually turns out to be very big indeed.

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Cockfighter! There, I said it. Possibly the stupidest name for a hat we’ve had yet. What makes even less sense it that it’s the tie-in for Scribblenauts Unlimited’s arrival on Steam. So it only seems fair that the idiocy continues with ducks being used as the tie-in for a super violent garrot and run, Hitman: Absolution. Here is where fairness gets out of the car then rolls it off the cliff just to hide its tracks. Facepunch reveals the badass weapons that didn’t make it into the game with this cross over.

In other news, TF2Mixup has only a few days left, ESEA LAN happens without eXtine, Sonic All Stars gets some TF2, Russian card scammers make a profit from buds and PubComp becomes the living dead.

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Its all over guys. Halloween has left us. But don’t despair  so much awesome stuff has happened in the TF2 world this week. This is the week that Gabe revealed to the world (via 4chan) That valve is working on source2. The new Graphics engine to drive Valves future releases. Click here if you want to see this histroric moment. Speaking of historic moments, This week Steam arrived on Linux….for a small number of people. This marks a huge moment where TF2 can be played on 3 different Operating systems in the same game. Is this the first game to do this?

How could we top news like that? By telling you that YOU…Yes YOU, Could be playing a match with Notch, Robin walker, Tay Zonday and Day[9]. Thats right TF2 Mix up is giving you another chance to play a game of Team fortress with a great selection of Game developers and Internet celebrities. Check out TF2mixup.com to find out how you could be part of it.

Elsewhere in the world of TF2 we have been blessed with all kinds of viewing pleasure. How about a Highlander game between eXtv and Vanilla TF2 Casted by kritzkast. Sound good to you? maybe you like your TF2 more main stream. How about a robot chicken sketch featuring TF2? Or maybe your into Community driven content, Then we have 2 Saxxy Videos you need to see now. Bad Medicine and Pyro in love.