October 4 The 200,000th pot on Sweetstakes came and went, FoxiE having put in over 90% of its value and won.
October 5 Pix Hecate was permanently banned from the forums for ban evasion.
October 6 The invasion update is live! Introduced were nine new unusual effects, a line of cosmetics, a taunt, new maps, and new weapon reskins. The entire update is community designed and submitted.
October 7 Episode two of the backpack.tf podcast was released.▐ DejaQ was banned for a week for spam.
October 8 Zimby was permanently banned for spam in the trading section.▐ Sakamoto requested a permanent ban from the forums.
October 9 RozeEagle was permanently banned for instigating flame wars and posting on behalf of banned users.▐ The Oddball was banned for a day for spam.▐ Neutron, a high profile and well trusted trader, bought a cursed Burning Team Captain and scammed multiple people before being marked.
October 10 Itsy Bitsy came back to the forums after his permanent ban today.
Publisher's Note It's been becoming harder for me to be on the forums lately. I still am online for many hours a day, but I am often distracted and miss details. I don't know if any of you have noticed, but before very recently I never went a single day without some sort of news story, and very recently I've had to settle for days with a brief and uninformative "Nothing here yet." I'm really trying to keep things interesting here, but I am falling behind and missing things, so I could use a little feedback now and again. It's not merely a coincidence that the newsletter has been falling behind. I had fired all of the reporters before, but I could desperately use them - anyone - now, just to keep news flowing. Please feel free to post interesting and somewhat significant events on the thread by replying, or messaging me on steam. The newsletter has, and always will be, a community run and supported entity. I'm honored to be the publisher, but I can't know what is happening when I spend seven hours working on school work, and check in once in a day. I look forward to your (I wish I could say inevitable) correspondence.
October 5 Pix Hecate was permanently banned from the forums for ban evasion.
October 6 The invasion update is live! Introduced were nine new unusual effects, a line of cosmetics, a taunt, new maps, and new weapon reskins. The entire update is community designed and submitted.
October 7 Episode two of the backpack.tf podcast was released.▐ DejaQ was banned for a week for spam.
October 8 Zimby was permanently banned for spam in the trading section.▐ Sakamoto requested a permanent ban from the forums.
October 9 RozeEagle was permanently banned for instigating flame wars and posting on behalf of banned users.▐ The Oddball was banned for a day for spam.▐ Neutron, a high profile and well trusted trader, bought a cursed Burning Team Captain and scammed multiple people before being marked.
October 10 Itsy Bitsy came back to the forums after his permanent ban today.
Publisher's Note It's been becoming harder for me to be on the forums lately. I still am online for many hours a day, but I am often distracted and miss details. I don't know if any of you have noticed, but before very recently I never went a single day without some sort of news story, and very recently I've had to settle for days with a brief and uninformative "Nothing here yet." I'm really trying to keep things interesting here, but I am falling behind and missing things, so I could use a little feedback now and again. It's not merely a coincidence that the newsletter has been falling behind. I had fired all of the reporters before, but I could desperately use them - anyone - now, just to keep news flowing. Please feel free to post interesting and somewhat significant events on the thread by replying, or messaging me on steam. The newsletter has, and always will be, a community run and supported entity. I'm honored to be the publisher, but I can't know what is happening when I spend seven hours working on school work, and check in once in a day. I look forward to your (I wish I could say inevitable) correspondence.