Plair is Launching Team Fortress 2 as our third Game

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Plairlife

4 min readOct 9, 2019

After our successful Mainnet launch, Plair is now taking our online esports platform one step further! We will be adding Team Fortress 2 as our third game this Friday🎉!

Release Notes

We are very excited about offering users a wider variety of game titles. This allows users on the platform to play the games they desire based on their gaming skills or simply their moods!
Meanwhile, the launch of Team Fortress 2 means so much more than just adding a game on the platform. It’s another highlight of Plair’s product development process. Popular game titles Dota 2 and CS:GO were available as early as the Alpha Phase on Plair that have gone through lots of testing before Beta Mainnet. For Team Fortress 2, we are releasing it directly as part of the Mainnet Plair Beta platform. Users will be able to enjoy the benefit of blockchain-based esports technology and get a share of real PLA prize pool instantly. They could make money off the game right away!

About Team Fortress 2

Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats! — Team Fortress 2 Introduction on Steam Store

Team Fortress is a popular multiplayer first-person shooter developed by Valve which adopted a “Free to Play” model. It’s now a highly-rated team-based game that delivers a lot of game modes and maps.

Ars Technica reported that Team Fortress 2 is ranked the MOST POPULAR game on Steam. The number of players estimated is over 50 million as of July 1, 2018, which is 8% more compared to popular game title CS:GO and 27% more compared to PUBG respectively. With its popularity across the world, the game in total supports 26 different languages.

According to Steam Charts, Team Fortress 2 has a significant player base with an all-time peak of 117,917 concurrent players as well.

The above data summarize the game’s solid userbase and popularity. Plair’s next step is to add this popular game as our third game on the platform.

Team Fortress 2 Launch Details

Game mode “Payload” will be the first game mode to integrate on the Plair platform starting this Friday. We’ll be adding more popular game modes including Payload Race, Control Point, and King of the Hill shortly after.

Release Date: 11 Oct 2019 (Friday)
Gamemode: Payload
Slots: 1v1, 2v2, 6v6
List of maps: Popular maps such as Badwater and Upward
Server location: Including Singapore, Washington DC, Phoenix, Frankfurt, Warsaw, and Amsterdam
What are the entries and the total prize pool?
The entry fee and rewards are of course, in Plair Tokens (PLA)! Entries per game vary but start from 10,000 PLA.
How to Play?
For FAQs such as how to Enable Console Command and how to Enter a Match, please refer to this link [HERE].
When will the first few Team Fortress 2 matches be held?
The first few matches will take place on 11 Oct (Friday) this week! We’ll tweet about them this Thursday. For details, please refer to our social media and the tournament page on the platform!

Introducing: Create Your Own Tournament

Team Fortress 2, together with other games, will be integrated into the “Create Your Own Tournament” feature soon. By then, players will be able to create games with their own prize pools and schedules that best suit their appetite! Just like other games on the platform, users can run Team Fortress 2 tourneys on Plair that give them full control over the tournament structure.