September 2nd, 2013

Hello Team Fortress 2 league admin(s),

My nickname is Wiethoofd and I created whitelist.tf, which is a website where you can easily view and generate whitelists to be used in the Team Fortress 2 tournament mode.

I created this website/tool to help the TF2 community and make up for the lack of custom whitelists being used in mixes, lobbies and pick-ups.

whitelist.tf allows you to:

• Compare whitelists from different eSport organisations and their leagues
• Visual distinguish the allowed/blocked weapons in a whitelist
• Ensure whitelists are always up-to-date with the newest ingame itemscheme
  • whitelist.tf: item_whitelist_ugc_6v6.txt (automatically updated when Valve updates, respects original whitelist settings)
  • UGC: item_whitelist_ugc_6v6.txt (not automatically updated)
• Generate and share custom whitelists to use in Team Fortress 2
• Have a human readable whitelist .txt file output which allows for easy manual manipulation (if needed)
• Have quick and easy access as a central hub for all (competitive) whitelists

For this last point I need your help. Since it is really simple to create a new whitelist, it should be easy to add or update a current whitelist used by any league. Generating a (new) whitelist will result in a whitelist ID which I can assign to a league, filename and game mode.

An excellent example for this are the changes in the UGC Highlander S11 whitelist. The old whitelist has ID 35 and will currently redirect to the 'UGC Highlander (Season 10)' preset (filename: ugc_9v9_s10). Some changes were made to this whitelist ¹ and the current whitelist has ID 109 ². Once you inform me about this new ID, I can then update the preset; so that when you visit the UGC Highlander preset (filename: ugc_9v9) it shows the new 109 whitelist instead of the old 35 whitelist.

You might wonder what whitelist.tf has to offer for you, as an eSports organisation. With whitelist.tf you will:

• Always download any whitelist with the newest hats/miscs (if allowed) and weapon preferences
  • Know that any new weapons added after the generation of your whitelist will be automatically blocked
• Have no more out of date FAQs, blocked/allowed item lists and whitelist download links on your website
• Have access to easy whitelist generation for a new competitive season, One-Night-Cups or even fun cups
• Have your logo and name of your organisation visible when generating a preset or creating a new whitelist with a preset
• Get listed as official partner on the about page and with your logo on the index

The only thing I ask in return is a heads up when you update your whitelist and get a new whitelist ID; this ID can be linked to a preset and filename and should then be passed on to me so I can update any existing presets.

Hopefully I am able to convince you to start using whitelist.tf to display your whitelist(s) and offer easy downloads. If you decide to do this, I will create space on the main page with a logo and easy access to your whitelist presets.

Regards,
Wiethoofd (whitelist.tf)

¹ Banning the Darwin's Danger Shield and the Enforcer
² Update September 9th: Whitelist ID 109 is now the preset: 'UGC Highlander (Season 11)'

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TL;DR: Link your eSport org whitelist to whitelist.tf and I will maintain your whitelists.