First of all, Happy Halloween!
But I know you didn't came here to read that :D so let's get straight to the point:

The TFVM Halloween Raffle is over! The last ticket went out about an hour ago, so as soon they were over I started collecting them for the final drawing.

A total of 83 tickets were given out since the raffle has started back in Sunday.
I collected and distributed them inside an incremental enumerated list, and went over Random.org to generate a random integer number between 1 and 83, and the result was 71.

The 71st number in the list I mentioned before was linked to the ticket...
with the raffle number of...

...


You hear me

You are the winner of a Fly-Engie Costume Set !
I'll add you soon on Steam for you to redeem it :3

Thanks to all of you who participated, I had a lot of fun :3
Other raffles may come soon.

Have a nice Halloween everyone!

So, just a quick update to remind you that you still have a chance for participating in the first TFVM raffle to win a Fly-Engie Costume Set!
It'll end tomorrow at around this time, I'll pick a winner out of all the entries that came in since it has started.

All you have to do in order to participate is to get any weapon out of the Vending Machine before tomorrow, this time. More info here: Halloween Raffle Time! -- Win an Halloween costume :3

Also, I've set up an Halloween server to farm gifts and have some fun, come join us if you manage to find a free spot:
IP: zombienator.dyndns.org:27035
It'll be up until the event ends!

See ya tomorrow for the raffle winner announcement. Good luck again :3

Hello there!
It's been almost a year and I'm happy to see how much you are liking this thing C:
Halloween is pretty much here though, and while I was searching my backpack for my costumes, I saw I had some doubles of them, so I thought: why not making a raffle to give away a full costume set to wear this Halloween night?

And so I made one. Ladies and gentlemen, let me introduce you the very first
TFVM Halloween Raffle!

What's a raffle? A raffle is basically a lottery, a game in which you get a ticket with a lucky number on it, and at the end of the event the staff randomly picks the winning number out of all the entries. YOU manage to have that lucky number? Then prepare to be overwhelmed with euphoria: you won! You don't? Well, at least you've [insert consolation message here] :3

So, now that we all know what's a raffle, we can get started by outlining how this raffle will take place, and its rules:

TFVM 2013 Halloween Raffle

Duration:
- Tickets will start to be given out on: October 27th, 20:00 UTC
- No more tickets past: October 31st, 18:00 UTC

Prizepool:
x1 Brundle Bundle Halloween 2011 Costume Set (The Fly-Engie)

How to participate:
You just have to get a weapon off the Vending Machine (link) in order to receive one ticket:

1 Weapon = 1 Raffle Ticket

But with the following exceptions:

• You must be a member of this group (and if you're reading this, then you probably are).
  
• You won't receive a ticket while getting a weapon for free thanks to the group promo.

Of course, the more Tickets you have, the more are the chances that one of them will be picked up at the end of the raffle.
There's no way for you to avoid being sent a ticket, but you are free to refuse the prize(s) in case of victory.

Details on how it works:
Once you complete the trade with the Vending Machine, read the last chat message, you'll see a Ticket for you; its number written in the message itself, and a direct link to see it.
You can do whatever you want with your Tickets; you don't need to keep or remember them in order to prove your participation, don't worry! Your Ticket has been logged and in case it'll be the lucky one, you aren't required to show it.

FINAL DRAWING:
Around the ending time of the raffle (October 31st, 18:00 UTC), me (Zombienator), will randomly pick ONE lucky number out of ALL the tickets that have been given out until that time (I will probably use a random site like Random.org to accomplish this, details will be given out on the announce though).

The user that has the winning number will be added by me on Steam, and he (or she) will have ONE day past the announce time to accept my friend request and the prize.
If I get no response after the given time, I will pick another number and repeat this process.
If you find me offline for whatever reason, please leave a comment on my Steam profile, and I will refer to the comment time to see whether or not you were in time.

I hope I haven't mistaken or forgot anything, in that case I'll edit this announce, bear with me =D
Also, there may be some surprises once Valve will announce what's up with this year's Halloween event... We'll see!

So, let's get started in about 10 minutes, the tickets dispenser is all geared up!
Good luck, and Happy Halloween! :3

We are improving ourselves to guarantee you a more simple and operational service as possible, fighiting every day with all the steam glitches and their servers stable like the Titanic during its first cruise xD

Tons of metal saved from the forging of new weapons; more than 500 people have used this bot for a total of ~1500 trades and thanks to the promo enabled for our members of TFVM Steam Group, around 200 weapons have been gifted!

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The trading bot now seems to be pretty stable and quick, sometimes may happen that due to the Steam server's replies being slow the bot won't be able to put itself ready and it will notify you in the trade chat; keep calm and simply toggle again the "I'm ready" box.

Also, two storage bots (TFVM - Storage #1 and #2) have been put up that will handle the weapons resupply, please do not add them to your friends as they are useless to you.

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A special thanks to all of those who read the FAQ before going to spam into the comments and a warm hug to those, felling alone, used the bot to talk without concluding a trade XD

Please tell us in the comments and happy trading! =)

Thank you to all of you who has used the bot since its first given weapon one month ago.

Now the vending machine has been used roughly 200 times, which is great because we wouldn't have expected such a fast response from you.


Stay tuned!