Pipeball Classic

Pipeball Classic (pipeball_classic) is a Team Fortress 2 map by The Asylum of the Devitory. Not an officially supported gametype, the objective of the map is for one team to shoot or strike the large ball on the rink into the goal pipe of the other team three times.

Layout
The map is divided into three areas: the Red and Blue spawn rooms, and the rink itself.

Spawn Rooms
In the basement of the facade buildings beside the rink are the team spawn rooms, housing various high-tech monitoring systems and secretive meeting rooms. There are two spawn rooms per team at their end of the rink, with exits leading to the sides of the rink and behind the back boards of the rink.

Rink
The rink itself is modeled after a hockey rink, though much shorter and wider. The curved corners enable the ball to be free to move around the edges of the rink, while triangular "bumpers" along the sides will deflect a wall-hugging ball into the center of the rink, allowing for more play. Where the nets would sit on a hockey rink, instead lies deep openings in the floor in the shape of a circular pipe, with wire fences behind them. These are the goal pipes, which teams must sink the ball into the pipe on the opposite end of the rink, while defending their own goal pipe. In front of the goal pipes are two angled shields, that tend to deflect an oncoming ball in front of the goal pipes. Above the center of the rink is a large pipe, which "serves" the ball after a goal, or when the ball goes out of bounds.

Hazards
Going over the short walls of the middle of the rink and into the moat below will kill any player when they hit the water. A player that falls into either team's goal pipe will be killed in spectacular fashion- bloody gibs of the player will shower out of the ball dispenser pipe above the rink.

In the event of a 2-2 tie, a special tiebreaker ball will replace the standard white ball: A black ball adorned with a skull and crossbones. This ball will cause any player that touches it to explode in a bloody mess.

Pickups
Large health kits can be found behind the goal pipe fences. Small health and ammo can be found behind each goal shield. In the very middle of the rink is a large ammo crate.

History
Prior to Pipeball Classic, Asylum had made Pipeball and Super Pipeball, the former being sort of a prototype experimental map, while the latter was a disastrous failed attempt at expanding on the Pipeball formula.

Variants

 * Pipeball Event, a Halloween-themed Pipeball map
 * Pipe Balle, a medieval-themed Pipeball map
 * Pipeball Ultra, a much more complex Pipeball map, still in development