Nice Key, for free! (key won, no more emails)

We are giving away one Nice Winter Key 2012 right now. It goes to emailer #125. Starting now, send us one email with a link to your steam profile (many names have duplicates). Do not send more than one email. If you break this rule you won't be able to win this or any future contest. Tell your friend and maybe he/she will win. Contest details and answers to most of your questions are here.

Update: this Nice Key 2012 has been won, we will send out #'s now.   No more contest-related emails please.

This contest's winner was "Fireiy". Congratulations to him and good luck to everyone for the next giveaway! Details are here. Some of you have asked questions that the answers to are right there in the link, including our email address. Take a moment to read it if you have questions.

Australian Christmas giveaway information:  From today until January 3, 2013 we will be giving away Naughty and Nice Keys, in addition to our "special day" giveaways (ie. Free Hats & Miscs Monday, Strange Tuesday, Grab-Bag Wednesday). So keep checking back for your chance to win!

Australian Christmas is here!

Team Fortress 2

• Australian Christmas has begun!
  • Added three new community weapons
    • The Vaccinator
    • The Loose Cannon
    • The Rescue Ranger
  • Added community-contributed winter event items^[1]
  • Added Naughty and Nice winter keys to the Mann Co. Store
• Mann Vs. Machine
  • Added a new tour of duty with unique loot:
    • Operation Mecha Engine, with 3 new advanced skill missions
    • New map mvm_bigrock
    • New Engineer Botkiller items
  • Added new Engineer robot
• Added new Strange Filter items to the Mann Co. Store to support community map makers
• Added new checkout dialogs and taunt-activated effect to raise awareness for Community Map Stamps
• Added +context_action command (defaults to X for controllers). This will use the action slot if your Canteen contains a charge and will taunt otherwise3 ^(sic)
• Added +attack3 command (defaults to middle-mouse button)
• Added Adult Swim items to the Mann Co. Store^[2]
• Fixed an exploit that allowed players to be permanently invulnerable
• Fixed the Pyro’s airblast not working correctly when facing downhill
• Made Force-A-Nature pushback more consistent
• Updated pl_barnblitz
  • Fixed various map exploits
• Updated sd_doomsday
  • Fixed various map exploits
• Updated the localization files

Undocumented changes

• New bot_hint_engineer_nest entity.
• Retired Crate series 45 and 47.
• Added Crate series 54 and 55.

Notes

1. ↑ Winter Wonderland Wrap, Cut Throat Concierge, Der Wintermantel, Cool Breeze, Soldier's Slope Scopers, Cold Killer, Doc's Holiday, Digit Divulger, Tough Stuff Muffs, Heavy's Hockey Hair, Mutton Mann, Merc's Muffler,Barnstormer, Smissmas Wreath, Antlers
2. ↑ Carl, Aqua Flops, Hunger Force, Flunkyware, DethKapp, Brock's Locks, Nose Candy, Hanger-On Hood, Rail Spikes

Naughty Thursday morning (crate won, no more emails)

We are giving away one Naughty Winter Crate 2012 right now. It goes to emailer #25. Starting now, send us one email with a link to your steam profile (many names have duplicates). Do not send more than one email. If you break this rule you won't be able to win this or any other future contest. Tell your friend and maybe he/she will win. Contest details and answers to most of your questions are here.

Update: this crate has been won, no more contest-related emails please.

This contest's winner was "Lup3rcal". Congratulations to him and good luck to everyone for the next giveaway! Details are here. Some of you have asked questions that the answers to are right there in the link, including our email address. Take a moment to read it if you have questions.
To celebrate Valve's Merry Swissmas we will be giving away Naughty and Nice Keys as soon as they are available in the store. So keep checking back for your chance to win!