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It appears that a Clean Burning Team Captain has been traded for the "cursed" duped one
This is very strange. Not many details right now, but here's what's known.

A few months ago, Rock Into Mordor unboxed a Burning Team Captain. It has remained in his backpack since then, until just recently. Sometime between yesterday and today, [it appears to have been traded for the "cursed" Burning Team Captain,](http://i.imgur.com/uwU0QmJ.png) (so dubbed because buying it guarantees you a Steamrep mark.)

The clean Team Captain appears to have [disappeared completely](http://backpack.tf/item/3357047182), likely into a private backpack. Rock's backpack appears to be set to friend's only, but the cursed hat [is definitely in there.](http://i.imgur.com/iRhJgnN.jpg) Here's an [item history of the cursed TC,](http://backpack.tf/item/388225931) for reference, with Rock as the most recent recipient.

He's currently offline, I'll update if he gets back to me on what's going on.

**Update 1:** The Outpost history for the clean TC shows it [going to a user named Red™ ](http://www.tf2outpost.com/item/440,3357047182,378,5), but this user does not have the TC in their inventory.

**Update 2**: I'm basically stealing the research done over on [backpack.tf](http://forums.backpack.tf/index.php...we-have-now-two-cursed-burning-team-captains/) at this point, but some more details. Red™ has evidently had DarkWarrior (the last known owner of the cursed TC) on their friends list since [~June 17, 2015, 20:08:58 GMT](http://steamrep.com/timeline/76561198062000229) (readded him on [~June 21, 2015, 17:12:06 GMT](http://steamrep.com/timeline/76561198071535850))

**Update 3**: Lots of details in the air. I'll update again when I have a fuller picture.

**Update 4**: Nothing new yet, but [this post from yesterday](http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/3am9ya/two_burning_tcs_in_the_same_place/) is suddenly a lot more eerie.

#**Update 5**: [Rock was scammed](http://i.imgur.com/eTiiwHI.png)

**Update 6**: Here's a quick rundown of the sequence of events as I understand them. DarkWarrior met Rock in a Skial server, either by following him or by random chance. For reasons beyond imagination, the two decide to swap TCs (for fun I guess?) Of course DarkWarrior runs, and moves the TC to his alt, Red™ . Red™ sells this clean TC to a user named PP7, who stashes it in an alt. Apparently it's still there now. [According to the Fortress of Gamers decision](http://forums.f-o-g.eu/threads/6861-76561198071535850-dark-warrior/page3#post63125) (FoG is a Steamrep affiliate,) DarkWarrior and his alt are both marked, while both Rock and PP7 are cleared of wrongoing (which isn't to say they can't be marked if Steamrep decides to do their own investigation.) Being cautiously optimistic, it *sounds* like the curse on the dirty Team Captain has been broken, but I'll have to ask around a few communities to check.

Author: Bobsplosion

http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comments/3ape4j/it_appears_that_a_clean_burning_team_captain_has/
http://www.reddit.com/r/tf2/comment...an_burning_team_captain_has/?ref=search_posts
 

Toxik

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Huh, "Fortress of Gaming", isn't that the dude who came to advertise his own forums on here?
Looks like they have more players that I thought, I had assumed it was just a starting community but they already have more than 2k members
 

KinCryos

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if the hat is indeed "cursed", you'd think someone would've removed the curse by deleting it or using it as crafting material.

or trolling the community by giving it to backpack.tf's raffle
 
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