Some of you may have noticed a new announcement box added to The main archive website[potato.tf]. These announcements are meant to keep non-discord members up-to-date, as well as announce minor stuff that we don't want to clog the discord announcement channel with.

With valve breaking group event notifications, and announcements breaking as soon as we launched GG, this announcement box on the archive site will be the most up-to-date source for what's currently happening in the community.

Thanks for understanding.

We will now be accepting submissions through discord[discord.com]

READ THE POST GUIDE BEFORE POSTING

The next event will be Reverse MvM, a custom MvM mode with players on BLU and bots on RED.

Things will be a bit different from the last Reverse MvM event, read more about it here:
https://discord.com/channels/415522947789488129/1171283194805485608/1171291829606563860


Apply here: https://forms.gle/QdoWwkKV7WbvurzEA

We're currently looking for more map/mission judges. If you're experienced with mapping, mission making, or just playing MvM in general, don't hesitate to apply!

The dozen or so people who follow these announcements, but are not a member of our Discord[discord.gg], may have noticed a distinctive lack of announcements/general updates to the group since GG beta. This is because:

• With the new UI overhaul, valve at some point broke posting steam group announcements entirely, this happened right as we were launching GG, hence why the open beta post is the last one you see. I don't even know if it's been fixed until I press "post announcement" on this post you are reading now.
  
  
• Valve also 100% broke the already semi-broken event notification system. Older steam users will remember what event notifications are, and how they were the equivalent of a discord @everyone ping for every group member. There used to be a trick to get group events to send that we used to gather players, but the new UI overhaul broke this too.

Thanks to valves lack of support for steam groups, and zero initiative to actually modernize it, this group is effectively a giant pile of ~28k steam users with no real utility besides map/mission submissions, something that is already painful thanks to valve's extremely antiquated forum/discussion page moderation tools

Another reminder to join the discord if you actually want updates/announcements regarding Potato, the steam group has always been an unreliable buggy mess, and the new UI has now made it completely worthless.

Galvanized Gauntlet is now in open beta! Play the event early at this temporary site:

https://gg.potato.tf/

Give yourself the @Galvanized Gauntlet role in our discord in the "Channels & Roles" tab to get pinged for the event.

https://gg.potato.tf/charity

Expect some bugs/balance issues before launch.

You can report issues in our discord server.

Mission submissions will be closed on August 5th.

If you planned on submitting a mission you have 30 days left to do so!

Submit your mission here
Note that map submissions will remain open year-round.


We recently changed the donator tiers in our discord to differentiate recurring/larger donations from smaller one-time donations. We never actually explained this change, so:

Tier 1: Donate $5-20 one-time. If you received this role previously from a $2-$4 donation you will still keep this role.

Tier 2: Donate $25 or more one-time, OR set up monthly donations of $5 or more.

MAKE SURE TO PUT YOUR DISCORD USERNAME IN THE COMMENT BOX.

You can donate to this fundraising campaigns:

https://donorbox.org/potato-s-event-server-fund - This one will be tracked on the website

If you are still sending monthly recurring payments to the previous donation page, we are still receiving them, but they are not tracked on the website. If you don't see your donation adding to the event server fund, this is why.

That's all for now, stay tuned for more info!