Operation Memes vs Machines

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Operation Memes vs Machines was a hybrid mission-making contest and Mann vs Machine tour organized and hosted by Potato's Custom MvM Servers, and was announced on February 1, 2019. The tour was held from April 1, 2019 to April 16, 2019.

Contest

MvM Meme vs Machine2.jpg

On February 1, 2019, Operation Memes vs Machines was announced to the public, starting with a Mann vs. Machine mission-making contest which would last until February 28, 2019.[1] After which, judges would judge the missions in between March 1 to March 3, then mission submissions would be open again until March 28, where, once again, they'll be judged by judges in between March 29 to March 31.[2] After this, the servers would be open and the tour would start.

There were a few guidelines set for mission-makers. Primarily, these missions had to be "meme missions," with the primary objective being absurd Mann vs. Machine waves that would make people laugh. All missions submitted had to be of Intermediate difficulty, and they could have an unlimited amount of waves, so long as they were of "reasonable" length. Mission-makers could generally put whatever they wanted into their missions, though any satire, sarcasm, or dark humor would be questioned and possibly rejected. Each participant could create a maximum of 2 missions, and 2-3 participants could collaborate on one shared mission.[2]

Tour

On April 1, 2019, the Canteen Crasher campaign servers were overtaken by the Memes vs Machines missions. Waves of memes from the contest were run on selected community maps previously used on Potato's Custom MvM Servers, in addition to a completely new haunted community Mann vs. Machine map, Shadows.

In keeping with the short duration of the community event, one simple, short tour was offered, with only one medal in reward, rather than a extensive campaign. Originally planned to last only a week, the tour was extended to April 16, owing to the strong community participation, which nearly continuously occupied over 50 servers the first week.[3]

Approved Missions

This table shows the missions available during the event. Every mission was of intermediate difficulty.

Map Mission Number of Waves Creator
Barren HoHoHoes Holiday 5 Morton
Jesty Joker Jamble 5 Seelpit
Mediocre Nonsense 6 Enigmus
Coastrock Insomniacs Insanity 4 Jakapoa
WhatHaveIDone 10 Robo-Poot
Hideout Chili Sabotage 6 Colonel Barrage & Creator Force
Isolation WTF MK Two 6 PenolAkushari
Sequoia Extended Deadline 9 Crinitus & JugadorXEI
tf2wood 6 shnowshner
Shadows Shadows 8 Blade x64
Trainyard Pepper Boys 6 HeRp-A-dErP-a-NErp
Underground WelcomeToMyMine 12 Delta🍁 & Fiat Seicento
Waterfront Bison Barrage 5 theAgamer11
Dihydrogen Monoxide 10 Tindall Berry

Rewards

This event had two medals up for grabs.

Image Name Description
Backpack Starched Silliness Potato Lookalike 2021.png Memes vs. Machines Baked Potato 2019 A potato equipped with sunglasses and a team-colored parasol. It is awarded to players who completed 60 minutes of successful wave time; "successful" meaning that time played in any wave only counted if the player both started and completed the full wave. A wave could be completed multiple times but the total time spent would be capped at 4 minutes per wave.
Backpack Starched Silliness Super Spud 2021.png Memes vs. Machines PotatOS Server 2019 A potato covered in a bunch of computer hardware with a screen on the front showing a digital potato. It was awarded to the content creators (meme makers) and other practical people who made the event possible.

Operation Memes vs Machines was initially supposed to have another reward, which would've been a "donor" badge.[2] The donor badge would've been given out to donors who donated at least $5 USD to the Extra Life charity organization. According to Memes vs Machines' GitHub page, this badge would've also been given to mission creators who got their mission accepted, even if they didn't donate.

References

  1. NUKLEAR Maymays vs Machines, FEB 1, 2019 @ 12:08PM.
  2. a b c Hydrogen MvM's GitHub, FEB 1, 2019.
  3. NUKLEAR Memes vs. Machines: Deadline Extended!, APR 7, 2019 @ 8:45AM.

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