Operation Bolted Barbecue
“ | It’s that time of year again. The gentle sea breeze... digging holes in the sand... seagulls flying above, looking for the best time to steal an entire hotdog right out of your hands... Sounds nice doesn’t it? Well there’s no time for relaxing now, Soldier! Gray Mann’s army is back with a vengeance, and thousands of robotic abominations are storming across those very beaches as we speak. It’s time to get out there and fight unless you want this to be the last summer you'll ever get! Gray Mann is coming for a lot more than your hotdogs and if you don’t fight back hard and fast, there won’t be any more hotdogs left for those flying beach rats to take...
— Operation Bolted Barbecue publicity blurb
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Operation Bolted Barbecue is a community-created Mann vs. Machine charity tour organized and hosted by Potato MvM. It entered open beta on June 21, 2025, before officially launching on July 3. The tour is scheduled to conclude on October 15, 2025.
Tour
On June 21, 2025, Operation Bolted Barbecue went into public beta, featuring 56 missions across 30 maps. This included the official maps Bigrock, Mannhattan, and Rottenburg, as well as returning maps from previous community campaigns, and newly featured maps such as Apex, Charon, Electricavenue, Monsoon, Scrapyard, Sand, and Smog.
As the beta period continued, several missions were added to, and removed from the campaign, leading to a grand total of 59 missions across 37 maps.
The tour officially launched on July 3, and another mission was added, totalling 60 missions across 38 maps.
This tour features the return of contracts, previously featured in Operation Canteen Crasher. The contracts awarded Contract Stars for completion of various objectives for each of the nine classes, as well as contracts involving all played classes, and contracts that required the entire team to work together. Contracts featured in this campaign had no bearing on obtaining in-game rewards.
This campaign features a Nightmare mission. These are long endurance missions, each lasting a single extended wave, with a large number of robots. Nightmare missions may have short pauses between subwaves for players to upgrade or push forward; however, there are no permanent checkpoints, and all progress is lost upon failure.
Contracts
The tables below show the contracts that are achievable during the event. Unless otherwise noted, all objective thresholds are cumulative, and tracked throughout all played missions.
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Stars Awarded | Contract | Objective |
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Callin' the Shots | Mark 100 robots for death. |
Like Father Like Son | Deal 40,000 damage to Giant Robots. | |
Snipe That Ya Freakin' Coward! | Kill 25 Sniper Robots. | |
The Underdog | Deal 30,000 damage to Tanks. | |
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Home Run | Hit ten robots with a Sandman ball from really far away. |
Rakin' in the Dough | Complete ten waves with an A rating or higher. | |
Sugar Rush | Deal 50,000 damage with the Soda Popper. | |
Team Player | Complete three missions with at least 40,000 Support points. | |
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Moneybags | Complete a mission with an A+ rating. |
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Power Hitter | Complete a mission with the top Damage score. |
Untouchable | Complete a mission without any resistances, and three or fewer deaths. |
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Stars Awarded | Contract | Objective |
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Battle Brother | Assist in 500 robot kills. |
Battalion's Backup | Deploy the Battalion's Backup 20 times. | |
Buff Banner | Deploy the Buff Banner 20 times. | |
Concheror | Deploy the Concheror 20 times. | |
Frag Out | Deal over 750 damage in a single attack, five separate times. | |
Paratrooper | Deal 20,000 critical damage to Tanks with the Air Strike, while blast jumping. | |
The Purple Heart | Heal 5,000 health with the Black Box. | |
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Screamin' Eagles! | Kill 100 robots while blast jumping. |
The Bronze Star | Complete a mission with at least 40,000 Support points. | |
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The Medal of Honor | Complete a mission with the top Damage score. |
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Stars Awarded | Contract | Objective |
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Pyro's Perch | Reset the bomb carrier three times. |
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Chain Reaction | Kill at least two Medic Robots at once with the Third Degree, three separate times. |
Look Up! | Deal 30,000 damage to Tanks. | |
No U | Reflect 100 projectiles. | |
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Dragon's Fury | Deal 50,000 damage to robots with the Dragon's Fury. |
Medium Rear | Deal 25,000 critical damage to Giant Robots from behind with the Backburner. | |
Burnt to a Crisp | Deal 50,000 damage to robots with Phlogistinator crits. | |
French Roast | Kill 100 Spy Robots. |
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Stars Awarded | Contract | Objective |
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Scotch Guard | Kill the bomb carrier within two seconds of them picking up the bomb, twenty separate times. |
When Life Gives You Lemons | Deal 50,000 damage to robots with a Grenade Launcher. | |
Kablooie! | Kill at least five robots with one detonation, five separate times. | |
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Heads Will Roll | Collect four or more heads in a single life, five separate times. |
Crossed Wires | Deal over 1,500 damage in a single attack, ten separate times. | |
Whiff of the Ol' Brimstone | Deal 30,000 critical damage. | |
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Knight of the Round Table | Complete a mission with the top Damage score, as a full Demoknight. |
Pills Here | Complete a mission with the top Damage score, using a Grenade Launcher, and no Stickybomb Launcher. |
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Stars Awarded | Contract | Objective |
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Bolshevik Behemoth | Deal 100,000 damage to Giant Robots. |
Damn Good Cop | Heal 500 health to allies with your Sandvich. | |
Do Not Pass Go | Deal 10,000 damage to Giant Scouts with the Natascha. | |
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Heavyweight Champ | Kill 25 robots with the Killing Gloves of Boxing. |
Made of Steel | Receive 5,000 damage within a single life. | |
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The Iron (Glowing) Curtain | Deal 50,000 damage to robots while critboosted from a kill. |
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The Red Giant | Complete a mission with more than 1.5 times the next best damage on your team. |
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Stars Awarded | Contract | Objective |
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Ya Plum Done Daggum Did It Now Son! | Kill 100 robots with revenge crits from the Frontier Justice. |
Remote Technician | Heal 2,000 health on your buildings with the Rescue Ranger. | |
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Do Tanks Have Wives? | Deal 5,000 damage to Tanks with the Widowmaker. |
Scrapyard | Accumulate fifty kills with a single Sentry Gun. | |
Can't Fix What Ain't Broke | Complete a wave without using a Building Upgrade canteen. | |
Manual Override | Prevent 50,000 damage to your Sentry Gun with the Wrangler. | |
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Drugstore Cowboy | Heal 20,000 health to teammates with your Dispenser. |
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Built to Last | Complete a wave without letting your Sentry Gun get destroyed. |
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Stars Awarded | Contract | Objective |
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I Am Ze Übermensch! | Deploy fifty ÜberCharges with any Medi Gun besides the Kritzkrieg. |
Field Medic | Heal 150,000 health to your teammates. | |
Frankenstein | Revive your teammates twenty times. | |
Short Circuit | Deal 10,000 damage to Tanks with your Projectile Shield. | |
Do Much Harm | Kill fifty robots with your Projectile Shield. | |
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Get Behind Me! | Block 50,000 damage with your Projectile Shield. |
Mad Doktor | Maintain an ÜberCharge for over twenty seconds, three separate times. |
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Stars Awarded | Contract | Objective |
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Robin Hood | Deal 50,000 damage to robots with the Huntsman. |
Taking Names | Kill 1,000 robots. | |
Hotshot | Kill a fully charged Giant Über Medic Robot, three separate times. | |
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Boom. Headshot. | Kill at least three robots with a single shot, twenty-five separate times. |
Forehead On Ya Like A Coffee Table | Kill fifty Giant Robots. | |
Two Birds | Kill two fully charged Giant Über Medic Robots with a single shot, ten separate times. | |
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Collateral Damage | Deal at least 750 damage in a single attack, fifteen separate times. |
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Stars Awarded | Contract | Objective |
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Big Iron on His Hip | Deal 5,000 damage to Tanks with Diamondback crits. |
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The Bigger They Are... | Kill 100 Giant Robots. |
Stealthy Sabateur | Kill 100 sapped robots. | |
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Hit and Run | Kill ten Giant Medics. |
Sanguine Snake | Steal 2,500 health from your victims with the Conniver's Kunai. | |
Master of Disguise | Kill five robots with Your Eternal Reward without dropping your disguise, five separate times. | |
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Stabby-Go-Round | Perform five backstabs on a Giant Robot within four seconds, three separate times. |
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Stars Awarded | Contract | Objective |
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World Tour | Complete fifty waves. |
Finders Keepers | Collect 10,000 currency. | |
PROPERTY DAMAGE | Deal 500,000 damage to robots. | |
Fair and Balanced | Deal 250,000 critical damage to robots. | |
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Drop It Like It's Hot | Kill thirty fully charged Über Medics. |
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Tank Buster | Deal the most damage to a Tank before it dies, three separate times. |
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Mann of Steel | Complete a mission without dying. |
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Stars Awarded | Contract | Objective |
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Team International | Complete a mission without Scout, Soldier, and Engineer. |
Team USA | Complete a mission with any combination of Scouts, Soldiers, or Engineers. | |
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Major Leagues | Complete a mission with your entire team playing as Scout. |
Backup Battalion | Complete a mission with your entire team playing as Soldier. | |
Wildfire | Complete a mission with your entire team playing as Pyro. | |
Sobriety Test | Complete a mission with your entire team playing as Demoman. | |
Brave Hearts | Complete a mission with your entire team playing as Demoknight. | |
Russian Roulette | Complete a mission with your entire team playing as Heavy. | |
More Gun | Complete a mission with your entire team playing as Engineer. | |
Die Übermenschen | Complete a mission with your entire team playing as Medic. | |
Pissing Contest | Complete a mission with your entire team playing as Sniper. | |
From the Shadows | Complete a mission with your entire team playing as Spy. | |
Cool, Calm, and Collected | Complete a mission without any buy backs. | |
Lost Connection to the Item Server | Complete a mission using only stock weapons (reskins allowed). | |
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Diligent Defense | Complete three missions without the bomb reaching the hatch area. |
Four Men of the Apocalypse | Complete an expert mission with only three other people. | |
Flawless Victory | Complete three missions without any wave failures. | |
Old School | Complete three missions without anyone refunding their upgrades past Wave 1. | |
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Triple Tag Team | Complete an advanced mission with only two other people. |
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Dynamic Duo | Complete an intermediate mission with only one other person. |
Featured Missions
This table shows the missions that were available during the event.
Map | Mission | Waves | Creators |
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Bigrock | Bionic Breach | 7 | randomguy |
Bogland | Crocodile Operation | StardustSpy | |
Charon | Crash Landing | 6 | ZombieF1ghter |
Orbital Breach | Sntr | ||
Coldtown | Chilling Clique | 7 | Dylan_is_legend |
Dusk | Clanker Conflict | 6 | Mama Rosalina |
Electricavenue | Rolling Raccoons | Skin King lite | |
Flowerfield | The Blooming Bulb | 5 | furuka |
Hoovydam | Damn Breach | 6 | ZombieF1ghter |
Jungleworks | Jungle Bungle | Mama Rosalina | |
Marsbase | Martian Civilizations | Skirk Queen | |
Metro | Metropolis | 5 | Mentrillum |
Monsoon | Weathered Wrecks | Crilly | |
Oilrig | Orson Oligarchy | 6 | randomguy |
Sand | Solar Solder | 3 | |
Smog | Hazardous Haze | 6 | owo Inky |
Steep | Mnemonic Mechanics | ||
Ventus | Vacationvasion | 8 | Chrstin |
Waterfront | Corrosion Of Dignity | 7 | ChristianGuyOfAction |
Map | Mission | Waves | Creators |
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Apex | Glacial Gantlet | 7 | Yoovy Gregarious |
Malware Malfunction | botrot | ||
Autumnull | Steelblock | 5 | Mudun |
Bigrock | Breaking Point | 8 | Package O' Lies |
Bogland | Dire Mire | 6 | Retrowave |
Mud Maker | 7 | ZombieF1ghter | |
Casino City | Gangsters Pair Of Dice | Skin King | |
Charon | Atmos Quake | Sntr | |
Coastrock | Cobalt Cruise | 6 | Chaos&Mystery |
Coldtown | 6 Scottish Pentathlon | 5 | Skirk Queen |
Dockyard | Jammer Jeopardy | 8 | botrot |
Dusk | Til Dawn | 6 | Skin King |
Humbridge | Runtime Optimization | 7 | ♓Seelpit♓ |
Jungleworks | Manntained Machines | 6 | ZombieF1ghter |
Lotus | Mechanical Damnation | TDN PangaDayWalker | |
Mannhattan | Scorched Skies | Yoovy | |
Monsoon | Rolling Thunder | 5 | Crilly |
Quetzal | Neotropic Nightmare | 7 | Mama Rosalina CFFG. WaxWing |
Rottenburg | Assault And Battery | 6 | casey |
Scallops | Crustacean Cremation | CookieCat | |
Scrapyard | Illegal Industry 1010 | Skirk Queen | |
Quantum Processing | 4 | Mentrillum | |
Rust Bucket | 6 | Koi | |
Trashyard Throwdown | 5 | Alche_ | |
Sludge | Claire De Lune | 8 | colonel |
Smog | Respiration Restriction | 6 | owo Inky |
Snowpine | Shivering Slumber | Chaos&Mystery | |
Underground | Mining Operation | 7 | ZombieF1ghter |
Quartz Quadrant | Retrowave | ||
Waterfront | Splash Zone | Yoovy | |
Watermine | Dig Of Wreckoning | 6 | colonel |
Map | Mission | Waves | Creators |
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Doppler | Drop Database Devastation | 6 | colonel |
Electricavenue | Obsolescence | 7 | Conga Dispenser |
Havana | Night Feast | 5 | Spectλtor™ |
Jungleworks | Agaglobulinemiagenesis | Schwabbel Mentrillum | |
Mannhattan | Ax20 | 6 | Package O' Lies |
Rancher | Impasse | Snurper_Bob | |
Rottenburg | Bx20 | 7 | Package O' Lies |
Spacepost | Astral Annihilation | Crilly | |
Waterfront | Eradication | Yoovy |
Map | Mission | Creators |
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Charon | Oz Terror | Lobotomy (Scotch Mist) |
Rewards
This event has six medals which are able to be earned by players: three as rewards for participation in the tour, and three for donations to a charity drive benefiting Direct Relief, benefiting aid for the 2025 Southern California wildfires. Clearing any ten missions earns the player the Quintuple Baked Potato medal, clearing any 25 missions earns the player both the Quintuple Baked Potato and Parched Patriot Canteen medals, and clearing any 35 missions earns the player the Quintuple Baked Potato, Parched Patriot Canteen and Barbecued Buster medals.
In addition, players are able to donate varying amounts through item or monetary donations to receive donor medals. Donating at least $5 USD earns the player the Generous Gemstone medal, donating at least $15 USD earns the player both the Generous Gemstone and Star of the Summer Solstice medals, and donating at least $35 USD earns the player the Generous Gemstone, Star of the Summer Solstice, and Heart of the Lake medals.
Content creators whose missions were accepted for use in the event were awarded the Potato of Labor medal.
The Quintuple Baked Potato player medal reuses the model for the Memes vs. Machines Baked Potato, from Operation Memes vs Machines, the Parched Patriot player medal reuses the model for the Canteen Crasher Silver Building medal, from Operation Canteen Crasher, and the Barbecued Buster player medal reuses the model for the Mappers vs. Machines Participant Medal. Each of the donor medals reuse models from Operation Madness vs. Machines: the Generous Gemstone reuse the model for the Hopeful Heart, the Star of the Summer Solstice reuses the model for the Pinnacle of Ingenuity, and the Heart of the Lake reuses the model for the Boundless Heart.
External links
- Official Announcement on the Team Fortress 2 Blog
- Official Steam event for Operation Bolted Barbecue
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