Positive votes help make maps more visible and "wanted" by the audience, when Valve are looking.
YouTubers/Influencers directing people to vote for a map en masse can sometimes help, but individual downvotes count like 100x as much as upvotes on maps, so motivating people who wouldn't ordinarily have weighed in can backfire.
If you think you can make a good case to Valve in an email or something, maybe they accept those? But I'm really not sure, I think if any of us knew how to make a map be considered for an update they'd be a millionaire by this point.

Download: koth_bagel_rc13
-Fixed a solid roof edge that players could perch on, on one side of the map

Bagel was uploaded to TF2Maps.net on the 24th of July, 2016, which means it is turning 10 years old! (Its development started a couple days beforehand, during the 72hr Jam).

In that time, it's become a staple of Competitive KotH, a regular play on community map servers, and a benchmark and cited inspiration for other KotH maps!
In 2018, the Halloween variant, Cauldron, was chosen to be featured in the Scream Fortress event and added to Team Fortress 2 officially, even if only for a month at a time.
It also seems to be one of the default maps in a popular roblox tf2 clone? I do not know if this is a good or a bad thing but it certainly happened.

But now's as good a time as any to remind y'all that, if you love this map, you should let Valve know!
It's my dream to have this map featured in Team Fortress 2 officially, all year round.

oh wild, well, tell me if it happens again or if anything else is broke

Download: koth_bagel_rc12

sorry its taken so long, its a bunch of obscure bugs with no known cause and no reliable test
I was hoping to find a Guaranteed Fix but instead I've just taken my best shot at it
this maps also 9 years old now valve pls im begging

Changelog:
-simplified some splash geometry around concrete
-fixed a perch spot on mid
-added two rendering contingencies to hopefully fix a rare bug where the mid point could be invisible

Yea its cringe and frankly impossible to test, I'm looking into it tho

fucked up that they got bagel and real tf2 doesnt

this probably sounds rly stupid but i made bagel cause i saw a frag vid like 9 years ago that made me in awe of the art form and wanted to make the kind of map that appears in a video like this and you've rly fulfilled that dream honestly

all bagel all the time

https://i.imgur.com/c8XmIpr.png

ummmm

ill try to come up with something to reduce confusion around that area for next version anyhow

https://i.imgur.com/wMVHkxw.png

ah fair, i was skimming frame by frame with no audio lol
still nothing i could do to save him there, im already giving as much leeway as possible by making the rail non solid

i was ready to say yes but from watching the vid closely to find the issue you really did just miss those

e: to break this down

id find more meaning and expression in the text prompt you typed into the image generator, cause at least you wrote that yourself

nobody should give a shit about any "art" that wasnt created from a human's ideas and passion, it's meaningless slop that happens to Resemble art

if a human didnt care to make it, then a human shouldnt care to consume it