Watch a fight.
Learn your next move.

Just here to watch?

Open Watch fights, choose a published event, and follow the current match. Participants shows the fighters and their teams; Tournament shows pairings and results; Event log shows the public fight history.

You do not need a GM account to watch a published event. Private events appear only to authorized viewers.

Joining a fight

1. Read the GM's recruitment announcement for the location, registration phrase, chat channel, available jobs and any entry fee.
2. Register your character and home world. Joining the waiting pool does not immediately place you in a match.
3. Wait for team selection and the readiness call. The event can use teams of 1, 2, 4 or 6 fighters.
4. Stay near the GM observing actions, and wait until the website or GM announces your turn.

The GM configures the event's format, resources and combat rules. Check their announcement before joining.

Taking your turn

Use an approved normal skill directly in FFXIV. The observer registers successful in-game activations. Chat messages and button presses that the game rejects do not count as skill activations.

• Attack: select a living opponent in your match and keep that target selected until the action resolves.
• Self buff: your selected target does not matter.
• Ally buff: select the correct living teammate. Shirk and Nascent Flash require another ally and must satisfy FFXIV's own party and targeting restrictions.
• Team effects: skills such as Shake It Off affect your locked Potato Fighter team.

Actions spend the match's configured AP and follow its cooldowns. AP exhaustion advances the turn when the GM has enabled automatic advancement. The GM can also end a turn.

Follow your character

On Overview or Participants, use Follow your character to see your HP, MP, AP, buffs, debuffs, stacks and remaining shield amounts. Open Skills and cooldowns for availability and effect descriptions.

Effect durations and cooldowns count fighter turns. Your real FFXIV buff countdown does not remove a Potato Fighter effect.

If the page reports a stale connection, wait for it to reconnect before relying on its values.

Warrior skill families

Lower-level and upgraded names share one Potato Fighter rule:

• Berserk / Inner Release
• Vengeance / Damnation
• Raw Intuition / Bloodwhetting
• Steel Cyclone / Decimate
• Defiance / Release Defiance (stance on / off)

Only the approved normal-action list is recognized. The game still decides whether your character has unlocked a skill, has the required resources and can activate it. Website availability does not bypass these requirements.

Results and interruptions

The GM finalizes match results before winners advance through the tournament. A knockout alone does not finalize a pairing.

When required GM coverage is lost, the event pauses. After an interruption, wait for the GM to restore coverage and resume play.

Potato Fighter tracks its own match HP and effects; it does not change your character's real FFXIV HP.