I submitted our most recent game jam sometime around 2/23. It was supposed to go live on 2/28. It still hasn't gone up yet on the Jam Calendar. I've had to basically take the link and share it around to our followers and discord server users so they can get to it and join it. It killed our monthly game jam this month, in essence. Kind of a bummer, because we plan to do these every single month from here on. It's impossible to maintain that consistency when we don't know if our Jam will be posted on the calendar or not.

So I'm just wondering if there's a best practices for submitting game jams that I can't seem to find? Do I need to submit as early as physically possible for every game jam? Is there some status I can attain with Itch.io's moderators, a sort of "frequent flyer" program where they can fast track these game jam posts? And we aren't some random people on the internet, we're a department at a University trying to use itch to organize game development jams to explore narrative. Surely we have a vested interest to represent ourselves, and itch.io, in the best way possible.