Let’s talk about the map Hitchhiker and whether all agree it will make for an exciting unorthodox map for this season’s ASL9. Does anyone have any current statistics for the balance of this map in modern sponsored matches? I think it has the potential to be an action packed low economy type of map. Anyone feel different? I am looking forward to the games that will be played on it in the RO16 and onwards.
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vndestiny

Singapore3440 Posts

February 28 2020 03:04 GMT

Small rush distance, majority non-natural pathways.
From the small amount of games I saw it's mostly rush into mass air.

Due to the moderate far 3rd gas & extremely difficult 4th gas I see a lot of timing push from Terran to kill opponent outright b4 they can amass gas tech.

M3t4PhYzX

Poland4195 Posts

February 28 2020 09:21 GMT

It's an awesome map. Very glad it is in the map pool. But I'm afraid it won't get used a lot, at least on the ladder and in non-kor tournaments.

Sr18

Netherlands1141 Posts

February 28 2020 11:43 GMT

Hitchiker in ASL? Really? This makes me so happy. I was randomly wondering about older maps I'd like to see in ASL and Hitchhiker kept popping up in my head. No idea how it will play it. I'm just along for the ride.

sM.Zik

Canada2547 Posts

February 28 2020 22:22 GMT

This is the kind of weird map that I like (not a fan of stuff like Inner Coven and Sparkles), saw a few games on stream and it looks like tons of fun!

Rus_Brain

Russian Federation1893 Posts

February 29 2020 01:21 GMT

thedeadhaji

39489 Posts

February 29 2020 19:04 GMT

So stoked for this. Iirc there was a community(?) tournament with korean pro/am streamers that featured HH back in 2019 or 2018, but the games weren't all that great from what I recall. Hoping they show us some good games

konadora

Singapore66163 Posts

February 29 2020 20:15 GMT

behold one of the best games on this map

not every map should be late game macro focused, and for that sole reason i fucking love this map

arbiter_md

Moldova1219 Posts

March 01 2020 09:14 GMT

One thing I hate about this map is the snow. Makes visibility so much worse. They should really change the ground into something else.

Alpha-NP-

United States1242 Posts

March 05 2020 00:22 GMT

#10

I am surprised I am not seeing any games on hitchhiker on the pros youtube accounts.

LG)Sabbath

Argentina3022 Posts

March 05 2020 03:39 GMT

#11

I like the map but the top base is just bad, you have to build stuff to the left and it messes with the pathing a lot at least for terran. Not fun. Other than that the idea of the map itself is cool, I would place the 3rd gas closer though, a mineral only 3rd on a map with no space for vultures or marines to move around is not ideal to say the least.

M3t4PhYzX

Poland4195 Posts

March 05 2020 09:03 GMT

#12

On March 01 2020 18:14 arbiter_md wrote:
One thing I hate about this map is the snow. Makes visibility so much worse. They should really change the ground into something else.

really? you must have some amazingly weak eyes my man.. Snow is actually great for visibility..