EPTHope you’re all enjoying asl20 so far. I’ve been thinking it might be fun to do an interview with the four mapmakers who made the current map pool. The games are still fresh in everyone’s heads, so I figure they’d have some cool thoughts to share about how things played out. One of them (Waldstein, who made Radeon, Litmus, and Roaring Currents) already said yes, so that’s locked in at least.
The interview will take place after ASL20 wraps up, so once all the games have been played on the maps. That way the mapmakers will have a bigger sample of games to reflect on and comment about.
I will have my own questions but I wanted to invite others to make suggestions if it's something they are passionate about. After all this interview is for the community and I’m happy for others to be involved. Since a lot of you follow ASL closely and notice all the little details in the games/meta, I wanted to open this up and see if you had any good questions I could bring to them.
In principle anything goes as long as it’s respectful and interesting. If it’s about a very specific game moment, a timestamped vod would help a ton so they know what you’re talking about. If I use your question I’ll credit you in the interview transcript, though I can’t promise every suggestion will make it in.
Just to clarify: the mapmakers won’t be reading this thread. I’ll vet and select questions, include them in my interview notes, and direct each one only to the mapmaker who worked on the relevant map.
If it’s something you’re interested in, feel free to make a note of a moment on a map or even an entire game on a map, past or future (within ASL20!), and then pose a question here for the mapmaker to potentially answer.
Just wanted to share this plan and see if the community wanted to pitch in.
Cheers!
