Hello and welcome to the second month of Mapper's Monthly! We have spent this week choosing our maps, and we are glad to announce our winners. We have listened to the feedback you have given us, and we hope to make some positive changes. There were a lot of suggestions to switch the pool to 5, previously 8. Last month thanks to the Proam there is a very large group of quality maps to choose from. Previously we averaged around 30 players. One of the biggest problems we had was that some maps were not played on nearly as much as others. To fix this we are going to alter our set up to ensure all maps get equal playing time, or as close as we can get too it. Our pool is made of 8 maps. If we continue to have near 30 players we will have 5 rounds. The first round will have 16 games played, and the next 8. This means that within 2 weeks we will have half our maps with around 10 plays. The next week we will raise that number to 6. The last 2 maps will be used in the round of 4, and finals for those weeks. Then for our finals we will choose the 5/6 (depending on how many players) best maps, and use them. So without further ado our map pool!

Sacred Sands By Scorp
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Via Benefico By New Sunshine
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Bel'Shir Thicket By Ruinsteel
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Virtual Battle By Kim9067
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Galápagos By SeinGalton
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Megafossil By NewSunshine
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Bazaar By Sigma FiE
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Ancient Outpost By -NegativeZero-
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Contact information:
-If you want to contact me feel free to chat me up on Starcraft Velo character code: 427
-If you have access to a NA account please join the chat channel: Mapper's Monthly
-If you have a z33k account please join: http://www.z33k.com/groups/mappers
-If you would like to email us send your thoughts to: mappersmonthly@gmail.com

Details:
-Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/marrife
-The tournament will be at 7:00pm PDT Sunday July 22th.
-This will be a weekly tournament. The final tournament each month will have a prize pool.
-The map pool will be rearranged every week to ensure all maps get equal playing time.
-Each month we will choose a new map pool from the previous month,
-The map is hosted on: http://www.z33k.com/
-Direct link to the tournament: http://www.z33k.com/games/starcraft2/tournaments/8414-mapper-s-monthly
-ESV maps were not included because they have the korean weekly, and we thought it was unfair to other map makers to include maps that have much greater opportunity.

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WINRATES (Excluding mirror match ups)
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Somehow, there were a ton of mirror match ups in the tournament. Also, some maps were played significantly more than others. Bracket improvements will have to be made for the next tournament.

Braxis IX
6 games played
TvZ 2-1
ZvP 2-1

Beelzebub
11 games played
TvZ 1-1
PvT 2-1
ZvP 3-3

Quarantine Zone
9 games played
TvZ 2-1
PvT 0-2
ZvP 2-2

Aiur Refuge
7 games played
TvZ 2-1
PvT 0-1
ZvP 3-0

Silver Sands
6 games played
TvZ 2-1
ZvP 2-1

Hurricane Harbor
11 games played
TvZ 1-3
ZvP 4-3

Colonial II
2 games played
TvZ 2-0

Odin
9 games played
TvZ 1-0
PvT 0-1
ZvP 5-0

Side note: Part 3 has much better quality than 1 or 2, and has over 3 hours of run time!
Part 1:http://www.twitch.tv/veloh15/b/324163756
Part 2:http://www.twitch.tv/veloh15/b/324166883
Part 3:http://www.twitch.tv/veloh15/b/324177966

August 12 Vods: http://www.twitch.tv/marrife/b/328435482

NewSunshine

United States5938 Posts

June 28 2012 03:33 GMT

I like the idea, but for the image for my map is out of date(my fault). Here:
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This is what's on NA.

monitor

United States2409 Posts

June 28 2012 03:35 GMT

Cool! Only thing is that the name kind of overlaps with Map of the Month. Oh well I suppose.

SidianTheBard

United States2475 Posts

June 28 2012 03:40 GMT

This is awesome and I hope it turns out great! How would one go about getting their maps noticed for this? :D Ehh? Ehhh?

Only concern is 8 maps seem like a little much. I think it'd be better for spectators and players alike if there was probably 5 maps at most.

Anyway, GL with this!

Coppermantis

United States845 Posts

June 28 2012 03:46 GMT

Good idea! Some maps are really great but not publicized enough. I really like this week's selections.

WniO

United States2706 Posts

June 28 2012 03:53 GMT

braxis 9 is too badass... and yeah don't have 8 maps. i mean actully idc, cause maybe the ones you cut would play really well. ill compete i think.

TheFish7

United States2824 Posts

June 28 2012 04:15 GMT

Awesome! how does the pool get picked?
Will it be streamed?

moskonia

Israel1448 Posts

June 28 2012 05:12 GMT

This sounds great, but maybe make a EU version too if this picks?

mapping community bit weaker here and it could use the boost

a176

Canada6688 Posts

June 28 2012 05:39 GMT

i think you need to explain this a bit more. the site says 32 players can sign up, but you also describe a ro256/128/64/32/etc, and then the finals is best of 5, is that bo5 on one map?

iamcaustic

Canada1509 Posts

June 28 2012 05:42 GMT

#10

Map image for Quarantine Zone is messed up; it's only a link right now!

Callynn

Netherlands917 Posts

June 28 2012 05:56 GMT

#11

Cool idea, but I got disappointed when I saw it was for NA only. Good luck though guys, I think each of your maps is better than what is in the ladder pool right now (except the community made maps already there :D)

Veloh15

United States161 Posts

June 28 2012 13:14 GMT

#12

On June 28 2012 14:39 a176 wrote:
i think you need to explain this a bit more. the site says 32 players can sign up, but you also describe a ro256/128/64/32/etc, and then the finals is best of 5, is that bo5 on one map?

If we gain more players than 32 we can expand the expected number. 32 players is only the amount we expect.

Veloh15

United States161 Posts

June 28 2012 13:16 GMT

#13

We found maps by looking through the teamliquid forums. If this goes well we will have a thread about entering maps for the next round.

Sea_Food

Finland1612 Posts

June 28 2012 13:39 GMT

#14

On June 28 2012 22:14 Veloh15 wrote:

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If we gain more players than 32 we can expand the expected number. 32 players is only the amount we expect.

There was a tournament like this few months ago. 2 people joined, me being one of them. This time I dont think i can join, because my comp wont run sc2 propelly anymore.

Good luck.

Incompl

United States8 Posts

June 28 2012 13:45 GMT

#15

These are all great. I wish I was high enough of a league to enter the tournament.

Yonnua

United Kingdom2331 Posts

June 28 2012 13:46 GMT

#16

If you want to grab the attention of the majority of people (rather than mappers) it may be a good idea to post in the tournaments section.

Meltage

Germany613 Posts

June 28 2012 13:49 GMT

#17

This is awesome. I hope this will carry out well and that players will be attracted. How big is the prize pool and how is it divided? 1st + 2 runners up .. or?

The feedbakc this will bring map makers is invaluable.

moskonia

Israel1448 Posts

June 28 2012 14:43 GMT

#18

I think it is silly that every tournament that wants to get more then 2 players needs to have a prize pool, its just silly.

Sea_Food

Finland1612 Posts

June 28 2012 16:45 GMT

#19

On June 28 2012 23:43 moskonia wrote:
I think it is silly that every tournament that wants to get more then 2 players needs to have a prize pool, its just silly.

Playhem offers tournaments for multiple different leagues every day for 2 servers with decent price pools. Also there are tons of weeklies. Blame them.

ScorpSCII

Denmark499 Posts

June 28 2012 17:03 GMT

#20

I love the idea of this, but I doubt it will work out with 8 maps. I'd suggest 5-6 maps instead.