Red Bull TLMC Finalists - Page 4

On November 02 2013 23:14 Muffinman53 wrote:


Neutral nexus could be the new destructible rocks :D

On November 02 2013 23:21 Gfire wrote:

The shield mechanic makes it very particular.

On November 02 2013 23:20 Yhamm wrote:
was New Polaris Rhapsody fixed yet?

On November 03 2013 01:10 Hafe wrote:
If Synapse was on the ladder I would veto it...looks miserable for PvT once you get to 3-4 bases. The 4th is next to a cliff of the main, and the 3rd is far away. Basically the distance by land is too far compared to the distance by air.

Also, fuck playing against mutas on that map. Not gonna happen.

I promised I would buy and eat a TL shirt if a truly unconventional map won and it's safe to say I didn't have to. We have two maps that go outside of the standard main-nat setup. One gives you an inbase natural with rocks to it (done before a thousand times, just never seen in tournbaments or the ladder because people are afraid), another gives you two naturals, that's it. Each and every single map featurse a main with 2 geysers and 8 patches, did you know there is exactly no rule in the game which says you have to do this? Did you know you can just say 'Oh what the hell, let me put a third geyser in the main, maybe a third rich getyser which requires 6 workers to saturate', did you know you can actually do this?
Please don't come with this bullshit of saying that maps which shake up the metagame have a good chance to win because every time people say it, it's just not true and the most standard map ever wins because people are downright phobic of change. Just look at proleague, just look at what can be done. We've had maps in the ladder which were more unconventional than this.

Every single goddamn map is the fucking same. You can do any build order on every single map.
Edit: Seriously, there were weirder maps as finalists of TLMC 2, there were weirder and more original maps in the original ladder pool of WoL. TMLC 2 had a map as finalist with a backdoor expansion which was walled by minerals, you opened up a path into your own main by mining out those minerals. This contest is an insult the complexity and variety of this game. No shit people bitch that the game is 'stale' when every single goddamn map is the same. No, you're not going to see new strategies if you purposefully refuse to make any maps on which the old strategies don't work any more.
pfff

Edit: Oh wait, lava rising is truly original (though I don't like it). So I am going to stick to my word. If New Polaris Rhapsody actually wins the entire thing I will buy a TL shirt and eat it in its entirety. I will most likely process it into somethnig but I will eat it in its entirety and photo-document the process. I won't cop out by getting a fake shirt made of candy like someone did, no, I will order a TL shirt and I will eat it in its entirety. This isn't because I'm sure it's not going to win, this is because I promised I would if a truly original map won.

Edit2: So hey, the judges were Plexa, Monitor and Yoshi Kirishima, so apparently the control of what becomes a finalist is vested with these 3 people. Their own personal subjective taste is the dedication and direction of the entire contest rather than it being a cross section of the taste of the entire community. Because let's face it, ultimately what makes a good or a bad map is extremely subjective and typically influenced by racial interest. Even if we were to assume that there is some objective quality to it, what's to say that Plexa or Yoshi Kirishima have the know how to judge maps on it. It's ridiculous. Voting should really be done more democratically to make it repraesent a cross section of the community rather than the opinion of three people.

Every single goddamn map is the fucking same. You can do any build order on every single map.