After months of design, playtesting, and iteration the results are in. You have decided our TLMC10 winners!
All sixteen finalists will receive at least $100 by default for placing in the top 16. All finalists will also receive a custom community commander portrait if they do not yet have one. In addition, the authors of the top five maps will receive the following prizes, all provided by Blizzard.
First - $500
Second - $250
Third - $125
Fourth - $75
Fifth - $50
All sixteen finalists will receive at least $100 by default for placing in the top 16. All finalists will also receive a custom community commander portrait if they do not yet have one. In addition, the authors of the top five maps will receive the following prizes, all provided by Blizzard.
Second - $250
Third - $125
Fourth - $75
Fifth - $50
Winners
FIFTH PLACE
FRACTURE | Avex
"Fracture takes place in a cold and biting environment, not only aesthetically but ingame as well. The thirds are relatively normally spaced but might feel a little far due to the straight line that is the attack path between the two bases. The map has a low amount of bases, and is more narrow than macro maps as more of a nod to the medium maps of Heart of the Swarm. Main distance remains the standard to most maps to keep the earlygame of Legacy relatively untouched."
Avex is one of TLMC's most prolific mapmakers, having made ladder maps such as Blood Boil, Odyssey, and most recently Backwater and Blackpink. Avex will receive $50 for his fifth place finish, as well as an additional $300 for his three finalist placements.
FOURTH PLACE
DREAMCATCHER | Timmay
Timmay is best known for his extremely popular map Catellena, although he has been entering high-quality maps to TLMC for years. Timmay will earn $75 for his fourth place finish in addition to taking home $100 for reaching the finalists list.
THIRD PLACE
LOST AND FOUND | Zweck
The rest of the map layout was kinda flawless in the first place; therefore, no changes were necessary."
Lost and Found caps Zweck's impressive list of maps for a first-time finalist, standing alongside Para Site and System Shock. He'll take home $425 in total for his third place finish.
SECOND PLACE
BLUESHIFT | NegativeZero
"This map merges the overall geometry of Catalyst with the aggressive central valley of Frozen Temple, with the addition of 4 large rocks that can significantly open up the main attack lanes later in the game."
NegativeZero is most known for creating TLMC6 winner Terraform, TLMC7 2nd place finisher Apotheosis, TLMC8 5th place finisher Sequencer, and TLMC9 2nd place finisher Catalyst. All four have been prominent ladder maps and we look forward to Blueshift possibly being one as well. NegativeZero will take home $250 for this second place finish in addition to $300 for making three finalist maps, the other two being Backpfeifengsicht and Digital Frontier.
FIRST PLACE
16-BIT | themusic246
"16-Bit is a retro red vs. blue digital landscape that has a few unique components differing from traditional macro maps. A pocket natural and destructible rocks at your forward natural allow for both aggressive and conservative play styles and ways to counter both. There are multiple attack paths and different expansion patterns. Give this a vote if you like macro maps that can play out differently every time."
On his first finalist appearance, themusic246 has achieved a TLMC victory with his lone finalist map 16-bit. This shocking debut, however, will not come as a surprise to followers of the Arcade community. themusic246 actually already won the Blizzard Arcade RTC contest. Furthermore, he is the developer of Zealot Hockey, Star Party, Monobattle Map Rotation and more.
See you next season!
And thus concludes our first decade of TLMCs. We want sincerely thank everyone who's taken part thus far in this contest and all the ones before it. After all, working on getting these maps into the ladder rotation is a full community effort!
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- 16-Bit by themusic246
- Blueshift by NegativeZero
- Lost And Found by Zweck
- Dreamcatcher by Timmay
- Fracture by AVEX
- Backpfeifengsicht by NegativeZero
- Travincal by AVEX
- Digital Frontier by NegativeZero
- Arashi by AVEX
- System Shock by Zweck
- Cape Regis Shipyard by octomologyst
- Para Site by Zweck
- Cerulean Falls by Solstice245
- Kherrisan Rift by Solstice245
- Treachery by Youngrustler
- Artana by IronManSC