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Source: Battle.net
A new season means a new map pool! We’ll be adding the following new team maps: - 2v2 – Redstorm
- 3v3 – Stranded Isles
- 4v4 – Last Impact
We are also adding the following new maps to the 1v1 ladder: And we will be removing the following maps: - Blackpink LE
- Backwater LE
- Abiogenesis LE
- Eastwatch LE
- Neon Violet Square LE
The final map pool will be:The new maps are available in Custom games starting today. Season 2 will begin on Tuesday, May 15, at which the new map pool will be live on the ladder. Expect a full blog which will expand on each of the new maps at that time.
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good to see Catalyst is sticking around, definitely my favorite map right now. Also it will be nice to have a 4 spawn map in the pool again
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Thank god they are adding 4p maps back into the pool. Hopefully that'll teach some people here that 4p maps aren't heresy and should have a chance during map contests 
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4p map and uThermal's favorite map
noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
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I'm happy to see Darkness Sanctuary and Dreamcatcher, but not the other maps 
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Fuck. I hate this map pool.
Dreamcatcher, Darkness Sanctuary and 16-bit aren't that good, and Redshift (oh that's Backfeifengesicht) is positively awful. Lost and Found, Acid Plant and Catalyst (which should be replaced by Blueshift since they're so similar) are good at least, but they can't save this terrible map pool.
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I kind of wish they would swap either redshift or dream catcher for a different map.. I think treachery would be a good replacement that map was really interesting
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What's the point of having map contests if Blizzard are just going to ignore the results anyways? Redshift/really long German name was one of the worst maps in the contest, and it goes on ladder, while Blueshift gets 2nd and it doesn't? I guess this is one way to satiate the Terran whining by giving them a few more free win maps.
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On May 02 2018 04:47 Solar424 wrote:
What's the point of having map contests if Blizzard are just going to ignore the results anyways? Redshift/really long German name was one of the worst maps in the contest, and it goes on ladder, while Blueshift gets 2nd and it doesn't? I guess this is one way to satiate the Terran whining by giving them a few more free win maps.
They didn't ignore the contest. In fact this whole mess is because they follow the public voting too closely. Backfeifengesicht got sixth place (though everything was really close this time).
Blizzard basically mindlessly grabbed the best performer in each category--I'd much rather have Blizzard ignore the results and think about things rather than follow what the clueless audience voted for. Also Blizzard needs to realize that the rush and to a lesser extent new category often don't have any good maps in them among the finalists.
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disappointed to have a 4p map again. I thought we finally got rid of that garbage.
Also sad we don't get Blueshift, that map seemed like a goat map contender. I guess it was to similar to Catalyst.
And why do we have 2 "weird" maps in this pool I thought we had settled on only having one of those per pool??
Very disappointed by this announcement. 3 instant vetoes.
At least the remaining 4 maps are good, so that's a plus.
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destructible rocks gold base? seems dumb for zerg although mineral line can be abused
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I'm kind of missing the images they normally bring with the maps :/
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Finally 4 spawn map! Thank you so much GSL. 
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Are these map favoring particular matchup ? (like PvZ or ZvP etc)
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Looks like some pretty cool maps actually, might dabble around again a bit :D
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On May 02 2018 05:37 Mun_Su wrote:
Are these map favoring particular matchup ? (like PvZ or ZvP etc)
gas geyser at inbase natural on 16-bit and lost and found can be hit by tanks. Multiple open attack paths on third on dreamcatcher favors zerg. Large rush distance on darkness sanctuary disfavors terran. The inbase GOLD natural on redshift is probably the most interesting since its accessible without killing the rocks. However mineral line is exposed so its hard to say which race is really favored, im just going to say that protoss will probably take this expand fast, make 1 tempest to defend and go skytoss for the memes
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Great map pool. One of the best in a long time
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Redshift is gonna have ccs floating to the gold :D
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Thank god on some of the maps leaving the pool. The problem is some of the replacements look like just a different flavor of bad. Hopefully they play better in reality.
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WCS
Dreamcatcher LE
