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TL.net Map Contest #16: Voting Results & Winners

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TL.net Map Contest #16: Voting Results & Winners

Text byTL.net ESPORTS
February 9th, 2022 20:11 GMT
TLMC14
Voting has closed and the ballots have been counted. It's time to announce the winners of TL.net Map Contest #16!

We'd like to thank all the mapmakers for their map submissions, the TLMC judges for selecting the sixteen finalists, Wardi for running another fantastic TLMC tournament, the players who participated, and Shopify, ESL, and Blizzard for helping us hold another iteration of TLMC. And, of course, we're grateful to all the fans who voted on the final sixteen maps.

Mapmakers will receive $200 per map that finished in the top sixteen, and receive additional prize money for maps that finish in the top five as chosen by public vote:
  • 1st place - $800
  • 2nd place - $500
  • 3rd place - $250
  • 4th place - $150
  • 5th place- $100

We'd also like to remind the community that the top placing maps in TLMC #16 are not guaranteed to be added to the competitive ladder. ESL and Blizzard will reference TLMC #16 and choose which maps to add at their own discretion.

5th place

"Centuries Later" by Superouman

Description: There was a thriving megalopolis here, before the Dominion decided to annihilate it.
This map has a major twist: A second entrance to the starting base can be opened by mining the triangle third base. The triangle third base has two additional mineral fields with a value of

Features:
  • The main base has a backdoor that is blocked by the minerals of the triangle third
  • The triangle third has 2 additional mineral fields that have a value of 200.


4th place

"Stargazers" by Marras

Stargazers offers the opportunity to either play standard games or make things a bit more spicy by opening up the path through the pocket natural.

Features:
  • There are 12 blue maps in total plus one gold base at the 6 o'clock position
  • The pocket naturals have a standard amount of minerals and gas but the base is blocked by two mineral nodes with the value of 10 per each
  • The minerals blocking the ramp leading from the pocket natural have a value of 40 each making opening up that path a big commitment if done by the attacker
  • Line of sight blockers are situated in the middle area and the bottom of the map
  • The Xelnaga Tower at the 12 o'clock position can see a little bit of the outermost parts of the pocket natural mineral lines.


3rd place

"Moondance" by Marras

Moondance is a map with a lot of bases but a short rush distance. A pocket third offers players a safe expansion but it has less mineral nodes than a regular base and only one gas geyser

Features: 9 bases per player, pocket base has 6 mineral nodes and one gas, other bases are standard. Rush distance is short. There are rocks on some of the ramps and los blockers on the lowground areas. No fancy features.


2nd place

"Aftermath" by depressed1

-Aftermath is a mixed up map you might want to play because it doesn't have certain rules on how to set up the third.

Features:
  • 4 levels
  • Golden base
  • "Boosted" low-ground base with large acceleration zone (minimal mining advantage but easier to harass)
  • A Mineral line like a front line to separate players from each other
  • Definitely (possibly) a way not to take the triangle third and take the bottom corner base (or golden base)
  • The rocks were used to organize the passage through the gold. Kinda neat.


1st place

"Waterfall" by Superouman

Two Protoss factions are cohabiting in this small rush map. A stream divides the map in two but there are 3 ford passages and 2 bridges that let players move across it.

Features:
  • While being a small rush map, the first few expansions are reasonably defendable.
  • During the lategame, because there are only 6.5 bases per player, both player will expand close to each other.
  • For the decoration, there is a small stream that runs across the map and ends with a nice waterfall. There are 3 ford passages and two transparent bridges over the stream where units can move across.


Full Results

Congratulations to all of the winners and finalists! We look forward to seeing your maps on the ladder in the near future.

  • 1st: Waterfall
  • 2nd: Aftermath
  • 3rd: Moondance
  • 4th: Stargazers
  • 5th: Centuries Later
  • 6th: Cryogenian
  • Tie 7th/8th: Frost Giant
  • Tie 7th/8th: Cosmic Sapphire
  • 9th: Sunforge
  • 10th: Nemesis
  • 11th: Emerald Princess
  • 12th: Data-C
  • 13th: Tropical Sacrifice
  • 14th: Rejuvenation
  • 15th: Singularity
  • 16th: Lost Facility

Read our finalists post for detailed views of all sixteen maps.

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Kantuva
Profile Joined April 2010
Uruguay206 Posts
February 09 2022 21:11 GMT
#2
Congrats to all the finalists 🎉💐🎊

Certainly interesting that this time round nonstandard ish layouts got chosen for more than a few of the top
@Kantuva | Mapmaker | TLMC Volunteer Admin | Join us on: https://mapcave.net/discord
honorablemacroterran
Profile Joined January 2022
188 Posts
February 09 2022 21:50 GMT
#3
Everything about Aftermath seems carefully calculated to favor Zerg. I hope it gets passed over tbh.
MayOnFire
Profile Joined March 2021
England47 Posts
February 09 2022 21:56 GMT
#4
Big congrats to everyone who won, but especially to depressed1 who submitted for the first time! Well deserved!

I'm really happy that people can appreciate creativity. We want more maps like that.
Ladder Map Pool : Curious Minds, Amphion, Cosmic Sapphire, Royal Blood, Dragon Scales, Hard Lead, Whispers of Gold + four times TLMC finalist, and other sc2 related content // https://liquipedia.net/starcraft2/MayOnFire
honorablemacroterran
Profile Joined January 2022
188 Posts
February 09 2022 22:20 GMT
#5
I just want to note that I'm glad that a first time submitter was able to do well in the contest, but there's nothing personal about my above comment.

The huge natural opening, the overlord pillar positioned to reveal both natural gases, the reflectional symmetry with the far bases, and the gold base on the far side are all zerg favored features. There are some chokes in the middle of the map and an easy air path, but I don't think that makes up for all the other things about it that make it zerg favored.
Charoisaur
Profile Joined August 2014
Germany15919 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-02-09 23:06:42
February 09 2022 23:06 GMT
#6
Not really a fan of Waterfall tbh, I think it got mostly voted because of its aesthetics.
Also a bit disappointed that Rejuvenation and Tropical Sacrifice placed so low which were the best maps imo but congrats to the winners regardless
Many of the coolest moments in sc2 happen due to worker harassment
Superouman
Profile Blog Joined August 2007
France2195 Posts
February 09 2022 23:42 GMT
#7
Another win for the double map theme theory! If a finalist map has 2 distinct decoration themes, it shall win the contest.

- TLMC 4 : CJ Biome
- TLMC 13 : Purity and Industry
- TLMC 15 : Oblivion
- TLMC 16: Waterfall

But what happens if there are multiple double map theme finalists? We will learn that in the next TLMC !
Search "[SO]" on B.net to find all my maps ||| Cloud Kingdom / Turbo Cruise '84 / Bone Temple / Eternal Empire / Zen / Purity and Industry / Golden Wall / Fortitude / Beckett Industries / Waterfall
honorablemacroterran
Profile Joined January 2022
188 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-02-09 23:44:27
February 09 2022 23:44 GMT
#8
On February 10 2022 08:42 Superouman wrote:
Another win for the double map theme theory! If a finalist map has 2 distinct decoration themes, it shall win the contest.

- TLMC 4 : CJ Biome
- TLMC 13 : Purity and Industry
- TLMC 15 : Oblivion
- TLMC 16: Waterfall

But what happens if there are multiple double map theme finalists? We will learn that in the next TLMC !


Funny you mentioned that, I noticed it myself. I think it does impress people aesthetically. I prefer it too.
Luolis
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Finland7103 Posts
February 10 2022 04:15 GMT
#9
I have to say that the top 5 disappoints me. Literally none of the maps there are ones i'd like to play. Also super disappointed that Rejuvenation placed so low. I think that was the best by far.
pro cheese woman / Its never Sunny in Finland. Perkele / FinnishStarcraftTrivia
jpg06051992
Profile Joined July 2015
United States580 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-02-10 04:33:52
February 10 2022 04:32 GMT
#10
Not sure what the negativity is over. Moondance and Stargazers were shoe ins imo, beautiful aesthetics and honestly I appreciate the pocket expansion with reduced minerals with 1 gas.

I wasn't sold on Waterfall initially but it did produce some really good games in the TLMC.

A big thanks to the map makers, really appreciate you guys and I think this map pool is going to produce some really good quality games.

Kinda sad that Cosmic Sapphire didn't make it but oh well, it was still a good map
"SO MANY BANELINGS!"
dalecooper
Profile Joined July 2019
56 Posts
February 10 2022 04:46 GMT
#11
I have to say that the top 5 disappoints me. Literally none of the maps there are ones i'd like to play. Also super disappointed that Aftermath placed so high. I think that was the worst by far.

User was banned for this post.
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themusic246
Profile Joined December 2012
United States211 Posts
February 10 2022 05:20 GMT
#12
I have to say that the top 5 disappoints me. Literally none of the maps there are ones i'd like to play. Also super disappointed that Aftermath placed so high. I think that was the worst by far.
1st place Blizzard arcade RTC contest. 2x 1st place 1v1 Team Liquid Map Contest (30 total ladder map contest finalists). Developer of Zealot Hockey, Star Party, Monobattle Map Rotation and other stuff
depressed1
Profile Blog Joined May 2021
51 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-02-10 05:21:46
February 10 2022 05:20 GMT
#13
I have to say that the top 5 disappoints me. Literally none of the maps there are ones i'd like to play. Also super disappointed that Aftermath placed so high. I think that was the worst by far.
depressed_marauder (yt: DepressingStarcraft) done and gone.
Luolis
Profile Blog Joined May 2012
Finland7103 Posts
February 10 2022 05:30 GMT
#14
^ I dunno why you guys are jumping on me so hard. I have opinions on what maps i would like to play and this time the top 5 just doesnt do it for me. I thought there were better maps, but it is what it is.
pro cheese woman / Its never Sunny in Finland. Perkele / FinnishStarcraftTrivia
honorablemacroterran
Profile Joined January 2022
188 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-02-10 05:55:07
February 10 2022 05:43 GMT
#15
On February 10 2022 14:30 Luolis wrote:
^ I dunno why you guys are jumping on me so hard. I have opinions on what maps i would like to play and this time the top 5 just doesnt do it for me. I thought there were better maps, but it is what it is.



I just found out he got banned from twitch for posting angry bird dick ascii in Artosis' channel, I wouldn't expect a lot of maturity.

Also, without calling anyone out, I think it's ironic that people object so strenuously to balancing the races themselves against anything but the very best players (despite the obvious issues with this--some of them are just better than others because of their exceptional talent and experience), yet it seems like when it comes to maps, people think it's a good idea to have people vote on what they think looks the coolest without really considering balance issues.

The mapmaker discord has several mapmakers encouraging ignoring balance issues because they want to entertain lowbies.
depressed1
Profile Blog Joined May 2021
51 Posts
Last Edited: 2022-02-10 05:59:58
February 10 2022 05:57 GMT
#16
On February 10 2022 14:30 Luolis wrote:
^ I dunno why you guys are jumping on me so hard. I have opinions on what maps i would like to play and this time the top 5 just doesnt do it for me. I thought there were better maps, but it is what it is.

Please, don't take it seriously. I'm making fun of myself.
On February 10 2022 14:43 honorablemacroterran wrote:
I just found out he got banned from twitch for posting angry bird dick ascii in Artosis' channel, I wouldn't expect a lot of maturity.

Can confirm. I have 90 timeouts and 3 day suspension ban. Because I'm the guy in the chat.
depressed_marauder (yt: DepressingStarcraft) done and gone.
honorablemacroterran
Profile Joined January 2022
188 Posts
February 10 2022 06:16 GMT
#17
On February 10 2022 14:57 depressed1 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 10 2022 14:43 honorablemacroterran wrote:
I just found out he got banned from twitch for posting angry bird dick ascii in Artosis' channel, I wouldn't expect a lot of maturity.

Can confirm. I have 90 timeouts and 3 day suspension ban. Because I'm the guy in the chat.


I only found out because the sub chat is making fun of you for leaving the discord because you thought someone snitched on you. I literally never clicked on it before and decided to read it for some reason. KEKW
Philippe
Profile Joined October 2020
351 Posts
February 10 2022 06:22 GMT
#18
Of these maps, gotta see which one is the most ladder-ready. Because last time this was the main bone of contention with some of the players.
I'm just a cynical video game enjoyer who is probably unfazed by many business dealings many would find utterly distasteful, while not strictly illegal by the law as seen in a general sense in the world.
depressed1
Profile Blog Joined May 2021
51 Posts
February 10 2022 06:24 GMT
#19
On February 10 2022 15:16 honorablemacroterran wrote:
Show nested quote +
On February 10 2022 14:57 depressed1 wrote:
On February 10 2022 14:43 honorablemacroterran wrote:
I just found out he got banned from twitch for posting angry bird dick ascii in Artosis' channel, I wouldn't expect a lot of maturity.

Can confirm. I have 90 timeouts and 3 day suspension ban. Because I'm the guy in the chat.


I only found out because the sub chat is making fun of you for leaving the discord because you thought someone snitched on you. I literally never clicked on it before and decided to read it for some reason. KEKW

haha, good meme.
depressed_marauder (yt: DepressingStarcraft) done and gone.
honorablemacroterran
Profile Joined January 2022
188 Posts
February 10 2022 06:28 GMT
#20
On February 10 2022 15:22 Philippe wrote:
Of these maps, gotta see which one is the most ladder-ready. Because last time this was the main bone of contention with some of the players.


Strongly agree with this. Some of the maps didn't even see a single game of certain matchups (TvZ) in the entire tournament.
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