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+ Show Spoiler [changelog] +9 dec 7:52 am
-thread now includes voting system rules
-reworded sections including the submission guideline
TL map of the month competition!
Date: 00:00 18 Nov - 23:59 17 Dec for entries, KST (which is the TL time in the top right)
-Maps are melee and designed for 1v1, therefore has 2-4 spots for players, as is standard anyway.
-Once entered, a map cannot be re-entered during subsequent monthly competitions, in order to encourage new entries as opposed to slightly revised maps monthly
-Contestants may enter as much as they feel like, participants are asked to not enter things that they believe to be incomplete just so they can make more entries
Submitting a map here means you are entirely happy with your entry, if it wont be ready in time, dont rush it and enter next months competition instead, updates to your map will not be considered if you posted an earlier version
Original maps only- no BW ports!
Reward: $5 US paypal, mostly the fame of being best of the month. The subsequent competitions prizepools will consist entirely of any donations anyone is willing to give; any donators would have a mention here regardless of amount.
Judging; will be via a vote - THERE WILL BE VOTING REQUIREMENTS AS FOLLOWS
-tl staff and recognised players can vote
-others will need to read the posts in this thread http://www.teamliquid.net/forum/viewmessage.php?topic_id=174059
post a picture of your map, post a link to its forum thread, and optionally (preferably) what you think seperates it from the rest, what you like about it, why it should win blah blah.
No comments on: oh this tournament sounds good etc, potential donators to a prize pool are to pm me so i can search through entires easier (well i tried on this one anyway)
final note: this thread may be amended as necessary, ill make it obvious when it has been
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Judging by voting won't work imo. Too many low level players who think a map is good just because it has a natural and a third.
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I still believe voting is the preferable system. If just the top mappers decide, they either won't decide fairly or, if they do, people will still accuse them of doing so. If they aren't allowed to both vote and submit, it will severely hurt the overall quality of the maps.
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wasn't the idea the map would be featured on the front page?
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A bunch of people should be put together to decide the MotM, try to pick people of all kinds (actual mappers, casual gamers, competative gamers etc.) so it is the most fair. Voting won't cut it as people with no mapping experience at all can impact the results with random votes at a map that they just remotely like.
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Nice! voting would be the best method imo. Unless you got like top players or TL staff to vote.Im gonna spend like 6000 hours on my map then fuck yeah. Iccup better watch out!
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As it was said in the other thread, this is a great idea.. However I don't think you're the person to host it as you really have nothing to offer.
Let it be an official TL thing, made by the staff - who can then bring in pros to play the shortlisted best maps or just to look at the map analysis pictures. Just a vote is a terrible idea aswell, too many people who don't have a clue what is good/bad in a map will vote - making them meaningless.
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On November 18 2010 23:13 WniO wrote:
Nice! voting would be the best method imo. Unless you got like top players or TL staff to vote.Im gonna spend like 6000 hours on my map then fuck yeah. Iccup better watch out!
If you spend like one and a half years just on a map, you have deserved the win, lol.
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I'll call all Nightmarjoo's fake accounts hahahaha
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On November 18 2010 23:20 Shirolol wrote:
As it was said in the other thread, this is a great idea.. However I don't think you're the person to host it as you really have nothing to offer.
Let it be an official TL thing, made by the staff - who can then bring in pros to play the shortlisted best maps or just to look at the map analysis pictures. Just a vote is a terrible idea aswell, too many people who don't have a clue what is good/bad in a map will vote - making them meaningless.
thats ludicrous, just because a person isnt a member of the staff doesnt mean they cant run a tournament on the site, the staff have enough to do without worrying about this monthly map making tourney, theres enough of the organisation side of things that even someone whod never played sc before would be able to help out
that said, any staff or pro-gamers who wish to help judge it are encouraged to
final note; quit talking about the voting system and start submitting some maps 
On November 18 2010 23:22 Koagel wrote:Show nested quote +On November 18 2010 23:13 WniO wrote:
Nice! voting would be the best method imo. Unless you got like top players or TL staff to vote.Im gonna spend like 6000 hours on my map then fuck yeah. Iccup better watch out! If you spend like one and a half years just on a map, you have deserved the win, lol.
im just trying to imagine 6000 hours of making the same map now :O
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On November 18 2010 23:28 Cyber_Cheese wrote:thats ludicrous, just because a person isnt a member of the staff doesnt mean they cant run a tournament on the site, the staff have enough to do without worrying about this monthly map making tourney, theres enough of the organisation side of things that even someone whod never played sc before would be able to help out that said, any staff or pro-gamers who wish to help judge it are encouraged to final note; quit talking about the voting system and start submitting some maps
The whole idea was to get the map featured on the front page, or something similar like a stickied thread etc so people can see it.. A random thread in the custom maps section isn't what I, or most people I think, had in mind.
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you should figure out how people are going to vote before maps start rolling in.
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see, the problem in letting everyone vote is that although everyone here is awesome and knows everything about starcraft, maps take refined skill to observe correctly. I think if you did led EVERYONE vote, a majority of the votes would go to the longest comment on the first page, or the one that looks coolest. I vote for a panel of judges, like maybe ICcup mapmakers.
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On November 19 2010 00:06 Munk-E wrote:
see, the problem in letting everyone vote is that although everyone here is awesome and knows everything about starcraft, maps take refined skill to observe correctly. I think if you did led EVERYONE vote, a majority of the votes would go to the longest comment on the first page, or the one that looks coolest. I vote for a panel of judges, like maybe ICcup mapmakers.
no way man. they should put their best map here as well. it would be sick if like all of tl voted and we had a really great map come out of this. if anyone is singled out as the only voters it would have to be legit pros/ lead staff from tl. but i still say everyone 
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On November 18 2010 23:43 Shirolol wrote:Show nested quote +On November 18 2010 23:28 Cyber_Cheese wrote:thats ludicrous, just because a person isnt a member of the staff doesnt mean they cant run a tournament on the site, the staff have enough to do without worrying about this monthly map making tourney, theres enough of the organisation side of things that even someone whod never played sc before would be able to help out that said, any staff or pro-gamers who wish to help judge it are encouraged to final note; quit talking about the voting system and start submitting some maps The whole idea was to get the map featured on the front page, or something similar like a stickied thread etc so people can see it.. A random thread in the custom maps section isn't what I, or most people I think, had in mind.
everything has to start somewhere, telling the admins that they should be doing this isnt the best way to go about it
making all competitors vote on someone elses map/lose a vote if they dont?
well whatever, heres the basic layout
+ Show Spoiler +Map Example Name![[image loading]](http://imgur.com/VqbLd.jpg) /link to map thread/
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On November 19 2010 00:13 Cyber_Cheese wrote:
everything has to start somewhere, telling the admins that they should be doing this isnt the best way to go about it
No one actually said that..
Nevermind, have fun in your thread.
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dezi
Germany1536 Posts
So you're only allowed to post 1 map for the contest per month and it must be a completly new map or are we allowed to use our old maps, polish them and use them within this upcoming contest?
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On November 19 2010 00:21 dezi wrote:
So you're only allowed to post 1 map for the contest per month and it must be a completly new map or are we allowed to use our old maps, polish them and use them within this upcoming contest?
post as many maps as you like, but they have to have been posted on tl, and subsequently updated etc then finalised and pasted here within the date range, this ensures that every new month sees new maps, and not old ones that didnt win recycled over and over
$5 reward for winner added
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dezi
Germany1536 Posts
Ah, so i'm allowed to use them only once during a contest. That's fine, so i can use my already made maps right now :D
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actually now i think about it yea, just making an 'only use each map once rule clears that up alot'
editing the op
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