[O]Map Making Day!

To create a fun activity session for all forms of map designers -New and seasoned- following through for a week until the next Map Making Day.

Map Making Day itself will consist of a full day where players brainstorm an idea and put it to life in the galaxy editor.

The very next day, a chat channel will be opened and for all who choose to come. This channel will be for presentation of your map and is intended for you to join with other map designers/play-testers to flesh out your map and; eventually, finalize it.
The second day marks the beginning of the play-test week.

NOTE: Your maps do NOT have to be in any means finished for the next day, the first day is just for brainstorming a concept and having it in the editor.

Day 1: Brainstorm your idea and input it using the map editor.

Day 2: Upload your map, sign into SC2 and meet others in the channel. use this channel to gather testers for criticism and suggestions ascertaining to your design.

Example of structure:

Saturday: Map Making Day! Brainstorm your idea and vitalize it through the galaxy editor.

Sunday through Thursday: Join the channel, test with other designers and help them test!

Friday: Present your finished work on this thread (using the supplied presentation template) to be entered in a community poll for best map based on certain elements.

Saturday: Map Making Day 2!

Must be a melee design, with space for 2-4 players.
3 pos. maps are welcome!

Be Friendly!

Anything else should naturally be fixed through the week long playtest/troubleshoot

I've made a forum template for anyone who wishes to use it, you can just copy and paste from this text file. It's pretty easy to understand and it keeps things organized.

If you use this template your maps will be featured on the main page in the OP!

Im Happy to announce that the first community map tournament featuring user maps from this thread was an absolute success!

We've had great success in previously testing our maps and great response from the players of todays tournament on these user created maps. In the future we hope to continue to provide the community with more maps to play and more exciting live games to cast.

So look forward to the next Tournament, Hopefully we can get some more great map designers to contribute to the entire process that is slowly turning out to be a great accomplishment..

Congrats and thank you Teamliquid and dont forget to click the Text above this spoiler for the link to the tournament thread!