EPTWith the close of Map of the Month Season 1, the Team Liquid Mapping Community feels that it has two maps worthy of a place in the map pools of major tournaments and the Blizzard Ladder.
funcmode's Sanctuarium and Antares777's Hysteria (currently being redone aesthetically) have proven through many Grand-Master-level games that they are quite well balanced, accommodate varied styles of play, and promote entertaining games (you can see such games in MrBitter's archives or with this Replay Pack)
But getting into major map pools isn't easy, in particular the Blizzard Ladder. To do so, we're looking for your support!
We've written up a petition so that SC2 fans can see good, community-made maps in all of their favorite tournaments, and so (hopefully) they can be played on the ladder!
Please, Sign Our Petition! We can't change SC2 without the support of all of you.
Maybe you watched the Map of the Month tournament and were blown away by the amazing games. Maybe you've played one too many games on Delta Quadrant. Maybe you remember the good old days of Brood War, where community maps were ALL that was used. Maybe, you just want to support the TL community!
Whatever the reason, we hope to reach our goal of 10,000 signatures as quickly as possible! Thank you!
Current Signature Count: 1,207
After you click to submit your petition on the main page it takes you to the donations page. It's clear that you don't have to donate, but it's hard to tell right away whether you have to click somewhere else to finalize your signature. I almost closed the window without actually adding my signature because I thought it was already confirmed.
Also, please upvote on reddit/starcraft! The more people who see this petition, the sooner we will reach our goal!
I'm not convinced these are good maps. Convince me.
Well, you can watch replays or VODs with MrBitter and Chill (skip to 1:39:40). Or, you can test the maps yourself! Search for "MotM" on battlenet to find these two maps and the other three finalists!
Below is the petition, which you can also read on the petition link above.
StarCraft is nothing without the maps the players play on. Blizzard provided us with some starting maps, but for every Metalopolis, there's a Delta Quadrant and Blistering Sands. The commonly used StarCraft II map pool needs to move beyond primarily Blizzard maps, and include more of the community-made maps. MotM has spent the last six months pulling excellent maps from the public community, with submissions from NA, EU, KR and more.
Therefore, we petition today to have MotM Hysteria and MotM Sanctuarium added to the following map pools:
Blizzard Ladder Pool
Global Star League
Major League Gaming
North American Star League
European Star League
IGN Pro League
The maps can be seen at the top of http://bit.ly/motmorg
These maps have been proven to support high-level play and many different strategies. They are more balanced than many maps in the above pools. These maps represent the best of the mapping community, and deserve to be recognized as such.
Blizzard, GSL, MLG, NASL, ESL, IGN: Please add these maps to your map pool!
Therefore, we petition today to have MotM Hysteria and MotM Sanctuarium added to the following map pools:
Blizzard Ladder Pool
Global Star League
Major League Gaming
North American Star League
European Star League
IGN Pro League
The maps can be seen at the top of http://bit.ly/motmorg
These maps have been proven to support high-level play and many different strategies. They are more balanced than many maps in the above pools. These maps represent the best of the mapping community, and deserve to be recognized as such.
Blizzard, GSL, MLG, NASL, ESL, IGN: Please add these maps to your map pool!
*Note: European Star League should read Electronic Sports League. I wrote this in a huge rush unfortunately :/. There isn't a good way to go back and edit the petition, so we'll just let it be known that ESL is actually ESL :p
