The Planetary Workshop: Melee Map-Making Team

The hard work is paying off. Maps by TPW have been or will be making appearances everywhere! MotM, Ne-Se, CSN, StimTV, Competo just to name a few of them. And I am sure there are alot more to come.
Motivated of this, we kept working hard and have been finishing several new maps!
So here I present to you:


+ Show Spoiler [TPW Ohana by IronManSC] +


+ Show Spoiler [TPW Crimsonite by Johanaz] +


+ Show Spoiler [TPW Lost City by Mereel] +


+ Show Spoiler [TPW Artifice by funcmode] +


+ Show Spoiler [TPW Dylarian Shipyards by dezi] +


+ Show Spoiler [TPW Cascade SE by Samro] +


+ Show Spoiler [TPW Emerald Jungle by lefix] +

If you are playing on EU, you are welcome to join us in our weekly play-sessions every Sunday afternoon starting at 3pm CET. There you will be able to find games - or join us in our KOTH to play, obs and chat with us. See you there!

Map of the Month #7 is finally over. We would like to congratulate sixjaxDDE on winning the tournament yet again! It was a well deserved win after showing a great performance during the tournament.
As for the maps, TPW Odyssey has secured the title of the 'Map of the Month' and will go into the MotM alltime map pool!

All replays from the tournament can be found at http://theplanetaryworkshop.com/replays/! We highly recommend watching the VTWhiplash vs MaestroSAGA series. Those games have been pretty epic on every level.
We have also added replays of our first weekly play-session and will do so in the future, too. The list is growing fast

Today we are very proud to announce our newly formed map making team:

‘The Planetary Workshop’

We are a small non-profit organization formed by members of the TL custom map forums driven by our passion for SC2 and melee mapping. In an attempt to further our map creation cause, we decided to join forces and not only help each other make better maps, but also to collaborate with players, casters, tournament organizers, the community, and you! Our aim is to channel our ideas, develop new mapping projects and ultimately bring more quality custom maps to the scene!

With tournaments and live streams growing rapidly, there comes a higher demand for new maps in StarCraft 2. Many viewers grow tiresome of repetitive tournament map pools that contain commonly-used maps like Metalopolis and Xel'Naga Caverns (although we love them). GSL and MLG slowly integrate new community-made maps in their map pools, and it has brought a lot of excitement for the viewers. This is something we would like to get involved in with our maps. We want to show the community that there are more maps to be desired, and our mission is to bring these maps into the light. By establishing our 'TPW' tag on selected maps, we want to assure the community that it is a seal of quality that everybody can trust.

As a team, we believe that as long as we help each other through ideas, criticism, and play-testing, we will continue to produce a higher quality of playable maps for everybody. We want every viewer to know that we desire to go beyond simple map-making. We seek to actively get involved in tournament organizations as well as creating our own events, and to help others with their maps. Although we are starting small and simple, we are open to many ideas for the near future, and we hope to create a great gaming experience for everyone in StarCraft 2.

TPW Core Delta (4) [EU, NA]
by Meltage
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TPW Monsoon Valley (2) [EU, NA]
by NullCurrent
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TPW Odyssey (2) [EU, NA]
by Lefix
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TPW One Must Fall (2) [EU, NA]
by dezi
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TPW Void Rift (4) [EU, NA]
by Johanaz
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TPW Antiga Prime (2) [EU, NA]
by IronManSC
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TPW Judicator Caste (2) [EU, NA]
by Mereel
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TPW Cascade SE (2) [EU, NA]
by Samro
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TPW Sanctuarium (4) [EU, NA]
by funcmode
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TPW Rattlesnake (4) [EU, NA]
by Lefix
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TPW Green Harvest (4) [EU]
by Johanaz
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TPW Curfew (2) [EU]
by Lefix
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TPW Scars of Aiur (2) [EU, NA]
by IronManSC
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TPW Razed (2) [EU]
by Samro
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TPW Titanis (4) [EU, NA]
by Lefix
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TPW Ohana (2) [EU, NA]
by IronManSC
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TPW Crimsonite (4) [EU, NA]
by Johanaz
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TPW Lost City (2) [EU, NA]
by Mereel
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TPW Artifice (4) [EU]
by funcmode
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TPW Dylarian Shipyards (4) [EU]
by dezi
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TPW Emerald Jungle (4) [EU]
by Lefix
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Out of the pool of maps we created, we've selected 9 maps to form our official map pool. These maps will be used regularly for tournaments and future events held by TPW.
TPW maps are chosen based on balance, aesthetics and game-play features. We also try to have a nice variety in visual themes and we try to feature every team member if possible. As time goes on, we will constantly update the map pool to keep things interesting by adding newly-made maps or possibly re-introducing older ones, so we encourage you to definitely take a look at all available maps!
If you plan on using one or more TPW maps in one of your events, or if you hear about our maps being used, please drop us a note so we can watch and feature all events on our upcoming events section!


Fake Maps Information!
The following maps are not made by us:

TPW Exo Tarvine - by Dudemeister
TPW Xel Re - by Dudemeister

Map of the Month #7
(not a TPW event, but featuring 5 TPW maps)

NullCurrent
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Meltage
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dezi
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IronManSC
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Mereel
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Samro
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Johanaz
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Lefix
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If you are interested in playing a few games or if you just want to observe, join our in-game channel: TPW -- on Sunday afternoons starting at 3PM CET on EU-Servers.
We plan on running a weekly KOTH event (King of the Hill) where we will be playing and testing old and new maps. This is a great time to have a nice chat with the team and offer any ideas, suggestions, and feedback. Currently there are no initial plans to enable a KOTH version for the US, but it will happen in the near future.