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Map of the Month's winter season begins now! Over the next two and a half months, we will seek out the best community maps to find which will be added to the next IEM event map pool. In January, the top five map submissions will be played in an open tournament hosted by the ESL. Another map contest and open tournament will follow in February. All prizes are sponsored by Intel!
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Sponsored by Intel
Send in your two best melee maps!
Map submissions are open at this time and will close on January 10th. Any mapmaker may send a maximum of two melee map creations in to us to be judged. Email your map title, author, overview image, and .SC2Map file to submit.motm[at]gmail.com. Any submissions without this information may be excluded.
A panel of judges will select the top five map submissions in January to be played in the open tournament. No changes will be made to the maps without author permission, but keep in mind we may ask for minor changes to make the map playable by melee standards.
Submissions for the February tournament will open in mid-January.
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Sponsored by Intel
ESL will be hosting and casting an open EU tournament during January using the top five community maps chosen by the judges panel. A second map contest and open tournament will be casted in February. More details on the tournament and player sign-ups will be released soon.
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Sponsored by Intel
-The first place mapmakers for January and February will win Kingston packs with SSD, i7 Processor, RAM and USB Drive.
-The other top four mapmakers each month will win Intel SSDs.
-The tournament winners each month will receive i7 Processors and SSDs from Intel.
-The grand-winning mapmaker for the two months will get his or her map to the next IEM map pool!
To keep up to date with all MotM events, follow
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MapOfTheMonth and ESVmonitor. We're looking forward to seeing all of the map submissions!
I already submitted my maps!
