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A major moment has happened in Starcraft history today as it was announced that the winner of the TL Map Contest, ESV's Cloud Kingdom will be an official map in the 2012 Season 1 GSL Map Pool.
This marks the first time ever that a Non-Korean map (ignoring Blizz maps) has EVER entered a Korean Starleague in either Brood War or Starcraft 2.
Cloud Kingdom is the work of one of the most prolific mapmakers in the scene, Superouman who is also the creator of ESV Sanshorn Mist AE (IPL TAC Map) and the ever famous Testbug, which helped paved the way for foreign mapmaking and advanced texturing.
With this move from GSL, expect foreign maps to become more and more common in tournaments, and this paves the way for more maps not made in Korea being used in Korean Starleagues!
Make sure and follow Superouman on Twitter and check out the TL Map Thread for Cloud Kingdom!
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Also yes I know it was in Arena of Legends, but that is a special event not a Star League.
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i hope this doesnt turn out to be as shitty as testbug was :DDD (i know this map was used for quite some time, but lets be honest, most players didnt like it).
But honestly, this looks much better than testbug, im looking forward to the TvT in Code S on this map tomorrow.
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This map looks pretty cool! Mapmaker must be feeling good 
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On January 09 2012 10:27 DarKFoRcE wrote:
i hope this doesnt turn out to be as shitty as testbug was :DDD (i know this map was used for quite some time, but lets be honest, most players didnt like it).
But honestly, this looks much better than testbug, im looking forward to the TvT in Code S on this map tomorrow.
Being they share no similar features or well anything I got to imagine Testbug's success will not dictate the success of this  .
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Love this map! Hope it makes it on to the Blizzard Ladder!!
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On January 09 2012 10:27 DarKFoRcE wrote:
i hope this doesnt turn out to be as shitty as testbug was :DDD (i know this map was used for quite some time, but lets be honest, most players didnt like it).
But honestly, this looks much better than testbug, im looking forward to the TvT in Code S on this map tomorrow.
I hated playing on Testbug, but love watching pro games on it
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This map is soo bad! almost impossible for Zerg to win on this versus either terran or protoss. There isn't one area on the whole map which isn't narrow making engaging a toss favourably impossible, and there are just ledges which scream siege tank abuse everywhere on top of being narrow being good for terran too.
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This is great, awesome news in Starcraft e-sports!
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On January 09 2012 10:31 Ziktomini wrote:
This map is soo bad! almost impossible for Zerg to win on this versus either terran or protoss. There isn't one area on the whole map which isn't narrow making engaging a toss favourably impossible, and there are just ledges which scream siege tank abuse everywhere on top of being narrow being good for terran too.
Look to try and maybe abuse the near infinite attack angles. It is choked but at almost any point on the map you can hit from multiple directions.
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Awesome news. I'm not too huge of a fan of the map after having played on it a few times. But it's great you guys are getting some recognition from GSL 
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Great news! Excited to see games on it. Congrats!
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Awesome job and congratulations! The map itself looks very cool and I love the dark colors.
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I hope some more people choose to start following mapmakers on Twitter, sort of crazy the #1 foreign mapmaker only has 50 followers hehe. Will help them reach more people with their work in the future.
Also just not Superouman, even the Crux mappers and TPW guys could use some love also!
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Best thing about this map? - No ridiculous air space behind bases for flyers to hide in. Awesomeo and Congrats!
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I haven't seen the map in action or anything like that, but it is great to see a map make it through to a big stage. Hopefully map making becomes a bigger deal, and tournaments seek out new maps. It gives the tournament a bit of promotion as well, just as this map is for the KSL.
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Out of all the TLMC maps, this was the only map I was comfortable enough to mech on.
MECH AGOGO BABY. CLOUD KINGDOM AGOGO.
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Played this map some...Don't really like it. Really hard to hold more than 3 bases on.
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The middle of the map resembles a BW map but I can't quite remember the name.
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EPT
