The tournament featuring January's winning maps will be casted soon by MrBitter and the ESL casting crew! Date of live cast to be determined.

January's Map of the Month competition is here! With the winning maps chosen, the open sign ups for the EU tournament will begin. Submissions for February's tournament will also open starting immediately. Once both month's competitions are completed, the best map overall will be added to the IEM map pool!

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Map of the Month

This thread contains a lot of information about the winning maps, February submissions, prizes, and the open tournament. Make sure to check it all out!

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The judging process for January is finished, and the top five maps have been decided. The judge panel this month was Barrin, FlopTurnReaver, NullCurrent, Nightmarjoo, and myself. All of the submissions were extremely high quality maps- congratulations to everyone who submitted! Now, for the winning maps...

ESV Discord by Grebliv
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TPW Loki II by Ragoo
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ESV Blitzkrieg by Neobowman
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ESV Cloud Kingdom by Superouman
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TPW Vulture by Lefix
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The tournament champion will receive an i7 Processor and SSD from Intel!

ESL is hosting an open-signup tournament using the top five maps as the map pool. It will be held on the EU server starting on Saturday the 28th of January. Anybody is welcome to sign up on the official ESL website by following these instrutions, so go ahead and sign up!

      1. If you do not have an ESL account, register at http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/register_player

      2. Register your Battle.net account to your ESL account at http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/gameaccounts (only StarCraft II       Nick#Character code is needed)

      3. Sign up at http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/1on1/motm_january2012/signup/

      4. Check-in between 14:40 CET and 15 CET on Saturday 28th Janaury at       http://www.esl.eu/eu/sc2/1on1/motm_january2012/checkin/

The tournament will be casted by the ESL crew during late January and early February on the ESL stream!

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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!

*Prizes will be distributed at the end of the month, once the winner is chosen.

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At this time, we are accepting map submissions for February. As in January, each mapmaker may submit up to two map files to submit.motm[at]gmail.com. Please note that submitting a map that you submitted last month but didn't win is allowed (no changes required)!

The closing time for submissions will be early February, around the 10th.

This month though, please email your map files to submit.motm[at]gmail.com AND post your overviews with information in this thread. Follow this format while posting in this thread to ensure your entry is accepted-

Map Name
Map Author
Map Overview
Playable Map Bounds

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Map Name
Map Author
Map Overview
Playable Map Bounds

Diamond

United States10796 Posts

January 17 2012 03:06 GMT

Loki looks pretty sick!

SidianTheBard

United States2474 Posts

January 17 2012 03:13 GMT

Congrats.

You guys offering feedback at all? If so, PM me with the feedback on my submissions!

NasKe_

Brazil570 Posts

January 17 2012 03:14 GMT

wow
loki is a pretty nice map
and I loved the 3base from Discord

wattabeast

United States957 Posts

January 17 2012 03:15 GMT

Awesome! No surprises with Cloud Kingdom, and Loki II looks insanely amazing :D discord looks, well, interesting, but I'd have to see it play out. Grats!

Masq

Canada1792 Posts

January 17 2012 03:28 GMT

Hope the gold minerals on discord are very low, otherwise youll have complaints about 3rd macro CC muling

monitor

United States2402 Posts

January 17 2012 03:30 GMT

On January 17 2012 12:28 Masq wrote:
Hope the gold minerals on discord are very low, otherwise youll have complaints about 3rd macro CC muling

They're low in mineral count (under 100), luckily. Good point though!

HypertonicHydroponic

437 Posts

January 17 2012 04:02 GMT

On January 17 2012 12:13 SidianTheBard wrote:
Congrats.

You guys offering feedback at all? If so, PM me with the feedback on my submissions!

I too would like feedback from the judges (all, but i'll take any) if it is offered. I hope part of the judging process included playing on the maps since their were not really that many.

Anyway, Congrats! to the winners. Hope we can get more of these maps on the ladder even if they don't win an official Blizzard sponsored contest.

FlopTurnReaver

Switzerland1980 Posts

January 17 2012 04:03 GMT

On January 17 2012 12:13 SidianTheBard wrote:
Congrats.

You guys offering feedback at all? If so, PM me with the feedback on my submissions!

There are no plany to write feedback about each map (55 maps, are you crazy??) but I heard a rumor that at least Barrin might do some write ups, dunno about what maps though. If you want some feedback about your maps just pm any of the judges any time and say what map(s) you submitted.

Congratulations to the winners so far.

dAPhREAk

Nauru12397 Posts

January 17 2012 04:06 GMT

#10

vulture and loki look interesting

Gfire

United States1699 Posts

January 17 2012 04:14 GMT

#11

Looks great. All the maps are very deserving, I agree with the selection. I'm a bit disappointed that Cloud Kingdom was chosen, though, since it's already so exposed and we already see games on it. Not a big deal, though.

AdrianHealey

Belgium480 Posts

January 17 2012 04:14 GMT

#12

Vulture plays awesome.

I have some issues with Blitzkrieg and I would love some comments to help me understand why that would be a good map?

Mcleod21

Jamaica29 Posts

January 17 2012 05:51 GMT

#13

Cloud kingdom isnt in the map pool already?!?

GET ON IT!!!!

Sumahi

Guam5609 Posts

January 17 2012 06:04 GMT

#14

Loki looks frightening to play on. I love it.

IronManSC

United States2119 Posts

January 17 2012 06:36 GMT

#15

What's the reason for choosing these top 5? Also I would like any feedback on my two maps: Clearwater and Ohana RE.

Superouman

France2195 Posts

January 17 2012 07:28 GMT

#16

You guys don't want to test oumanville? hihihi :D

dezi

Germany1536 Posts

January 17 2012 08:12 GMT

#17

I still think Vulture is better with those towers.

Samro225am

Germany982 Posts

January 17 2012 09:44 GMT

#18

strong mappool. looking forward to the matches. while i first disliked that there are only 2spawn maps, it might actually be intersting to see only such layouts and see the special features create different games. hopefully ^^

edit: with the amount of maps send it you guys should do a runner up mappool to make transparent who just came short etc. might be quite motivating for everybody not in top5.
edit2: could you confirm that my submission of Stillwater Reach was invalid, because the map was not attached with my first email and send later? Or does the map just suck? :D

Phried

Canada147 Posts

January 17 2012 09:56 GMT

#19

Good map pool. No real surprises in my opinion. Time to get cracking on month two's submissions.

LemonyTang

United Kingdom428 Posts

January 17 2012 10:20 GMT

#20

I'm trying to sign up to the tournament but can't get it to accept any form of "webid", I tried nickname#code, nickname.code, and even the url for my battlenet account. I wonder if you made a mistake? Since normally ESL tournaments ask for "StarCraft II Nick#Character Code (Battle.net EU) rather than "StarCraft II Web-ID (Battle.net EU)"? Or am I doing somethign wrong?