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ETF2L Mapping Contest

To help promote awareness in our community for competitive maps, and to increase interest in mapping, ETF2L are announcing their first Mapping Competition!
Rules

1. It must be a 5 control point map
2. It must contain rotational symmetry
3. Submissions must contain brief documentation discussing likely tactics that the attackers/defenders can use for each area
4. Submissions must contain a suggestion of how an attacking or defending team might use an alternative class effectively on this map (spy, heavy, pyro, engineer)
5. All submissions must be based off of your own work (no re-hashes of existing maps may be entered)
6. Map must follow valve like conventions to support good navigation (red: wood, hay blu: steel, concrete)
7. Submissions must be entered in by 8th March

All maps must be made with competitive play as a priority. Intelligent design of the areas, item placement, spawn locations/times and capture point times are all crucial.
System

After the 8th all submissions will be judged by a player panel including various high level players. The maps will be judged on: potential gameplay, unique area design, navigation. Note that at this time aesthetics are not priority and will be weighted very low on judging, that said, appropriate placeholders for future updates and appropriate textures to make the map playable are required.

After this judging period the top 4 maps will go to a selected 8 team round robin league. Where each team plays one map versus each team. This ensures a lot of official play testing is performed. After the league has finished all teams are able to score each map: 4 points, 3 points, 2 points or 1 point. A community vote will also go out via a poll on ETF2L to garner the community the possibility to allocate points to each map, with the majority vote getting 4 points, then working its way down.

The map with the highest score will then have a 1 day cup hosted for it in the following week which will have media coverage. However all four maps will be considered as a possibility to be in the map pool for ETF2L season 5. Any candidate maps for this will have their authors requested to continue development of the map for rigorous play testing and finalizing aesthetics.

*****sticky please admin**********

Shh shifty, already working on it :P

Just an fyi, less than a month is probably not going to produce anything of as high quality as you guys want to see.

Be careful who you pick to judge layouts then. It’s very, very easy to be skewed by the way something looks.

Well, if I decide to participate, it will be balanced and good :)

**ooo, a pretty vent, im going to go play with that instead of capping the last cp**

less than a month pff… well in the fact of this knowledge i went the way i went cuz i know i could get it done under a month. for 4 days i am REALLY far. but i map based on when the deadline is lol

i reckon make it longer then? like the 1-day cup/s should be between s4 and s5, as some kind of “timewaster” :P