It was crazy month! With TLMC5 and Mapximum 2 happening, alot of new maps were being made! So there were close to 60 maps in consideration this month, making it probably the most contested month in MotM history! It was also a special month for me, since it was right after TLMC4, that I decided to bring back MotM, which has become a consistent source of new maps since, and has paid out around $500 in prize money to mapmakers!
Here is what the mapmaking community considered the most balanaced, most interesting, most original, prettiest & best maps of February 2015!
Now it is time for you, the community, to pick a winner!
j/k ^^ A pretty damn nice month tho, very hard to choose, may need to throw a dice or something :p I'm between Rao, Exosphere, Hyper and Operon, but Coda is still out there.
Either way, Exosphere = best map imo! The main + nat is different from many other maps yet it's still normal enough. Blink won't be a problem yet it's still viable, same with reapers. Then you have three different options for 3rd bases. As I said on Skype, the only downside I see is that all the choices for 3rds "could" be a little too open and thus we might only see 2base play from certain races *cough protoss cough*
Should've been in the TLMC. Hopefully it still gets picked up similar to how Nimbus did. Unlike Nimbus, though, hopefully it isn't profoundly imbalanced. :p
Ganymede is of course a tough one not to vote on, but yeah, did so in the TLMC already and I love to give a little less standard concepts a chance if I dont feel they are too experimental. Operon or Exosphere for me. Love Rao Mesa too, but might be too easy to hold three bases with the collapsible rock passage around the natural.