[Contest] Map Design Contest!

**** CONTEST IS OVER ****
I will be making a map pack and updating the OP with all the maps in the next 5-6 days. A new thread will be made at that time so everyone can try out your maps and vote.

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To celebrate my 5000th subscriber on YouTube, I am glad to announce a melee map design contest as the first part of a pair of contests I will be holding. The next contest will be a tournament held on maps made from this contest. Read below for more info!

DEADLINE:
Thursday, February 4th @ 1pm PST.

RULES:
The first part of the contest will involve designing a fully functioning and balanced (Map layout similar in all spawns) 1v1 melee map. The full list of rules are as follows:

1) THEME: Your map must follow AT LEAST one of these three themes. This is the most important rule and cannot be bypassed under any circumstance. The theme choices are
A) Zerg Invasion (Hint: Colosseum II is only a good start)
B) Decimated Earth (Hint: The destroyed Terran buildings/units doodads come to mind)
C) Found Temples (Hint: Lots and lots of found temples)

2) Use Map Settings IS allowed. BUT, the map needs to play out like a normal melee map. There can be minor triggers but please don't deviate too far from the original game. All units, buildings, and tech paths need to remain default. Also, NO COMPUTERS/AI. This is a really hard rule to explain as it is up to interpretation. Just keep the game very similar to the original

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3) The map must be 100% your creation from scratch specifically for this contest. While I cant verify every single map, if it is found to be somewhere else previous to the time of this post you will be disqualified.

4) The map must be a 2 player, 3 player, or 4 player map (2, 3, or 4 spawn locations). The map is going to be used for 1v1 only so please keep that in mind.

5) The maximum dimensions of the map must be 128 x 128. This is the one rule I may be lenient on but please make maps that are accommodating to 10-30 minute games. Any dimensions of your choice between 128 x 128 are completely up to you.

PRIZE: (Additional prizes possible in the future. See note at the top of this post about the prize.)

1st Place: Gaming Website Template from SecoGaming.com. (Example: http://testsites.secogaming.com/berea/starcraft/dark-red/). Use of map in map pool for next tournament. Text interview about your map for the next tournament.
2nd Place: Use of map in map pool for next tournament. Text interview about your map for the next tournament.
3rd Place: Use of map in map pool for next tournament. Text interview about your map for the next tournament.
NOTE: More than 3 maps will definitely be used for the upcoming tournament. There has been a massive response to this contest and the next tournament should be awesome

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JUDGING: Final decisions on which 3 maps win this contest will be decided by me for originality, enjoyment, practicality, balance, and whatever else I think makes it a great map. A poll will be held to influence my decision but not to make it for me.

Remember, there is going to be a tournament after this contest using ONLY the maps made by Teamliquid members. There will be tons of YouTube videos made and commentated by me for that tournament so your maps will get a lot of exposure.

If anyone would like to contribute to this contest please PM me with your idea

. Any sort of small prize would be awesome <3.

Questions? Comments? Please post them here.

ENTRIES: Note: Just because a map is listed here does not mean it is eligible for this contest. I will do as much research in the coming weeks as to the origins of the maps to find which ones do not meet the 'created specifically for this contest' rule.

1) Stitgib
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2) Spider Monkey
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3) Sandstorm Basin
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4) Willpower
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5) 3.6.9
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6) Right In Two
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7) Muessoloc III
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8) The Lost War
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9) Abahus Kydan
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10) Rhine
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11) Archaeology
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12) Beyond Death
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13) Huskyland (lol)
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14) Stone Hill
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15) Attero Impact
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16) Ancient River
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17) Blood Red Skies
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18) Shadow Run
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19) Gardens of Aiur
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20) Alomogordo
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21) Order 227
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22) Freezing Point
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23) Rush Me
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24) Bowser (name may change)
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25) Tarsonis Invasion
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26) Imperial Scars
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27) Montezuma
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28) Yao Floss
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29) Cairo 2428
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30) Reclusion
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31) Neo Olympia
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32) Split End
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33) Pixys wish
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34) Shaira
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35) Loki's Trap
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36) Velocity
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37) Absolute Truth
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38) No Telling
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39) Ramps On
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40) Way To Aiur
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41) Ooziiki Landing
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42) Inverse Invasion
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43) Greenland
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44) Temple Terror
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45) Half Tide
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46) Asarin
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47) Y3K
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48) Space Blues
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49) Cragflake
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Edit:
Added confirmation of prize. Please read spoiler at the top of post. (1-21-10)
**NEW** Added all the maps into the finalized list. (2-04-10)
Clarified that you can follow more than one theme, but at least one.
Also added a note about the possibility of using more than just the top 3 maps for the tournament.

Last edit: 2010-02-05 10:36:44

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neobowman Canada. January 16 2010 08:09. Posts 1171

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Excellent.

This will get the inactive BWM mappers active.

Hopefully....

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Pyrrhuloxia United States. January 16 2010 08:11. Posts 5251

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OMG awesome. I wanted to host one of these sometime in the future when I had some resources for prizes but this works too and is an awesome idea. I'll surely be making a map for this contest. Can we make more than one entry?

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heyoka United States. January 16 2010 08:12. Posts 3111

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This looks pretty fun, it should pump out a few fun maps for sure :D

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Whiplash United States. January 16 2010 08:14. Posts 1427

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Sounds really cool. I have never made any melee maps but I have LOADS of map making experience and a decent view on map balance. I suppose I can give it a try.

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HuskyTheHusky United States. January 16 2010 08:15. Posts 3258

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On January 16 2010 08:11 Pyrrhuloxia wrote:
OMG awesome. I wanted to host one of these sometime in the future when I had some resources for prizes but this works too and is an awesome idea. I'll surely be making a map for this contest. Can we make more than one entry?

Yes! As many as you can squeeze in before the deadline.

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Pyrrhuloxia United States. January 16 2010 08:17. Posts 5251

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On January 16 2010 08:15 HuskyTheHusky wrote:

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Yes! As many as you can squeeze in before the deadline.

I dunno how you are gonna work the tournament but if there are a ton of entries it'd be cool if the later stages had Bo5s with 4/5 maps but maybe that is too much to prepare for.

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Pyrrhuloxia United States. January 16 2010 08:18. Posts 5251

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Also, I'm not sure what about Colosseum II is supposed to imply "Zerg Invasion". Is it the neutral creep?

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neobowman Canada. January 16 2010 08:26. Posts 1171

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Yes.

And can we use maps we made in the past?

Last edit: 2010-01-16 08:27:08

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HuskyTheHusky United States. January 16 2010 08:27. Posts 3258

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On January 16 2010 08:18 Pyrrhuloxia wrote:
Also, I'm not sure what about Colosseum II is supposed to imply "Zerg Invasion". Is it the neutral creep?

Yeah just the neutral creep was the only example I could give.

Was really thinking of maps with tons of neutral zerg/creep buildings making destructible walls/expos etc etc.

But anything having to do with a zerg theme would work fine.

On January 16 2010 08:26 neobowman wrote:
Yes.

And can we use maps we made in the past?

Not for this contest. It needs to be maps specifically created for this contest to set an even playing field for everybody.

I dunno how you are gonna work the tournament but if there are a ton of entries it'd be cool if the later stages had Bo5s with 4/5 maps but maybe that is too much to prepare for.

Depending on the response from TL members and how many maps are created this is a definite possibility.

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jalstar United States. January 16 2010 08:32. Posts 3964

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B) Decimated Earth (Hint: The destroyed Terran buildings/units doodads come to mind)

what about a holy world-style neutral CC?

HuskyTheHusky United States. January 16 2010 08:34. Posts 3258

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On January 16 2010 08:32 jalstar wrote:

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what about a holy world-style neutral CC?

Whatever you can do to get the feeling of a destroyed human planet across.

For example, an entire neutral city in the center of the map on fire, etc etc.

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Chef Canada. January 16 2010 08:41. Posts 5699

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On January 16 2010 08:09 neobowman wrote:
Excellent.

This will get the inactive BWM mappers active.

Hopefully....

Almost, but not really. Not with the amount of effort I used to put into maps anyway.

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HuskyTheHusky United States. January 16 2010 09:09. Posts 3258

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I am going to be at a 4 day lan party starting today, so this thread may have questions answered slower than normal.

They will have internet though so I will keep this updated fairly frequently regardless.

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HazMat Czech Republic. January 16 2010 09:11. Posts 1733

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No Protoss Invasion </3

Aka ShakeDrizzle

MachoKittyKat United States. January 16 2010 09:21. Posts 4

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How many maps can we make? and how do we send them to you?

Ozarugold January 16 2010 09:30. Posts 2356

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Ah...I wish I could do this but I don't and won't have a computer with starcraft for a long while...

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NeCroPoTeNce United States. January 16 2010 09:34. Posts 447

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Wow, seems pretty cool. Too bad I suck at this kind of stuff : (

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no 112?

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HuskyTheHusky United States. January 16 2010 09:37. Posts 3258

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On January 16 2010 09:21 MachoKittyKat wrote:
How many maps can we make? and how do we send them to you?

You can make as many as you want before the deadline. Post the maps with a DL link in this thread

On January 16 2010 09:36 konadora wrote:
no 112?

???

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