| Veloh15 United States. June 28 2012 12:21. Posts 158 | Profile # |
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Hello and welcome to the second month of Mapper's Monthly! We have spent this week choosing our maps, and we are glad to announce our winners. We have listened to the feedback you have given us, and we hope to make some positive changes. There were a lot of suggestions to switch the pool to 5, previously 8. Last month thanks to the Proam there is a very large group of quality maps to choose from. Previously we averaged around 30 players. One of the biggest problems we had was that some maps were not played on nearly as much as others. To fix this we are going to alter our set up to ensure all maps get equal playing time, or as close as we can get too it. Our pool is made of 8 maps. If we continue to have near 30 players we will have 5 rounds. The first round will have 16 games played, and the next 8. This means that within 2 weeks we will have half our maps with around 10 plays. The next week we will raise that number to 6. The last 2 maps will be used in the round of 4, and finals for those weeks. Then for our finals we will choose the 5/6 (depending on how many players) best maps, and use them. So without further ado our map pool!
Sacred Sands By Scorp
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Via Benefico By New Sunshine
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Bel'Shir Thicket By Ruinsteel
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Virtual Battle By Kim9067
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Galápagos By SeinGalton
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Megafossil By NewSunshine
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Bazaar By Sigma FiE
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Ancient Outpost By -NegativeZero-
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Contact information:
-If you want to contact me feel free to chat me up on Starcraft Velo character code: 427
-If you have access to a NA account please join the chat channel: Mapper's Monthly
-If you have a z33k account please join: http://www.z33k.com/groups/mappers
-If you would like to email us send your thoughts to: mappersmonthly@gmail.com
Details:
-Stream: http://www.twitch.tv/marrife
-The tournament will be at 7:00pm PDT Sunday July 22th.
-This will be a weekly tournament. The final tournament each month will have a prize pool.
-The map pool will be rearranged every week to ensure all maps get equal playing time.
-Each month we will choose a new map pool from the previous month,
-The map is hosted on: http://www.z33k.com/
-Direct link to the tournament: http://www.z33k.com/games/starcraft2/tournaments/8414-mapper-s-monthly
-ESV maps were not included because they have the korean weekly, and we thought it was unfair to other map makers to include maps that have much greater opportunity.
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+ Show Spoiler +WINRATES (Excluding mirror match ups) + Show Spoiler +Somehow, there were a ton of mirror match ups in the tournament. Also, some maps were played significantly more than others. Bracket improvements will have to be made for the next tournament.
Braxis IX
6 games played
TvZ 2-1
ZvP 2-1
Beelzebub
11 games played
TvZ 1-1
PvT 2-1
ZvP 3-3
Quarantine Zone
9 games played
TvZ 2-1
PvT 0-2
ZvP 2-2
Aiur Refuge
7 games played
TvZ 2-1
PvT 0-1
ZvP 3-0
Silver Sands
6 games played
TvZ 2-1
ZvP 2-1
Hurricane Harbor
11 games played
TvZ 1-3
ZvP 4-3
Colonial II
2 games played
TvZ 2-0
Odin
9 games played
TvZ 1-0
PvT 0-1
ZvP 5-0 ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/gySzW.jpg) Side note: Part 3 has much better quality than 1 or 2, and has over 3 hours of run time! Part 1: http://www.twitch.tv/veloh15/b/324163756Part 2: http://www.twitch.tv/veloh15/b/324166883Part 3: http://www.twitch.tv/veloh15/b/324177966
August 12 Vods: http://www.twitch.tv/marrife/b/328435482Last edit: 2012-08-15 02:53:35 |
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| NewSunshine United States. June 28 2012 12:33. Posts 1023 | Profile # |
I like the idea, but for the image for my map is out of date(my fault). Here:
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This is what's on NA. |
| | [ESV mapmaking team member] [Former DF map team founder] [@ESVNewSunshine] |
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| monitor United States. June 28 2012 12:35. Posts 2280 | Profile Blog # |
| Cool! Only thing is that the name kind of overlaps with Map of the Month. Oh well I suppose. |
| | Starcraft 2 Mapmaker for TPW || Author of Korhal Compound |
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| SidianTheBard United States. June 28 2012 12:40. Posts 973 | Profile # |
This is awesome and I hope it turns out great! How would one go about getting their maps noticed for this? :D Ehh? Ehhh?
Only concern is 8 maps seem like a little much. I think it'd be better for spectators and players alike if there was probably 5 maps at most.
Anyway, GL with this! |
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| Coppermantis United States. June 28 2012 12:46. Posts 366 | Profile # |
| Good idea! Some maps are really great but not publicized enough. I really like this week's selections. |
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 WniO United States. June 28 2012 12:53. Posts 2704 | Profile Blog # |
| braxis 9 is too badass... and yeah don't have 8 maps. i mean actully idc, cause maybe the ones you cut would play really well. ill compete i think. |
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| TheFish7 United States. June 28 2012 13:15. Posts 1220 | Profile # |
Awesome! how does the pool get picked?
Will it be streamed? |
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| moskonia Israel. June 28 2012 14:12. Posts 937 | Profile # |
This sounds great, but maybe make a EU version too if this picks?  mapping community bit weaker here and it could use the boost  |
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| a176 Canada. June 28 2012 14:39. Posts 5431 | Profile Blog # |
| i think you need to explain this a bit more. the site says 32 players can sign up, but you also describe a ro256/128/64/32/etc, and then the finals is best of 5, is that bo5 on one map? |
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| iamcaustic Canada. June 28 2012 14:42. Posts 805 | Profile Blog # |
| Map image for Quarantine Zone is messed up; it's only a link right now! |
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| Callynn Netherlands. June 28 2012 14:56. Posts 877 | Profile # |
| Cool idea, but I got disappointed when I saw it was for NA only. Good luck though guys, I think each of your maps is better than what is in the ladder pool right now (except the community made maps already there :D) |
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| Veloh15 United States. June 28 2012 22:14. Posts 158 | Profile # |
On June 28 2012 14:39 a176 wrote:
i think you need to explain this a bit more. the site says 32 players can sign up, but you also describe a ro256/128/64/32/etc, and then the finals is best of 5, is that bo5 on one map?
If we gain more players than 32 we can expand the expected number. 32 players is only the amount we expect. |
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| Veloh15 United States. June 28 2012 22:16. Posts 158 | Profile # |
| We found maps by looking through the teamliquid forums. If this goes well we will have a thread about entering maps for the next round. |
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| Sea_Food Finland. June 28 2012 22:39. Posts 1612 | Profile Blog # |
On June 28 2012 22:14 Veloh15 wrote:
Show nested quote +On June 28 2012 14:39 a176 wrote:
i think you need to explain this a bit more. the site says 32 players can sign up, but you also describe a ro256/128/64/32/etc, and then the finals is best of 5, is that bo5 on one map?
If we gain more players than 32 we can expand the expected number. 32 players is only the amount we expect.
There was a tournament like this few months ago. 2 people joined, me being one of them. This time I dont think i can join, because my comp wont run sc2 propelly anymore.
Good luck. |
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| Incompl United States. June 28 2012 22:45. Posts 8 | Profile # |
These are all great. I wish I was high enough of a league to enter the tournament. 
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| Yonnua United Kingdom. June 28 2012 22:46. Posts 1040 | Profile Blog # |
| If you want to grab the attention of the majority of people (rather than mappers) it may be a good idea to post in the tournaments section. |
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| Meltage Sweden. June 28 2012 22:49. Posts 561 | Profile # |
This is awesome. I hope this will carry out well and that players will be attracted. How big is the prize pool and how is it divided? 1st + 2 runners up .. or?
The feedbakc this will bring map makers is invaluable. |
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| moskonia Israel. June 28 2012 23:43. Posts 937 | Profile # |
| I think it is silly that every tournament that wants to get more then 2 players needs to have a prize pool, its just silly. |
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| Sea_Food Finland. June 29 2012 01:45. Posts 1612 | Profile Blog # |
On June 28 2012 23:43 moskonia wrote:
I think it is silly that every tournament that wants to get more then 2 players needs to have a prize pool, its just silly.
Playhem offers tournaments for multiple different leagues every day for 2 servers with decent price pools. Also there are tons of weeklies. Blame them. |
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| ScorpSCII Denmark. June 29 2012 02:03. Posts 295 | Profile # |
| I love the idea of this, but I doubt it will work out with 8 maps. I'd suggest 5-6 maps instead. |
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