New Worlds Map Contest: 1st Edition (Mapper Prizes)

Submission Rules:

- Maps must be submitted by Monday, the 12th of April 2021 at 21:00CEST.
- This is a Standard map contest. Maps considered experimental will not be considered.
- This contest is open to all applicants.
- This contest is open to maps that work in a Standard 1v1 Top vs Bottom game.
- This contest is open to all map tilesets.
- This contest is open to your older maps, but newer maps are highly encouraged.
- This contest is open for 2, 3, or 4 player maps.
- This contest is not open to maps that have been used in other tournaments or leagues prior to the beginning of 2021.
- You may submit maps that are based on other maps, but they may not be duplicates (No ashworld Lost Temple renditions, etc.).
- You may submit as many maps as you like, but please keep the submissions high quality!
- You may only submit your own work or collaboration.
First versions should be fully playable with functional components of the map (functional terrain* and resources) in place, no abusable unfinished terrain (like drop holes), and no mining issues for the most significant bases (mains and naturals).
- Final versions (top 4) should be de-bugged to the best of your ability
*Functional terrain includes unwalkable and unbuildable areas, ramps, bridges, choke points, vision blocking or cover providing terrain and generally anything that requires specific tile flags etc.



How will this work?


- Judges, Mappers, & the Community will evaluate the entries and decide on the top eight maps to move forward.
- Mappers will then be given 2 weeks to fix any issues found by the judges/mappers/community and polish the maps up.
- Judges and the community will vote which 4 maps move into the "finals".
- Mappers will be given 1 week to de-bug the map and finalize it.
- The maps will then be played and broadcasted in a series of Map Test Tournaments, each tournament focusing only on one map.
- We will then host a public vote to decide the results of the contest.




Prize Pools: To encourage newer mappers to indulge, we will be splitting the prize pool up.


- 80% of the prize pool will go to the first place winner.
- 20% of the prize pool will go to the winner of the best "new mapper"*
- Each map test tournament will be worth 25% of the map test matcherino. (Link coming soon.


* New mapper = has not had maps featured in official tournaments or leagues.


Map Test Tournaments: Once 4 final maps are chosen, they will then be played and broadcasted in a series of Invitational Map Test Tournaments. If you are interested in being invited, please post your ID & Average MMR below.


- Each tournament will focus on only one map.
- Each tournament will be single elimination until Semi Finals (best of 3) and then Finals (best of 5)
- Each map test tournament will be worth 25% of the total Matcherino prize pool for map test tournaments. (Link coming soon..)
- Each tournament will be broadcasted on two streams in english and spanish.

https://tl.net/forum/bw-tournaments/569959-new-worlds-map-contest-1st-edition