New Worlds Map Contest III: Classics Remastered

Schedule

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• Map submission deadline: Jan 07/2023 – 16:00 CEST / 23:00 KOR
• 1st public voting round: Jan 08 – Jan 15
• 2nd voting round (finalists): Jan 15 – Jan 29
• Final voting round: TBD
  • Play testing: TBD – format to be decided

Map Submissions

• To submit a map, join the BWM⁴P Discord Server and post your submissions by creating a new thread in the #NWMC3-map-submissions channel. You should also create a discussion thread in the #NWMC3-map-discussion channel for feedback on your submissions.
• You must also make a duplicate post on this TL thread below.
• All submission threads must at least consist of the following:
  • Your ID:
  • Location:
  • Map Name:
  • Map Version:
  • Map Size:
  • Rush Distance (main ramp to main ramp)
  • Map Description of how your map holds to the original inspiration.
  • Map Image and original map image for side by side comparison and nostalgia.
  • All information and files, as well as any later updates, have to be posted in the original submission thread.

Prize Pools To encourage newer mappers to indulge, we will be splitting the prize pool up. New mapper = has not had maps featured in official tournaments or leagues.

Mapper Prize Pool (donations link TBA)

• 70% of the prize pool will go to the first place winner.
• 20% of the prize pool will go to the second place winner.
• 10% of the prize pool will be awarded to the best “new mapper”

Play Testing Prize Pool (donations link TBA)

• Play testing prize pool will be used for spon match testing.
• Spon matches will be casted and streamed by TeamThinkQuicktTV

Feedback, Screening and Voting

• Throughout the entire course of the contest, map makers are encouraged to participate in discussion about their maps within the discussion thread and help each other improve their work. All map makers’ opinions are equally valued.
• If multiple map makers agree that a map does not meet eligibility or quality criteria, the map needs to be updated accordingly or will not be allowed into the next round.
• Maps for each round will be selected via a public vote, using a Dowdall ranking.
  • 1st voting: Selection of top 12 maps
  • 2nd voting: Selection of 4 finalists
  • 3rd voting: Determining the winner

• The maps with the highest scores will advance to the next round, with two exceptions:
  • The number of maps by the same map maker is limited in each round:
    • Top 12: at most 3 maps from the same author
    • Finalists: at most 1 map from the same author
    • For maps created cooperatively by two or more authors, these numbers are incremented by one (so a map creator could have one solo map and one cooperative map in the finalists, or two cooperations, for example)

  • Maps that do not fulfill the respective quality criteria for the next round can be disqualified (see Notes about maps section below for details).

• Playtest tours will be offered on the four finalist maps (details?).

Notes about maps

Scope of the Contest

• The goal of this contest is to recreate “classic” maps and adapt them for the current meta game, while retaining significant features of the original.
• “Classic” map encompasses maps from the Kespa era (made before 2012) and the Blizzard maps that came with the original game. For ideas and inspiration, the TLPD (https://tl.net/tlpd/korean/maps) and liquipedia (Main Page) are good resources – or you may just browse your map folder.
• Each map should be aimed at recreating one specific original, not combine features from different maps or mix and match sections in a Fantasy-like manner.
• “Significant and recognizable features” of the original should be preserved as much as possible while adding or removing, or otherwise changing, some features to improve balance, and gameplay in general, with a modern meta in mind.
• Any added gameplay-relevant features should be in service of gameplay/balance improvements over the original, not as a new major characteristic by themselves.
• What constitutes a “significant and recognizable feature” of any particular map is left entirely to the map makers’ discretion. There is no hard rule against changing any particular aspect, be it map size, tileset, number of player spawns, or anything else.
• Not allowed are trivial edits, such as, but not limited to, edits or copy-paste versions of the original map file, simple tileset conversions or trivial geometric transformations.
• Map makers may submit updates to their maps at any point during the course of the contest.

Map Admissibility Criteria

• Maps must be purpose-made for this contest and not have been submitted to prior map contests or played in a league.
• Maps can only use mechanics that work in standard melee game modes.
• Maps need to fulfill minimal completion standards to be admissible. That is: functional terrain work should be finished (deco can be left marginal) and map mechanics should be mostly functional (fine tuning of pathfinding not necessary for the first round).
• Map makers are obligated to update their maps during the course of the contest to address any issues that come up and fulfill the stricter quality guidelines (details below) necessary to advance to later rounds.
• Map makers may submit any number of maps that fit the criteria. However, only a limited number may advance to the later voting rounds (as explained in the Feedback and Voting section above).

Round 2 (top 12) Qualification Criteria

• Top 12 maps should have smooth and balanced mining in at least the most significant bases (mains and naturals).
• Unintended gameplay features, such as drop holes or tile flag related issues need to be fixed.
• Top 12 maps should not have any other issues that principally inhibit their being played on.

Round 3 (finalists ) Qualification Criteria

• Finalist maps need to have smooth and balanced mining in all bases as well as other pathfinding optimizations.
• Any remaining bugs discovered during playtesting or examination of finalist maps must be fixed as soon as possible.
• Finalist maps should have a decent quality of decoration.