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Congratulations to funcmode's Sanctuarium and Antares777's Hysteria ! These maps both win Season 1 of Map of the Month!

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Map of the Month #6

Map of the Month #5

MotM #4

The Sixth Man Award - Strip Mine, Grebliv. Strip Mine was a good map. The forward 3rd golds were very interesting.



- Strip Mine, Grebliv. Most Attractive Map - The Eighteenth, Silence-; The Machine, Archivan. Both of these maps were really well done aesthetically, and in ways that complemented the map architecture. The Eighteenth was an awesome unique idea and executed perfectly, and The Machine is done with Archi's trademark mystical style with a dash of steampunk that works nicely.



- The Eighteenth, Silence-; The Machine, Archivan. Most Original - Triangle Love Moon, dimfish. Really cool symmetry, bringing back island bases, and the debris piles in the naturals... this map is full of original ideas.



- Triangle Love Moon, dimfish. The Guest Judge Award - Masada, winpark. funcmode wanted to specially recognize Masada as one of his favorites this month



Balance/Originality/Fun /Aesthetics/Total

5.37 / 6.66 / 5.07 / 5.89 / 22.98

5.91 / 6.54 / 5.71 / 5.68 / 23.84

MotM Tournament #3

The Sixth Man Award - Fault Lines, EatThePath. Fault lines was a good map that used textures really well to zone the map. Definitely check it out!



- Fault Lines, EatThePath. Most Attractive Map - Sanctuarium, funcmode. There are so many awesome details. The tiling, the color scheme - everything just works. A terrific work of art (and it plays well too)



- Sanctuarium, funcmode. Judge's Choice - Leviathan, BoomStevo. Don't accuse us of favoring our own! Every judge, including the guest judges, gave Leviathan top points. Gameplay is amazing, aesthetically its great... its just a great map.



- Leviathan, BoomStevo. Most Original - Fault Lines, EatThePath. He used texture combinations no one would even think of using and made it work, and the middle is a really different idea from anything that's been done so far.



- Fault Lines, EatThePath. The Guest Judge Award - Sanctuarium, funcmode. dezi and NullCurrent wanted to specially recognize Sanctuarium as one of their favorites.



Balance/Originality/Fun /Aesthetics/Total

5.91 / 6.54 / 5.71 / 5.68 / 23.84

6.26 / 6.41 / 5.73 / 5.94 / 24.34

The Sixth Man Award - Zel'Kalith, NastyMarine. The choice for the fifth map was incredibly difficult. Zel'Kalith is a fine map that deserves recognition.



- Zel'Kalith, NastyMarine. Most Attractive Map - Disaster Park, lovablemikey. There are so many awesome details. Disaster Park blew away every one of us. Look at it in-game. Absolutely gorgeous.



- Disaster Park, lovablemikey. Judge's Choice - Ptolemy, Grebliv. It looks good, it plays well, and it makes rotational symmetry work. Ptolemy recieved our highest total score, and was an easy choice for top 5.



- Ptolemy, Grebliv. Most Original - Mazy Hill, Ragoo. The spiral LOS Blockers combined with the changes in slope were a really interesting and innovative idea.



- Mazy Hill, Ragoo. Cleanest Map Award - Spaced, funcmode. Its sharp, clean, and you'd take it home to meet your parents. Its a nice break from the clutter of most maps.



- Spaced, funcmode. The BroodWar Map Award - Aztec. It IS a BW map lol.



- Aztec. The Guest Judge Award - Zel'Kalith. monitor wanted to specially recognize Zel'Kalith as one of his favorites.



bybybybybyView all the replays from Map of the Month #6 here! - the Season 1 Finals is coming up soon! June 26th and 27th! Click here for more info! Tune in totoday at 5:00pm EST! Cast by imba.tv!Hey guys, I'm here to announce this month's winner of Map of the Month! This month, we put forth a challenge, and forced you to create 3 player maps. The competition was fierce, attracting top mapmakers from the US, Europe, and Korea. But after all the games played in the tournament, we felt that one map stood out from the others.I'm happy to announce the winner of this month's Map of the Month competition: (3) The Eighteenth , by Silence-!We saw some awesome games on this map; from huge macro battles to fast cheese games. I'm proud to add The Eighteenth to the MotM Official Map Pool.The final pool foris set. Thanks to everyone for mapping - I know this month was extra hard due to the restriction, but by and large TL responded with good maps.This month we had funcmode guest judge. dimfish decided that he wanted to submit one of his own maps, and stepped down for the month. So, funcmode, prodiG, FlopTurnReaver, BoomStevo and myself were left to judge all the 3p maps.The finalist maps are:Click on the names to see the winning maps!These finalists will be the map pool for the MotM Tournament #4, which will be cast on iCCupTV by our very own prodiG!But we know why you're really here. It's awards time.prodiG's special awards will be up soon!I'll be sending out scorecards to anyone who pm's me for them. You do not have to share these with anyone, they are for your information only - if you've got any questions about your score please do it privately.Averages went down this month, but thats to be expected with a difficult restriction like this.For your information, here are the averages this month (last month's in green):Again, thanks to everyone who contributed. MotM 4 is looking great! Just remember that this is only the beginning, that we strongly encourage you to play these top five maps and see what makes them so good! Hang out in channel MotM, I'll set up games on all of these maps when I can on NA, and keep an eye out for events on EU as well!Next month is back to normal - any map can be submitted. Looking forward to some great maps!Thanks to everybody who made this possible, FlopTurnReaver, prodiG, funcmode, as well as every one of you mapmakers and players! Looking forward to a great Tournament.If you have feedback, please give it here All replays from MotM #3 available for your viewing pleasure! Download here! MotM #4 is now open!Please congratulate (4) Sanctuarium - funcmode for winning MotM #3!The finals for thehave finished! Thanks to everyone for watching. Congratulations to Eleven Gaming's xiExO for his victories over Topin, OnixPKM, coL.Antimage, and ROOTDdoRo! The VODs can all be found at iCCupTV. There are some excellent games in there, including a Mothership!The finalist maps are:Click on the names to see the winning maps. Please leave your comments on the maps; all will be taken into account to decide the winning map this month.These finalists will be the map pool for the MotM Tournament #3, which will be cast on iCCupTV by Raelcun and our very own prodiG!But we know why you're really here. It's awards time.For your information, here are the averages this month (last month's in green):Again, thanks to everyone who contributed. MotM 3 is looking great! Just remember that this is only the beginning, that we strongly encourage you to play these top five maps and see what makes them so good! Hang out in channel MotM, I'll set up games on all of these maps when I can (on NA or EU)Next month is 3p map month! Remember that you are not allowed to use more than 3 Bel'shir textures (increased from 2). We want to encourage new styles, and Bel'Shir is getting boring :/. Looking forward to some awesome 3p designs next month!Work on proportions! Monitor put together a great Proportions Guide . While you shouldn't follow it to the letter in every map you make, there are a lot of maps that needed a bit of work proportions-wise.Also, shoutout to Bitter Jungle. A really cool map, Bloodbath 2.0.Also, I'll post a little article written by dezi about judging soonThanks to everybody who made this possible, dimfish, FlopTurnReaver, prodiG, dezi, NullCurrent, as well as every one of you mapmakers and players! Looking forward to a great Tournament. Month #3 of MotM is now open! There are a couple changes this month to the way we're running things.1) We will no longer pay a cash prize to the map winner each month. Winning MotM nets you playtime in front of thousands of viewers - last month, more than 14,000 unique viewers watched the MotM tournament. In addition, your map is added to the all-time MotM map pool. Thats something that I've mentioned before, but haven't really explained. Every 6 months, the previous 5 winners will compete against each other. The winner ofcompetition will recieve a cash prize, as recognition that the map is the best we have.2) We are removing the poll to determine the winner. When we first came up with our system, we wanted to involve the community as much as possible. However, we knew that polls would be easily broken, and it could simply turn into a contest to see who has the most friends. We (and we assume the entire community) would much rather the best map win. Please don't take this as disrespect to NullCurrent, we fully support Marshlands. However, several vulnerabilities were exposed this past month, and we are moving to address them. We do still want community feedback and input. We will ask for community feedback on all the finalist maps, and we will take it in to account when we decide a winner.Thanks!Congratulations to NullCurrent for Marshlands ! He is this month's MotM winner.Which map do you think is the best this month? Be sure to play some games on them - you can find all maps by searching "MotM" on Battle.net. The poll will not close until February 28th! Also, check out this awesome interview with NrGdde, this month's winner!The finalist maps are:Click on the names to see the winning maps!Hey guys, there's a new article about us! Check out the SC2 Weekly thread. ^^Also, as always I'm running a somewhat-constant KotH in channel MotM. I'll see you there!These finalists will be the map pool for the MotM Tournament #2, and after that, you the public will vote for your favorite!And now for the awesome awards!******Also,Next month's category will be the same, 1v1 maps (any number of spawns). However, I'm going to announce April's restriction now. The restriction is that your map must have 3 spawns. I realize that this is difficult, which is why you're getting an extra month's notice! Good luck******I'm pleased to announce thatwill be streaming and casting this month's MotM! Give it up for prodiG :D.