Thank you Uberchain for making the awesome poster!

that timing couldnt be more perfect lol, hope some good stuff comes out of it

Yes. Let's hope we get some great maps to play. How much will we be able to test / mess around with the maps in the competition in their development stages? I am completely new to the mapping things...

The intention is to give players ample opportunity to play-test the maps. The mappers would like this as well.

no attack defend? :(

A/D maps have generally not been very popular in 6v6, and I don't believe the game mode has the same amount of depth and potential as 5cp and koth, so I decided to exclude it all together, as to not leave people at an unfair disadvantage should they choose to make an A/D map

If only I wasnt so shit with anything requiring creative skills

I've been meaning to give map making another try!

Please god no more cp_scout maps

I have a whole bunch of updates and news to share with you all, so I'll do my best to be short and concise:

1. Thanks to ETF2L releasing their s29 schedule I have moved the submission deadline to March 16th.

2. I have created a steam group with the goal of testing out the submitted maps and provide feedback: http://steamcommunity.com/groups/BeaterMapTestGroup . I'm going to try my best to stream these games.

3. The prize pool keeps growing! SVMZI of SVIFT-gaming have added a SVIFT hoodie to the first prize, and Mysterious benefactor Najesu has also promised to throw a bunch of money into the prize pool (we're still working out the specifics, so this isn't official yet). I'd also like to thank the surprisingly large amount of people who have contacted me offering to help out either through donating items, designing medals and so on. I've mostly turned these offers down since I didn't feel I could control them well enough, but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate the offers!

4. I made a youtube trailer for the contest. There's no new information in the video, but you get to see some neat overviews of the maps, and of course a few frags have been thrown in for good measure as well:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2KYKDJLFew

5. Essentials.tf keen on doing some more streams where we showcase the maps that have been submitted so far. The first stream we played all the maps briefly, but for the next event I'm looking for two teams (high or prem, or the American equivalent) willing to play two 30 minute maps against each other. Hopefully this will provide a more serious test of the maps, and you'd only have to give up half a night of scrims to participate. Contact me on steam, or just message me here if your team is interested in participating.

That's it for now.

Najesu has come through big-time and has added 150€ to the prize pool. 100€ will go towards the mappers and 50€ will be put into the final tournament (more information about this at a later date)

The top prize is now 130€ and a SVIFT hoodie, while second and third place will receive 35€.

I don't know if Najesu has an account on these forums, but either way he deserves all our praises!

holy pogchamp! That's freaking awesome!

does it have to be a new map or can I scoop up one of my old maps and improve that?

if the latter I might put up a drudgery b3 :-)

e- sry should have read :(

You can find the rules by following the link in the OP. The relevant part for you is this:

"2. The map must be an original creation that has never been used in ETF2L, ESEA, OZFortress or UGC before. The map must be a koth or 5cp map. You cannot Submit a pro version of a map that is currently or was previously used in any of the listed leagues, no matter how old the map is. Want to make a pro version of cp_mainline or koth_ashville? Too bad, not allowed. Have you worked on a map for a while but it has still not been accepted into any league? These entries are allowed."

bumping this, there's still time to put a map together!