With the New Map Cup done, I took a look at some interesting data from the past weekend.

Throughout the weekend, a total of 53 games were played, with 39 in the group stage, and 14 in the playoffs.

Starting off, let's look at the play rates from the cup:

https://puu.sh/uoiHa/7a0eb33cea.png

cp_cardinal came out on top at the most played map at around 22.6%. koth_bagel came in 2nd at a 18.9% play, and cp_kalinka came in 3rd with a 17% play rate.

I also conducted a survey throughout the weekend to find the community's general opinion of the maps after playing them, rating them from 1-5 (with 1 being the lowest score and 5 being the highest).

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Out of all the maps, koth_bagel had the highest average score with 4.1. cp_logjam came in second with an average of 3.5. Finally, cp_cardinal came in 3rd with an average of 3.3.

Edit: I switched the pictures to puush links since imgur is acting weird today.

I'm going to make the results (along with the map play rates throughout the cup) public. Probably around tomorrow or the day after.

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Last bump before I close the survey at around 11pm EST

As always, here are the threads of the maps that will be played if you want to give feedback:

Cardinal
Daytrip
Drudgery
Kalinka
Logjam
Bagel
Warmfront
TFCL

Hey guys. I've temporarily allowed people to edit their responses since I had it before where people had to rate maps that they didn't play. So if you want to edit your response you can do it now.

Holy FUCK

mario party 4 makes a 4 round comeback on Bagel

Something something 3-1 lead blown

Good point. I'll change it so you don't have to answer every question and you can answer the maps you played.

Hey guys! I have a survey for those who participated in the New Map Cup to see what maps they liked from the map pool. If you can fill it in it would be greatly appreciated.

https://goo.gl/forms/n5sWlV0rtBql9zrR2

Hey guys! We're updating the format of the group stage to accommodate 24 teams (19 teams that signed up + 5 Invite teams).

There will be 4 groups of 6 teams, and the teams will play in a round-robin format, playing each other team in their group once in a Bo1. Since each team will play 5 matches in their group, there will still be 5 rounds and the map pools for each round will remain the same. The top 2 teams from each group will head to the playoffs.

Here are the threads of the maps that will be played if you want to give feedback:

Cardinal
Daytrip
Drudgery
Kalinka
Logjam
Bagel
Warmfront
TFCL

There's one team slot left open so we can have 24 teams in total, so if you want to signup now's your best chance.

Update: we got enough teams + the Invite teams to have 24 teams in total. Signups are now closed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9UiVtTR4aMY

I want to give a very special thank you to the mapmakers who I interviewed. It was really amazing to hear about your perspective on mapmaking and everything else in between. And thank you for all the hard work you put on making these maps.

Can't wait to see the maps in the cup!

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