Please Note: I'm happy with the communities input on this contest, however the admins and judges side did not do their job in this one. Very sorry for the delay, I'm dissapointed in myself. Hopefully we can get a contest that goes smooth.

Post Last Updated:04-02-06


Winner:
ctf_SnowDance
by Mr. America
Overview | [url="http://sml.u13.net?p=mapdl&map=188">Download

Description: An easy mirrored snowland. Lower way is faster but dangerouser why there can be some snipers. :)Sorry for my english ;(

Waypoints: yes
Recommended Players: 6-8
Date Uploaded: 03-15-2006


Overview:
[IMAGE]
http://sml.u13.net/maps/overview/SnowDance.PNG (542.77 KB)


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Mapping Contest #2 Information
Start Date: 02-25-2006
End Date: 03-23-2006
21 Days Remaining to Submit Maps
28 Days Remaining to Rate Maps

Type: ctf_
Theme: Snow/Island
Description: Well since there are no real snow ctf maps included in default soldat, I thought, hey why not. B2B is considered a winter map, however it doesnt have much of a snow effect to it. There arent too many snow ctf's floating around. Lets see what you all can do. Try to make it less like b2b and more snowy/icy. Your other option is to make an island map, either one or numerous islands for soldats to fight on. Include water and whatever you think fits the theme best. Enjoy.
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Contest Delayed , Awaiting Judges - 03/23/05

-Posted by: SoulSnipa

Map Submissions:
Map Number: #1

ctf_wintarr
Author: SoulSnipa
Map Information and Overview: Click Here
Download: Click Here (81 Total Downloads)
Community Rating: 3.78
Judge Rating: 7.57
Overall Rating: 7.69
View Results and Judge Ratings: Click Here (16 Total Votes)

Map Number: #2

ctf_winter_fever
Author: ipz0
Map Information and Overview: Click Here
Download: Click Here (59 Total Downloads)
Community Rating: 1.63
Judge Rating: 0.71
Overall Rating: 1.44
View Results and Judge Ratings: Click Here (47 Total Votes)

Map Number: #3

ctf_Paradiso
Author: Me, You [CENSORED]!
Map Information and Overview: Click Here
Download: Click Here (47 Total Downloads)
Community Rating: 3.76
Judge Rating: 3.29
Overall Rating: 4.39
View Results and Judge Ratings: Click Here (40 Total Votes)

Map Number: #4

ctf_Frost
Author: ViGGoLoNiGGoLo
Map Information and Overview: Click Here
Download: Click Here (144 Total Downloads)
Community Rating: 2.74
Judge Rating: 8.2
Overall Rating: 6.97
View Results and Judge Ratings: Click Here (40 Total Votes)

Map Number: #5

ctf_SubZero
Author: Demonic
Map Information and Overview: Click Here
Download: Click Here (33 Total Downloads)
Community Rating: 3.37
Judge Rating: 5.2
Overall Rating: 5.4
View Results and Judge Ratings: Click Here (32 Total Votes)

Map Number: #6

ctf_Winter_Spirit
Author: VirtualTT
Map Information and Overview: Click Here
Download: Click Here (53 Total Downloads)
Community Rating: 4.03
Judge Rating: 5.86
Overall Rating: 6.73
View Results and Judge Ratings: Click Here (42 Total Votes)

Map Number: #7

ctf_SnowDance
Author: Mr. America
Map Information and Overview: Click Here
Download: Click Here (39 Total Downloads)
Community Rating: 3.91
Judge Rating: 7.57
Overall Rating: 7.77
View Results and Judge Ratings: Click Here (30 Total Votes)

Map Number: #8

ctf_SnowFall
Author: AsMd
Map Information and Overview: Click Here
Download: Click Here (24 Total Downloads)
Community Rating: 4.38
Judge Rating: 4.14
Overall Rating: 5.32
View Results and Judge Ratings: Click Here (44 Total Votes)

Map Number: #9

ctf_deadlands
Author: rabidhamster
Map Information and Overview: Click Here
Download: Click Here (30 Total Downloads)
Community Rating: 3.96
Judge Rating: 5.43
Overall Rating: 5.91
View Results and Judge Ratings: Click Here (34 Total Votes)

Wow, the last winner sure got his moment of glory.

snow is hard, because if you use a light blue it looks like crap, and white doesnt work for crap and any other color makes your eyes bleed out of the retinas.

good luck!

Can previously made maps be entered in as well?

can i steal a map off of keron and post it before him?

Keron, imo it would be cheating to use an old map, because you may have had more time to make it than the rest of them. like you have spent 3 months perfecting a map and enter it into a 2 week long contest.

i'll wait for the next mapping comp, i can't do snow or desert :P

desert is fine, but dessert is hard.

besides the fact that some supermapper will pawn my arse with all custom seneries so i wont try.

Yeah i kinda got dissapointed by this contest theme. But, if i get time, i'll make a submission this time.
Hmm maybe turning dm_harmattan all blueish and coldish and replacing catcuses by snowmen... hmmmm yeah, a certain win! ^^ Oh wait, it's ctf D: Nvm

add flags :P

but i'll try to dig up an old map of mine :P

is jungle the only theme you guys know how to do? Good golly, it really isnt that hard. Theme changed however, you can now do either snow or water/island.

Enesce what are you talking about?

The winner of the compeition will have their maps added to a dedicated server as well as having their map spotlighted on sml homepage. They also have the choice to name the next theme. Are you suggesting to wait a year before the next contest? Foolish

Oh now that's a much better theme option! :D Thanks SS.

how many maps can a mapper submit?

1 per contest to make sure he/she spends max amount of time to make the best map possible. Further questions can be found on the rules page of the contest.

great :( now i don't know what theme i should do...

do whatever you can make look best. However ill give you 0.00000001 points if u do snow.

so, why don't you just take snow off the themes? now i have to start my layout all over :(

because i would rather you make snow maps. Would you like me to make it just snow again? didnt think so :P

i'm doing snow whether anyone likes it or not >:(

i like it, and @earlyer, yes... those are the only ones we can do...(look at wartorn for example)

wow, me and soul dominated this topic...

i'm working on a nice snowy tundra map, it took three days to perfect the sketch xD

edit: i finished placing the polygons, 1.275ish :D

Too bad I have so many social things up on my back. Maybe I can whip up something during the weekend.

Wow, the first one is really good.. ctf_wintarr, but I feel it has a sort of a granite kind of a look.

Hmmm...I saw this a bit late, maybe next time i'll make a map.

lol, it's so obvious which map is vigg's.

vigg didnt submit a map.

lol BURNED

deleted that post :D

Err...the site is down?

it shouldnt be at least not now

vjich how am I supposed to translate that into sml's ratings? Could you login and do it through there please?

I could do it if you gave me individual ratings for each category...but it would be hella a lot easier to do it through the site. Plus people see your ratings on here and might have a bias.

Thanks for the input however.

Eh, you're not supposed to translate those those ratings, I am. I'm just giving a little feedback to the mappers.

Bleh, I'll take that down until the competition is over though.

o ok just making sure you actually vote because last compeittion you and surf forgot to. Thanks for the input again.

u can still submit it by the end of today.

hurray! i submitted, but i forgot to include one of sk's lights :/

lol, three maps were submitted at the last minute :O

So when will this be finished?

in 5 days.

Just a little stat for those who are interested. Dont think the winner gets his shine?

Top 10 Downloaded Maps:
Harmattan : 288
teamwork_2 : 154
skeleton : 143
Laosrmx : 134
kampfrmx : 129
Frost : 122
Pyramid : 106
DesertDusk : 82
Soul_Haunter : 81
sandy : 76

is it a coincidence that today it snowed?
i like the maps :)
i'll vote!

^lucky oklahomaian.

soulsnipa, do you think you could make a script of some sort that would allow you to feed it the votes from the swamp contest, and determine the winner?

i dont understand what you mean...swamp contest?

http://www.soldatforums.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=31055

are u saying u want me to input the maps form the contest and let people revote on it? otherwise everything else would be manual and faster because it would be just done once.

Well, I hope the judges will rate the maps soon; I'm anxious for this contest to be over and to discover the next theme.

yea...discover but will u actually submit..

maybe.

The contest WILL be over by this weekend. I'll be rating the maps now as well since I have to pick up the slack of the other judges. We also have another guest judge that I had to go out on a limb to ask :P. Next contest theme will be announced by the weekend...if the winnner does not have a specific theme...the theme will be the winner of the poll found on http://sml.u13.net.

Currently the top maps are as follows:
Snowdance
Frost
Wintarr

however it is a close race.

Sorry about the delays in judging...my time since getting back from vacation has been twice as busy unfortunately. Who would have thought graduating from college would be time consuming?

Anyhow...tell vig to stop being such a dumbass and sticking his name into his map titles if he wants to enter these things. Kinda ruins the whole concept of anonymity.

But it's kind of obvious who made which map. Everyone has a style.

Regarding vig, he always wears the same things and uses the same interface, so the screenshots give it away as well. Oh, and he always uses 8-P or whatever in the map description.

I will use capital letters from now on.

Edit: When is the contest going to be over?

 Quote:Originally posted by The GeologistSorry about the delays in judging...my time since getting back from vacation has been twice as busy unfortunately. Who would have thought graduating from college would be time consuming?

Anyhow...tell vig to stop being such a dumbass and sticking his name into his map titles if he wants to enter these things. Kinda ruins the whole concept of anonymity.


No reason to call him a dumbass at least he doesnt make excuses that he is SO busy. Maybe instead of making posts on here you could have rated one - two - three maps. I care a whole lot less about anonymity then I do getting ratings. So if anyone you are the one being the dumbass, you volunteered for this. If you knew you were going to be busy...whatever just dont call vig a dumbass.

I detect a bit of angst.

So I voluneered when I was less busy, so what? You talk to me in the last five weeks before graduating college and tell me how busy you are. This isn't the place to defend myself or what I should have called Vig...perhaps it was wrong, I think it was putting things lightly.

I rated two maps when I was back at my place in the evening, with polyworks and Soldat and the time to play a map and look at it in detail, and to be honest this got put on hold for things in the real life. Don't like to do it, but it happens sometimes. Scratch me as a judge if you're so worked up, but don't be a sarcastic ass about things when you know nothing of my situation.

Anyway, SS said us judges can carry on with the contest since he won't be running it for now at least, we all got the admin powers to run it. I'm not taking it over myself.

So, congrats Mr. America, are you here?

You can now pick a theme for the next contest. If we don't get a reply, the theme will be "Night Forest" (chosen by an SML poll).

Bah, I didn't really like deadlands, but hey, if you've got 16 players, it's good fun.

By the way, the map is 80% it's original size. I scaled it down. That's right. It used to be even bigger.