Red Alert Global League: Season 15 - Map Contest (Voting Closed)

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Map Making Contest

As in previous seasons we are having a community map making contest. The winning submission will feature as one of the maps in the map pool for RAGL S15 and (prize pool permitting) there will be a prize for the most popular map (roughly 15% of the prize pool). The relevant section from the rulebook:

4.2.4 Map contest

4.2.4: There will be a vote for the community's favourite map before RAGL, this map will be automatically included in the pool. Maps must be submitted by 2023-09-21.

4.2.4.1: Map submissions should be made in this thread or in the #map-making channel of the OpenRA Competitive Discord server,

4.2.4.2: Up to two maps per mapmaker

4.2.4.3: Maps do not have to be new, but may not have featured in previous seasons of RAGL

4.2.4.4: Voting will open once map submissions have closed.

4.2.4.5: Voting will close on 2023-09-28.

4.2.4.6: Voters assign 3pts, 2pts and 1pt to three different maps (it is not allowed to vote for fewer than three maps)

4.2.4.7: Votes are final at the point they are seen by TTTPPP and cannot be changed after this

4.2.4.8: Mapmakers can't vote for their own maps

4.2.4.9: Any mapmakers who vote will receive 3pts bonus on all maps they submitted

4.2.4.10: The map with the highest score will win. If two maps are tied on the same score then the tiebreaker will be number of people who gave it a score (including bonus points). If the maps are still tied after this then the map with the lowest resource centre id wins (as shown in the links below).

Prize Pool Contributions

To make a donation to the prize pool:

5.2.1 Donations to the pool should be sent in Euros or US Dollars via PayPal to mm_openra@protonmail.com (milkman). Name or a request to remain anonymous is to be stated in 'Write a note' section.

5.2.2 PayPal charges conversion fees for payouts in a different currency than the donation. Conversion fees for payouts will be drawn from the respective prize money rather than the entire pool.

Submissions

BI-3.6 versions of all these maps can be downloaded in the resource center.

Kriegsschweine by Upps https://resource.openra.net/maps/53655
Tank Trap by Upps https://resource.openra.net/maps/53653
Glittering Gully by Blackened https://resource.openra.net/maps/53636
Bossman by J MegaTank https://resource.openra.net/maps/53588
Overlook by i like men https://resource.openra.net/maps/53652
widow sucks by despro https://resource.openra.net/maps/53664

To vote please reply in this thread (or PM TTTPPP on Discord) with your votes in the format:

Code: Select all

3pts: xxx
2pts: xxx
1pt: xxx

Entries

All the entries in a random order:

Kriegsschweine by Upps Tank Trap by Upps Glittering Gully by Blackened Bossman by J MegaTank Overlook by i like men widow sucks by despro

Votes recieved from:

Blackened
(Not) New
J MegaTank
Nilhall
Happy
tux (twice)
ilikemen
Spud
Ruckus
anjew
dang_shot
Biasao
Upps
PrinzPi
goat
Jur
bete
Fazzar
DukeBones
Unano
creo
Bliss
despro
milkman

[MegaTank]

Bossman by J MegaTank https://resource.openra.net/maps/53588

[Blackened]

https://resource.openra.net/maps/53636

[Upps]

Tank Trap https://resource.openra.net/maps/53653
Kriegsschweine https://resource.openra.net/maps/53655

Enjoy my new maps

[tux]

Hi here's my vote
3pts: widow sucks
2pts: Overlook
1pt: Tank Trap

[biasao]

3pts: Overlook
2pts: Tank Trap
1pt: Glittering Gully

[bete]

Nice work guys.

3pts: Overlook
2pts: Bossman
1pt: Tank Trap

[maceman]

3pt: Glittering Gully
2pt: Overlook
1pt: Widow

[TTTPPP]

Here's the final results of the map contest and a breakdown of all the votes. The numbers in the "TOTAL" row give the number of points assigned with the number of votes received after the decimal point.

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Congratulations to i like men whose map Overlook came first by a considerable margin!

I delayed posting this to try to arrange a reveal on stream as in previous seasons, but this proved to be awkward to organise (mainly due to my own availability).

I thought it was interesting that of Upps' maps then Kriegsschweine was greatly preferred by map makers, while Tank Trap was more highly rated by almost everyone else. Also interesting was that people voting publicly assigned more votes to Widow Sucks than those voting via PM.

I received one set of votes from mo after the deadline and he tried to vote: 3pts Bossman, 2pts Tank Trap, 1pt Overlook.

The top four maps were included in the RAGL map pool. There was a pretty large gap between 54% of voters including Tank Trap and 25% of voters including Widow Sucks and Kriegsschweine, and this was reflected in the scores too.