Here are the scores, after our professional team of judges (me) analyzed each map in excruciating detail. Congratulations go to the winner, and everyone else who played. Thanks for participating! A map pack with all of the 60+-scoring maps will be posted on Fileball eventually.

Now, the scores! It was a fairly heated contest this year, unlike last year, with many maps fighting for the top places, but...

FINAL SCORES:
1st [68]: Treellama
2nd [65]: Irons
3rd [64]: W'rkncacnter
4th [63]: epstein
5th [62]: Megam4n
6th [61]: King Kidtofu
7th [57]: Shadowbreaker
8th [55]: Mordekai
9th [54]: Eric Strangeland
10th [50]: Krassos
11th [46]: assassingao
12th [43]: Blake37

MAP NAME: Bimonscipfhicon
BY: Treellama
SCORE: 68/70
Flow - 19/20 | Fun - 10/10
Balance - 15/15 | Originality - 10/10
Depth - 09/10 | Functionality - 05/05
Notes: One very lengthy staircase slightly hurts the flow; big rooms seem very bright.

MAP NAME: Nice Bikini
BY: Irons
SCORE: 65/70
Flow - 19/20 | Fun - 09/10
Balance - 14/15 | Originality - 10/10
Depth - 08/10 | Functionality - 05/05
Notes: Lots of the overlapping hallways may be troublesome. Texture placement could be better.

MAP NAME: Inappropriate Chocolate
BY: W'rkncacnter
SCORE: 64/70
Flow - 18/20 | Fun - 09/10
Balance - 15/15 | Originality - 09/10
Depth - 08/10 | Functionality - 05/05
Notes: Getting from the top to the bottom arena can be tough, and sometimes the geometry looks somewhat bizarre.

MAP NAME: Little Red Pill
BY: epstein
SCORE: 63/70
Flow - 19/20 | Fun - 10/10
Balance - 15/15 | Originality - 09/10
Depth - 05/10 | Functionality - 05/05
Notes: A nicely-flowing, but visually hideous, map. Slightly bland one-room map.

MAP NAME: A is for Ammo
BY: Megam4n
SCORE: 62/70
Flow - 15/20 | Fun - 08/10
Balance - 14/15 | Originality - 10/10
Depth - 10/10 | Functionality - 05/05
Notes: A beautiful map, though the boxes really hurt flow, turning it into an ambush festival.

MAP NAME: Seven Minutes
BY: King Kidtofu
SCORE: 61/70
Flow - 17/20 | Fun - 08/10
Balance - 15/15 | Originality - 07/10
Depth - 08/10 | Functionality - 04/05
Notes: Good architecture; terrible lighting. Some lifts are hard to board, and a visual glitch in one corner.

MAP NAME: Subduction
BY: Shadowbreaker
SCORE: 57/70
Flow - 15/20 | Fun - 09/10
Balance - 11/15 | Originality - 10/10
Depth - 07/10 | Functionality - 05/05
Notes: Low-gravity really hurts on a map with rockets, and the weapon load can be very unbalanced at times. Rockets can be tough to find. Bland texturing in places.

MAP NAME: Ministry of Archers
BY: Mordekai
SCORE: 55/70
Flow - 17/20 | Fun - 08/10
Balance - 13/15 | Originality - 10/10
Depth - 03/10 | Functionality - 05/05
Notes: Very ugly in general, though the disco room is cool. Stairs can be difficult to climb.

MAP NAME: It's Not The Fall That Kills You
BY: Eric Strangeland
SCORE: 54/70
Flow - 17/20 | Fun - 08/10
Balance - 12/15 | Originality - 05/10
Depth - 07/10 | Functionality - 05/05
Notes: One-room map, and with many rocket launchers to get easy spawn kills.

MAP NAME: Sit Tibbi Terra Levis
BY: Krassos
SCORE: 50/70
Flow - 15/20 | Fun - 07/10
Balance - 10/15 | Originality - 10/10
Depth - 04/10 | Functionality - 05/05
Notes: Bad stair placement hurts flow; uneven ammo placement and a very easily defended hill hurt balance. Abysmal texturing and lighting.

MAP NAME: Painfully Hot
BY: assassingao
SCORE: 46/70
Flow - 11/20 | Fun - 05/10
Balance - 14/15 | Originality - 10/10
Depth - 01/10 | Functionality - 05/05
Notes: Absolutely hideous to look at, and it's so stupidly huge, most of the game is spent wandering halls.

MAP NAME: Boneyard
BY: Blake37
SCORE: 43/70
Flow - 08/20 | Fun - 06/10
Balance - 09/15 | Originality - 10/10
Depth - 05/10 | Functionality - 05/05
Notes: Huge and ugly, with lots of tunnels to get lost in, and a very unbalanced ammo placement.

It was a good contest, and thanks for playing! I hope that next year, we can have another contest.

Well I feel happy with my results though. I didnt put the greatest effort ever in it.

Congrats Treellama . I really should have redone the texturing and the lighting on my map...

Well done to everyone! I hope to see them on Fileball soon. Good job! Irons did really well, it's a shame he isn't here to collect the glory.

Thanks to Ryoko for running and judging this contest, which got me to Forge a bit more than I would have otherwise.

So, can I post my map on the testing grounds?

(I need some advice...)


Shiit, Now I don't know what's a hall and what's not a hall, damn.



(Actually, I thought there was just 1 hall on that map, the one with 3 pillars. )


BY THE WAY! THERE ARE SECRET WEAPON ON ONE OF THOSE PILLARS (hmm... I love the smell of napalm in the morning.)