Final Results for the 7th Mapping Contest

[X7[Q2C]]

WE HAVE A WINNER!
Congratulations to our winner Maric ! Great job!

Here are the total points from the 5 Judges:

1st Place: Maric/marics108.bsp - 383 total points
2nd Place: MONSTER/monster10.bsp - 380 total points
3rd Place: Spirit/spirit2dm4.bsp - 364 total points
4th Place: Shizznit/shizz1.bsp - 351 total points
5th Place: Le Ray [Q2C]/leray35.bsp - 333 total points
6th Place: tehSandwich/tsh2dm1.bsp - 320 total points
7th Place: Henneck/henneck2dm1.bsp - 309 total points
8th Place: Yendor/yggdrasil.bsp - 270 total points
9th Place: PeeWee_Rota/pwpipes1.bsp - 230 total points
10th Place: Macanah/macdmponder.bsp - 153 total points
11th Place: Mikemc/q2c7_mikemc.bsp - 149 total points


Here are the final score from the Judges:













Maps Downloads:
PeeWee_Rota - pwpipes1.bsp:
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/pwpipes1.zip

Spirit - spirit2dm4.bsp:
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/spirit2dm4.zip
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/spirit2dm4.txt

Yendor - yggdrasil.bsp:
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/Yggdrasil.zip
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/Yggdrasil.txt

Mikemc - q2c7_mikemc.bsp:
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/q2c7_mikemc.zip
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/q2c7_mikemc.txt

Le Ray [Q2C] - leray35.bsp:
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/leray35.zip
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/leray35.txt

Henneck - henneck2dm1.bsp:
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/henneck2dm1.zip
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/henneck2dm1.txt

Macanah - macdmponder.bsp:
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/macanah-ponder-map.zip
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/macanah-ponder-map.txt

Maric - marics108.bsp:
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/marics108.zip
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/marics108.txt

MONSTER - monster10.bsp:
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/monster10.zip
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/monster10.txt

Shizznit - shizz1.bsp:
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/shizz1.zip
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/shizz1.txt

tehSandwich - tsh2dm1.bsp:
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/tsh2dm1.zip
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/tsh2dm1.txt

LeRay Quake II Cafe' Quake II Mapping Contest #7 - Mappack
q2c.tastyspleen.net/maps/con_7/Q2CafeContest7.zip

This has all the 7th Mapping Contest maps and
4 override files that fixes stuff.


Thanks to all the mappers and judges for all your hard work.

Thank you for supporting Quake 2 and the Quake 2 Cafe' !


X7

[mrlemonyfresh]

What a great contest, heaps of great maps. Sorry i slowed it down

[peeweerota]

Congratulations Maric, 2 in a row!

Bravo sir

[Le Ray [Q2C]]

Congrats to Maric, very nice map(s)! Congrats to all the other mappers too. I must say, this was a great mapping contest. All the maps look great and it's awesome to see this many new maps released at one time for Q2. Also, thanks to all the judges who participated and a big thanks to X7 who put all of this together for us, great job! Thanks everyone.

[Wixen1 [Q2C]]

Congrats to Maric, you did it again.
And great work to all of the mappers.
I want to give special thanks to X7 for keeping track of all this, creating treads and pics and everything about this contest and beeing all by himself doing it, totally awesome work. Kuddos and lots of it to him. Thx. X7

-W1

[spirit]

Thanks to all the judges, organizers and mappers! The contest was great fun.

[buzzard]

Congrats to Maric, any screenshots of the maps?

[spirit]

Yeah, check the threads in here. Each map has its own thread with screenies.

[Wixen1 [Q2C]]

Sept 4, 2009 11:42:32 GMT -5 @spawngirl said:

Sorry for my honesty. I realize that my rating comments could be sharp. However im a player, and graphic/web designer.
I have notions of aesthetics so maybe I went too far looking aesthetic details.

But I always had in my mind the best maps I played to judge.

And I Judge maps from the point of view of a player and thinking in what inspires and make you feel the atmosphere of each map valuing the gameplay.

So congratulations to all competitors
is appreciable the great effort you have made

I like your honesty, maybe you can tell me the reason of why you judge the first 4 maps to get a zero (0) for textures and the rest of the maps, you find out different scores between 0 and 10 ?. Well it might be silly of me to ask, while you beeing a graphic/web designer, but I troully cant be the only one who wants to be educated in this issue.
-W1

[Whirlingdervish]

In case anyone wonders, I based my scores on 5 being an average value for a map that meets the standards of the majority of maps out there. A value lower than 5 reflected me finding at least one major flaw in a certain area, even if the rest of that category was covered to some degree, and got lower as I found more things that didn't live up to expectations.

If you didn't get at least a 5 on something, I found it lacking in at least one way for that category, unless it was the subjective judges opinion category.

For that one, I chose to rate the 11 maps from 0-10 in the order that I thought they should be on the final tally.

for everything else, 6, 7, and 8 were my values for what I considered superior as compared to most maps, and 9s and 10s were relegated to what I would consider above and beyond expectations, and perfect.


Overall, I found that every single map had multiple redeeming qualities and that it was much more challenging than I expected to retain a consistent rubric in judging them.. I was forced to make a spreadsheet very much like the results above and repeatedly revise my values as I replayed the maps, tested them with bots, and tried various changes to my configuration to bring the game back to the stock look that everyone would see if they loaded the map in a brand new q2.

[m]

Oh cool! Rock-on, judges! Thanks for all your time and hard work.

Great work on the accumulation of, and excellent presentation of all the information X7. That had to be a shizztatstic and monsterous effort to accomplish.

Thanks for the kind words ya'll.

Ima' gone haf me co-ments on all dem entrees soo'nuff.

[WHO?]

congrats maric, & a big WELL DONE to all the rest also! Some fine maps in there, going to put them up to at least one of the OGN servers over the next couple of days.

Thx for the new maps peoples but ...

BUT ..

Where are you kold?

what happened?
was he a threat & you lot had him kidnapped for the duration?

kold!! hello out there ... ;/

[peeweerota]

Sept 5, 2009 16:27:43 GMT -5 WHO? said:

Where are you kold?

what happened?
was he a threat & you lot had him kidnapped for the duration?

kold!! hello out there ... ;/

I don't know what you are taking about. Where would we take him? How you come up with these things is beyond me. And why, well that's another story altogether.

Wait, who am I talking to again?

[Mikemc]

I felt the judging was excellent on this contest. I got mixed reviews from fair to hard-ass which will help in my next release . Good job everyone!

[yendor]

I agree on the judging. It seemed to represent what attributes of a map would go over well among the general gaming public. No surprises - a good solid job to everyone involved.

I have learned more about mapping in doing this contest than in all the years before. Good times indeed! Just had fun playing all the other maps with a friend on local... Some good classics in there. Look forward to the next.