Mini-Mapping Contest #10 - Results

[Kazeon]

Opening words

After a decade (thanks to me), the result is finally out! And here it is! Hope you are satisfied with the result! Cheers! Please, congratulate the glorious winners!​

First Place: 45 reputation points and your entry on the award icon
Second Place: 30 reputation points and an award icon
Third Place: 15 reputation points and an award icon​

Area	Description	Points
Originality:	Map must be original, a simple copy of another map might get less points for the gameplay and originality, but if the terrain and everything are fine, then you would still have some points. We want to see unique things and cool ideas.	You can score up to 15 points here.
Map Presentation/Design:	Author name, map name, category, type, description, links ingame on loading screen, messages in-game are very important. How good the map preview or the loading screen image are, check tooltips, quest menu, icons all around (hero/unit stats, interface, tooltips etc). Same colored icons and spell effects as well as models (like green for poison hero) are better than random ones. Passive icons on active ones or vice versa are bad. Check UI and game constants as well.	You can score up to 10 points here.
Terrain:	Please take care, some maps use a generated terrain (created with triggers), thus the preview image may show an empty map. Negative things are empty, plain, single-tile terrains, without environmental doodads or any kind of terrain style. Good things are special effect doodads (to make the terrain a little animated), lighting, fog, terrain styles or custom resources.	You can score up to 15 points here.
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance:	Bugs, errors and performance issues will reduce your score. (Everything created with triggers is usually the case) However if there are just small bugs/errors, then you probably won't get a lower score. Memory leaks are the main problem, systems and spells should be more or less lag-free/errorless. (Even protected maps can show how good the user's triggering skills are, for example check if there are any performance issues when units are spawned.) Be noted that all final entries should be a none-optimized version of your map so that judges can take a look at triggers for many issues that may arise. Optimized final entries will lead to disqualification.	You can score up to 20 points here.
Object Data:	Units' size ingame, selection size, how good creeps look like. (small skeleton with sword, normal with bow and another one with axe is better than ogre, gnoll and murloc -> Creeps should not be completely random and very different from each other). In other words check how good abilities and stats fit to units. Maps with a huge file size are horrible, no one will wait 2 minutes long to download a map on battle.net. (unless single player) That's why we need to check imported resources. MP3 files can be edited, the quality can be reduced and thus a lot of space can be saved, simple effect sounds without voice can be reduced even to 32 kbps in some cases, for voices don't go below 50. Maps with a file size of 8MB and only 1 sound effect/music file are not acceptable. Also check if only a part of a song is used and if it has been cropped. Same thing goes for textures, if you can reduce the quality from 100-75% and thus the size will go down from 40-70% in some cases.	You can score up to 10 points here.
Gameplay:	The gameplay is the main aspect of the map. Game modes, game difficulties, special events, systems(not how well they are made, but if they make the map more fun) etc. Everything else that is left unchecked can go here. Please check how balanced the gameplay is, check how long the game lasts, if the map can be finished without any major problems.	You can score up to 30 points here.

Rufus	3
bear_369	2
Thaelran	4
rulerifiron99	6
Tickles	6
Dat C3	1

Judging

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Cokemonkey11

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Playtoy - Rufus

Originality	6 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	3 / 10
Terrain	10 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	12 / 20
Object Data	10 / 10
Gameplay	3 / 30
Total	44 / 100

Before the Winter - Thaelran

Originality	6 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	7 / 10
Terrain	10 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	14 / 20
Object Data	10 / 10
Gameplay	22 / 30
Total	69 / 100

Dead Lab 416 - rulerofiron66

Originality	12 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	6 / 10
Terrain	14 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	16 / 20
Object Data	10 / 10
Gameplay	21 / 30
Total	79 / 100

Five Nights at Bear's - bear_369

Originality	8 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	5 / 10
Terrain	9 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	12 / 20
Object Data	10 / 10
Gameplay	14 / 30
Total	58 / 100

for map contest - Dat-C3

Originality	4 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	2 / 10
Terrain	1 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	11 / 20
Object Data	8 / 10
Gameplay	3 / 30
Total	29 / 100

Lizard Gaiden - Tickles

Originality	13 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	6 / 10
Terrain	11 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	12 / 20
Object Data	10 / 10
Gameplay	20 / 30
Total	72 / 100

Dalvengyr

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Playtoy - Rufus

Originality	0 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	0 / 10
Terrain	0 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	0 / 20
Object Data	0 / 10
Gameplay	0 / 30
Total	0 / 100

Before the Winter - Thaelran

Originality	13 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	7 / 10
Terrain	13 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	11 / 20
Object Data	10 / 10
Gameplay	25 / 30
Total	79 / 100

Dead Lab 416 - rulerofiron66

Originality	5 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	7 / 10
Terrain	7 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	13 / 20
Object Data	8 / 10
Gameplay	12 / 30
Total	52 / 100

Five Nights at Bear's - bear_369

Originality	2 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	3 / 10
Terrain	2 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	1 / 20
Object Data	4 / 10
Gameplay	2 / 30
Total	14 / 100

for map contest - Dat-C3

Originality	0 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	0 / 10
Terrain	0 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	0 / 20
Object Data	0 / 10
Gameplay	0 / 30
Total	0 / 100

Lizard Gaiden - Tickles

Originality	11 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	8 / 10
Terrain	14 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	17 / 20
Object Data	6 / 10
Gameplay	21 / 30
Total	77 / 100

Kino

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Playtoy - Rufus

Originality	8 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	7 / 10
Terrain	7 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	7 / 20
Object Data	7 / 10
Gameplay	15 / 30
Total	51 / 100

Before the Winter - Thaelran

Originality	13 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	6 / 10
Terrain	13 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	14 / 20
Object Data	9 / 10
Gameplay	25 / 30
Total	80 / 100

Dead Lab 416 - rulerofiron66

Originality	11 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	7 / 10
Terrain	14 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	18 / 20
Object Data	9 / 10
Gameplay	24 / 30
Total	83 / 100

Five Nights at Bear's - bear_369

Originality	3 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	4 / 10
Terrain	5 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	10 / 20
Object Data	6 / 10
Gameplay	14 / 30
Total	42 / 100

for map contest - Dat-C3

Originality	2 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	2 / 10
Terrain	1 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	15 / 20
Object Data	2 / 10
Gameplay	5 / 30
Total	27 / 100

Lizard Gaiden - Tickles

Originality	9 / 15
Map Presentation/Design	10 / 10
Terrain	13 / 15
Triggers/Efficiency/Performance	18 / 20
Object Data	8 / 10
Gameplay	25 / 30
Total	83 / 100

Final Score

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#1 - Lizard Gaiden - Tickles
#2 - Before the Winter - Thaelran
#3 - Dead Lab 416 - rulerofiron99

Closing words

Phew! Congratulations to the winners! And thank you to all contestants for participating. And thanks to all judges as well for sparing their times to participate. This contest is pretty unique imo: TheWhiteWolf started the contest, rulerofiron99 managed the polling thread, and then me who is dealing with the contest result xD

If you think you have a problem with the judgings, please, send a PM regarding to your complaint to the referred judge.​

CONTEST || POLL​

 

[Kazeon]

Don't approve this yet. Somehow I have lost GreeN!X judgings. And his pastebin has been deleted.

 

[chobibo]

Congratulations to everyone that joined, specially the winner.

 

[Heinvers]

Congratulations to the top 3 and the rest who partook in it.

Well done

 

[Kazeon]

Seems like we are going with the 3 remaining judgings, I'm really messed up. I'm very sorry about this.

Anyway, the result should be popped up soon. Be ready ladies and gentlemans!

EDIT:
Hope you are satisfied with the result. By the way, Before the Winter is my favorite map here

 

[rulerofiron99]

Thanks Kino & Cokemonkey11 for the good work with the judging.

Let's start the next contest some time in the next few weeks. There's a thread up for idea suggestions before we do a poll: http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/...mini-mapping-contest-11-brainstorming-262041/

 

[Tickles]

Yeah, thank you judges for judging, and I'm sure it was a nightmare to keep everything together Dalvengyr. Big thanks to you for getting this one finished up so we can move on to the next one.

 

[Lacky]

Congratulation Tickles!, and the other participants.