i just had an awesome inspiration!
how about a 1on1 tournament, in which each participant created his own map, that he would always play on. the map would basically be his stadium / his home map. the tournament would be executed in a K.O. system, with a tournament tree for 8 or 16 players.
the 1on1s would be held with ESL rules, which are great imo, and there'd always be 2 or 3 rounds, one on the opponents map, one on your own map and one on a possible tiebreaker map
the made maps would have to follow some guidlines, but you'd be offered freedom in most parts of doing it. additionally, there'd be chosen the best map out of all the participators, which would then be the tiebraker map for the 1on1 duels.
guidelines for the maps would for example be:
- average optic
- no non-jet or flat maps (like lagrance)
- not much bigger than arena / bigfalls
- no super unfair spots and no statguns
- very few polybugs
in the end, we'd have a winner in the category actual soldat-skill and in the category mapping-skill
what do you think / would you participate?