The Soldat Mappers' 1on1 Cup

[Avarax]

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?

[KRZ]

Good idea !

but someone (like Avarax) must agreed this maps.

"-not much bigger than arena / bigfalls
...
-no polybugs ;]"

[DragonSlayer]

I like the idea but it's a shame only good/decent mappers can join it. It should be fun for mappers though.

[Demonic]

Good idea, but like DS highlighted, we'd only get a small number of contestants - and all from different regions of the world, it would be hard to organise.

If we come up with a way to open this to a broader range of players, then I'd help in running this tourney - and join it myself ;o

[ramirez]

I think that's the idea. This cup would obviously be for mappers, or those interested in it anyway.
Anyway this idea is pretty awesome, even though I wouldn't participate myself.

[Avarax]

i think a solution could be a team of good mappers that would round up a map which isnt very pleasing to the eye.
this way, anyone could simply create solely the basic shade of the map with some and the helper team would then balance it out and apply good shading and scenery