Contest idea thread!

Push-CP-Contest wold be nice, not only because I am currently making such a map, but also because there are not so much good 5 cp maps.

+1 for 5CPs

midget31394 said:

I'd love to see a 5cp push contest. I don't like the game mode, so I'd love some maps to get me into the swing of things

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/agree

Indeed, a 5cp contest would be good. The only 5cp maps that i liked are badlands, granary, yukon, well and fastlane from Valve/Community maps.

And 5cp custom maps, i only prefer freight, redstone and warpath_v3.

What about koth i like it alot

I would love to see another "new gamemode" competition. The a/d ctf maps were really fun for me and I would love to see such creativity in the next competition. Maybe even something like KotF (from what I saw Mangy already did something like this).

KoTF sounds like an interesting game mode to do. Ohhhhh we could have a CTF contest! All the maps use some CTF variant! Like A/D CTF, KoTF, PLCTF etc. That would be really cool.

/me flies past Nineaxis. :3

I think we've already had the next contest decided since a few weeks (months?) ago. So while you can put in your ideas they might have to wait.

Oooh what is it what is it. And if you can't tell us what it is, then can we know when we can know?

I agree, we need another new gamemode contest
Balloon race!!!!!!

Personally I'm hoping for either a Dustbowl type competition, or a Gravelpit style competition. These kinds of maps are few and far between at the moment it seems.

You know what we need a contest of?

A 4-point non-linear map contest. Seriously we need some more of those maps then just cp_desertfortress. Ever since grinder got canceled I've been waiting for another mapper to make one

A Boojum Snark said:

I think we've already had the next contest decided since a few weeks (months?) ago. So while you can put in your ideas they might have to wait.

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This. We've got ideas for new mini-contests, but nothing set in stone, so keep the ideas coming!

I always feel like a constant (really) mini contest should be held. One that doesn't require too much effort, but helps people take a break from their mapping projects.

Like, the first two weeks each month should be the time people have to make it. The next two weeks are the voting time. you do one constantly - 1st of every month marks day 1 of the creation process, 15th of every month marks the first day of voting, and the 29th marks the winner being announced (the 30th and 31st are breaks).

Now, for something so often, it'd have to be a simple, quick thing for those that just want to take a day break. OR it could be something somebody could work on for a week, if they want to.

So what could it be? I was thinking a screenshot detail mapping contest. The two weeks to make something - be it a room, a scene, whatever you want in Hammer. You may then compile it, and take a screenshot of what you think is the best picture (you can take as many screenshots as you want, but only one counts). Submit the .jpg in the submission thread, and wait for the voting time to end. No special requirements - just any scene (although you could do random ones, like during December, make the best Christmas scene, or just a random Hydro Theme month - whatever the admin says).

All you'd need for this would be a Submission Thread and a Voting Thread. Voting Thread would only be open from the 15th to the 28th, submission thread only open from the 1st to the 14th. You could purge each thread after each month has gone by. Maybe have a third thread that's always locked, where you show the winners of each, as well as the rest of the submissions, and an admin updates it when each new month comes along.

tl;dr: You're lazy

littleedge said:

I always feel like a constant (really) mini contest should be held. One that...
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tl;dr: You're lazy

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Personally I loved the swamp detailing contest. What about a contest in which every mapper must create a capture point and up to 2048 x 2048 surrounding it. It would be based on gameplay potential and detailing. And then you'd have a follow-up contest in which mappers had to expand the winning entry into a koth map.

littleedge said:

Like, the first two weeks each month should be the time people have to make it. The next two weeks are the voting time. you do one constantly - 1st of every month marks day 1 of the creation process, 15th of every month marks the first day of voting, and the 29th marks the winner being announced (the 30th and 31st are breaks).

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Nobody would win in february :O

Tapp said:

Personally I loved the swamp detailing contest. What about a contest in which every mapper must create a capture point and up to 2048 x 2048 surrounding it. It would be based on gameplay potential and detailing. And then you'd have a follow-up contest in which mappers had to expand the winning entry into a koth map.

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We had a CP area contest already.

A Boojum Snark said:

We had a CP area contest already.

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We did?

[ame="http://forums.tf2maps.net/forumdisplay.php?f=53"]Contest #8: Capture Point - TF2Maps.net[/ame]

Maybe spawnroom contest, nothing but fancy/neat looking spawnrooms? not really big, like 750x750 is the max size. Maybe for a mini contest. I think it's been a while since we've done one of those. =)

We did that Blade? [ame="http://forums.tf2maps.net/forumdisplay.php?f=51"]Contest #6: Spawnroom - TF2Maps.net[/ame]

These spawn rooms were bigger, but they are still spawn rooms so..