I respectfully disagree with you YM. I feel that Ezeckel is doing a service to people like me who cant download maps from the server. Due to the speed of my internet, it would take me 5-10 extra minutes to DL a map from the server each time the map changes. I don't want to do that. I prefer to dedicate my internet for 2 hours DLing this pack, unzipping it, and then playing then asap. I dont see how it is any worse than me going through every contest thread and downloading them myself, except for they arent zipped, and doing that takes me an hour just to click every one (I exadurate). Anyways, I will DL your offical pack, and replace the current one with it, however, I feel thankful to Ezeckel for this one.
If you want a map to play then download it from the thread, you usually have enough heads up for gamedays, even for impromptu's. This way it is garaunteed to be the most up to date map version rather than getting stuck in the very DL queue you tried to avoid. I don't know where this "they are not zipped" arguement is coming from, it is a contest requirement that they are submitted in .zip format for ease of downloading and format recognition (some, have opted for bz2, for server related reasons. But they should be providing .zip mirrors as well).
A number of the maps in the map pack are out dated and wont actually do you any benefits that you claim it does. A map pack implies a certain authority in the contest's presence and causes too many players to rely on the pack which is actually out dated with incorrect map versions. It will piss off more players than it justifies itself being useful to you as an individual.
Obviously Zeke is only trying to help, but he's potentially doing more harm than good with these premature map packs. We thank him for his willingness to get involved but these things are best left to the proper channels. This isn't the first annual contest the mods have performed, they know what they're doing.
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