Major Contest #18: Stack the Deck [Results]

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And now the main event! Have you been holding your breath for the big reveal? First of all, we're all impressed you've held it for a week, but more importantly you can now breath again, since the results are here! From 21 entries back in July, down to a top three after three months of judging, we present to you the winners of Major Contest #18: Stack the Deck:

First Place:
Desolation by @MayaMogus
8.18 points

Second Place:
Splinter by @Idolon, @zythe_, @pont, and @Sarexicus
8.12 points

Third Place:
Chouhen by @AlrexX [she/they]
7.45 points

The winners will be contacted about prizes soon!​

And here are the rest of the scores at a glance:

Placement	Map	Final Score	Public Score (60%)	Judge Score (40%)
1st	Desolation	8.18	8.23	8.10
2nd	Splinter	8.12	7.63	8.85
3rd	Chouhen	7.45	7.51	7.35
4th	Lamworth	7.34	6.97	7.90
5th	Thalassophobia	6.80	6.96	6.55
6th	Underway	6.68	7.29	5.76
7th	Azure World	6.30	6.15	6.54
8th	Siege	6.07	6.86	4.87
9th	Conclave	5.99	6.10	5.86
10th	Shanksgiving	5.18	5.62	4.52

Full Scores and Judging Notes:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1qiQyO0XTVZR0OAERsGHny5n_ZnBptvgM3ciWHYJyc2Y/edit?usp=sharing

To sort the sheet by final scores, public scores, and judge scores, there are filters set up you can access via this button:

Thank you to our judges @14bit, @Sonoma, @Diva Dan, @Erk, @Defcon, @ScarlettValkrie, and @Yacan1 for all of their time and notes!

Public Voting Thread with Notes:
https://tf2maps.net/threads/major-contest-18-stack-the-deck-finalists-voting.52938/

Spoiler: Notes on Seacat08's and Pdan4's public votes

Seacat08's votes for pl_desolation_b3a_bugfix have been discarded as they were self-admitted to be based on a previous version of the map. This was a 5-1 decision (one abstention) by the Contest Planning Team, the majority advocating to keep all of Seacat08's scores other than pl_desolation_b3a_bugfix, and the minority advocating for discarding Seacat08's entire ballot.

Pdan4's scores have been rolled back to what they were when voting closed. Pdan had edited his scores about 22 minutes after voting was closed. This was a 4-2-1 decision by the Contest Planning Team, the majority advocating to roll back Pdan4's scores to what they were when votes closed, two votes for using the edited scores, and with one vote to discard Pdan4's entire ballot.

Special thanks to everyone on the Contest Planning Team (@14bit, @nesman, @Sonoma, @MC_Labs15, @adam2, @Erk, and @Pdan4) for helping run this whole show. Particular thanks to @Pdan4 for taking charge of the cards! And speaking of the cards...

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The first test prints are being sent off shortly, and we expect to be able to open up purchases for them on October 18th. We will put in the orders for the winners and provide the coupon codes for the finalists around that date as well. Keep an eye out for updates from Pdan on when and how to get some!

Thank you everyone for participating and voting. We got some stellar maps this contest, and we're looking forward to seeing where they all go from here. Thanks for playing!

 

[Twan1]

nice

 

[MayaMogus]

Thank you all for voting and congrats to the other finalists (especially Splinter And Chouhen, fantastic maps and very deserving of top 3) and to all those who entered the contest, it was a blast to work on it and I’m honoured to been able to have placed first. <3

 

[AlrexX [she/they]]

Oh my god. Third place is absolutely wild. Congrats to everyone else and thank you so much for organizing this contest! ^^

 

[Seacat08]

Congrats to the winners and more importantly everyone who participated. Yall did good!

 

[GuardianAngel]

Congrats all, thanks to all the staff for organising, it was very fun to take part Also thanks to everyone who left feedback, its very helpful for improving