Major Mapping Contest #4

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The Political Gamer said:
One thing it ever mentions is if we can submit multiple maps.
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That was asked and answered at some point, you can as long as they are entirely different maps, you can't submit the same with just a minor modification, or even a larger modification like the abomination that was waste.
 
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Upload thread is now live, please please make sure you upload with plenty of time before the deadline as the thread will be locked on the deadline and that will be final, any submissions after then won't be accepted, and if you're making your post as the thread gets locked, you're also too late so PLEASE submit with plenty of time!!

http://forums.tf2maps.net/showthread.php?t=12822
 
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What time is it?

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Are you ready? Im not.
 
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YM, could you update us on whether an extension was given, and the new deadline if it was?

I remember somewhere you posted if the recent hammer bug was not fixed for another 24 hours from said post that there would be an extension (and it was, meaning it was unusbale for ~40 hours depending when people updated their steam client). But i've not seen any comfirmation anywhere so i'm inclined to believe it was eventually overlooked. Mind confirming this for people?
 
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grazr said:
YM, could you update us on whether an extension was given, and the new deadline if it was?

I remember somewhere you posted if the recent hammer bug was not fixed for another 24 hours from said post that there would be an extension (and it was, meaning it was unusbale for ~40 hours depending when people updated their steam client). But i've not seen any comfirmation anywhere so i'm inclined to believe it was eventually overlooked. Mind confirming this for people?
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No obvious announcement = no extension.
 
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YM said:
...The contest will end on Friday May 8th at 04:00am (04:00) UTC. (Check for your timezone)...
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Also, The friday is the 7th, not the 8th.

Current UTC (or GMT/Zulu)-time used: Saturday, 8 May 2010, 04:00:00
UTC is Coordinated Universal Time, GMT is Greenwich Mean Time.
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What's with that?
 
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grazr said:
Also, The friday is the 7th, not the 8th.

What's with that?
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whoops, I can't believe none of us spotted that yet. Yeah I mean saturday 8th 4am UTC. This time is still friday for US people, this is where I got muddled up.

The time on the link is the correct time.
 
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so there's no extensions or anything cos of hammer & then the servers getting mucked up at the end of last week?
 
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so there's no extensions or anything cos of hammer & then the servers getting mucked up at the end of last week?
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Like I said to grazr, if there was an extension with only a week to know, you'd sure as hell know about it.
The hammer outage was not long enough to warrant a sizeable extension as anything under a week is more confusing than it's worth.
 
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YM said:
Like I said to grazr, if there was an extension with only a week to know, you'd sure as hell know about it.
The hammer outage was not long enough to warrant a sizeable extension as anything under a week is more confusing than it's worth.
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i guess. but the borking of the servers cost me a test session. and it's too late now to do anything about anything now regarding that. (not that i expected to have any major bugs this close to the end, but sometimes things slip through)


oh yeh, are we allowed to submit entries as .bz2? cos the instructions say zip file, but both submissions so far have been in bz2
 
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Ezekel said:
i guess. but the borking of the servers cost me a test session. and it's too late now to do anything about anything now regarding that. (not that i expected to have any major bugs this close to the end, but sometimes things slip through)
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Pretty much this. Hammer was down for nearly 2 days for some people and it cost me (and others too apparently) a potential gameday test, if there was even just an additional 24 hours it would have been on the weekend too which would have meant a lot. I could have even spent the weekend adding in more details. A lot of people are creating their first beta's and art passes so it would have probably been better for the contests results to give them the weekend to make up for the downtime which was in the last week of the contest no less.

Oh well, better go get my map ready.
 
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Valve actually messed up a lot more for me with the last SDK update (crashes my graphics card at random intervals), but I'm not asking for an extension cause I am probably the only one. Unless there are other people with an NVIDIA 9600 GT graphics card ofcourse.

I'm just trying to get my map done within the set deadline, with a lot of reboots...
 
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