On artpass contest originality...

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HeaH

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Draco18s

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Valve will give a winner, but then they will do a whole ton of "Best of" runner-up consolation "prizes".

"Best moon base." "Best night map." "Best War Zone map." Etc...

Probably won't be like that. There'll probably be a winner and then...

"We liked this one a lot, but it wasn't well optimized"
or "altered the game play a little too much (but we liked it anyway)"
or "didn't fit the TF2 theme very well."

They'll be shoutouts to maps that didn't make some cut and the judges wished that it had.
 

J4CK8

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I really hope they do show some best ______ maps as the nature of the contest doesn't really allow for multiple winners. Unlike the Polycount contest where they can easily add other entries into the game bringing variaty too, adding multiple maps of the same layout isn't really a great idea, unless they implemented it in some sort of L4D mutation style. Each week a new version of the map is in the game but that would be pointless as server owners could just choose the version.

I think everyone will be disapointed if they don't give at least the top 10 entries a spot on the blog.