This is not anything against the quality of Dr. Elements metal, but I don't think adding more metals will be good moving forward for a number of reasons. I probably should've said this last page, but here I go anyways.
Everyone is thinking of the metal as just a reward, something that should be categorized based on your level of "accomplishment." But this is not what the medal truely is. Tiering the medal would provide a means for people say "oh, you only got bronze, it wasn't that good," "Oh, you got silver? Meh." "HOLY SNIKEYS YOU GOT GOLD YOU ARE A GOD!" An accomplishment is an accomplishment and everyone should (and shall be) considered equally for what they have done. Tiering this would break the equality of it all. We are all mappers, designers and artists. We are not professionals (well, some are) we do not need to have this categorization of people. (On top of that, those Silver/bronze medals would technically be more 'rare' which also adds to the aforementioned issue)
Secondly, we need to face the hard facts on this. TF2Maps.net is currently tied to TF2. Yes, we have kind of broke free from that a bit, but in general, TF2's popularity affects our popularity. This may change in the future, but putting in passive measures to ensure that this site can easily maintain a minimal level of automatonacy, is key the communities longevity. Making it so that there are 3 hand outs, instead of 1, means that there are two more points of fault for things to get screwed up down the line. Minimizing the point of faults, I think, is greatly needed for this.
Thats 2 of the major points I have against more medals, I've thought about this for a while and I am really against the idea of MORE medals for the same thing. That being said, if someone can come up with a really good reason as to why there should be more, then I'd love to hear it.
*gets off horse*