i think you are off to a good start but it is a little hard to give you detailed feedback just looking at this on paper. paper is a great tool, but remember at this point the map exists mostly in your mind. all i can say about gameplay is the map looks very small. this is okay if you just want a fun map to play with friends, but if you want something to play competitively you can't have the entire map visible at once in this way.
i have a few suggestions about your layout process (in no particular order):
- your diagram looks way too pretty for this stage. the diagrams i made in my articles were for finalized maps, that is the only reason i spent so much time on them. in the beginning, draw on paper to a level of detail where it's not very annoying to scratch things out and draw the whole map out again. otherwise, you will get annoyed quickly. again, paper is mainly a tool for YOU. if YOU can tell what you are doing, it doesn't matter if it is a quick and dirty drawing.
- if color-coding helps you, use the paint brush tool in Photoshop or something simple like that.
- quad is basically never used in tourney maps. it is way too powerful. stick to armors and MH for power items.
- when designing an area, try to give the player multiple options for how to enter/exit that area. for me, the magic number is three. unless i want an area to be really dangerous, i try to give the player three choices of how to get in or out. some areas, like large rooms, have more than three connections, but i've always felt three is a good standard.
take for example standing on the ground level in the middle of pro-q3dm6 at the MH. you can go through either of the two doors to the LG or the SG or you can go up the bouncer to the RL - that's three options.
if you have less than three options, it becomes very easy to lead a player as he moves along a certain path, or trap him completely.
- when you block out your map, try doing it the way i did my most recent alpha. use one texture. any other textures you use should be special surfaces. don't even worry about lights, just use ambient lighting. don't worry about ceilings, they will get in the way in your editor. it's called a "floorplan" for a reason. the floors and walls are the only important things at this point.
- everything should be blocky. try to stay mostly on the 64u grid and sometimes on the 32u grid. definitely avoid the 16u grid or lower (with very few exceptions). if you find yourself worrying if a path should be 16 or 32 units longer and you haven't even completed the layout yet you are spending time on the wrong things.
- as always, my strategy is to learn from the best. not everyone likes this, but i find it really helpful to decompile famous maps and retrace them in all types of ways to get a feel for their scale and how they work. when you are just learning, i'd suggest spending as little as 50% of your time creating maps. spend the other portion of the time studying/playing good maps, watching pro games, and figuring out what went wrong on your last project and what you can learn from it.
when you do this, it can be hard not to copy other people's work since you are studying it so closely. i wouldn't worry to much at this point. just be honest about what you're doing. it's perfectly okay to say, "i was really inspired by map X, and i used it as a basis for this layout as a way to learn." it won't be too long before you'll have some of your own creative ideas that you can take to completion and release as full maps.
hope that helps!
pat
p.s. don't bother with QL devs like SyncError until you have a finished product to show them.
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Map would be for Vanilla Quake 3, with some changes it can be later converted for Quake Live and sent to devs to be ckecked out (LG is for example a lot stronger in QL than in Q3). Feedback is more than welcomed 
I just have creative mind now, I imagined a tourney map and wanna keep it alive. As I said, I would start making this map after the current deathmatch map I am working on, now pending to Radiant issue solve, goes final. I am planning forward, not working actualy on two or more projects besides...