Looks excellent, as expected from sst13.
There is a spawnflag to set up different item layouts for FFA and tourney, but unfortunately it`s only found in Team Arena and QL, and does not work in vq3.
The flow seems good; better than the original actually, since there`s curves to smooth out your movement. I did find a place where the flow could be enhanced even further, and perhaps make the map more interesting: You could put an accel pad on the end of the walkway the medkit is, that takes you to the GL platform across the room. The GL would have to be extended, maybe put a grate on the side. That way one doesn`t have to take the two flights of stairs, and make the map faster.
P.S. I saw the secret statue of TankJr - very nice! I was wanting to do something similar to this (taking a Q3 player model and turning it into a statue) but was having problems doing it. Perhaps you could throw a PM on how you went about creating the TankJr. statue? Thanks in advance.
Good luck with your remake, king of remakes.

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