MSG Quake 3 Mapping Competition #3

[cityy]

For the third time, MaverickServers is hosting a Quake 3 mapping competition. Mappers from the community are encouraged to participate; veteran mappers and those looking to get into mapping are welcome to join in on the fun. Prizes will be awarded to the best maps.

The contest will start in late May or early June and run for roughly 10 weeks. Judging will occur for 1 week after. Registration deadline is 3 weeks after the start date (roughly around June 21st). More information will be posted here and on the main competition forums as it becomes available.

AMD, ATI, Sapphire, Autodesk, Planetside Software, and Crucial were the last competition sponsors and provided some really great incentives.

PRIZES AND SPONSORS:
-Massacre Servers donated $100; please see payment notes at the bottom
-Lunar Module donated 3 one year web and email hosting packages; please see hosting notes at the bottom
-CG Textures donated a one year 100MB membership package
-Luxology donated a copy of Modo 501 modeling and rendering sotfware.
-Ready Up Radio donated $50; please see payment notes at the bottom
-Sapphire donated one SAPPHIRE HD 6870 FleX graphics card with Eyefinity
-Wacom donated one Intuos4 Medium pen tablet
-Kot-in-Action have donated 10 copies of their latest game release, Steel Storm: Burning Retribution available on Steam

RULES:

-The map should be able to hold at least 8 players suitable for 4v4 TDM/CTF or 8 players FFA or be a 1v1 map (although 1v1/tournament maps will be held to the same quality levels as more complex TDM/CTF maps)
-Doesn't necessarily have to support a specific gametype or mod, but you are welcome to specify one
-Map must be previously unreleased or a new design. Please no map remakes or edits.
-Map must contain sponsor images. Gotta show some thanks, right?
-Full rule listing at the main competition website

JUDGING:

-Will be done by a panel of experienced players and mappers who are familiar with that map's chosen audience (ie: a CPM map is judged by CPM players, a CTF map is judged by CTF players, etc)
-Scored primarily on gameplay/design and also on overall looks, creativity, and layout
-Judges: TBA

NOTES:
- The winner(s) receiving money as a prize are required to have a Paypal.com account.
- Hosting prize notes: The winner(s) receiving web and email hosting prizes will receive 1 year of web hosting with 100MB of storage and 1 database, 1 mailbox with 100MB of storage, and a subdomain of lunarmodule.co.uk or domain hosting if a domain is already owned.

Competition Links: Main Page, Forums, IRC: [url=irc://irc.quakenet.org/maverickservers]#maverickservers[/url]
Previous Competition: ESR Post, Q3W Post, Main Page

[Infernis]

That's good news! I hope there will be a lot of participants and some great maps!

[cityy]

The post has been updated with the first sponsor. More to come.

[Kaz]

Note to potential competitors: the orange piglet I received from Crucial/Ballistix was more than enough compensation for the time and effort. It's so cute! :P

[cityy]

Next sponsor has been announced! Register now!

[cityy]

Another sponsor has been anounced! Take a look at the initial post.

[fKd]

ill try get something together this round lol... said that every time... must focus! 10 weeks sounds nice now, but im sure ill have to go into crunch mode gl hf all who enter, looking forward to another round of quality maps!

[cityy]

There is a new sponsor!!!

-Luxology donated a copy of Modo 501 modeling and rendering sotfware.

[cityy]

New sponsors have been announced!

-Ready Up Radio donated $50; please see payment notes at the bottom
-Sapphire donated one SAPPHIRE HD 6870 FleX graphics card with Eyefinity

[Infernis]

I just read this update on the site:

Competition will begin on June 4th, 2011 and end on August 13th 2011. GLHF

[kaustic]

23 people so far.Thats most excellent.

[cityy]

Forgot to post that. New sponsor anouncement though!

-Wacom donated one Intuos4 Medium pen tablet

[cityy]

And as I wrote this post another sponsor was announced:

-Kot-in-Action have donated 10 copies of their latest game release, Steel Storm: Burning Retribution available on Steam

[Noruen]

I need that tablet

Great work Maverick!

[fKd]

fight ya for it!

[cityy]

The competition is over. The grab the judging mappack here: http://maverickservers.com/forums/viewt ... 14&t=16949

[cityy]

Late sponsor announcement:
id software will donate a 1 Year Quake Live Pro subscription for each of the top 3 finishers and a 1 year Quake Live Premium subscription for 4th and 5th place.

[MrLego]

Leave it to id to step up and make things a little more interesting when things get down to the wire.

Nice addition.

[cityy]

The competition ended!

Thank you again to all the sponsors, judges, and participants who make this an aswesome competition. The winners are:

1st Ferdinand "cityy" List with 'Fluorescent'
2nd Tom "Phantazm11" Perryman with 'Windsong Keep'
3rd Russell "bst" Vint with 'Terminatria'
4th Patrick "kaffeewunder" horn with 'knc_dm3'
5th Justin "StormShadow" Ingels with 'Satanic'
6th David "Noruen" Adámek with 'Penumbra'
7th Pawel "ShadoW" Chrapka with 'Sanctum'
8th Peter "fKd" Ward with 'Server Overload'
9th Ricardo "EmeraldTiger" Stevenson with 'Tactical Assault'
10th DaEngineer and Bliccer with 'Roman Duel'
11th Fubsy with 'Fbtdm1'
12th Anthony "Kaustic" Tullo with 'Damed Be Thy Name'
13th Andy "dONKEY" Dunn with 'dk_ng3'
14th Hendrik "InsaneKid" Berger with 'Ebirah'

Again, thank you all for participating. This was great fun.

Prize distribution:
-The top 10 won a copy of Steel Storm from Kot-In-Action (http://www.kot-in-action.com/blog/?p=677)
-1st, 2nd, and 3rd place get a web and email hosting package from Lunar Module (http://www.lunarmodule.co.uk/)
-id Software has given 4th and 5th place Premium QuakeLive subscriptions and the top 3 Pro subscriptions (http://www.quakelive.com)
-3rd place gets a year long subscription to http://www.cgtextures.com
-1st place get to pick two items from the following list with 2nd place getting the third item:
Modo 501 Rendering Software from Luxology (http://www.luxology.com)
Sapphire HD 6870 FleX graphics card with Eyefinity (http://www.sapphiretech.com)
Intuos4 Medium pen table from Wacom (http://wacom.com/)

For those who won a prize I'll be sending you an email with the info as soon as I can. Note if you have changed your email and you won a prize please notify me as soon as possible at campagnolo90@hotmail.com.

http://maverickservers.com/forums/viewt ... 14&t=16956

[phantazm11]

Congratulations cityy on a great map! Well deserved!

Congrats to all participants. Everyone did a great job this time around and the community will have some great new maps to play!

Thanks again for Maverick Servers and all of the sponsors for hosting this competition

[Ouija]

Gee. Honestly, I didn't expect that there are mapping competitions this big for this old, dusty engine until I went back into business.
Gonna take a look at the winner map to see whether I stand any chance if I were to try my luck next time an opportunity like this arises.

[sumatra]

Congrats, congrats, conrats!! Well deserved 1st place.
I like!