After a long weekend of digging through the maps, and consideration of the community's feedback we've chosen the winners for the melee map making contest. There were over 100 entries, and we had to narrow it down to only 5.
Grand Prize Winner
First off, our grand prize winner, for an NVIDIA GTX 460 graphics card:
Dunes of Despair
This was an amazing map to play, and the quality is almost as much as I could expect out of any competitive map. It's very pleasant to look at, and well balanced for all races. Amazing work by funcmode!
Second Place
Our second place prize is a SteelSeries Zboard StarCraft II keyboard and goes to:
Eldrith
This map has a very unique and mysterious design. Terrain is very well done and an exciting addition to the 1v1 comeptitive maps.
Runner Ups
Lastly, our third prize, a SteelSeries StarCraft II mouse pad, goes out to three well designed maps:
Pandora
A unique design which pushes you into a single bottleneck as you move towards your opponent. That is, unless you decide to travel the skies. Very creative design.
The Veil of Shadows
One of the most straightforward entries. Veil of Shadows offers the players a quick defensible natural and several options to advance beyond that.
Aliens Binary Mothership
An entry by one of our own, vernam. This map combines a different feel for a competitive map, but overall amazing design.
Honorable Mention
Romeous
Bringing a change of design from many others, Romeous surrounds you with molten lava and many decisions to attack the awaiting opponents.
Congratulations to our winners, and great work to everyone who entered the contest. We will update the contest details page accordingly in the next week, and send out the bonus Nibbits Gold (virtual currency) to all entrants.
Congratulations all who won!
I enjoyed making my maps for this contest, was a lot of fun! Thanks a bunch for placing my map second :) I hope I can make more -- even better maps. I was hoping Leiranda would do better, but didn't see the flaws until the contest closed... but hopefully its worthy of 1st place now :P
I shall see you all again when I create more maps!
Thank you Nibbits for a great contest, thank you for reviews and a mouse pad! xD
Also many congratulations to funcmode for an awesome map and other winners! And good luck for every one else in future contests, don't give up if you didn't win something! ;)
well-done to everyone! keep up the good work!(hope you use sc2allin1 for your map tests and gaming ;-) )
weldone funcmode nice job!
hope a new competition will be up again,i am getting ready for a new cool submition! this time will not be that easy funcmode LOL ;-)
jk excelent job man.
I'm lost for words!
First off thanks to anyone who submitted a review for Dunes of Despair or any of my other maps, and thanks to Nibbits for running the contest in the first place!
Should be uploading a new map soon, hopefully my best work yet =)
Also, congratulations to all of the other winners - there were some great maps in the contest!