[CS2] Big Adventure Mapping Contest

[ZombieDawgs]

Colour me interested...

[Radix]

Just wave with some dollar bills and all the rats climb out of their holes again. Interesting.

[Alexdem]

I don't quite understand the first step. Does it have to be a fully finished map or is the graybox version enough?

[Jinqs]

29 minutes ago, Alexdem said:

I don't quite understand the first step. Does it have to be a fully finished map or is the graybox version enough?

as i understand stage 1 is greybox

[gereral1]

Started a map maybe I'll enter it. Called de_testbench. Had to remove Republic of gamers logos due to copyright

Edited April 19, 2024 by gereral1

[Jinqs]

24 minutes ago, gereral1 said:

Started a map maybe I'll enter it. Called rog_ deathmatch. You can google it.

"Mapping Contest for original 5v5 bomb defusal maps AND hostage-rescue maps"

[Serialmapper]

How much polish is enough? And if i cannot add polish, some hungarian or czech will do? 

[7sof]

On 4/13/2024 at 8:16 AM, Alexdem said:

I don't quite understand the first step. Does it have to be a fully finished map or is the graybox version enough?

I'm a little confused as well.  The only mention of a "greybox stage" is in the FAQ, not actually in the official posting.  It seems a working greybox is all that's required, and entries will not be judged on their art and modelling in Stage 1.  I guess it's the job of the judges to ignore that potential bias. There doesn't appear to be a limit to the amount of polish in the first stage.

[Vaya]

10 hours ago, 7sof said:

I'm a little confused as well.  The only mention of a "greybox stage" is in the FAQ, not actually in the official posting.  It seems a working greybox is all that's required, and entries will not be judged on their art and modelling in Stage 1.  I guess it's the job of the judges to ignore that potential bias. There doesn't appear to be a limit to the amount of polish in the first stage.

this basically. Our 3 judges will not be including art in their judgement for stage one.

[bigsteve416]

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5. Maps that were under creation prior to the announcement of this Contest can be entered, except for any map which was released for public download on the Steam Workshop.

So just because I opened my WIP map to public on the Steam workshop I can no longer submit it?

[NikiOo]

I guess this is the only way to make sure most competitors have roughly the same amount of time to prepare a map for the competition. It wouldn't be fair to start with something you've already been working on for months, while others start from scratch. Starting with a layout that has already been worked on and refined but never published is not illegal but it is unfair and you want to minimize that, and the time of publishing a map to the workshop is one of the few ways to objectively determine how long a map was worked on. That being said, rule 3 says "Remakes (maps of the same name and mostly identical design of an existing map released for public download) can NOT be entered. An entrant’s own prior ideas or concepts may be improved upon for this contest if their entry is, on the whole, new and uses a new name." So technically you could change the name and re-release the map only after you've made significant changes to the previous design (I don't know if this counts for the layout only or for the theme as well). I suppose there could have been a compromise made to allow old maps as long as the final version of the submitted workshop map is mostly distinct from the initial version that you started with, but again there is no way to prove that — unless you create a new workshop submission.

Edited April 26, 2024 by NikiOo

[MrTrane18]

On 4/10/2024 at 7:12 PM, Lizard said:

I was here! Good luck everyone!

Me too!

[Bat]

im only starting now 

[Rubberhead]

Does anyone know what that means exactly?
Whitelisted cs_minimap_create_output_size setting for Counter-Strike 2 Workshop Tools.

[yeflynne]

excited to see the creativity

any idea how many maps will make it into the second stage?