One Hour Mapping Contest - Nexball - Finished

[PinkRobot]

Map 1 - Parkball - Hillis

Originality : 6
Gameplay : 6
Eyecandy : 5
Overall : 7

As it is this map is a bit simple, needs some team colouring and on a personal not I would love to see some trees around this map. Other then that job well done!

Map 2 - Ballz - Cortez

Originality : 6
Gameplay : 5
Eyecandy : 4
Overall : 5

A good laugh and nice stress test for every nexball server. But this is basically duodecouple times 30

Map 3 - No Arena - Ai

Originality : 6
Gameplay : 6
Eyecandy : 7
Overall : 6

The large number of bugs dragged this one down a bit but I see this map has already been updated hugely, so good job on that for sure!

Map 4 - CB Nexball - C. Brutail

Originality : 9
Gameplay : 6
Eyecandy : 7
Overall : 7

This map was my personal favourite because of its originality and a lot of good ideas found its way into the map even with the small time of one hour.

Map 5 - Second Stage - TVR

Originality : 6
Gameplay : 5
Eyecandy : 5
Overall : 5

This is basically the small football map by Revenant sized up a bit with ramps, only the ramps would have added to the gameplay more when there was no way to avoid them.

Map 6 - Rock 'n Ball - morphed

Originality : 7
Gameplay : 4
Eyecandy : 9
Overall : 7

This looks as fabulous as you would expect from its author but is a bit too small and because the hoops are so small it's almost impossible to score.

Map 7 - Bubble Ball - Ronan

Originality : 8
Gameplay : 5
Eyecandy : 5
Overall : 6

This is like Cortez his map a good laugh because of the tiny turret and the invisible moles. Though both get a bit annoying if you start to want to play seriously

[PinkRobot]

The final results are in!

At the last moment our plans for Fisume to be our third judge on the team fell through, so I took over his spot. I gave the other two the task to not only look at the maps as they were now, but also how they could become when given some more work afterwards. I think we all did quite well on that I think we decided on a deserved winner.

To explain the scoring, there were 200 points up for grabs in total. 20 of those were technical points regarding packing and naming and of course, whether the mapper managed to get his map done in the set time limits. The remaining 180 points were available to the judges. They had four criteria to rate the maps on, which were:

Originality -> scale 1 to 10 -> multiplied by 2 for final score for each judge
Gameplay -> scale 1 to 10 -> multiplied by 2 for final score for each judge
Eye candy -> scale 1 to 10 -> multiplied by 1 for final score for each judge
Overall -> scale 1 to 10 -> multiplied by 1 for final score for each judge

The first three criteria pretty much speak for themselves and my description of the 'overall' criteria was "All things considered, how likely is it you would vote for this map if it came up in the voting list?". So more a gut feeling score than anything. Originality and Gameplay were most important of course in such a short time period to make a map, so they were rated higher than Eye Candy and Overall by multiplying their score by two. \

By the way: some might think that this is a rubbish way of rating maps. And they might very well be right!

So there we go, how did the scores turn out? I will start with the lowest scoring map and will move up to 1st position like that!

Ballz - Cortez

Technical Points:
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Map worked out of the box. so 5 points for you sir!
You did not use the naming convention so no 5 points for that.
The .map was submitted before GMT 19:00, so you get those 5 points.
You had your .pk3 in by GMT 19:15, so you do get 5 points for that as well!

This is a total Technical Points score of 15.

Judges Points:
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FruitieX gave you (3*2) + (2*2) + 4 + 2 = 16 points
Merlijn gave you (6*2) + (2*2) + 3 + 4 = 23 points
PinkRobot gave you (6*2) + (5*2) + 4 + 5 = 31 points

This gives you, Cortez, a total of 85 points, which puts you in 7th place.

Bubble Ball - Ronan

Technical Points:
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Map worked out of the box so 5 points for you sir!
You did not use the naming convention so no points for that.
The .map was not submitted before GMT 19:00, so you do not get those 5 points.
You did not have your .pk3 in by GMT 19:15, so you do not get 5 points for that.

This is a total Technical Points score of 5!

Judges Points:
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FruitieX gave you (7*2) + (5*2) + 4 + 6 = 34 points
Merlijn gave you (8*2) + (5*2) + 6 + 5 = 37 points
PinkRobot gave you (8*2) + (5*2) + 5 + 6 = 37 points

This gives you, Ronan, a total of 113 points, which puts you in 6th place.

No Arena - Ai

Technical Points:
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Map worked out of the box so 5 points for you sir!
You did use the naming convention so 5 points for that.
The .map was not submitted before GMT 19:00, so you do not get those 5 points.
You did not have your .pk3 in by GMT 19:15, so you do not get 5 points for that either.

This is a total Technical Points score of 10.

Judges Points:
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FruitieX gave you (9*2) + (3*2) + 7 + 4 = 35 points
Merlijn gave you (7*2) + (5*2) + 6 + 6 = 36 points
PinkRobot gave you (6*2) + (6*2) + 7 + 6 = 37 points

This gives you, Ai, a total of 118 points, which puts you in 5th place.

Parkball - Hillis

Technical Points:
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Map did not work out of the box. so no 5 points for you sir!
You did use the naming convention, there's 5 points right there!
The .map was not submitted before GMT 19:00, so you don't get those 5 points.
You had your .pk3 in by GMT 19:15, so you do get 5 points for that.

This is a total Technical Points score of 10.

Judges Points:
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FruitieX gave you (5*2) + (5*2) + 3 + 5 = 28 points
Merlijn gave you (7*2) + (8*2) + 8 + 7 = 45 points
PinkRobot gave you (6*2) + (6*2) + 5 + 7 = 36 points

This gives you, Hillis, a total of 119 points, which puts you in 4th place.

Rock 'n Ball - Morphed

Technical Points:
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Map worked out of the box (despite lack of .mapinfo!) so 5 points for you sir!
You did not use the naming convention so no points for that.
The .map was not submitted before GMT 19:00, so you do not get those 5 points.
You did not have your .pk3 in by GMT 19:15, so you do not get 5 points for that.

This is a total Technical Points score of 5.

Judges Points:
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FruitieX gave you (7*2) + (2*2) + 9 + 3 = 30 points
Merlijn gave you (9*2) + (6*2) + 10 + 8 = 48 points (highest rated map of this judge)
PinkRobot gave you (7*2) + (4*2) + 9 + 7 = 38 points

This gives you, Morphed, a total of 121 points, which puts you in 3rd place.

Second Stage - TVR

Technical Points:
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Map did NOT contain any Hint Brushes, but this will not affect your score.
Map worked out of the box so 5 points for you sir!
You did use the naming convention so 5 points for that.
The .map was submitted before GMT 19:00, so you get those 5 points.
You did not have your .pk3 in by GMT 19:15, so you do not get 5 points for that.

This is a total Technical Points score of 15.

Judges Points:
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FruitieX gave you (6*2) + (7*2) + 4 + 7 = 37 points
Merlijn gave you (8*2) + (8*2) + 7 + 7 = 46 points
PinkRobot gave you (6*2) + (5*2) + 5 + 5 = 32 points

This gives you, TVR, a total of 130 points, which puts you in 2nd place.

Lava Ball - C. Brutail

Technical Points:
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Map worked out of the box so 5 points for you sir!
You did use the naming convention so 5 points for that.
The .map was submitted before GMT 19:00, so you get those 5 points.
You did not have your .pk3 in by GMT 19:15, so you do not get 5 points for that.

This is a total Technical Points score of 15.

Judges Points:
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FruitieX gave you (10*2) + (3*2) + 9 + 4 = 39 points (highest rated map of this judge)
Merlijn gave you (9*2) + (7*2) + 7 + 7 = 46 points
PinkRobot gave you (9*2) + (6*2) + 7 + 7 = 44 points (highest rated map of this judge)

This gives you, C. Brutail, a total of 144 points, which puts you in 1st place. YOURE WINNER!


So just to wrap it up, the final standings:

1st: C. Brutail - Lava Ball
2nd: TVR - Second Stage
3rd: Morphed - Rock 'n Ball
4th: Hillis - Parkball
5th: Ai - No Arena
6th: Ronan - Bubble Ball
7th: Cortez - Ballz

Congratulations to our competition winner C. Brutail and a big thank you to all our competitors, my fellow judge and organizer FruitieX and also to [NL]Nexball server admin Merlijn who was so kind to join the judging team. As I said, unfortunately Fisume could not make the rating sessions as planned, but maybe for a next time!

In the mean while, I'm sure that patched up and improved versions of the created maps will find their way to the official servers in a little while and I hope that some of the mappers will maybe make some more inspiring Nexball maps in the future

Happy Nexball everybody!

[C.Brutail]

GG all!
And thx for the judges, for that pure fun night

[PinkRobot]

And here is your trophy C. Brutail!

[TVR]

I still think we should still judge a second version of the maps, to encourage everyone to fix/improve their maps for official release.

[FruitieX]

I still think we should still judge a second version of the maps, to encourage everyone to fix/improve their maps for official release.

I second that. How about deadline this sunday? (as you suggested )

[hillis]

gratz C.Brutail!


or next weeks sunday??? my time until next weeks wednesday is very limited, so I won't be able to concentrate soon enough => map not ready next sunday... :S

[FruitieX]

Here is my fixed map:

http://hrfdesign.com/crap/maps/nexball/nb_farm_v1r2.pk3

[TVR]

In order to encourage the adoption of the contest maps into the official map rotations, I'd like to announce the second phase of the NexBall speed mapping contest.

With only 1 hour for conception, creation, compilation, and compression often leads to many ideas being cut in favour of speed, thus two of the PinkRobot & FruitieX have agreed to a rejudging of the revised submissions. They'll be using the original of 180 scale, plus the first two technical points worth 5 each for a total of 190.

Technical Points:
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5 points for whether your map can be loaded via the menu.
5 points for whether you followed the nb_ naming convention prefix

Subjective Points:
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Originality -> scale 1 to 10 -> multiplied by 2 for final score for each judge
Gameplay -> scale 1 to 10 -> multiplied by 2 for final score for each judge
Eye candy -> scale 1 to 10 -> multiplied by 1 for final score for each judge
Overall -> scale 1 to 10 -> multiplied by 1 for final score for each judge

Contest deadline is next Sunday, May 10th, testing will occur sometime around 19:00 GMT.

[FruitieX]

I don't think I can participate in judging, as I have (somewhat unofficially) released a fixed version of morphed's rocknball map.