Love it how much interest this week receives only because Squiggles' map is on it. Also funny how people who state they vote for it, get downvoted. I personally don't find it okay. It's olkay if you downvote Tabby's racism or some Nazis on the forum, but MotW is just an innocent competition.

guys, it's Map of the Week, noone really cares about it. might as well vote for the "squiggle" map just to get it off the picks permanently, as that's how MOTW works.

It also gets off the list if it lands on the 3rd, 4th or 5th place. So for Fizzer's sake, dont vote for it, please.

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Plagiarism aside, 1416's map is entirely too large for a 4 person FFA. Even if it does play decently, it needs different settings. It is a terrible fit for MotW.

Ya, but I'm sure there have been very beautiful, colossal maps that wouldn't fit under MOTW settings that have been voted in (zxctycxz's maps?)

And those maps were not given their due.

Not every map works with the settings employed by Map of the Week. In fact, many maps suffer greatly. This does not make them bad maps, but it does make them bad auto-games.

I personally believe that being a bad auto-game is reason enough to deny a map MotW honors. I recognize that others may not share this opinion. I do not know who is right, because I do not know the true intent behind this honor.

Who actually plays the map of the week game?

I play it now and then when I do play. Half the time the maps are just awful for 4 person FFA though. That's kind of a flaw with the format though, you can't really just vote for the best map, they have to also be good for 4 person FFA if you want to play them on the template which is kinda disingenuous to the whole thing.

In terms of play-ability I prefer maps that are in the 150-250 territory range.

I'm not alone, btw. I notice that maps that win the voting that meet this criteria get played far more than the others during the week.

Ergo, I'm voting for the Star Wars Galaxy map this time and looking forward to clobbering you guys! ;)

pretty much all of zxctycxz's maps have become map of the weeks at some point

^ And well deserved, too, regardless of whether or not they fit the template.

I'd argue that they deserve a better honor.

I wouldn't want someone to form a bad opinion of a map because they conflated the map itself with the real issue, the settings.

We could vote for settings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCUwQIn3GrU

I call suspicion on this contest

Anonym has rigged map ratings previously with loads of alts.in fact he's notoriously known for it

Take that, people who downvoted the truth-tellers!

my chance at 2nd place.... stolen.