Map Awards 2013 RESULTS

[koontz1973]

Welcome to the second annual map awards.

A very productive year in the foundry. 20 maps have been produced played on and entered into this years awards. With the two held over from lasts years competition, we have 22 maps to judge this year.


Now it is time to pay tribute to the map makers for all their hard work and decide who is the best of the best.

Here are the categories in which you can vote. You can vote in all categories or none at all.

How you vote is so simple, a baby can do it. Click on any of the wood banners and you will be whisked away to a magical site to post your answers.


Best map made for 4 players or less.


Which has the best one versus one play?


Maps made for 8 players. More the merrier for these bad boys.


Something different for those of you that play doubles, triples or even quads.


The super model of maps.


Which map has the best gameplay.


The map a two year old can play on.


The most original idea in graphics or gameplay.


New maps made by new map makers. But who has made the best.


Which map makes the others shrink in fear.


For every map that wins in each of the categories, a shiny new General Achievement medal will be awarded to the map maker. But that is not all, six months premium will be given to the map maker that wins the Best of 2012 category. 2nd and 3rd places will also get additional 3 months of premium.

Below is a list of all the maps that you can vote on this year.
Kingdom of Denmark, Istanbul, Cuban Missile Crisis, Classic Cities: London, Patch Wars, Island of Doom, Knights, Africa II - SOS Africa Reward Map, Salem's Switch, Rail Asia, King's Court II, Eurasia, Eurasia Mini, 1982, Trench Warfare, Dark Continent, New Jersey, Copenhagen, Classic Cities: Jakarta, Classic Cities: Sydney, Classic Cities: Pot Mosbi, Magyarország.

Any map that comes out later will be moved over to next years awards (Baltic Crusades). Kingdom of Denmark and Istanbul are in from last year. The map makers are also entered into the best new map maker section. Voting lasts until the 14th January.

show: Map Images in this years awards

Prizes are given by the entertainment team.

[koontz1973]

Here are the results for the first two.


Third PlaceJoint third. 6.3% of the vote.



Second Place7.6% of the vote.


27.8% of the vote.


Third Place9.2% of the vote.


Second Place17.1% of the vote.


25% of the vote.


Third Place5.8%
Trench Warfair

Second Place15.1%
Kings Court 2
Eurasia
58.1%


Third Place10%
Trench Warfair

Second Place13.8%
Kings Court 2
Eurasia
17.5%


Third PlacePot Morsbi
10.7%

Second PlaceA tie at 13.1% Kings Court 2 & Dark Continent.

Eurasia
15.5%


Third PlaceA tie at 7.7%. Pot morsbi and Eurasia


Second PlaceA tie at 10.3% of the vote. Dark Continent and Salams Switch.

19.2%
Kings Court 2


Third Place8.4%
New Jersey

Second Place16.9%
London
Eurasia Mini 41%


Third PlaceCuban Missile Crisis and Trench Warfair get 12.2%


Second PlacePatch Wars at 13.4%

A joint first place this time at 15.9% of the vote each.
Knights and Salem's Switch



Ace Rimmer with Cuban Missile Crisis got

• 50.6%

Flapcake with Kingdom of Denmark got

• 30.9%

chaos32679 with New jersey got

• 12.3%

ISN2 with Istanbul got

• 6.2%

And lastly the big one.



Dark Continent9.4%


Kings Court 218.8%


Eurasia25.9%

[ViperOverLord]

Rorke's Drift for best game play.

It might help if you listed the maps of 2012.

[koontz1973]

Rorke's Drift for best game play.

It might help if you listed the maps of 2012.

Rorke's Drift is a 2011 map.

All maps are listed and imaged.

[ViperOverLord]

Rorke's Drift for best game play.

It might help if you listed the maps of 2012.

Rorke's Drift is a 2011 map.

All maps are listed and imaged.

Ah. I see. You click the banners.

[koontz1973]

Well, it is nice to see that you like RD enough to want to vote for it again.

[perchorin]

Why did Baltic Crusades miss the cut--was it released too late in the year or something? That would have been my vote for map of the year but guess I'll have to wait until 2014. Also is there no way to see the results of the poll on that site and if so when can we see any results?

[Gillipig]

Click image to enlarge.

[Gillipig]

Will be interesting to see how strong the connection between voting popularity and games played on maps are.
Listed after active and finished games:
Eurasia 6353
Classic Cities: London 4970
Eurasia Mini 4525
Kingdom of Denmark 3895
King's Court II 2996
Istanbul 2536
Trench Warfare 2421
Knights 2413
Dark Continent 2110
Africa II 2082
Island of Doom 2055
Cuban Missile Crisis 2020
Salem's Switch 1660
Patch Wars 1326
New Jersey 1260
1982 902
Rail Asia 701
Baltic Crusades (released just two weeks ago) 697
Copenhagen 599
Classic Cities: Jakarta 521
Classic Cities: Pot Mosbi 386
Classic Cities: Sydney 348
Magyarország 304

[koontz1973]

Why did Baltic Crusades miss the cut--was it released too late in the year or something? That would have been my vote for map of the year but guess I'll have to wait until 2014. Also is there no way to see the results of the poll on that site and if so when can we see any results?

Baltic Crusades was released too late for this year. I wanted each map to have some proper play time. Next year, I am thinking of doing it at the end of Jan so all maps get put into the correct year. As for the results, I will get screen grabs and post them with the results at the end. I will disable the links on the 15th so no more voting. Results will be posted here in the foundry and the dispatch on the 16th.

[stukas88]

Looks like we (at least I) can't see the 2012 winners...why is that blocked?

[koontz1973]

It is not blocked. Last year was run in the dispatch so when you go to the link, scroll down to the foundry part of the dispatch.

[koontz1973]

Last years winners
Overall theme
3rd place map
Conquer Rome
2nd place map
SteamWorks
1st place map
Trafalgar

Best map for 1v1
3rd place map
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
2nd place map
Fractured China=D>
1st place map
All Your Base Are Belong To Us

Best large game map
3rd place map
Quad Cities
2nd place map
Rorke's Drift
1st place map
First Nations of the Americas

Graphics
3rd place map
South Africa 1885
2nd place map
Conquer Rome
1st place map
Three Kingdoms of Korea

Ease of use (not overly complicated)
3rd place map
Rorke's Drift
2nd place map
Quad Cities
1st place map
Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

And the last one...
Best new mapmaker
This was between...
koontz1973 (Rorkes Drift)
grifftron (Thailand)
ironsij0287 (Quad Cities)
lostatlimbo (Portland)
Seamus76 (Tribal War - Florida)
And the winner is...
ironsij0287

[Bruceswar]

You are not authorised to read this forum. <--- Links broken

[benga]

You have more awards then maps!

[koontz1973]

You are not authorised to read this forum. <--- Links broken

Posted the winners from last year here. I thought this might be the case.

You have more awards then maps!

10 awards this year, 22 maps?

[ViperOverLord]

Why did Baltic Crusades miss the cut--was it released too late in the year or something? That would have been my vote for map of the year but guess I'll have to wait until 2014. Also is there no way to see the results of the poll on that site and if so when can we see any results?

Baltic Crusades was released too late for this year. I wanted each map to have some proper play time. Next year, I am thinking of doing it at the end of Jan so all maps get put into the correct year. As for the results, I will get screen grabs and post them with the results at the end. I will disable the links on the 15th so no more voting. Results will be posted here in the foundry and the dispatch on the 16th.

You could suspend the vote and redo it in February.

[koontz1973]

Why did Baltic Crusades miss the cut--was it released too late in the year or something? That would have been my vote for map of the year but guess I'll have to wait until 2014. Also is there no way to see the results of the poll on that site and if so when can we see any results?

Baltic Crusades was released too late for this year. I wanted each map to have some proper play time. Next year, I am thinking of doing it at the end of Jan so all maps get put into the correct year. As for the results, I will get screen grabs and post them with the results at the end. I will disable the links on the 15th so no more voting. Results will be posted here in the foundry and the dispatch on the 16th.

You could suspend the vote and redo it in February.

Too late for that.

[thenobodies80]

Guys, I'm happy you love the map and I think that is enough for me. When thebastard has left the site 1 year ago, I tried to finish that map because I was sure about the potential behind it, so your words are really all I need.

Baltic Crusades was left out? The map can't win? Maybe next year it won't win anyway because it has passed too much time?
Sorry but honestly I don't care, afterall it's not the end of the world. As said your kind words are enough, I appreciate them and I will continue to draw maps because people like you appreciate the effort.
Yeah, win the awards would be nice, but it's not my personal target while drawing a map and moreover I don't want that map becomes a reason to block the current poll.

Now, let the awards can continue anyway, if you like that map so much, remember to vote it next year.

Thanks again to everyone
Nobodies

[Seamus76]

Guys, I'm happy you love the map and I think that is enough for me. When thebastard has left the site 1 year ago, I tried to finish that map because I was sure about the potential behind it, so your words are really all I need.

Baltic Crusades was left out? The map can't win? Maybe next year it won't win anyway because it has passed too much time?
Sorry but honestly I don't care, afterall it's not the end of the world. As said your kind words are enough, I appreciate them and I will continue to draw maps because people like you appreciate the effort.
Yeah, win the awards would be nice, but it's not my personal target while drawing a map and moreover I don't want that map becomes a reason to block the current poll.

Now, let the awards can continue anyway, if you like that map so much, remember to vote it next year.

Thanks again to everyone
Nobodies

Well said. Too bad next year you're going to be up against 2 of my maps, so good luck.

I think it's been mentioned before, but why does it still say "You are not authorised to read this forum." when I click on the 2012 link in the OP?

[koontz1973]

I think it's been mentioned before, but why does it still say "You are not authorised to read this forum." when I click on the 2012 link in the OP?

Because the link was for a dispatch thread, I copied over the article into the first page though.

[koontz1973]

Voting has now been stopped.

Will grab the results and post them here for everyone to see over the course of today.

[koontz1973]

Here are the results for the first two.


Third PlaceJoint third. 6.3% of the vote.



Second Place7.6% of the vote.


27.8% of the vote.


Third Place9.2% of the vote.


Second Place17.1% of the vote.


25% of the vote.

[koontz1973]

Third Place5.8%
Trench Warfair

Second Place15.1%
Kings Court 2
Eurasia
58.1%


Third Place10%
Trench Warfair

Second Place13.8%
Kings Court 2
Eurasia
17.5%

[koontz1973]

Third PlacePot Morsbi
10.7%

Second PlaceA tie at 13.1% Kings Court 2 & Dark Continent.

Eurasia
15.5%


Third PlaceA tie at 7.7%. Pot morsbi and Eurasia


Second PlaceA tie at 10.3% of the vote. Dark Continent and Salams Switch.

19.2%
Kings Court 2