Map Awards 2013 RESULTS

[koontz1973]

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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

[koontz1973]

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

[koontz1973]

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%

[koontz1973]

Medals will be shined and sent out to all winners. Well done guys.

I will post full stats later this week. But a few questions, why did these maps win? Does having longer play time guarantee a win?

[Ace Rimmer]

It is an honor to be nominated.

Oh wait I won? wtf? That map sucks.

[koontz1973]

It is an honor to be nominated.

Oh wait I won? wtf? That map sucks.

That is your opinion about your map?

Seems the rest of the public do not agree with you considering you got over half the vote.

[Gillipig]

It is an honor to be nominated.

Oh wait I won? wtf? That map sucks.

That is your opinion about your map?

Seems the rest of the public do not agree with you considering you got over half the vote.

I misclicked! And I think others might have done that as well .

[MoB Deadly]

Im really bummed that Eurasia did not get any awards

[ViperOverLord]

I thought Kings Court 2 would be the big winner. I guess I forgot that a majority of players still prefer a more 'classic' sort of map. Of course, I don't mean that as a slight. Eurasia is a great map.

[koontz1973]

I thought Kings Court 2 would be the big winner. I guess I forgot that a majority of players still prefer a more 'classic' sort of map. Of course, I don't mean that as a slight. Eurasia is a great map.

When you consider Eurasia had about 6 more months of play, Kings court 2, still in beta did bloody well to get the one win and the 4 second places. This was the one map that took Eurasia to the wire in a lot of the categories. Given more time, it may of won some more as well. It was also the only map in beta that took anything.

[grifftron]

Natty won almost everything.

[Gillipig]

I thought Kings Court 2 would be the big winner. I guess I forgot that a majority of players still prefer a more 'classic' sort of map. Of course, I don't mean that as a slight. Eurasia is a great map.

When you consider Eurasia had about 6 more months of play, Kings court 2, still in beta did bloody well to get the one win and the 4 second places. This was the one map that took Eurasia to the wire in a lot of the categories. Given more time, it may of won some more as well. It was also the only map in beta that took anything.

I voted Eurasia in some categories even though I've never actually played the large map, and strongly dislike the map maker, that says a lot about how good the map looks lol.

[anamainiacks]

I thought Kings Court 2 would be the big winner. I guess I forgot that a majority of players still prefer a more 'classic' sort of map. Of course, I don't mean that as a slight. Eurasia is a great map.

When you consider Eurasia had about 6 more months of play, Kings court 2, still in beta did bloody well to get the one win and the 4 second places. This was the one map that took Eurasia to the wire in a lot of the categories. Given more time, it may of won some more as well. It was also the only map in beta that took anything.

That's not true, they've had equal amount of play on the site.

Eurasia went live into BETA on 3 May 2012, and was officially quenched on 12 September 2012.

King's Court 2 went live into BETA on 16 April 2012 (17 days earlier than Eurasia) but hasn't yet been quenched because of the need to iron out game mechanics and stuff like that, which is understandable since it is a more complex map. It probably still had less games played on it in part due to its BETA tag, since many players stay away from such maps incase of gameplay changes midway.

King's Court 2 is definitely an excellent map, but like what ViperOverLord mentioned, 'classic' gameplay is ultimately more popular than the complex ones, so I don't think the results would have changed much. That said, the complex maps definitely add much variety in gameplay and strategies into the site, and are very much integral to the entertainment factors of the site (:

Congratulations to all winners and mapmakers, and thanks for giving us so many choices to play on!

[koontz1973]

Your right anamainiacks, it just seems to of been on longer. But it has had far more games than KC2 which proves vipers point even more.

[DoomYoshi]

Ok, I sorted the maps based on how many awards they won and some arbitrary point system. If you want to rank them in your own way (say, by counting ties as full score, or by reducing the best new mapmaker award) you can. As expected, Eurasia and KCII were neck and neck. Not counting the Map of the Year Award, Eurasia Mini was only 1 point behind KCII though. DoomYoshi Nominees Africa II and Island of Doom didn't get any awards. KCII was not nominated for a Yoshi, namely because I don't like it that much. I expect Baltic to crush every category next year (except Big Game maybe).

Total Awards Score (Third Place counts 2 points, Second Place Counts 4 Points, First Place Counts 6, a tie counts -1 points)
Eurasia 25(5/4/0/1) 1st Place, Best Large Game Map; 1st Place, Team Game Map; 1st Place, Graphics; 3rd Place Tie, Gameplay; 1st Place, Best Map
King's Court II 21(5/1/4/0) 2nd Place, Best Large Game Map; 2nd Place, Team Game Map; 2nd Place Tie, Graphics; 1st Place, Gameplay; 2nd Place, Best Map
Eurasia Mini 16 (3/2/1/0) First Place, Best Small Game Map; Second Place, Best map for 1v1;1st Place, Ease of Use
Knights 15(3/2/1/0)Second Place, Best Small Game Map; First Place, Best map for 1v1; 1st Place Tie, Most Original
Dark Continent 9 (4/0/2/2) Third Place Tie, Best Small Game Map; 2nd Place Tie, Graphics; 2nd Place Tie, Gameplay; 3rd Place, Best Map
Salem's Switch 8(2/1/1/0) 2nd Place Tie, Gameplay; 1st Place Tie, Most Original
Trench Warfare 7 (4/0/0/4) Third Place, Best map for 1v1; Third Place, Best Large Game Map; 3rd Place, Team Game Map; 3rd Place Tie, Most Original
Cuban Missile Crisis, 7(2/1/0/1) 3rd Place Tie, Most Original; 1st Place, Best New Mapmaker
New Jersey 5(3/0/0/3)Third Place Tie, Best Small Game Map; 3rd Place, Ease of Use; 3rd Place, Best New Mapmaker
Classic Cities: London 5 (2/0/1/1) Third Place Tie, Best Small Game Map;2nd Place, Ease of Use
Kingdom of Denmark 5(2/0/1/1) Third Place Tie, Best Small Game Map; 2nd Place, Best New Mapmaker
Patch Wars 4 (1/0/1/0) 2nd Place, Most Original
Classic Cities: Pot Mosbi 4 (2/0/0/2)3rd Place, Graphics; 3rd Place Tie, Gameplay
Magyarország (0)
Istanbul (0)
Classic Cities: Jakarta (0)
Classic Cities: Sydney (0)
Copenhagen (0)
1982 (0)
Rail Asia (0)
Africa II - SOS Africa Reward Map (0)
Island of Doom (0)

[Gilligan]

Nice stats.