Kreedz.com Slide Maps Contest [€250 Prize Pool]

By p0ker ·23/02/2025 10:00

Dear community,

It has been a while since the last time we have had any competition in relation to mapping. I believe it is time to change that, but with a unique and a very needed touch for our community.

As you can guess by the title, this contest will be based entirely on slide maps. According to our new map filters, kreedz.com currently has only six slide maps, which is simply not enough when compared to the rest of the map pool. Moreover, barring one map, all other official kreedz.com slide maps are at minimum set to 'hard' difficulty (with the majority going to hard-extreme and extreme), while also being mostly 'long' in terms of length.

Following this reason, we believe there are simply not enough classic slide maps in kreedz.com.

Map Requirements and Rules

- - Map type: Slide (try to avoid as much as possible any climb, bhop, longjump and other sections)
  - Slide style: Mainly speedrunning/classic slide, although it could be mixed with specific slide techniques such as slide longjumps, steep slides, longslides, duckslides, 0 gravity slides and etc. as long as they are not the main part of the map.
  - Difficulty: Easy, Easy-Medium, or Medium. Anything above Medium+ is strictly forbidden.
  - Length: Minimum 01:30 minutes and maximum 4 minutes.
  - Deadline: June 1st, 2025.
  - Standards: Current Kreedz.com mapping standards.
  - Theme: Use your imagination! Creativity is awarded, but classic themes are also welcomed, especially if they are well implemented.
  - Prize pool: 250EUR - Distribution: 1st place: 60% ; 2nd place: 30%, 3rd place: 10%
  - Official Map Pool: Even if your map does not end up in the top3, provided that it follows the kreedz.com mapping standards, it can still end up in the official kreedz.com map pool!
  - Participants: Everyone is free to join!
  - Submission: Just use the current map submission option on the website here
  - Rules: Only one map per mapper is allowed, although collaborations are allowed.

Voting

Thanks to GameChaos, we will use his formula to accurately judge the maps in the most fair way possible.

Phase I: We will start with a panel that consists of our current mapchecking team. Each one of them will judge the maps on a scale from 1 to 10 based on 5 different categories, from most to least important:

Gameplay/Balance: How fun the map plays out, are there big unintended shortcuts, is difficulty kept the same throughout
Design: Is the map intuitive? Can people get easily lost? Is it overwhelming or underwhelming and etc.
Aesthetics/Visuals: How much the textures/visuals satisfy the eye. What is the level of immersion achieved with them.
Polish: Is the map well optimized, are there many bugs, visual issues, attention to detail and etc.
Theme: As there are no rules about the theme, this one is about how creative you can get with it and how well it is executed

Once everyone from the panel present their vote for a map, all ratings from all judges will be averaged out to have a rating which will result in 70% of the final map score.

Phase II: The same process will be repeated, but this time with the community. Every community member will vote on these 5 categories as well, and using the same formula, every member will have their final rating of the map. Once that is done, everyone's ratings will be calculated together which will result in one final number. That number will account for 30% of the final map score.

Phase III: The panel's 70% and the community's 30% ratings for each map will be calcuated together to get the final score for each map. After that all maps will be ranked accordingly, and the final results will be published, thus annoucing the winners.

*Since the submission deadline is 1st of June, we will provide more details as to where you can vote when all maps will have been submitted.

If you wish to increase the prize pool, feel free to support this contest via the following link: donate!

Sponsors:

Vee - 100EUR
p0ker - 50EUR
Player - 100EUR

Yours,

Kreedz.com