Yes... yes... yes... the results... (then some comments)
SP - Finbar's Quest by Gandalf the White
MP - Greyhawk's Adventure by Dan Petersson
Rookie - The Race to Glory by Jetrall
Thanks once again to all those who helped out on this competition. I cannot say enough to the fun it has been for me the last couple months watching this all come about. Special thanks to our judges, let’s meet them in person:
Single Player Judges:
Magog – in what was one of his final duties to the site as an Angel we were privileged to have him included as a judge. Magog spent many months creating/editing the maps for the single player competition years ago. He is a true veteran of the game.
Thorongil – a longtime player and veteran of the game. If you’ve every played him you know of his wit and solid playing abilities.
Enginerd – 2004 and 2005 single player competition champion and long time veteran of the game.
Multi Player Judges:
Talon Thorn – In days past he could be seen playing game after game, a true veteran that continues to provide services to the site with his Angel duties.
Unicorn – a player that has played countless games and befriended many new players over the years. Now he spends his time playing Shadow Magic but we were lucky enough to get his help with the judging for these maps.
Enginerd – 4 time and reigning Wizard Ladder champion and long time veteran of the game.
Now for some more details of the Results (but first some comments)
It was a very very close call between two Single Player maps. All three judges had these maps as #1 and #2 but the decision was split. It was also difficult to rate the campaign on equal footing with these two maps so it also stands out as a great work but isn’t reflected in the map scores. Well done Codius. The order (and scores for the top 2) are posted below. I can only say that these two maps really are in a class of their own. They are most excellent maps.
Gandalf the White with his Finbar’s Quest - 94.9
Skout77 and his Shadows of the Past - 91.4
The multi-player maps were also quite fun. It was nice to see multiple versions of the same map. There were far more maps in the top tier of the scoring with this group. It was really amazing that the judges were really quite similar in scoring yet we all had our favorites. Also of note is that Artic Wolf had 3 maps finish in the top 5... WOW, this is a great accomplishment. I’ve only included the scores for the top 8 maps so we could see Swolte’s score
Dan Petersson with Greyhawk’s Adventures – 85.6
Artic Wolf with The Days of the Charlatan – 84.8
Artic Wolf with The First War of the Blood – 83.0
CrazySlyHawk with Lock Continent – 81.8
Artic Wolf with Lady Cynthia’s Garden – 81.1
Elquien with Whispers in the Wind – 78.3
Jetrall with The Race to Glory – 65.5
Swolte with Swolterwoods – 63.7
We really wanted to give the Rookies a boost to their egos for trying. It was quite amazing to see so many skilled mapmakers competing. This might have scared some of those rookies off but they persevered. And yes… we didn’t disqualify Swolte as a Rookie but I think the judges were a bit harsh on him as we’ve seen his masterpieces of maps for Shadow Magic and know his potential, still Swolterwoods was a fine map. The Rookie with the best scoring map went to:
Jetrall with the multiplayer map The Race to Glory
Well done all involved and I applaud your efforts. Special congratulations to the winners. Feel free to add your congratulations to them as well below!
Oh... I still haven't gotten around to sending out a detailed review of the map to the mapmaker, if you really want one I've got hordes of notes and I could compile them and send them along, just let me know.
(note: I'm sending an email to the winners with these results and a news post will also be posted )
MP - Greyhawk's Adventure by Dan Petersson
Rookie - The Race to Glory by Jetrall
Thanks once again to all those who helped out on this competition. I cannot say enough to the fun it has been for me the last couple months watching this all come about. Special thanks to our judges, let’
Single Player Judges:
Thorongil –
Multi Player Judges:
Unicorn –
Now for some more details of the Results (but first some comments
It was a very very close call between two Single Player maps. All three judges had these maps as #1 and #2 but the decision was split. It was also difficult to rate the campaign on equal footing with these two maps so it also stands out as a great work but isn’
Skout77 and his Shadows of the Past - 91.4
The multi-player maps were also quite fun. It was nice to see multiple versions of the same map. There were far more maps in the top tier of the scoring with this group. It was really amazing that the judges were really quite similar in scoring yet we all had our favorites. Also of note is that Artic Wolf had 3 maps finish in the top 5... WOW
Artic Wolf with The Days of the Charlatan –
Artic Wolf with The First War of the Blood –
CrazySlyHawk with Lock Continent –
Artic Wolf with Lady Cynthia’
Elquien with Whispers in the Wind –
Jetrall with The Race to Glory –
Swolte with Swolterwoods –
We really wanted to give the Rookies a boost to their egos for trying. It was quite amazing to see so many skilled mapmakers competing. This might have scared some of those rookies off but they persevered. And yes…
Well done all involved and I applaud your efforts. Special congratulations to the winners. Feel free to add your congratulations to them as well below!
Oh... I still haven't gotten around to sending out a detailed review of the map to the mapmaker, if you really want one I've got hordes of notes and I could compile them and send them along, just let me know.