Yes, we've been puttin this off for a long time. We need to come up with a few players that can really test our maps if we choose to upgrade our judging process for MOTWs..
players that are versatile, consistent, and none the less good/decent need to be sought out. Whether if its a few members in your own clan or friends or yourself... we really need to test our maps out more thoroughly.
We need to select a few players from this site and a few from other clans to test them.. the majority of the games should expand on the ideas of imba or show the smoothness of the map.. and the descriptions need to be filled out also.. and i must stress that we watch these reps.. we are all guilty of not watching reps, cuz if we did we'd point out that either we were wrong or suggest imbas that occur in the games themselves.. and that way should be the most solid way to judge MOTWs on this site.. we can go in-depth all we want in theory crafting about expo layouts, cliffs, or how open a map is etc all we want but they need to be proven in reps or we'll have nothing but arguements on who is wrong and who is right. u know?
so with that said.. please state ppl from this site that can actively test these maps almost everyday and/or name a few clans or ur own clan that wuld be interested in trying them.. even suggest making a mappack as i did for l[w]l. Im sure soon we'll find out if there are imbas in those maps still or find out they play great! if u kno of a better way to approach testing please let it be known b/c i wuld like to hear others' opinions about our testing
I will probably be active for ~2 months so if you need a tester I am on West, #op tl-west as MuShuPork. I can play relatively low level players and test for things still, such as pathing, etc. D/D- PGT sounds good. :D
lnept and I, along with a lot of other prOxiteam players test a fair bit of the maps here. Usually FFA or Random vs Random so we get lots of different matchups.
thats great but for the theory crafting that we do, we must be able to back it up with reps that justify our thinking.. Im not underminding ne1 on this site but we ask so much out of our judging process for motw and not enuff ppl back up their theory crafting for each map.
that means we all must really take part in doing this.. and actually to make testing smoother, we really should test imbas with non-map makers..
basic path finding etc isnt really a big thing and really isnt necessary for testing in reps.. what this thread mainly is for is that if we really want to theory craft about maps we need to back them up with reps to prove such points.
clans can be our best choices to test maps.. offer to make mappacks etc..
i jus wish this topic was alil bit more active in my approach to help motw out.. cause i kno that many of u dont like how we agree on it
how about making a bwmn b.net channel on pgt or any of the regular public servers? >< Maybe all the map makers can meet there and could exchange info. Post on gg.net and tl.net about that and I think there should be a good response from players :O
well me and max are trying to get gg.net to promote a tourney for our MOTWs.. hopefully we can get that running soon... as for TL.net, I'm not active in that site, so if any1 is willing to advertise some of our maps, or start a topic about making a tourney with these maps, go right ahead.
LOL this thread is so old I mentioned pgt in my last comment ><
My aim is The64man msn is Nightmarjoo@hotmail.com I play currently as dBc-Nightmarjoo on west, on east I'm Nightmarjoo[BA], same on europe and asia. Any day after 3 EST but not after 8 EST I can play. I'd say I'm between D+ and C skill, zerg. I can play the other two races, but they're probably both D, maybe possibly D+ at best, but I doubt it.