Hello everyone! For those who missed the good old times of Open Map Competition, we have an interesting news for you:
The OpenRA Community is organizing the Map Design Contest, which is, as the name mentions, a map creation contest where you'll be able to send maps for any of the official mods and it may feature as many players as you want, including a single player map. And it has cash prize as well for winners of each category. So far, the categories are: Competitive Map, Modded Map, Casual Map and Popular Vote. Except for Popular vote, the other categories will be rated by Anjew, Blackened, FiveAces, SoScared, Unano and WhoCares.
Maps will be rated using the following criteria:
Innovation is how innovative the map is,
Balance is how balanced it is,
Aesthetics how pretty it looks,
Playability is how playable is the map which would differ between the different categories (do the mods make it lag? Is it too chokey for competitive? Are there too many trees/bridges that cause lag in casual? etc),
Replayability is how much is the map worth playing again.
Maps should be submitted until August 10th and the should look decent, otherwise it will simply by rejected. Then, until August 25th, those who submitted non-rejected maps will be able to do the final fixes. Voting starts on August 26th until September 1st and the results should go live in the following day.
Check the full set of rules at the OpenRA Official Forums to know how to participate and good luck.