Heavy-duty Super-mapping Super-contest

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Heavy-duty Super-mapping Super-contest was a follow-up contest to Summer Mapping Initiative. The contest began in July 18th and ended on August 5th 23:59 EDT. This mapping-contest was aimed to promote and reward great puzzle designs and advanced map-making techniques.

Rules

Submission

• Maps must be authored with Hammer Editor. You are free to use the Puzzle Maker as a tool for prototyping your ideas, but maps must be designed and built in Hammer Editor.
• Maps should be made within the timespan of the competition; previously authored content is not permitted.
• You are not allowed to re-create any existing maps, regardless of the original author.
• Your submitted map should only consist of one single map file (one .bsp); multi-map submissions are not allowed.
• Maps must be submitted before 23:59 EDT on the last day of contest - August 5, 2012
• Entries may not be modified after the above deadline, for any reason.
• All maps must be submitted to the Download Database, in the “Contest” category.
• You can only submit one map per game-mode (Single Player or Cooperative). While you may enter twice into both categories, we encourage focusing your attention on a single entry - thereby ensuring its quality.

Map

• Fulbright maps (maps without lighting) are not allowed.
• Playground maps and/or maps with no objective are not allowed.
• The map .bsp size cannot exceed over the limit of 100MB unarchived.
• Maps must be completed without using engine glitches of any kind. (This includes, but is not limited to: reportal glitch, bunny hopping, funnel crouching etc.)
• Maps must contain an entry and exit elevator or a well defined entry and exit.
• Maps may contain custom assets as long as they are packed completely into the .bsp.

Results

There were a total of 36 maps entered in the competition and 19 judges from different Portal-related sites scored the maps on a scale from one to five. Three maps with the highest ratings were announced as the winners. Five maps were disqualified.

Position	Map name	Creator	Rating	Game-mode	Honourable/Dishonourable mentions
1st	The Corrupted	Pitkakorvaa	4.37	Single-player
2nd	He is about to kill you	JWcreations	4.12	Single-player
3rd	JOINT POTENTIAL Act 1	Moth	4.11	Cooperative	"Best story"
4th	Sticky Bridges	Amran	4.04	Cooperative	"COOP Honourable"
5th	Getting Back on a Track	BenVlodgi	3.77	Single-player
6th	Mho' Power	wrathofmobius	3.76	Single-player	"Best new puzzle element"
7th	Funnelfling v2	SLOOGOVS	3.75	Single-player
8th	Rapid Effusion	Mr. P. Kiwi	3.75	Single-player
9th	Alternate	Vordwann	3.73	Single-player	"Best custom voice acting"
10th	JOINT POTENTIAL - Act 2	Skotty	3.68	Cooperative
11th	PortalCraft	sicklebrick	3.60	Single-player	"SP Honourable"
12th	Collateral Damage	LambdaCore 21	3.39	Single-player	"Best Half-Life 2 Canon Crossover"
13th	Outskirts Testing	eladiozro	3.32	Single-player
14th	Gamma Test 1	Naulziator	3.22	Single-player	"Best custom-made content"
15th	Broken World 2	narkfestmojo	3.20	Single-player
16th	Hallways on the run	canari	3.02	Single-player
17th	The Part Where	GLaDOS CUBE	3.00	Single-player
18th	Cave's Caves	SpAM_CAN	2.94	Single-player
19th	One Shot	LoneWolf2056	2.88	Single-player
20th	The Second Exodus	josepezdj	2.81	Single-player
21st	constellation:Cancer	mironos	2.75	Single-player
22nd	Trust Bridges	HammerHead	2.71	Cooperative
23rd	Atrophication	The Irate Pirate	2.61	Single-player
24th	Unforgiving	SandvichBlock	2.47	Single-player
25th	sp_gel_conveyor	GLaDOS9457723	2.47	Single-player
26th	Forcefields and Cubes	FelixGriffin	2.42	Single-player
27th	Ode to Turrets I: "The Factory"	Kaleido	2.13	Single-player	"I told you that you would never finish"
28th	Learn to Fly	Patches34	1.81	Single-player
29th	Color Me Rainbow and Spank Me Skyward	Shakky	1.41	Single-player
30th	Sandy Testing	JoshTheBoss	1.29	Single-player
31st	Follow the Camel	bandanablandana	1.00	Single-player	"Kizzycocoa Prize (worst map)"
DQ	tc_vitrified	ChickenMobile	DQ	Single-player	"Best disqualified map"
DQ	Tests of cleverness	Jepp	DQ	Cooperative
DQ	Arc	deltaalphanova	DQ	Single-player
DQ	An Advanced Test Chamber	DocWibbleyWobbley	DQ	Single-player
DQ	In Order to Disorder	AlexNilsson	DQ	Single-player

Prizes

• 1st place
  • Portal 2 Collectors Edition Guide,
  • Test Subject Hat,
    
  • Three Turret Moon T-Shirt,
    
  • Companion Cube Plush key-ring,
    
  • 70's style Movie Poster,
    
  • Apertures Requiem Lithograph,
    
  • Aperture 70's Logo Vinyl Decal,
    
  • Dota 2 (including Beta access),
    
  • Counter Strike: Global Offensive (including Beta access),
    
  • Potato Sack Reunion
• 2nd place
  • Aperture Laboratories Coffee Mug,
  • Chell Poster,
    
  • Portal T-Shirt,
    
  • Aperture 70's Logo Vinyl Decal,
    
  • Dota 2 (including Beta access),
    
  • Counter Strike: Global Offensive (including Beta access),
    
  • Potato Sack Reunion
• 3rd place
  • Aperture 70's Logo Vinyl Decal,
  • Dota 2 (including Beta access),
    
  • Counter Strike: Global Offensive (including Beta access)

Gallery

Heavy-duty Super-mapping Super-contest Winners

The Corrupted by Pitkakorvaa   He is about to kill you by JWcreations

See also

• Portal 2 Authoring Tools
• Portal 2 Music Video Contest
• Summer Mapping Initiative
• Thinkingwithportals.com

Links

• Contest Steam Workshop collection page
• Walkthrough playlist of the maps