1v1 Matchmaker Maps

what kind of elevation are these thirds you colour and speak of

Desert Needle scored better than Hide and Seek, remove that before DN imo.

death to trojan hills

I always loved Barren and Iced Coffee myself. Maybe that's because I'm trash though.

I can't quite put my finger on what about those maps with mostly "lower third" votes makes them the worst, but I do agree with the ratings in general. When I think about these maps I get a sense of "boggishness", like they're hard to move through with the factories they support. They also generally tend to pull you away from the center because of their metal distribution.

So maybe it's a combination of being spread out, sluggish to travel around, and difficult to defend? Anyone else have a better summary?

The highest rated ones are generally easy to get around on, have a clear reason to control the center, less emphasis on the corners or edges of the map, and support the fast factories (which in general feel better to play right now).

Please, above anything, no Calamity.

quote: Why isn't this a vote?

The graph above is the result of a vote. If you have some maps you want to see leave given the results of that vote, and some suggestions for what should replace them, then go ahead.

quote: Now that we had a vote on what maps to remove, why don't we make a vote on what maps to add?

The pool of maps to add is larger, but is subject to constraints like maintaining variety in the map pool, so a poll is less directly useful. I guess somebody could make one anyway though.

Just to be clear I didn't vote multiple times to skew the results and tbh I'm quite surprised that Hide and Seek scored so low.

Imho a macro map should be replaced with another macro map not a small map like Iced Coffe or Dune patrol.

Now I know I've advocated the removal of Valles Marineris from the matchmaking pool in the past... but I think it is much better than Desert Needle Small.

Another option would be Into Battle which, why it isn't exactly a marco map it also plays relatively well.

Alternatively Desert Needle Small and or other maps for that matter could be tweaked with to acheive better gameplay. There is a relatively simple fix for Desert Needle: just reduce metal per mex on that map.

gajop's scened is now called SpringBoard and is here http://springboard-core.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
Sadly the distribution is broken anf I cannot fix it without an Internet connection so I recommend you just clone it in your game's dir like you would with a normal Spring game

we need better maps for 1v1 and small team games.

Many of the latest map releases have been directed for larger team games.

why do people love red comet so much?

#BasiC this is a discussion about 1v1. Its obvious that rules about vetoing could be different for teams MM, if it was even present at all.