MapBan System - Map List

Previous Post - https://forum.faforever.com/topic/706/new-map-veto-system-for-tournaments-help-needed

So, to start out with I have a list of 109 Maps Ranging from 5k to 20k. All Images for the maps have been Curated

If there are any other maps that should be a part of the list, please leave your Suggestions Below this Post. I will be asking the People who are better qualified than me if the map is balance and not broken to be added to the system.

Custom Pool (Create your own)

The Current list is as follows:

5k Maps:

Adaptive Salt and Pepper
Ambush Pass
Ambush the enemy
Apchui
Balvery Mountains V2
Boogie-Woogie
Crimson Feud
desert arena
Desert Joust
Esgaroth's Ruins
Fields of Thunder v2
Finn's Revenge
Firelight
Ice Village
Jagged Subsidence
Mirage
Monaki
Moonlight
Nehtotkas Twin Maidens
Sentry Point
Summer Duel
The Ganges Chasma
Theta Passage - FAF Version
Theta Passage 5
Williamson's Bridge
Winter Duel

10k Maps:

8-Badlands_v4
Abhor
Adaptive Archsimkats Valley
Adaptive Canis River
Amoor
Anchor
Arcane
Arctic Refuge
Broken_Vows
Cadmium Green
Cobalt Valley
Comet Catcher
Darkfall
Daroza's Sanctuary
Desert Castaway
Desert Planet II v2
Diversity
Eridani
Eye of the Storm - FAF Version
Fancylands
Farce in tha Forest
Festea VII
Fields Of Great Phoenix
Fields of Isis
Forbidden Pass v4 - FAF Version
Four-Leaf Clover
Frithen
Gates of Anubis
Goodlands
Haven Reef Fixed
High Noon
Hollow
Last Oasis
Loki - FAF Version
Niflheim - Final II v2
Open Palms
Oracle
Polar Depression
Regor VI Highlands
Salembay
Saltrock Colony
Sands of Ablicka
semiflooded Niflheim
Seraphim Outpost
Souvenir
Standing Stones
Stella Maris WM 1v1
Sweepwing Sanctum
Syrtis Major - FAF Version
TAG Craftious Maximus - FAF Version
The Cold Place
The Dark Heart, FAF version
The land wilderness V3
Twin Rivers
Volcano Duel
Vulcan's Reach
Vya-3 Protectorate
White Fire v2
wildpath
Z-D Rasty Lite

20k Maps:

Adaptive Kusoge
Chiron
choir and flagellant
Coldfire Crossing
Crossfire Canal - FAF Version
Emerald Crater
Gateway and Rose
Mentor
Norfair
Osiris
Pelagial v2
Point of Reach v4
Roanoke Abyss
Selkie Isle
Seraphim Glaciers
Shoal
The Bermuda Locket
The Crucible
The Ditch
The Drunken Beetles Dance
The Requisite
x6 1v1

Can you please clarify what the "MapBan" system is and what it is intended for?

@FunkOff It's for tournaments. Many tournaments have a system of establishing one or more map pools for the tournament (e.g., different map pools for Groups A B C and D during LotS, and another map pool for the Round of 8). With this system, often players are allowed to ban (veto) a certain number of maps and then the players choose from what is left for the tournament games.

The process of map selection requires players to understand the process or else it creates extra work for TDs. This is a software tool for automating the process of map vetoes/map selection, to make it easier for everyone involved.

One of my maps are not on this list while they are in ladder. Can I make the desired screenshot for that map (and others)? I see in your other post that it requires a 990x556px image - any other requirements for the images?

Also - great job on whoever made all these images so far. I can quite imagine it to have taken a few hours - at least.

svenni_badbwoi has done some great work with some of the older maps and has really improved them, I can see some of them are already in this list. It would be great to replace some of the other maps with those versions on ladder, forbidden pass being one of them.

Ive added the previsoe post at the top

@Jip If your maps are in the ladder all i need is them in that size format you quoted, I just used the Builting Border Settings with rantom faction on to cycnle throgh the background and then just sniping tooled the map till it fit into the Size needed. Also added a Submision form to the Main post at the top

@relentless said in MapBan System - Map List:

svenni_badbwoi has done some great work with some of the older maps and has really improved them, I can see some of them are already in this list. It would be great to replace some of the other maps with those versions on ladder, forbidden pass being one of them.

The forbiden pass is the FAF version so ive editied the title there were a few i did check if they had a new version jsut forgot to change the name in the list

I don't post a lot, but this is a fantastic idea and will make big tourneys look a lot more legit

Nice to have the tool I guess, but I don't think doing map bans by PM was even a minor legitimacy problem given it's how they do it in online SC2 tournaments, and especially not in comparison to having someone currently in the Ro8 for FAF's biggest annual tournament who was caught cheating with an autoreclaim mod in the same event last year.

@Sir-Prize said in MapBan System - Map List:

Nice to have the tool I guess, but I don't think doing map bans by PM was even a minor legitimacy problem given it's how they do it in online SC2 tournaments.

this was not to make the torunament look more ligitimate. the aim of this system was to reduce the work load of the TD having to go back and forth with Pm's here. with this system the TD only need to send a Link to each player they go throgh the Veto and selection and both player can see who bans what and picks what.

https://forum.faforever.com/topic/706/new-map-veto-system-for-tournaments-help-needed this is the first post i made about the system and should explain it a bit better

You're literally quoting me saying the tool is nice to have, I'm clearly not debating that. The dude above me posted about how this somehow makes FAF tournaments legit, I'm obviously replying to him. FYI SC2 tournaments do map bans without the tournament referee involved and it takes like 30 seconds.

“It’s nice to have I guess”

Your contributions in this thread are also nice I guess.

Pot/kettle/black. I was at least trying to make a legitimate point in good faith by responding to a post that referred to making tournaments legit. The main issue I raised has been bugging me so I just hit post, in hindsight this isn't the thread to talk about LotS/tournament legitimacy.

Genuine apologies to @Rowey though, sorry for derailing.

@Sir-Prize I'm not saying tourneys "need" something like this. But better overall layout and better viewer experience make it look like someone actually thought about these things -> looks more legit. We don't have to copy sc2 in every way.
Do map bans even play a significant role there?

Please add feathers island to the list.

@LittleBoyBennis said in MapBan System - Map List:

Please add feathers island to the list.

Please read the post and you will have your answer