CTF Map Wave XV arrives!

Welcome folks,

Today a new map wave for CTF has been released! It adds a total of 20 new maps to the CTF permanent rotation, made up of ten variations and ten originals.

Spoiler: Added Maps

Originals:
Aquarium by Bath_Maintenance, Fireshadow007 and ItalianPenguin
Deserted by Daveeeeeeeee
Dusk by Scerpa and Flavorous
Helvetian Plight by ikemulti
Imperial Separation by ikemulti and Fawely
Les Trains by Daveeeeeeeee and RedwolfWarrior
Mushroom Skyline by Swit2427 and Felladona
Petra by PV__nRT, arkham2012, Woulffy and Lceman502
Riot by Shawn_
The Citadels by Daveeeeeeeee

Variations:
American Fort (Canadian Fort III) by Bath_Maintenance, ItalianPenguin and Fireshadow007
Beaver Creek VI by Insomniac___, Chucky_Nono and X_Cray
Canadian Fort II by Bath_Maintenance
Kill Creek VI by Ducksfan101
Modern Diversity I by Ducksfan101
Norse Dominion II by ikemulti
Parthenon I by Shadoun
Platforms Reborn (Platforms VI) by puhdgy, woolctf, Daveeeeeeeee and Ducksfan101
Salmon Creek (Beaver Creek VII) by Daveeeeeeeee, puhdgy and xxMineSheepxx
Subzero I by arkham2012 and PV__nRT

Along with these, the following 17 maps will be removed from the rotation:

Spoiler: Removed Maps

Duplicates:
Canadian Fort
Kill Creek IV

Least rated:
Platforms I
Moria V
Molten
Aquafus V
Castle Cavern IV
Divinity's Reach V
Beaver Creek I
Slate
Treeline I
Tibetan Seclusion I
Futuristic City
Ravine Ruins
Modern Diversity
Airlock I
Castle Village I

For this map wave, we let a format called Spotlight Saturday run before the ingame testing phase, in which the map builders got direct feedback from the community and improved their submissions. The three Spotlight Saturdays hosted contained all submitted maps since May 16th, 2018 up until the event, excluding only one map which we deemed not ready yet to be tested ingame. All maps set in Spotlight Saturdays - including a few ones we forgot and those submitted until to May 5th, 2019 - were subsequently part of the ingame player voting phase. Players could cast their vote on every map ingame and on a Google Form that was linked in a forum thread. Ingame and forum votes were weighted at a 66:33 proportion, as last wave was. The percentage cutoffs (65% for both originals and variations) were decided by how many originals and variations would make it in.

As for the removed maps, map ratings between March 22nd and May 24th, 2019 were compiled and the lowermost 15 maps removed. Two additional low rated maps were removed, as this wave introduces a variation of them. Due to community request, we added a section to the forum voting sheet to state if you liked the proposed variation more than the respective map that was currently in rotation. We compiled those results as well but found it hard to merge with the regular votes, as they should be a priority. In general it coincided well with the map votes, though.

If all of this was too much, you can have a direct look at the numbers in this Google Table. Furthermore, a trailer for the map wave was posted yesterday showcasing the upcoming maps, which was created by our CTF mod @wintergreen3. If you're feeling fancy and have a spare two minutes, have a look at it here!

We hope you enjoy the new additions!

Happy capturing,
The CTF staff team

 

I've added a new tab in the Google Sheet with the community responses to every tested map.

@cityscaper Sorry to hear that, don't let it get to you too much though. Many people had their maps fail before a successful map made it in. Keep on editing and improving.