Welcome to the ManiaExchangeMonthly Track Contest (MTC) for December 2021! eyebo and Arkive are your hosts for the month.
In the MTC, your mission is to build a map on a given theme. Later, all the maps are rated and a winner is found.
Theme of the Month:Sevens Create fun maps in all seven of the TM2 environments!
The seven environments to build in:
TM2 Canyon
TM2 Valley
TM2 Stadium
TM2 Lagoon
TM2 Island (comes free with Stadium)
TMOne Speed (comes free with Valley)
TMOne Alpine (comes free with Valley)
Theme Specific Rules
Use the original car for each environment.
Use the base titlepack for each environment.
Duo maps are allowed. Each duo counts as one map for each participant.
Author Time should be between 15 seconds to 1 minute
General Rules
MTC should be present in the track names. Example: "Lemon Lime Licorice (MTC)" or "mtc|ValleyForge"
Maps should be built in the most recent version of the game
Maps must be built during the month of this MTC.
Blockmixing, embedded items, and mods are allowed
Press Forward, Left, Right, or similar tracks are NOT allowed
Maps requiring drivers to use OpenPlanet are NOT allowed
If you have any questions, feel free to ask!
Deadlines
All seven maps should be uploaded before December 31st at midnight EST. Submissions will continue to be accepted until I officially announce closure in this thread.
Maps submitted within the deadline will have 24 hours after submissions close to make any edits
Public voting is from January 2nd to January 9th or until the internal judging is finished, whichever occurs later
Only participants that submit all seven maps will have their entries judged.
Maps will be individually scored on a single category, "Fun Factor".
Scores across all seven maps will be added up, and this will determine your ranking in the MTC.
Results are calculated and posted soon after public voting closes
Prizes Honor and the right to brag! (Jozii used to say that.)
The top 3 winners will receive a front page feature of a track of their choice
How to Submit
You MUST upload your track to this mappack and optionally post a link to your map in this thread
You can update your map within the deadline as many times as you want
Submitted maps may be updated within 24 hours of submissions closing, in case of any necessary last minute changes; new maps may NOT be submitted in this time frame
Updating your map after the revision deadline has passed will lead to a disqualification. You are free to update your map once the results are published
Judging: Public and Internal We will use a mixture of 75/25 between internal judging and public voting if there is 1 public voter, 60/40 for 2, and 50/50 for 3+
Everyone is allowed to judge, even players who submitted a map (your score on your own map won't be counted)
Every map will be judged with marks from 0 (bad) to 10 (good). All votes greater than/equal to 7 or less than/equal to 4 require constructive feedback on why you gave it that score
Note that you have to judge a map entirely! You cannot judge only half of it. If you are not able to finish a map, your vote can still count! Please only leave that as a very last resort, and judge the entire map fairly
You must play and vote on all maps for your votes to count
You need to verify your vote by making a post here (for example: "Voted ")
One best and one worst vote for each map will be ignored if more than 10 people vote
The internal judging will note some detailed feedback with points based on one category:
(Fun [50p])
Good luck, and if you have any questions, please ask!