There's no reason why players wouldn't take replayability into account when they are voting for the maps. That's why it's also important to publish your map before the deadline and gather a following while you work on it.
Following the Deadline, Sponsor shall review the submissions to confirm that the submissions meet the Contest requirements, and then select submissions that will be made available by Sponsor for judging by the Arcade community. The submissions that will be made available for public judging will be those submissions that, in Sponsor’s sole opinion, are the best based on the following criteria: Accessibility, fun, engagement, creativity, freshness, visual quality, and technical achievement.
The judging criteria are only used by Blizzard for selecting the initial map pool (and maybe the three winners) where players will then pick the five best ones. The players will most likely only use their own opinion of "fun" as the judging criteria, no matter how Blizzard defines it.
If you don't like subjective judging criteria, don't take part in an art contest (such as this one).
Are we allowed to publicly publish our map on Battle.net before it is submitted as an entry to the contest? If so, is there any kind of time limit to this, i.e. could I publish a map, let's say today, and wait until the deadline before submitting it?
Are we allowed to publicly playtest our maps before submitting them to the contest?
Are we allowed to modify our map that is published on Battle.net after it has been submitted as an entry to the contest? In other words, can the file on Battle.net be a newer version of the map than the one submitted to the contest?
After the contest is over, are the maps treated as regular maps once again, i.e. are we allowed to do whatever with them?
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There's no reason why players wouldn't take replayability into account when they are voting for the maps. That's why it's also important to publish your map before the deadline and gather a following while you work on it.
The judging criteria are only used by Blizzard for selecting the initial map pool (and maybe the three winners) where players will then pick the five best ones. The players will most likely only use their own opinion of "fun" as the judging criteria, no matter how Blizzard defines it.
If you don't like subjective judging criteria, don't take part in an art contest (such as this one).
"Fun" already is a judging criteria, which includes balance and replayability.
Hmm... I wonder if four months is enough to finish my map and write a novel inside it. *cracks knuckles*
Faaaaar more than that. ;)
This will be one brutal contest if any map ever created is allowed to participate.
A few questions...