Good job not waiting for us to discuss this. You're overlooking one MASSIVE point. Not just a big point, a MASSIVE one, almost as big as Knack's banhammer.
What if a contestant purposely rates his competitor's map lower?
For one thing, you don't think things through. No wonder Mewa is flaming us for being unorganized.
Good point new rule, Contestants cannot judge.
A "Professional" rating combined with a "Public" rating.
4 judges seperately rate one criteria of the map and give it a rating out of 10.
Appearance - judged by non-mapper
Gameplay - judged by non-mapper (we might make this criteria judged by an active match clan)
Creativity - judged by a mapper (usually, it's the mappers that have problems coming up with ideas for a good map)
Technique - judged by a mapper (a non-mapper wouldn't know what to look for)
A public voting thread is also created, giving other people a chance to rate all 4 criterias (to keep things balanced).
We realize that the public voting system is flawed, but until we can come up with a better system, we will be using this one.
And me personally, i am not judging
