vanilla compat aka negke maps 

forever 

#49 and #50 make some really good points. Dumptruck articulated his argument really well. Snaut is an upstanding guy who clearly has only good intentions, namely to bring attention to excellent maps. I agree that it sounds like a good concept.

I didn't even participate in 100b4 and I still didn't appreciate that every map was ranked. It gave the impression that some maps were cast aside when they were really phenomenal. If a map is really exceptional, then it is likely to get attention without the backing of an award.

Some people also have very harsh words to say about some maps. Personal qualms can lead to unsubstantiated negative reviews. The rating system on quaddicted had stood out to me in particular for this. Good thing I don't let ratings influence my decision to play a map but if the Quake Awards takes off, it will be used as a filter by newcomers when deciding which maps to play and which ones to ignore.

I don't want to influence anything regarding this either way but I had to chime in after 49 and 50 made some solid points. 

get those nominations in guys :)

remember nominations are from 2017 only... so for whoever just nominated 1000 cuts.... I'm sorry it's ineligible this year 

...state it and judge against it. The best comps and review sites in this community have played by this rule. 

Says nominations close on the 14th (Saturday)... does that mean we can still get in some noms during the 14th? 

I saw this somewhere. 

eep. I hope there's some slack. 

Is the problem that you've not played the 2017 maps yet? or that you won't have time to nominate them at all? 

Hahah. There's only so fast that I can hammer on that submit button, geez!

More seriously: Yeah I was using this as an opportunity to check out some good ones that I missed. Still have a half-dozen or so to go, but I need to attend to some family birthday party stuff tonight instead of vidya games.

No worries. I got some good nominations in there! 

Most maps from 2017 have been nominated for one award or another.

If you're worried about maps missing out, it's unlikely. 

Guys.

Voting for the people's choice awards is up...
http://www.quakeawards.com/peoples-choice-awards/
and the shortlist has been published.
http://www.quakeawards.com/2018-awards-shortlist/
Remember to get in and have your say :) 

I only see a Conspiracy of Cartograp

Tried clicking all over it in case I didn't have the full page open in the hopes that was just a screenshot snippet of the list, but no luck. Desktop shows a few more choices but still cut off. 

Direct link to the form.

https://goo.gl/forms/lYHFlUdzyA3bX8nH3 

For the People's Choice Awards (Award? Awards?) I'm seeing a giant list of all the maps and I can only choose one. Is that as expected or is it supposed to be per-category? 

yeah, vote for your favourite of all the maps nominated.

its a category unto itself, the other categories have judges

this lets the people have their say regarding which map they thought was best 

OK. And I noticed on further looking that the PCA list is actually bigger than the "shortlist" group, which is nice.

I do feel BTW that the shortlists coulda/shoulda been not quite so short. I'm curious about a couple of things & hopefully once all this is tied up y'all will be willing to do a bit of postmortem chat. 

It kinda rhymes with Cacowards so I suppose it has a nice familiar ring to it. 

I really don't think having only one vote for the People's Choice Awards is a good idea at all
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First of all that category should have the same sub-categories as the judge's nominations, and second you should be able to select more than one map. The winner for each sub-category should obviously be the map that received the most votes, but there could be runner-ups as well (maybe two of them).

As it as the moment, I have no desire to vote because I can only choose one map. Why even bother? 

...may one vote if one hasn't played ALL maps released in 2017 yet? I did play most of them up to early October, there's one that stands out quite tall above the rest IMHO and I highly doubt it's gonna get dethroned by a late map. 

I've only played six (!) maps from early 2017, so I don't consider myself eligible to vote, though. 

Isn't it enough to sign in & log in? I don't want Google to monitor my online activity... 

I haven't checked the retain information of submitters option for the google form, so at the very least I don't track that stuff... I'm not sure if I can say the same for google itself.

The reason why I used google forms is it's super simple to set up. I could allow anonymous voting, but the requirement to sign in via a google account prevents serious voting abuse. Otherwise it would be crazy easy to vote a million times for one map. 

Otherwise it would be crazy easy to vote a million times for one map.
Yeah, I can appreciate that. You don't want the QuakeAwards to become The Voice... Oh well, I guess I can create a Google account to use only for this. 

One of the fun things about this was that it got me to play or re-play several 2017 maps and really think about what I liked about them.

The website says that the winners will be revealed tomorrow, and they'll get their well-deserved moment in the spotlight. Before then though, I'd like to call out a few other maps that didn't make the shortlists.

Hopefully this is taken in the spirit it's intended; I want to give props to some more good work, and no shade intended toward anything else.

First of all, Retro Jam 6 was a fantastic release. So much good stuff in there! I would particularly highlight retrojam6_mukor (Sacrifice Unto Sebek), for both looking and playing great. Visually I might give this the edge over the actually-nominated mukor map, and I had a lot of fun with the pacing and variety of the map & the way the routes criss-crossed back over the main areas in different ways.

Map Jam 9 was another killer collection, and I want to give a nod to jam9_shotro (Ruins of the Elder God) in the "oddball" category. I know some folks just won't get on with the "retreading" involved in playing all the way through this map, but it was a cool ambitious idea, and for me it worked and was fascinating to play.

While I'm here I'll mention that I gave ad_sepulcher a nom for best visuals (along with the rest of its nominations haul). Just the initial view alone gets it there IMO, and it's dripping in atmosphere.

Finally megad2lvl3 (Wenl Mine) had some terrific classic fighting and exploring. I wasn't sure how much the gameplay category was intended be about innovation, but this map was super solid in a good ol' familiar way. And like any good map it has a few clever setpieces or other touches that give it character.

Was a good year.