The "Just 52 hours"-Top Ten Map Pack

compiled by [SKR8]Gunslinger (gunslinger@counter-strike.de)
for
www.counter-strike.de

Starting off as a weird idea in the mapping forum of
www.counter-strike, things were heating up when I decided to give it a go:
a fast mapping contest.
The rules were pretty easy in their outlines:
Every participant was permitted to use only the standard HL Textures and 
most of all a special texture pack.
The contest would start out on a Friday afternoon and the mappers had to send 
in their finished maps until Sunday, early evening - thus granting them a mere 
52 hours to create a map from the given setting and textures. The mappers' identies 
weren't to be revealed to anybody (not even the jury) until the contest was over.

I was able to persuade -sk2- madness (madness@s2k-clan.de) to create an absolutely 
beautiful texture set fitting the setting we had chosen:
Spain!

When the contest was over, I didn't trust my own eyes since my mailbox was 
bursting with maps -
it took me several hours to sort everything out and in the end 
came up counting more than 100 maps that had been made by mappers all over the 
world at that weekend...

I had quite a lot of work opening a thread for every contest entry in our special forum
and a along with my 5-men-Jury I had even more trouble selecting the best of the maps.
After a preselection and a lengthy playtesting period of the finalists the jury gave their
final judgement.

The maps that are included in this pack are the Top Ten of the 100+ maps made for the contest.

We ended up with two maps sharing 10th place, so this pack includes 11 Maps.

The mappers were given the opportunity to fix some annoying bugs in their maps (skywalking, 
getting stuck etc.), but you won't really find too much difference of the included maps 
to the original contest entries. 

I am pretty sure you will be as amazed as I have been to find out which beautiful maps 
have been created by the mappers within 52 hours!

The maps included are(in order of their final ranking, shared places included):

1. de_52leon by Warbeast
2. de_52costadelsol by Bruder D
2. de_52andalusia by Bleibringer
4. de_52puente by Cortex
5. de_52spania by SuperPinki_TM
6. cs_52sevilla by Cydney
7. de_52mangana by X-Tender
8. de_52casco by ThunderRabbit
8. cs_52villabacho by [Muhwies]Autopilot
10. de_52lagranja by ShadowCrawler
10. de_52castello by Di$T0rTi0n

This pack also includes:

* POD-BOT-Waypoints for every map - thanks to www.podwaypoints.de
* .res-files for the server admins' convenience

Thanks go to:
* everybody who participated - hope you had a lot of fun
* -sk2-madness for the great textures
* the Jury: [RG]BadGirl, MeisterRoehrich, [OO]Hotman, [FAK]Lamer, Steeefan
* http://www.3dsupply.de for sponsoring great prizes for the winners
* cimbern|Bender for creating the logo of the contest
* everybody who helped spreading this pack by providing download mirrors
* Chessfighta and his crew for creating the waypoints
* Mortok for setting up the additional forum
* [pater]creative for not getting mad about the traffic created
* Gipsy for constantly pointing out that cs_13(not included) was the best map of all ;)
* me for surviving this contest :P

And now go out and play this pack - you might also look out for our 
"Small and Violent"-Pack containing the best maps for few players that were
created for this contest (check out www.counter-strike.de)


Enjoy :)!

November 2001

[SKR8]Gunslinger
gunslinger@counter-strike.de, gunny@thegunslinger.de
www.counter-strike.de
www.thegunslinger.de