A/D CTF and Payload Race Contest

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What happens if you give some TF2 mappers six months to make a map? What happens if that map is payload race or a resurrected Team Fortress Classic gamemode, Attack/Defend CTF? We decided to find out.

Announced on May 31st 2009, the A/D CTF and Payload Race Contest was the third annual mapping contest run by TF2Maps.net. It encouraged mappers to create either Payload Race maps or A/D CTF maps. It resulted in 16 entries, and a combination of judge and public voting was used to determine the winners. The results for the contest were announced on December 5th, 2009 with Haarp, Vector, and Premuda winning 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the A/D CTF category and Nightfall, Panic, and Solitude winning 1st, 2nd, and 3rd in the Payload Race category.

Nightfall and Haarp were later completed and added into the game in the Community Map Pack and Smissmas 2023 updates respectively.

Guidelines and Deadline

After two time extensions, creators had the deadline of October 30th 11:00 PM CST to submit their maps to count as entries into the contest.

Submission Rules

  • Map can be either Payload Race or A/D CTF.
  • Only one developer is allowed to work on a map to avoid giving advantages to mapping teams.
  • Must be able to spawn 32 players (16 per team spawnroom)
  • Absolutely no gophers, or other form of minion-based help.
  • Map must include these decals/overlays: At least 1 poster for the Chaos Sponsor and any 1 of the fine TF2Maps posters.
    • Map entries could have custom Chaos/TF2M posters but needed approval from the host.
  • Contest judges' entries could not win.
  • For A/D CTF maps:
    • Number of flags/caps per stage must be at least 2, and at most 4. The total number of flags/caps (across all stages) must be at least 3, and at most 8.
    • The Intelligence must be a sensible model.
    • Must follow established Attack/Defend team setup: BLU attacking and RED defending.
  • For Payload Race maps:
    • The cart may be any sensible cart-sized model.

PLR Entries

Thumbnail Map Name Author Score (out of 5)
Nightfall stage2.png Nightfall Aaron "Psy" Garcha 4.07
Plr panic b20005.jpg Panic Kevin "Ravidge" Brook 4.05
Solitude main.jpg Solitude Pitto 3.80
Plr highwind a4 2.jpg Highwind bob+M|M+ 3.37
Cornfield main.jpg Cornfield DaBeatzProject 3.32
Scoville main.jpg Scoville Void 3.24
Plr arctic a53.jpg Arctic Altaco 2.96
Animus main.jpg Animus Fearlezz 2.64
Rollout1 v5E.jpg Rollout Ezekel 2.29

A/D CTF Entries

Thumbnail Map Name Author Score (out of 5)
Ctf haarp.jpg Haarp Dr. Spud 4.30
Ctf vector v10005.jpg Vector Icarus 4.17
Ctf slate.jpg Slate YM 3.80
Ctf premuda.jpg Premuda Eerieone 3.75
Ctf snowdrift b20004.jpg Snowdrift Jonah 3.67
Ctf panamint a180023.jpg Panamint Hanz 3.04
Ctf bayou c0001.jpg Bayou Chaopsychochick 2.79

YM was also a judge and disqualified from winning. Premuda took third.

Prizes

The prizes for this contest was a prize pool of different items the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd place winners of the contest could choose from. A winner could pick one of any prize of the pool, but the order in which they picked was determined by what place they won in the contest. Due to the sheer number of map submissions, it was decided that both categories would be ranked separately with there being two sets of winners from each map type. The prize pool consisted of the following items:

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