Welcome to the ManiaExchange Monthly Track Contest (MTC) April 2019 hosted by Rexine!
In the MTC your task is to build a track on a given theme. Later, all the submitted tracks are rated and a winner is determined.
🍭Theme of the Month: Eye Candy🍬
Make the scenery beautiful!
Theme Rules
- The scenery will be judged based on originality, diversity, and looks (the amount of scenery isn't very important but if you're going for a minimalist style then it should be thoughtfully designed and very well executed)
- In the internal judging, the "detail" category will be determined only by the route. The scenery won't be taken into account
- Thematic scenery is welcome
- Make sure the map is playable. If it lags too much there will be a big point deduction
- The route will still be judged as normal
Allowed
- All environments and titlepacks
- Blockmixing
- Embedded items
- Custom time of day
- Mods
- TMUF cars
Not Allowed
- Press Forward, Left, Right, or similar tracks
- Maps that require Openplanet
- Trial maps (they're too difficult to judge properly)
General Rules
- You may submit one track maximum
- Duo tracks are allowed, but each map counts as one track for each author involved
- MTC should be present in the track name
Examples: Mount Olympus (MTC) ; [mtc] Immaculate ; MTC – Shining Valley (check that any special characters do not break in the TM or MX track name)
- The track should be built in the most recent version of the game
Deadlines
- Your track should be uploaded before the end of Monday, April 29th at midnight PST
- Tracks submitted within the deadline will have April 30th to make any last minute edits
- Public voting will go from May 1st to May 8th
- Results will be posted May 9th at the earliest
Prizes
The main winner can choose to decide a theme for the June or July 2019 MTC (depending on availability)
Honour and the right to brag! (Jozii used to say that. I hope some still remember him? )
The top 3 winners will receive a showcase of a track of their choice (< 10 awards)
How to Submit
- To submit a track, upload it to MX and post a link to your submission in this thread
- You can update your track within the deadline as many times as you want
- Submitted courses may be updated within 24 hours of submissions closing, in case of any necessary last minute changes. New courses may NOT be submitted in this time frame
- Updating your track after the revision deadline has passed will lead to a disqualification. You are free to update your track once the results are published
Judging: Public and internal
We will use a mixture of 70/30 between internal judging and public voting if there is 1 public voter, 60/40 for 2-3, and 50/50 for 4+
- Everyone is allowed to judge, even players who submitted a map (your score on your own map will be removed, so give it whatever you want!)
- Every map will be judged with a decimal number from 0 (bad) to 10 (good). All votes greater than/equal to 7 or less than/equal to 4 require constructive feedback on why you gave it that score
- Note that you have to judge a stage entirely! You cannot judge only half of it. If you are not able to finish the map, your vote can still count! Please only leave that as a very last resort, and still judge the entire map fairly
- You need to verify your vote by making a post here (for example: "Voted ")
- One best and one worst vote for each map will be ignored if more than 10 people vote
- The overall score will be a mixture of the average public score and the average internal score
- You must have access to all environments and vote on all maps for your votes to count
Good luck!
If you have any questions, please ask
Last edited by AR »rexine, 2019-05-28 13:35:03