Welcome to the ManiaExchange Monthly Track Contest (MTC) August 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: Corners of the World 📐
Suggested by disturbio

Have your route go over all 4 corners of the editable map





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Theme Rules



• The player has to drive over each corner of the mapping area
  
• Only the standard 32x32 and 48x48 maps are allowed
  
• Block height is not restricted



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Allowed



• All environments and titlepacks
  
• Blockmixing
  
• Embedded items
  
• Custom time of day
  
• Mods
  
• TMUF cars

Not Allowed



• 64x64 maps
  
• Press Forward, Left, Right, or similar tracks
  
• Maps that require Openplanet
  
• Trial maps



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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: World Exploration (MTC) ; [mtc] No Cutting Corners ; MTC – NW->SW->SE->NE (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



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Deadlines



• Your track should be uploaded before the end of Friday, August 30th at midnight PST
  
• Tracks submitted within the deadline will have August 31st to make any last minute edits
  
• Public voting will go from September 1st to September 8th
  
• Results will be posted September 9th at the earliest

Prizes

The first place winner will get to choose a theme for November
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)



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How to Submit



• ***Upload your map to this map-pack and optionally post a link to your map 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

I was planning on making a submission to this, but somehow - and I don't know why - my game crashes whenever I try to compute the shadows of the map I had made. It has been made and with an AT put in place, but the shadows are causing me issues.

(This has been approved for the 'late submission' due to some errors with computing shadows I had with it)

August 2019 Public Voting Link: https://forms.gle/cCwMD2jiuuJyyeA49

This month there are 7 MTC entries! Download them all here.

In the voting sheet, give your score before your feedback (0 to 10, decimals are allowed). If you have comments, leave them right after your score. For example:

9.9 - I feel like I actually did just travel to every corner of the world, #theworldisflatyo

• 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
  
• The mixture will be 70/30 if there is 1 public voter, 60/40 for 2-3, and 50/50 for 4+
  
• You must have access to all environments and vote on all maps for your votes to count

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A panel of judges will also judge the maps.
This internal voting will follow the format of:
Theme (20p) | Creativity (10p) | Fun (10p) | Detail (10p)

All public voting will soft close on September 10th, 2019 at midnight PST. After that you'll have until the internal judges complete their voting.

Voted - but may update some of my votes later after finding out that two of them were using a certain pack.

EDIT: Vote Updated to include the remaining maps

Voted

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First place goes to spaadynanou!

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• "Pretty nice map to be honest, pretty liked these kind of original fresh ideas and the fact that your map is multistyles ^^" - Akiliyh
  
• "I love how this track makes very good use of the corners, and even revisits one of them for the ending" - aurovee
  
• "Really neat track, it's extremely diverse and fun to play" - Rexine

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dynamic. snags second!

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• "I think I've fallen in love with this" - aurovee
  
• "Great map, it's got a refreshing style for fullspeed" - Rexine
  
• "This map incorporates some nice ideas and would be fun to hunt" - eFFecT

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And in third we have Tona!

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• "Enjoyed driving this a lot, especially that I was able to finish it okayish and keep on improving" - eFFecT
  
• "I have to admit, I'm a sucker for these terrible puns" - Kousseau
  
• "I like the fact that you're not bored anytime even if the map is long ^^" - Akiliyh

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Congratulations to our winners!

Each winner gets a news showcase of their choice for placing in the top 3.

Here's the link to the full results sheet.

Great job keeping the maps diverse guys, it's pretty impressive given the theme

Well done to the top three... And I'm glad that I did manage to get 4th overall with an environment which I know I can be better at when it comes to mapping.

As for the signs, I am planning on eventually remaking them into a better themed signpack.