Over 10 years ago I (Sprony) organized the Quake 3 15th Anniversary contest. I managed to convince Pixologic to donate 3 digital ZBrush licenses ($2385 value), including T-shirts and key-chains. I also partnered with id Software who donated Quake Live memberships (which was still a thing back then), Voitec 'Buddy' Stark from textures.com who donated a 1-year membership and Jochum 'Hipshot' Skoglund who donated 4-packs of his first game Hammerwatch and a cash prize.
I was also very proud to have been able to put together an amazing panel of judges. Consisting out of Adam 'SyncError' Pyle from Id Software, Matthew 'Lunaran' Breit, Ferdinand 'cityy' List and Emile 'Obsidian' Ong. Maps were judged in 4 different categories namely gameplay, technical, presentation and creativity.
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Map Author - Map Name - File Name – Score
Tom "Phantazm11" Perryman – Geotechnic – phantq3dm6_mc | 90,3
Greg "Flipout" Ward – Endurance – q3gwdm2 | 90,0
Pat Howard – Goldleaf - goldleaf | 85,4
Sean "Scampie" Campbell – Feel the Way You Hate - q3scamp15mc | 81,8
Peter "fKd" Ward – Jackal – q3dmp29 | 81,5
Jan "ROTA" Žáček – Kora – rota3dm5 | 79,3
Conrad "Justin" Slawinski – Reco – reco | 75,8
Christoph "1nfern0" Grafl – Infected – map-infected-r2 | 72,5
Daniel "Nisse" Nilsson – Eternity Changes – dmdn | 68,6
Roman "Z(Rus)" Saraev – Carnage Ground – q3dmz_carnage | 60,6
Arthur "Thurnip" de Padua – Brutal Lab – q3trnp1 | 60,1
Joacim "Grillet" Rappu – Caldera – q3dmcaldera | 59,5
Petr "Hurracio Durrski" Švenda – On the Verge – dm_verge_wip| 59,3
Johann "Takkie" Slee – Firesplinter – jas3dm5c | 58,8
Davie "eXodus" van Eekelen – Loading Bay – loadingbay | 45,3
Xenos "Xenozoid" Popandopulos – Crash Concrete – xenq3dm1 | 20,5
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Mapcore is now defunct and the original pages are down, but thanks to the Internet Archive you can still view them and even the images work.
Announcement:
web.archive.org/we...ary-contest-r44
Contest Progress Update:
web.archive.org/we...ress-update-r48
Contest winners:
web.archive.org/we...ary-contest-r51
I’ve decided to release the pack as is, meaning there are some discrepancies. Geotechnic, Carnage Ground and Crash Concrete do not have their map files included. Geotechnic, Endurance, Goldleaf, Kora, Jackal and Carnage Ground are on lvlworld, but only Geotechnic seems to have received an update after the competition ended. I’ve used the lvlworld version of these maps and added the (possibly outdated) map files of Goldleaf and Jackal. The two lowest ranked maps – Loading Bay and Crash Concrete – do not have a readme and the textures are not packaged correctly, which could lead to conflicts.
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Installation
Extract the .pk3 files to your baseq3 folder in your game directory. You can access the maps in the game’s menu or open the console and type map followed by the name and press enter. For instance, map phantq3dm6_mc.
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Distribution / Copyright / Permissions
Quake III Arena is a registered trademark of id Software, Inc.
These MAPS may be electronically distributed only at NO CHARGE to the recipient in its current state, MUST include this .txt file, and may NOT be modified IN ANY WAY. UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES IS THIS MOD/MAP TO BE DISTRIBUTED ON CD-ROM WITHOUT PRIOR WRITTEN PERMISSION.
Please do not use any of these assets in ANY COMMERCIAL PROJECT. Remember to give credit if you use any of the assets.