Welcome to the ManiaExchange Monthly Track Contest (MTC), August/September 2012, hosted by MX.

In the MTC, your task is to build a track on a given theme (see below). Later on, all of the entered tracks will be rated by our judges and a winner will be found.

The Details

Let's have a look at the details of the contest:

Theme of the Month: Platform: Trackmania has a new game mode: Platform! This month's MTC gives you the chance to show your skills in creating platform tracks.

Deadline: Wednesday, 12th September

Prize:

Honour and the right to brag! (Jozii used to say that )

The rules:

The track must be a platform track. More information about platform tracks can be found in this topic here on MX.

Include exactly 7 checkpoints in your map.

Put the checkpoints within reasonable distances from each other.

Please upload a replay of a clean run to a filehoster and send it in a PM to me. It might help the judges' evaluations.

You are not allowed to use the new Unlimiter.

You may submit ONE track.

Name your track "TrackName (MTC)", where "TrackName" is whatever name you want to give the track. EXAMPLE: "The Beautiful Daydream (MTC)".

The track must have been uploaded to the exchange between (and including) 17th August and 12th September 2012.

Important: To enter a track, simply upload it and post your submission in THIS thread.

The Judging System:

A number of judges will rate the tracks on the following topics:

Design – Layout, respawnability of checkpoints, scenery, the general "feel" of the track. Max 20 points/judge

Creativity – Quality and "interestingness" of the platform obstacles Max 10 points/judge

Fun Factor – Sometimes a track can be poor in every way, but still extremely fun to drive. Depending on how fun the judges find your track, a few extra points can be given. Max 10 points/judge

Regarding the final results, the lowest and highest score of each track will be deleted and the average of the "medium scores" decides - if the number of judges is at least 5.

We need reliable and committed judges, so if you want to volunteer as a judge, please send a PM to KekX!

Good luck! If you have any questions, please ask away

no scenery and MT? <3

Add some front page news?

I'm definitely in. This one looks fun.

eyebo says:
Add some front page news?

Yes I didn't add them yesterday because I considered the KO reminder to be more important

How trial style can the map be?
Custom signs for the way finding? If yes, explicit or should the driver have to think a little bit about how to get to the next stage?
How will the difficult grade be scored?
What about the length of the map?
And of course as always, what's about blockmixing if a new version of the Unlimiter should be released during the mapping process?

Everything that's not forbidden in the rules is allowed. Should there be a new version of Unlimiter, we'll have to set up a rule I guess.

As for the custom signs, it's your choice how explicit you want to be.
The difficulty of the map is hard to evaluate. Of course, on the one hand you're not supposed to build a map that's almost unfinishable but on the other hand it shouldn't be too simple as well . I think it's mostly a question of fun factor, but also of track design. And as always, it depends on the judges (but that's the case in every MTC)

We decided not to give any track length because you should focus on the platform mode itself. If we had included a time limit, it would have said "Do try not to overpass 90 seconds in track length. But: This is just a rough guideline".

I'll try to give it a go.

I've informed the Nadeo CM, he will probably post a news about the contest, so that it could attract a wider audience.

there is a post in french ?
because with Google translator it's pretty ugly

nice nice, finally a new MTC
I've never build a platform/trial map before, but I will for sure do my best

Hopefully I manage to keep my map below the 3 min. Already at 1min30 after 4 CPs -_-