UGX-Mods & ZomMods Mapping Contest 2015 in Giveaways

Welcome to the 2015 Mapping Contest.
Hosted by UGX-Mods and Sponsored by ZomMods

There will be 3 main Cash Prizes available to be won:

1st Place - $500
2nd Place - $150
3rd Place - $50
Runner Ups - $10*

Note - Payment of cash prizes will be made via PayPal. If you do not have PayPal, you will not be eligible to receive prize money

*: There will only be a maximum of 10 runner-ups.

Contest Map Theme

The theme for the map contest is: Build your ideal zombie base to survive the apocalypse. It could be anything from a cabin in the woods or a local supermarket to a castle in the middle of nowhere, it's up to you!

Contest Deadline

The contest officially begins today June 29th, 2015, and will end on November 22nd, 2015 at 11:59PM PST.

How to Participate

Those of you interested in participating in the contest will need to start a WIP (Work in Progress) page in the New Contest Entries Section, so that you can provide the UGX community with updates on your map. This topic does not need to have any pictures right away or a complete features list, but try to keep the community updated at least occasionally to the progress of your map without giving away any information you wish to remain secret.

Who is judging these maps?

Once the entry deadline has passed for the contest, we will set up a community poll topic where people can vote for the winners of these maps. There will be a two week period of voting before the winners are determined. Winners will be ranked based on the number of votes they received, in descending order. We ask that you vote based on the quality of the map and how it follows the theme of the contest, not based on the popularity of the map/mapper or any professional/personal affiliation you have with them. In the event of a tie between two or more maps for a winning place, a re-vote will be cast and users will only be allowed to vote amongst the tying maps.

Contest & Submission Rules

All of these rules must be followed in order to be eligible for prizes:

UGX Mod is NOT required for contest maps. You may use it at your own discretion.
Must have at least one UGX-Mods logo and one ZomMods logo in a visible place in the map. Maps which do not make an attempt to follow this rule will be disqualified.
You cannot port your map from any other game or engine - this includes porting Source maps such as de_dust2. If you are remaking a map from another game you must provide reasonable proof of development progress just like everyone else. You can't magically have the whole map layout done in 3 days.
Payment of cash prizes will be made via PayPal. If you don't have PayPal, you will not receive any prize money.
You need to start a WIP (Work in Progress) page in the New Contest Entries Section, so that you can provide the UGX community with updates on your map. This topic does not need to have any pictures right away or a complete features list, but try to keep the community updated at least occasionally to the progress of your map without giving away any information you wish to remain secret.
You cannot post a WIP of your contest entry on any site other than UGX-Mods
Maps must be new projects and not a pre-existing WIP, to ensure that the contest is fair. You must release progress updates regularly of your map to prove that you did not start with a map that was already considerably developed in secret.
All maps should need to follow the map submission and filehost guidelines.
You can enter with more than one map if they all follow these rules.
Your map(s) must be fully functioning, and tested, with no glaring issues or game breaking bugs. We will disqualify any winners if we believe their maps do not follow this rule.
Maps must be designed using the Theme described above.
The download link for your map can be posted to the first post of your WIP topic at any time before the deadline. Again, the deadline is November 22nd, 2015 @ 11:59PM PST). If your topic has an "Edited at" date of later than the contest deadline time, your entry will not be counted.
Once the voting period has ended and the maps are publicly released, the release topic and download link must stay exclusive to ZomMods and UGX for 7 days.
Prize payment will be withheld for the 7 day download exclusivity period to ensure that mappers abide by the rule. If your map is posted elsewhere you will not receive prize payment.

Please reply to this topic with any questions or clarifications you have about the contest.

Required Contest Logo Files

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To install the files, open the RAR file and drag both the map_source and raw folders into the root of your mod tools directory. There are two prefabs included within _prefabs/ugxmods_contest_2015. The logo textures can also be found by setting your Texture Locale to Seelow in Radiant. Make sure you include the images folder in your map so that the textures show up in-game!

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