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If any multiplayer game is going to have any chance of success, then it needs one crucial element: quality levels.
We all have our favourites maps almost feel custom-built for the way you like to play, whether it be the long-range havens with narrow corridors for snipers, urban environments with tonnes of nooks and corners for those with the twitch reactions, or skyscrapers and huge changes in elevation for those who like camping from upon high.
Here are some of the best maps from multiplayer games over the years. I’ve gone back in time for this, because I find the real gems are the ones that stand the test of time, the levels that are so good that they get ported or re-made down the road.
Zerg Campaign: Invasion of Azeroth mod for Warcraft III: Frozen Throne
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That Time A Tiny StarCraft Tournament Gave Away 100 Bitcoins
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Esports has come a hell of a long way and prizesare massive, but they might not have netted you anywhere near as much as what placing
5th to 8th in this
StarCraft 2 tournament would have got you.
StarCraft 2 was just taking off in 2011. Esports had been a thing for over a decade, but million-dollar prize pools and the streaming culture was just getting established.
But
StarCraft: Brood War was still kicking along, even though many players had transitioned to
StarCraft 2 at the time. So seeing the Team AoV ICCup Starleague have a prize pool of $US1000 was no big deal; if anything, it was nice that it had any funding at all.