Okay, I just stopped worrying. Can I start again now? This is getting on my nerves. XD

If we go for one month (which is fine by me) I don't see us going back to 2 weeks during summer for the simple reason that the lack of submissions started around the beginning of the summer holidays, maybe a little bit before. I saw this as an indication: people are on holidays. But now that they're over and the usual entries haven't returned, I started to get more worried.

@nintendo.erk: Yeah, I saw. It was good to see this happen. I'm working on a great map for Circular, so there will be competitoin. :)

@cyhborg: Is it this bad that you won't submit a map with a less good idea? or are you referring to having a writers block? Is it perhaps that you can't make something in 2 weeks of time?

In the past months, I've seen less and less participation in the competitions. Basically the only active competition is the hammer one. The past 2 competitions, I was the only person to enter a map, and the competitions before didn't give the usual 10 maps either.

I understand if people take a break, but it seems people have forgotten the P2LC group exists.

I'd like to hear each and everyone's opinion for their lack in making maps and/or playing the maps in the competition for voting, so we can make the necessary changes to make things fun again.

For me it becomes less and less fun to make maps simply because I'm the only person to submit a map. Are my maps too good and do people think they don't stand a chance?

I hope to hear from you.

Do note that if I get too little reaction it may well be the end of this group, as it tells me that no one wants this anymore.

And we have a winner!

...with a nice total score of 1 points for his effort to at least submit a map.

LPChip, you are entitled to give us the next weeks challenge. Can you reply here before the end of sunday GMT +0, and tell us what you'd like to see in the next competition?

Current stage: Submit your map.
Deadline: Sunday 30-11-2014, 23:59 GMT+0
View general rules for this competition: here

This challenge was submitted by: srs bsnss
The idea for this challenge is to do the following:
Somewhere in the map, involve a BTS section (that the player must go through, not just an optional exploration area). This could be between chambers, or the entire map could be a BTS-style puzzle. Whatever works for you! As long as BTS is involved in some non superficial way. Happy mapping!

(pro-tip: decompile Valve BTS maps for design inspiration)

In summary; BTS is basically anything that isn't a test chamber. More specifically, BTS is things like offices, factory areas, open catwalks, and so on and so forth.

Examples could be the A2 factory BTS arc (offices, vactube travelling, industrial areas with pipes, cables, etc), the A3 pump station BTS arc (gel tubes, offices, lobbies etc) or the A4 escape BTS arc (offices, open catwalks, gel tubes etc).

So yeah. It's best defined by what it isn't: test chambers (or elevators to test chambers).

Thats it, hope to see an entry from you too. Reply here and post a link to your workshop map once done.

If you have any questions to srs bsnss about the competition rules then you can post them in this topic

Stagger Lee told me BTS stands for Behind The Scene. Does that describe what you mean?

Can you elaborate what you refer to as a BTS section?

And we have a winner!

...with a nice total score of 19 points.

This weeks runner ups are: Piranha.A (Innocentive) who came second with 14 points, and nintendo.erk who came third with 9 points.

Srs bsnss, you are entitled to give us the next weeks challenge. Can you reply here before the end of sunday GMT +0, and tell us what you'd like to see in the next competition?

1. Srs Bsnss
2. Nintendo.erk
3. Piranha.A