Having trouble deciding how often your weapons and power-ups should spawn on a 1v1 map? Here are some suggested weapon spawn times for you to start:

1v1 Weapon Timers

The best spawn time for your map may vary from the one listed here, so experiment!

That sounds awesome!! I am going to participate for sure....

1 v 1 Halo has seen some great maps that deserved to be in the competitive spotlight more. Hopefully the maps get the recognition from this contest.

I'd like to see maps which focus on verticality, quick spawning/low ammo count items and asym.

As long as there's no enhanced radar then this contest sounds great!

Haha, definitely no more enhanced radar.

Psyched to see what the community comes up with!

I better get started!

I think the settings are 4x plasmas, infinite ammo are, enhanced radar, and fuel rod is the only weapon on the map.

90s is a long time for a camo...

and no way does speed boost justify a 60s timer either(it only lasts for 15s iirc)

Also why aren't BRs or frags allowed on the map?

Ive edited that part out for now. I agree with all your points. No need to have a standardised weapon set.

The settings were just the settings I have been using since Reach. The lack of br's and frags is to help promote movement and to create tougher decision making when it comes to dropping the br for a power weapon. I believe War wants to have a standardized weapon set. I was going to have lower timers for both camo and speed boost but, I wanted to see the reaction it got.

It got the right reaction.

What would you recommend for camo spawn time? Camo lasts for 48 seconds when in use so a 90 second timer would leave 42 seconds for respawn after expenditure, theoretically. We could drop this down a bit but I would really like to get these settings standardized so when we move to the tournament portion, players will be focusing on learning the maps and not different weapon timers for each one.

Maps that are chosen for the tournament that's planned to follow this contest may have changes made to the weapon setup. For example, it's highly likely that all of the power weapons will be put on static timers for tournament play.

Having said that, following predetermined spawn times for weapons is not a requirement for submitting a map. Everyone should setup their weapons in the way that they think works best for their map (keeping in mind the predetermined settings listed in the first post).

Updraft 2.

So to be clear,
can we enter multiple maps?
what weapons can we place on the map?

As many maps as you want.

Any weapons you want, but be smart about it.

As many maps as I'd like huh.. Would prefer one per person though, I assume that one cannot win each of the top 3 prizes then even though his maps would be the best.

Also US only or can I submit maps as well? I.e. No country restrictions for this contest?

If you live in a different country we can find a way to distribute prizing. If Astros won't ship to your area we can monetarily compensate you equal to the prize value. Just have a Paypal account handy when the time comes.

I suppose I have a question. How lenient are we going to be on "original designs." For instance, my map Updraft from FH's last 1v1 contest - I've had a re-design of the map that I've been wanting to forge. The inverse corkscrew idea will essentially remain the same, but the outside connections are quite different from the original. I want to do this. Can I do this?

If the design is based on your own previous work and not that of others then we will judge it with the same level of original authorship. If you submit "Carbonite" or other 'remakes', although they may be a fantastic designs, you would fail in the "original" department and lower your chances of winning prizing.