First! Congrats Aubs.
Outstanding job on this gem, I gotta play it very soon.

Sycamore is located in the ForgeHub LIVE account and ready for you guys to download. We had a lot of late nights testing these 1v1 maps and its the most halo I've played since I've bought the game. Loved every bit of it - thanks for making this such a great experience on our end. Loved the maps, wasn't expecting the judging process to be this difficult! The following Smackdown tournament will have a great map pool thanks to all your hard work.

I'd like to take this opportunity to congratulate Auburn on creating this wonderful map. The third place slot is very well-deserved! I would also like to personally thank the judges and the entire staff team here for putting the time into making this contest a reality. I know from experience that these contests are a lot of work. They're hard to fully appreciate unless you've judged one yourself. I particularly want to thank War, Chunk, and Purely for all of the dedication and all of the late nights they put in. The maps that they finally settled on for the top three are truly incredible, but the quality of the maps created for this contest overall was truly impressive too. I am really honored to be in the company of such talented designers and to have the pleasure of helping to announce and spotlight that talent to the wider community.

Can't wait to see what you guys think of second place tomorrow!

Definitely worthy. Congrats on 3rd!

Great video, lol at warholic getting smashed though. Poor guy should have let me play him, he would have had a chance.

Anyway, if this made 3rd then I know I'm out already, I can't compete with that so the next 2 maps being higher ranked than this pretty much puts me in my place, lol. Good job Aub... Not Auburn.

On Sycamore, I fell to my death more times than I care to admit, though it was always my own fault. I took my fair share of Sniper bullets to the face (and maybe dished out 1 or 2 to myself). I thoroughly enjoyed the pace of play. As Psychoduck stated in the video, Sycamore really rewards awareness and map knowledge. There's nothing more satisfying than knowing that you've outmaneuvered your opponent. I've had a lot of fun playing Sycamore, and I hope I'll have the opportunity to play on it many more times, even though our testing period is done.

Kudos and Congrats Auburn!

Woohoo!

First and foremost, I would like to extend my thanks the people that organized this contest! The forge community has been on the decline recently, but this event kicked the gears back into action even if just a little. I'm not just referring to the influx of solid content either. The idea of members breaking out of their little groups and interacting as a community, supporting the same strangers they're competing against... I hadn't seen much of that since the good 'ol Reach days. Frankly, the forge community is mostly to blame for its own steady downfall, but I digress. Major kudos, guys!

Yep, yep. I'm very fond of predictability being a strong factor in 1v1s, so my designs tend to have strict flow patterns. Sycamore is most definitely not an exception to that idea. Its design rewards map knowledge in the sense that players that can effectively use the breaks in the intended flow will have the advantage.

Now the real question: What are these "Gunnar Glasses" you speak of?

I win every time I play this map and every time I play it I am the AR/OS/SB king.