The "Just 52 hours" - "Small and Violent" - Pack
"Nur 52 Stunden" - "Klein und Heftig" - Pack

compiled by [SKR8]Gunslinger (gunslinger@counter-strike.de)
for
www.counter-strike.de

Starting off as a weird idea in the mapping forum of
www.counter-strike, things were heating up when I decided to give it a go:
a fast mapping contest.
The rules were pretty easy in their outlines:
Every participant was permitted to use only the standard HL Textures and 
most of all a special texture pack.
The contest would start out on a Friday afternoon and the mappers had to send 
in their finished maps until Sunday, early evening - thus granting them a mere 
52 hours to create a map from the given setting and textures. The mappers' identies 
weren't to be revealed to anybody (not even the jury) until the contest was over.

I was able to persuade -sk2- madness (madness@s2k-clan.de) to create an absolutely 
beautiful texture set fitting the setting we had chosen:
Spain!

When the contest was over, I didn't trust my own eyes since my mailbox was 
bursting with maps -
it took me several hours to sort everything out and in the end 
came up counting more than 100 maps that had been made by mappers all over the 
world at that weekend...

I had quite a lot of work opening a thread for every contest entry in our special forum
and a along with my 5-men-Jury I had even more trouble selecting the best of the maps.
After a preselection and a lengthy playtesting period of the finalists the jury gave their
final judgement.

You will find a TopTen Pack of the Best Maps of this Contest at:
http://www.cstrike.de/mapreviews/52hours/52pack.html

This pack however contains the best small maps that have been created. 
There were many great maps that were just to small to be played with more than 8 players, 
which therefor didn't make the TopTen package.

Anyway, I have selected the best of them - there are always people asking me for maps that 
can be played on small LANs or that are suitable for 1 on 1 / 2 on 2 - matches. 
These maps will be perfect just for these occasions.

I have chosen 11 maps from 100+ to be included in this pack, so I am sure you will enjoy it!

The mappers of the included maps were given the opportunity to fix some annoying bugs in their maps (skywalking, 
getting stuck etc.), but you won't really find too much difference of the included maps 
to the original contest entries. 

I am pretty sure you will be as amazed as I have been to find out which beautiful maps 
have been created by the mappers within 52 hours!

The maps included are(in no sensible order ;)):

1. de_52samson by LePrau
2. cs_52durryville by Durroon
3. de_52periculo by TheDoenerking
4. cs_52maadrid by api|maad
5. de_52oviedo by GarbageMan
6. cs_52midspain by ptstodeath
7. cs_52talavera by MarkusUetz
8. de_52spaintime by Red Dog
9. de_52basque by Brite
10. de_52spain_newb by Newbielein
11. de_52nightrun by Raptor][6

This pack also includes:

* POD-BOT-Waypoints for every map - thanks to www.counter-planet.de
* .res-files for the server admins' convenience

Thanks go to:
* everybody who participated - hope you had a lot of fun
* -sk2-madness for the great textures
* the Jury: [RG]BadGirl, MeisterRoehrich, [OO]Hotman, [FAK]Lamer, Steeefan
* http://www.3dsupply.de for sponsoring great prizes for the winners
* cimbern|Bender for creating the logo of the contest
* everybody who helped spreading this pack by providing download mirrors
* Sub7 and ]D|W[-Blake for creating the waypoints
* Mortok for setting up the additional forum
* [pater]creative for not getting mad about the traffic created
* Gipsy for constantly pointing out that cs_13(not included) was the best map of all ;)
* me for surviving this contest :P

And now go out and play this pack - you might also look out for our 
"TopTen"-Pack containing the eleven best maps that were
created for this contest (check out www.counter-strike.de)


Enjoy :)!

December 2001

[SKR8]Gunslinger
gunslinger@counter-strike.de, gunny@thegunslinger.de
www.counter-strike.de
www.thegunslinger.de












