Grindhouse Mapping Contest Winners

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With another 50 entries in Wave 2 of the Killing Floor “Grindhouse” Mapping Contest, the quality has truly astounded us this time. The judging came down to the wire, with the top two maps being separated by the smallest possible amount. After many re-counts, KF-Icebreaker, created by Damien Laurent and Yoann Guilloud takes the grand prize of $10,000, just edging out KF-Departed, created by Jeroen van Wamelen and Jessy De Lannoit. Both are superb maps and the judges have enjoyed playing them!



Our congratulations go out to all the entrants in the contest. Once again, the Killing Floor community has put in a huge effort, creating over 100 maps during the course of the competition. The top 3 maps from Wave 2, along with their prizes, are:

• First Place – KF-Icebreaker by Damien Laurent and Yoann Guilloud wins the $10,000 grand prize. One of the most ambitious, creative, and visually stunning Killing Floor maps entered in the contest, Icebreaker is set on a large icebreaking ship that is pitching and rolling in the middle of a fierce storm.
• Second Place – KF-Departed by Jeroen van Wamelen and Jessy De Lannoit, wins an Nvidia 3D Vision bundle (22" 120Hz Samsung LCD + 3D Vision glasses), plus a G19 keyboard, a G13 advanced gameboard and an MX518 optical gaming mouse, all from Logitech. Departed is a visually impressive level set in an industrial city area outside of London. Featuring hectic gameplay this map plays as good as it looks.
• Third Place – KF-Crash by Michael Hewish and Corey Sine wins a G19 keyboard, a G13 advanced gameboard and an MX518 optical gaming mouse, all from Logitech. Crash is an impressive remake of a classic custom map for the original Killing Floor mod. The map is set in an urban storage facility where your team’s helicopter has crashed.

Here is the full list of runners-up, along with their prizes:

• KF-Suburbia by Paul Peccia and Carson Smith – Logitech G15 keyboard
• KF-RaccoonInternationalAirportSP by James Lovegrove and Allan Scott – Logitech G15 keyboard
• KF-Chthon by Florian Liederbach – Logitech G13 keyboard
• KF-TheDarkestRoads by Justyn Toohill – Logitech MX518 optical gaming mouse

The maps can all be downloaded from ModDB’s Grindhouse webpages here: http://www.moddb.com/games/killing-floor/grindhouse. Finally we’d like to thank contest sponsors Nvidia and Logitech for putting up some great prizes for the entrants.

Screenshots are on the front page!

[-[SiN]-bswearer]

a happy couple of months for Damien! 2 first places, 2 different maps. very impressive

[shadowwill]

congratulations to the winners!

[rckrdude]

Congratulations guys! Some REAL quality maps on there

[JEmmaB]

Wow nice! Congratulations to the winners!

[Maul]

Holy sh!t. Third place. I'm speechless. I wonder if Kyben knows yet...
The amount of hours I poured into that I had already come to peace with losing...but now, it turned out to be worth it. Thanks for not letting me waste a month of my life Tripwire. You made my day.

[THEDDLE]

Congrats to the winners. I will just yell up hello from the pit below with the other mappers.

[gusone]

Well done all. Really great bunch of maps there.

[Murphy]

Congratulations to the winners and thanks for the maps!

[omarfw]

I have yet to play icebreaker. I really need to. All of these maps deserve the commemoration. Out of the ones i've played, they are truly works of art.

[JustFilth]

Congrats to all, dont think there are any real surprises in the results. Some of the above maps are truly epic and deserve thier places. And yup filthy is a truly happy chappie stumbling over the finishing line again like a fat man on a long jog .

Filthy...

[Colonel Justice]

Congratulations to the winners!
The contest truly was an enrichment for the community. May the good maps continue to flow in

Cheers,
The Colonel

[The Wanderer]

Congratulations on everyone who entered and to Damian for finishing 1st place ^^

- The Wanderer

[avp2501]

This is excellent news and alot of fun I hope TW decide to do another one soon so DamDam can show us all up again lolol.

Well Done everyone

If that means Icebreaker is going to be official did you manage to sort out the camera shake online?

[anthracy]

Great work everyone! But I knew IceBreakers was going to win.(so did everyone else)

I had a question though, once the maps make it into the game as "official" maps; who does bug fixing? The original authors? Or Tripwire? Combination?

BTW, love candlesmoke too.

[Voodoo Shoe]

there is some very nice looking maps and a lot of talent aswell!

really cool stuff! congrats Damien...again you have a talent for sure

[Zetsumei]

some fine prices, and fine maps. The mappers deserve them congratulations.

[StarpictuR]

And the best prize: being ditributed automagically through steam to reach every killing floor owner... Congratulations.

[johnkeel105]

Icebreaker has to be my favorite map. I soon as I found it we put it on our clan server. It just keeps getting better, now it will be sent to everyone automatically. I wonder if the ship will now list in multiplayer?

[Dregs]

Congrats guys!