Update February 3rd, 2021 - Update on public voting: New World Interactive has been made aware of some potentially suspicious voting activity in the Insurgency: Sandstorm mapping contest and is working with Mod.io to verify the authenticity of these claims. If found to be true, we will take appropriate action to remove any votes in breach of the rules. As a reminder, entrants are not permitted to directly or indirectly encourage the use of duplicate accounts or automated scripts to manipulate votes, nor can any bribe, reward, or incentive be offered in exchange for votes, any entrants found to be acting in a disruptive or unsportsmanlike manner may be excluded from the competition. See Section 12 of the rules for full details. After internal consultation, we have decided that we will extend the public voting period deadline until February 10th, 2021, at 11:59 PM ET while we investigate. During this time, we will also allow all entrants to make ONE update to their submitted file version; this can happen at any time until the new voting deadline. If the integrity of votes can not be determined New World Interactive reserves the right to manually review all entries and select finalists based on expert evaluation from our judges.
Public Voting now open - Insurgency: Sandstorm Mapping contest.
In September of last year, New World announced the Insurgency: Sandstorm mapping contest in collaboration with Unreal Engine, Intel, Nvidia, and Mod.io.
Over the last 20 weeks, many talented community members have been working away crafting their own custom levels for Insurgency: Sandstorm using our mod tools.
We received over 30 fantastic entries from players of all experience levels, covering many game modes and unique settings. Over the course of the next 7 days a series of public testing and voting will occur to determine the top ten entries. Those top ten will go on to be judged by our team of experts and compete for up to $17,000 worth of prizes from New World and our sponsors.
As of the time of this post, public voting is now OPEN!
Voting will remain open until February 4th, 2021 @ 11:59pm EST.
After voting is closed we will tally the votes and the Top 10 will move on to be judged by a panel from New World Interactive.
How to vote:
To vote go to the “2020 Mapping Contest” section of Insurgency: Sandstorm’s Mod.io hub.
Install and test the entries, leaving a “Thumbs Up” recommended vote on any submissions you feel should go through to the top 10. This can be cast via the submissions mod.io page or the in-game mod browser.
The review scores for eligible entries have been reset. Only votes cast during the judging period (January 29, 2021 at 12:00 AM ET until February 5, 2021 at 11:59 PM ET) will be counted.
The finalists will be determined by the submissions with the highest number of Positive User Recommendations (Thumbs Up) minus the number of Negative User Recommendations (Thumbs Down). In case of a tie for a place among the Finalists, the tied Entrant with the higher total number of subscribers to their Submission will be chosen.
Full rules, judging, and eligibility requirements can be found at sandstorm.game/mapcontest
Good luck!
New World Interactive