TwistedMeadows, EchoIsles, TerenasStand, SecretValley, MeltingValley, TidewaterGlades, SnowDrop.

Would be fun to see how these two new maps coming out with version 1.22 work like.

are these maps already available?

and when will the tourney being held?

lan:4th June--14th June, in Changsha City, provincial capital of Hunan Province.

LoL do they hope blizzard will release the patch until the start PGL? If yes they should begin praying right now.

Probably they will still play on version 1.21. But maybe the maps can be used in v1.21? I'm not sure.
Anyway, new maps,new strategies. And I'm looking forward to some new winner as well. Get quite bored to always see those old kings now.

SnowDrop?

i admit i dont know the last three maps, are there any minimap-pics of those maps available yet?

That map Snowdrop is a bit of a crap really , I got no idea how the other 2 look like

heres the minimaps:
http://file.sgamer.com/Images/1.22/TideWaterGlades.jpg
http://file.sgamer.com/Images/1.22/Melting_Valley.jpg

and SnowDrop is not crappy.It has been using in ACB (korean team league) for at least 3 seasons (with some balance fixes after each season)

link to dl the maps?

ever read news on SK frontpage ?

the players already have the maps right?

some sapper action vs expo on melting valley

I support the idea of changing maps in order to have more interesting matches But: Imagine as a progamer you have to play and train 3 new maps only for this tournament and if you don't you'll end up losing to every noob (grubby) who did. All participants have to train these map only for this tournament to be successful. I don't know how much time before they knew about the new maps. 1 or 2 maps would be okay but anyway we can only wait and see. Looking forward to amazing games and hopefully a good coverage!

That is their job. To practice hard and try to win. No need for sympathy.

melting valley is extremy good map imo
i tryed it with all races and it seems balanced but i guess its best for elves

oh here is the ling to dload
Melting valley http://rapidshare.com/files/117799354/_2_MeltingValley.w3x.html
Tidewater glades http://rapidshare.com/files/117799598/_4_TidewaterGlades.w3x.html
snowdrop http://rapidshare.com/files/117799780/_2_Snowdrop_1.0.w3x.html

and all in one http://rapidshare.com/files/117800140/all_in_one.zip.html

the natural creep son melting valley dont have anti air and are way to easy to creep

What's up with close position on TideWaterGlades?
At first the bottom merc camp looked like it was blocking the short road but I'm afraid it's not.
Man, that would be an interesting new thing, close position separated by a creep camp. In the end the guy hiring the mercs first wins.

Snow tile set sucks. It hurts the eye and makes finding your own wisps a nightmare.

the camp does not block the very short road.If it comes to close spawn,HU will have fun towering no mercy,even deadlier than TR close spawn

the position of the expo on Snowdrop is really interesting,not easy like it seems to be,looks a bit like the expo on top & at bottom of TM

MV seems to be the most interesting map,the lab in between 2 expos promises us some sapper action.And looks like u can places siege units on the plateau behind the expos at 10' and 4' position,Some nice plane micro is coming up

God those rapidshare cats are ridiculous - or maybe my eyesight is getting bad in old age :(. Can someone upload them to a decent host, or just send them to me on msn? pm for address kthx.

SK Solves Zechs

http://www.sk-gaming.com/file/7341

lol these maps are available for dl on SK hours ago :http://www.sk-gaming.com/file/7341

Been sat in the rugby club sipping guinnes all afternoon, not my fault if i didn't notice that link ;D

TidewaterGlades seems like a 1.07 RoC map lol.Creep camps are too strong , the forest is kinda "too green"and its causes a bit of disconfort while playing , there is hardly any open space anywhere on the map...this sucks for a 1v1 map

I'll be honest, after playing them a bit vs cpu i'm very unimpressed. They feel too big for 1v1 somehow, especially Melting Valley and the creeps are like... wtf o_O 3 creeps at orange expo camp.

TideWaterGlades will be another map for human towerrush. Imagine what will happen when human start on 1st slot and Nightelf on 4th slot.... The way i like 20 meters?

MeltingValley is a very good map and SnowDrop is ok but TidewaterGlades is a shit map !