0 idea what your definition of balanced is.. EC is the most balanced map of the 4 imo, it's just boring. DS's being on the same side of the map is dumb, it will take less time to get to the enemy dropship, strong squads will abuse this while playing a weaker one. Especially on KR map.

Tap and J Channel are opposite sides of the map.

EC is a Titan favored map 100%.

put in hardcorps,thanks

every map the bottom side is favored, but I'm talking about most balanced. Only maps I've ever seen any hometeam pick the more north team (collective) was EC map and my map.

and by same side I was referring to North/South.

Why do we like running south more? I remember in v2 we used to all run north, then it changed. Blame NML?

well in SL, north you had position over more objectives.. in USL and even in duels most people prefer to be on the bottom side

Fighting south will always be a personal preference. Regardless of the map and what layout is on the map.
People just feel more comfortable fighting south as opposed to north. Most of our natural instincts in 1v1's and other skirmishes are to rotate south or to get a southern angle. Its just natural for most people.

If you took KR or EC and you just flipped the map upside down that would provide variance and would be a change. That would prove that people are going to fight south no matter what.

All looks pretty constructive here, So other than map alterations can we have a look at a weekly rotation, Can this consistantly be done ?

take the SL/v2 map, remove every single tree, and then try SB'ing on it and see what happens.

yhe first map poll we had a lot of people thought they were voting for apollos edited version of ec throw that into the mix

I've never sb'd on that, I don't know if it would be good tbh.

I took out all the trees and made quite a few edits. More were needed but it was done. It was posted.

Map rotation is entirely on Mizz/Palm so I leave that up to them to respond to. It makes no difference to me one way or another. As far as voting for a new map goes, I believe Armor stated we'd be going with some variation of KR, but we can re-visit the issue if people aren't happy with it .. so long as it's resolved far earlier this time.

Far earlier aka now

The problem with now is we don't know what options are on the table. Does anyone intend to make any edits to maps (KR)?

We can vote, of course, but voting would be based on what we have.

Bomb's Map
KR - as it is.
EC - in Apollo's edited form? (I believe we have this.)
EC - standard.

I don't know what else is available.

I don't think anyone will be able to come up with a working map from scratch and have it tested before next season. When a new map is introduced I think we need a season of an established map with the new map in a test zone to work out all the issues.

Move dropships on KR (mainly to take away from collectives advantage south) open up 102 and west side of KR (Would be fun to use that side of the map since its been out of bounds forever).

KR has a lot of potential to be a fun well balanced map with a few tweaks here and there.

i agree that its too late to come up with a map from scratch, but some edits to an already established map would be possible and could better the league.