2023 Atlas Awards Intro & Discussion

[Naima]

Hi I just saw that the thumbnail for my own map (The LAst Sea of Ausur) doesn't work showing a wrong Thumbnail, I sent you a detailed message.


That said here are my nominees...


Best Large area map (Space, World, Continental, Regional)

1. Default The Wheel of Time - the Westlands in the Third Age By Dimension Door
   
2. Illustrated map of Noss By joabaldwin

Best Local area

Unnamed Isle By Ifrix

Best Small area

High Horn Keep By J.Edward

Best Black & White Map

Turélia By Brendo

Your favourite map from last two years

A Song of Ice and Fire - A Westeros map By l'Arpenteur

[Kellerica]

Hi I just saw that the thumbnail for my own map (The LAst Sea of Ausur) doesn't work showing a wrong Thumbnail, I sent you a detailed message.

That is a known issue we often have with the thumbnail scraper: if your post has more than one image in it, the thumbnail doesn't always pick the correct one. The same issue occurs with challenge threads with the ### Latest WIP ### tag if the post has more than one image. I assume this one is set to pick out the image in the first post of any given thread.

There unfortunately isn't anything us CL's can do about it. If you do want it fixed, I would recommend that you go edit your original post and remove the other two images to make sure the correct one gets picked for the thumbnail. I can of course do that for you as well, but I don't really want to go edit anyone else's posts, unless I've specficially been asked to.

That said here are my nominees...

As Wminish's post above says, we'll have separate nomination threads again, same as the previous years. You can post your nominations there once we get them set up.

[Naima]

That is a known issue we often have with the thumbnail scraper: if your post has more than one image in it, the thumbnail doesn't always pick the correct one. The same issue occurs with challenge threads with the ### Latest WIP ### tag if the post has more than one image. I assume this one is set to pick out the image in the first post of any given thread.

There unfortunately isn't anything us CL's can do about it. If you do want it fixed, I would recommend that you go edit your original post and remove the other two images to make sure the correct one gets picked for the thumbnail. I can of course do that for you as well, but I don't really want to go edit anyone else's posts, unless I've specficially been asked to.




As Wminish's post above says, we'll have separate nomination threads again, same as the previous years. You can post your nominations there once we get them set up.

Ok thanks, I have edited, does it work now ?

About categories there are so many entries and its a pity to have to scrap some because there isn't a specific category to fit them in like sci fi maps or others .

As sugestion perhaps I would have :

World map
Regional map
City/area map
Building/dungeon map
B&W map
Sci Fi map
Favourite map.

[Kellerica]

Ok thanks, I have edited, does it work now ?

Looks like it is!

[Ifrix]

About categories there are so many entries and its a pity to have to scrap some because there isn't a specific category to fit them in like sci fi maps or others .

As sugestion perhaps I would have :

World map
Regional map
City/area map
Building/dungeon map
B&W map
Sci Fi map
Favourite map.

Thanks for the suggestions, but given that many of the CLs running the Atlas Awards this year are new and still finding our feet on the back-end, we decided it would be easiest to just go with the previous categories as it went well last time. After it ends we can at that point take on feedback and look if we want to make any changes for next year, but for this year we are sticking with these categories.
Regarding the number of entries there actually isn't as much of a difference as you might think. There were 480 entries for the year of 2020, compared to 616 for the years 2021 and 2022 combined.

[Diamond]

Best Small area

High Horn Keep By Diamond

Um........

[Naima]

Um........

Isn't a Building?

[Greason Wolfe]

Isn't a Building?

It is a J.Edwards map, not Diamond's.

[Naima]

It is a J.Edwards map, not Diamond's.

Uuups ! Fixed .