The voting for the competition is now over. Thanks for voting for your favorites, and thanks to everyone who participated in the contest.

In total, 30 people voted for their favorite maps, and after tallying up the score, this is the result.

• 1st place ($75 voucher), with 121 points - @Ricko Hasche with Metzvel
• 2nd place ($50 voucher), with 49 points - @Shessar with Ober
• 3rd place ($25 voucher), with 44 points - @Lorelei with Naru Village

Not far behind, Quenten and Mathieu Gans share 4th place with 35 points.

And of course, part of this competition was also about reaching 1000 maps in the atlas, a great milestone, and one of the maps submitted has been randomly drawn to receive the honor of being the official 1000th map in the atlas.

And that honor (and a $50 voucher) goes to @Royal Scribe with Fon'Anor

Thanks again to everyone who contributed. I loved every single map entered into the competition, but we had to declare some winners. But even if you scored dead last, I noticed that every single mapper did end up with several votes, so every single one of you had at least one map that multiple people thought should be in the top three. If anyone wants to see the exact votes, they can go back to the voting topic and check them out.

I'll get the vouchers out in a couple of days, and also hopefully start integrating the maps into the atlas as well, but that will take a little while. I may also need to have you fix things if there are any problems, like invalid bitmaps and such.

They're also all listed with a brief description in the accompanying program manual, page 65 and onwards in the current version.

I asked about the anti-virus because some of them can be a bit eager locking the files while they scan, preventing legitimate access long enough for a program to error out, but at this time, it was more of an exploratory question rather than nailing it as a culprit. It could be the issue, but it might just as well have nothing to do with it.

It is hard tracking down the problem, but it doesn't really seem Vintyri-related. The Menu_recovery.bat calls the standard CC3MenuConfig command, and based on the text in those error messages, it seems like a lot of errors are thrown from the "default" pass where it process the official CC3+ menu config file (Menu_recovery.bat first does a run to process the Vintyri-provided file, then finishes up by the standard PF one.)

But if it works for you after manual editing, I guess that is at least an acceptable workaround.

1. Ricko Hasche - Metzvel

2. Royal Scribe - Fon'Anor

3. Royal Scribe - Village of Djayet

4. Royal Scribe - Eilân Danaäd

5. Royal Scribe - Yréas Kóltyn Village

6. Royal Scribe - Vidural Village & Mines

7. Royal Scribe - Arbor Hollow

8. Mathieu Gans - Argenta

9. Wyvern - Ljungby Village

10. Wyvern - Bruga's Hold

11. Wyvern - Ivan's Keep

12. Wyvern - The Village of Toresk

13. Wyvern - Osalin

14. Wyvern - Arvika

15. Wyvern - Rularn

16. Wyvern - Brightlawn

17. Wyvern - Fairbridge

18. Wyvern - Skara

19. Quayuazue - Phindardol's Gate

20. cyrion - Sibad Oasis

21. Quenten - Aretizo

22. Shessar - Ober

23. HelenAA - Bittern's Rest

24. Daniel Pereda De Pablo - Efva Talesi

25. Jeff B - Ingensteds

26. MakeWayForJebus - Order of the Fist Monastery

27. Lorelei - Naru Village

Loopysue - Elkton

Monsen - Port Haven

Ralf - The Frontier Village of Rheems

Return to the voting poll.

The 1000th atlas map competition is now over, and below is the voting and gallery of the entries into this year's competition. Please vote for your favorite ones, even if you didn't participate in the contest yourself. We want as many votes as possible to ensure the fairest result.

The voting period will end on Sunday October 20th, 22:00:00 UTC.

Remember, these maps are fighting for the recognition of being the best maps in the competition, with ProFantasy store vouchers for the top 3.

I've shown all entries in the post below, but some maps at the end are excluded from the actual voting, these being mine, Sue's and Ralf's due to us either working for ProFantasy or arranging this contest. Also note that the rules stipulated one price per mapper, so should someone the same mapper have two maps in the top 3, they will only get the best prize they qualify for, the other prize will move downwards in the list to the next eligible contestant. This also applies to the prize for the randomly drawn 1000th atlas map which will also be announced at the end of the voting.

If you prefer to view the submissions in the image gallery viewer, this link leads to the first entry, and you can use the arrows in the top right to navigate back and forth.

Below, you will find three poll questions, to decide which map you prefer for first, second and third points. I'll give the maps points based on your votes (8 points for a first place vote, 5 points for a second place vote, and 3 points for a third place vote) and at the end of the voting period I will tally up the points and present the final list.

Some mappers have submitted more than one map to the competition. If you want to give them one of your votes, but do not prefer any one map of theirs above another, I recommend giving the vote to the first of their maps in the list. This allows them to collect most of their votes on one map instead of being randomly spread over them which hurts their chances since we are voting for best map, not best mapper.

For voting, please don't just consider how visually pleasing the map is, but also take into account the premise of the competition. Does it represent a conceivable fantasy village? Is it an interesting adventure location? Is the map good work by the mapper, or is the beauty just in the style they picked?

And to to all the contestants, please don't despair if your map gets very few or even no votes, it doesn't mean people dislike your map. But since we are only voting for the top 3 and not ranking every map, and due to the fact that these competitions don't get too many voters in total, most votes will tend to go to a small selection of the maps.