CBG has a point. We should just skip the "leauge map" and "custom map" talk and use diffrent rules for the pickings. This is a really good suggestion. I missed Spheres comment on page 2 which i reallly liked and is a good change. Although with some minor changes on the maps. Not many agreed on most of them.
If you make a list like this, not everyone will agree with everything. I see you also think Coldersteel should be removed, despite someone disagreeing!
26.AS-NavaroneAL (Wanna keep this as its quiet good imo)
Grz has made some classic assault maps such as Riverbed(s), Golgotha and Desertstorm. Navarone was made a long time after these maps, and my feeling after the first few times playing it 6v6 was that it just wasn't on the same level. To me, Navarone has always seemed to be a big, long, and meandering map, where many objectives don't feel like they have any sort of natural flow to them.
So often I'll be attacking or defending, and I'll be thinking 'ok, that switch was taken, now to go on a long journey to the next one... I think I'll eat this snack on the way there'... or, 'that charge was placed, now to run along this long-ass bridge to get to the next charge.'
Visually Navarone is a nice map, and you can tell the map-maker has a lot of experience in that regard, but it just doesn't have the well-thought-out balance and flow of some of Grz's previous maps. Perhaps the map would get somewhat better if people were forced to play it again and again, but it would take a LOT of plays for that to happen, as many objectives don't have obvious routes to one another. Even then it would probably be difficult to do decent defence positions, and for the defence to get a good grip on objectives.
--------- remove from maplist
28.AS-ColderSteelSE_beta3
Similar problems to Navarone, in that it's a big and complicated map, with many places to go and defend. I think Coldersteel is a better balanced map than Navarone, but I believe too many people just have no interest in playing it, and it's hard to justify it being in the map list. Only Mym and possibly MC would pick it, and they only play 1 pug a year each
27.AS-Razon_preview3 (Wanna keep this as its quiet good imo)
Don't get me started on Razon... sticking two bad maps together doesn't suddenly make them good