$20,000 Killing Floor Contest

Welcome to Tripwire Interactive’s “Killing Floor Grindhouse” Custom Map Making Competition with $20,000-worth of prizes. Tripwire are partnering with Nvidia and Logitech to bring you a truly spectacular mapping contest for the zombie-slaughtering co-op hit that is Killing Floor. The headline prize will be an awesome $10,000 for the Grand Prize winner.

The contest will run in two Waves. Wave 1 completes July 31, 2009, with a First Prize of $5,000 for the winner, while the runners-up will get prizes including Nvidia graphics cards and Logitech goodies. Wave 2 is the Big One, completing September 18, 2009. The Grand Prize will be $10,000. Yes, a full Ten Thousand Dollars for the winning entry! There will be more Nvidia graphics cards and Logitech goodies for runners-up in Wave 2.

The Application Form will be open nearer the closing date for each Wave, as you only need to submit your entries when they are ready and not every single time you create a new version (please!). Keep watching the Killing Floor website for news on when we will open the application forms. But start mapping. Now! There is only one way to win - and that is to create an awesome map. So get to it…

Here's how I imagine this one went down:

Here's how I imagine it went down.

"Hey bro you know what we should do, have a map contest for one of those zombie games"

"Ya that sounds cool, which game should we do"

"HMmm killing floor is only 20$ I bet more people play that one"

"What about left 4 dead?"

"What's the point l4d2 is coming out soon anyway"

"Ok killing floor it is"

My Thoughts:

Uhh seriously $20,000 for mapping?  What the ****? I'm at a bit at a loss at this considering esports organizations are folding left and right but these guys have the money lying around to host a mapping contest that has a prize purse more than most competitions from any game.

I mean, I never personally played Killing Floor, and have heard good things about it, but I don't see the game having much legs for replayability or long term success (outside of its very affordable cost).

Shame there isn't a contest like this for a prominent esports game like cs, wow (arena), CoD, quake3, starcraft, wc3 etccc (Left 4 Dead duhhhhhh) as it would help breath life into competitive scenes.

Whatever, I just don't really see the end game move behind doing something like this, maybe there is something I'm missing.  Chances are it is just a bad ploy to get more people playing the game again, but I don't think this is going to bring in many new players as anyone who was on the fence about buying the game probably did so anyway because of the price tag.

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