As part of our ongoing efforts to foster a productive and happy StarCraft II mapmaking community, we recently asked players to share their thoughts and ideas on how the custom map system might be improved. Some mapmakers noted that the current limits placed on custom map publishing felt too restrictive and, as a result, made their mapmaking experience less enjoyable.

We've taken this feedback to heart and increased custom map upload limits in two ways. Players are now provided with a total of 10 custom map slots and up to 50 mbs of total map storage space. Ultimately, we want players to be able to share more maps with the community, and we feel these changes will supply mapmakers the additional freedom they need to better flex their creative muscles.

We'll be carefully monitoring how this additional storage is used by players and, as always, will continue to seek your feedback for how we may further improve the Battle.net mapmaking and publishing experience.

• Creativity - 10 points
  Was the story creative and original? Was it logically possible and not too random? Was it boring or intriguing?
• Storyline - 10 points
  How well does the storyline mesh with WoL and LotV? Was it logic and reasonable?
• Characters - 5 points
  Where the characters interesting, unique, etc. Did they add new chars, or re-work old ones?
• Campaign Elements - 5 points
  How well thought out were the mercenary, lab, research, etc replacements. Did they add their own mechanic?
• Mission Elements - 5 points
  Did they create missions and objectives? If so, how thorough were they designed.

• About 85% of entries used the SC1 special units as the SC2 mercenaries.
• More than 30% of entries killed Jim Raynor.
• More than 60% of entries included Duran.
• More than 50% of entries used the Leviathan or Hive as a campaign lobby.
• Cr4zyJeff brought back Tychus as an infested bad guy.
• MEDEVAS was the only entry to kill Matt Horner.
• Aedus was the only entry to earn bonus points for artwork.
• A few entries infested Valerian Mengsk.