A real mapping contest?

[jamz]

I have no idea if the last major mapping contest entrants were given an incentive by the prize, but the outcome was that the winning map (which was from someone outside the regular AC community here) almost never gets played. Sorry to sound so negative, but if the prize isn't official status, mappers run the risk of having their creation go the same way as the majority of custom maps - obscurity. Think about the last time you played on any of these maps.