With a new JDC season coming soon (TM), I think it's about time we ran another level contest! The goal is to produce a level that's ideally suitable for a competitive 1vs1 duel. Here are some guidelines:

1) Your level should be tailor made to be suitable for duelling. If it incidentally works well for more players than that's absolutely fine, but it should be primarily designed with duels in mind.

2) Your level can be either Battle or CTF, as duels in both gamemodes are played during JDC. If there are several entries in both gamemodes then I may consider splitting the two into seperate categories down the line, but for now both will be judged together, as the most important quality is how well the level plays in duels.

3) There are no restrictions on max level size, but typically a duel level would be on the smaller side. Any size is fine so long as the level isn't so large that it takes too long on average to hunt down your opponent.

4) The level design should not lead itself to excessive camping; as JDC duels are played to a timelimit it should not be too easy for one player to run down the clock. On the flip side, the gameplay should not be pure chaos either - a good duel level should offer a balanced approach.

5) Originality will be appreciated but not required. Feel free to go nuts with unconventional layouts, scripted gimmicks, custom weapons, whatever. Or you can stick to what's tried and true. A fun duelling experience is what matters most!

6) You may submit as many entries as you want, but each entry must be a brand new level made for the contest. Collaborations will be allowed.

The prize for the winning entry will be guaranteed inclusion in the upcoming JDCE mappool (with it being blacklisted for veto, ensuring it will get played), and will also be spotlighted in a One Day Tournament event. If there are runners up of sufficiently high quality then these may also be considered for the JDCE mappool/future ODT events as well. Furthermore there will be bonus JDC points awarded to the authors of the winning entry and the runners up!

The judging will be carried out by a panel of JDC staff members.

The deadline for submitting entries is Sunday 24th May at 23:59 GMT+1.

Good luck to you all, and happy creating!