by any means--this is good for a new guy. specific things (i now realize my first comment wasn't helpful at all): gold embedded in tiles was bad, tile break up was bad--try to theme your tiles--and avoid launch pads unless they're used originally.

I came in expecting this to be a regression to noob maphood because of the looks, but holy shit, it turned out to be way more awesome than that. The flow was smeggin' awesome, to be quite honest, though I wasn't quite sure about the drop down to the 3-tile bump - I died on it too often. Also, the four-launchpad string was not good either. However, the flow more than made up for that, because it flowed spectacularly.

The things that sucked hideously about this map: Aesthetics and spammy enemies were the huge ones. The enemies worked well on their parts of the race, but the fact that they could so easily invade other parts of it was not good. I kept getting killed by chainguns from way across the map.

Gold placement was, to be succint, brutal. It seemed like you forgot everything I ever taught you on that score. I've said enough on this - just take it more to heart next time =P

Overall, a really fun map, but the atmosphere was slaughtered by the spammy/ugly/nooby bits. Total a 3, but on the flow alone, I'd give a 4.5. You're getting better, for sure.

I think you should work on discovering new ways to make flow.

Very good :) 5/5

but everything about this was noobish. tiles, mines, enemies, path...

play some more races and mimic them is all i can say.