SlicerogueboxcarSlicerogueuh i dont want to play process snake and gully all fucking season. The other maps may be less popular but they promote different types of play which makes the game interesting.
then have your leader ban those maps
This isn't just about me though. streams are less interesting when you see the same map over and over. People don't grow as players when they don't have to adapt to new situations on new maps. Only getting good at those maps also lowers the skill ceiling because there is less map knowledge and play styles and strategy to learn. Whats more scrims will be a fucking nightmare to find especially at the higher levels because you'll have to scrim maps that the other team isn't necessarily playing and vice versa and there aren't enough teams.
Yall already downvoting this man when these are issues lots of teams have already experienced that would just be amplified by this change. boxcar is right you can just ban maps for variety, but why would you do that when you never get to scrim something like metalworks because its not popular. The solution to this is made ineffective by the problem.
My idea thoughts now: A good way to balance people playing the same maps over and over again is doing a system where previous bans carry over, forcing people to deviate from the standard, even if it doesn't necessarily mean every team plays every map in a season.
Also maybe I'm missing something here, but this seems far less effective than just swapping out the less played maps for new ones and trying it out? All this does is create a even closer-minded group towards non-standard maps, it doesn't really address the problem of staleness in the map group. Try said "Some maps are less popular for a reason", instead of ignoring that problem we should be looking for a solution in trying other maps.