Friends, romans, countrymen, lend me your ears. For too long we have tried to maintain an 8 map pool by adding garbage like sunshine and keeping mediocrity like metalworks. However, the best solution has been under our noses the whole time! cp_yukon was unfairly axed by Killing, who openly admitted to despising the map, and it deserves better.
Here are some points:
1. double heavy was still allowed when yukon was at its most hated. I think this had an enormous impact on the reaction to it, as it made the last nigh impossible to push, easily the most-criticized aspect of the map (this is also true of cp_mainline but that was generally worse to begin with imo).
2. the map has improved a lot with the most "recent" changes to it- the better mid cp and the removal of the godawful pipe of doom on last were super good moves by valve.
3. the map was nixed very early on in the era of the gunboats soldier, meaning the possibilities have not really been explored to their fullest.
4. I like it so suck my diqq
Seriously, name another map more deserving of taking sunshine's place. logjam? total disaster. quay? no one ever liked it. warmerfront? are you shitting me? koth_ashville? I enjoy it but I doubt most would. gpit? well, I'd love to see gpit back in the rotation (my dream maplist: -metalworks -sunshine +gpit +yukon) but the masses seem to overwhelmingly dislike it still.
yukon deserves another shot. It produced many enjoyable games to watch, and it had a really unique feel with the open chokes and huge yet not overly cluttered mid.
WHO IS WITH ME