I sended a better verson of my first castle map. Check it out if u want!
(newmaps --> page 5)

Couple things, chandeliers in the little rooms, gotta go. The wooden posts on the sides of the little rooms have to blend into the wall so you don't run into them. You have WAY too much health in single areas (You have 4 health in one little room and so on). Layout needs to be more complex, I like small maps personally but this is WAY too small. Texturing is good but could be a little better. Lighting seems ok but I'm not exactly the expert on lighting, I always have to have a friend help me with lights on my maps. Oh yeah and remove the glass, I seriously doubt castles have glass windows. If you were to keep the glass at least add some envmaps to them and /recalc. I would suggest making it so that the 4 tower parts around the map are accessable (Remove the chandeliers and glass in there too) and then maybe add another 2 doorways in the well part that both lead to an underground sewer or dungeon area with another main fighting area or two and then maybe have some other hallways that lead to jumppads, teleports, and/or staircase, slope or another way out of the underground area and back into the main part of the map. You also need to watch your measurements, the little rooms you have right now are incredibly small, you also need to raise the ceiling. Ehirul or w/e his name is won't like the map very much if it's tightly spaced like it is now. Then again I doubt this will make it in time with all those changes (If you do them). I'm working on a remake of q1dm6 from Quake with Anathema but his constant absence screwed us over and now we'll never finish it in time. SIGH oh well. Anyway I'll give it a 3/5 for now because I see potential in it but otherwise 1/5...naw maybe 2/5.

nah... thats your oppinion ... i know meny people who liked the map!

It's wrongly packaged, the map should be in base/, not in the root of the dirctory
the skybox is referenced incorrectly in the CFG file (should be loadsky Newsky/sahara, not Newsky/Sahara)
unneeded /'s in the cfg file
You include about 7 or so skyboxes, whilst you really only use 1, why?
the mapshot is incorrectly named (it should be .jpg, not .JPG)

I would also follow dairyking's advice about the windows. the glass doesn't exactly look natural, and fights with the consistency of the rest of the map.
The lighting also looks 'unnatural', ever consider using /ambient and /skylight to remedy this? /skylight 127 100 50 (half of the sun's) looks quite nice on the map

EDIT 1

just thought I'd do some before and after images

~Hirato Kirata

Well this is just a guess but its most likely people said they liked it because they either didn't want to hurt your feelings or their your friends so of course they say its good. People do that to me all the time on my crappy maps. Really this map needs work.

now u hurt my feelings ... well ill work on it