Well okay, go minimal on textures ... that can be a legitimate move, I'd even say desert-style maps will tend towards this.
Both you and dream(6*z) hooked onto the least important bits of my attempts at constructive criticism, though.
Neither the size/player-ratio-selection (for the node) nor the texture-selection are critical (in my eyes);
the geometry though is.
Especially on such a small map it should really not be too much to ask to do some work on it ...
as opposed to slapping mapmodels onto it in order to fake map-detailing.

Regarding gameplay: Well Sauerbraten instagib is an intense mode ... I bet if the next competition would be "Try building a map that sucks in instagib" we wouldn't have any entries .. or they'd all end up bottom of the roster, regardless ;)
... so it's not really anything setting your map apart.

Look - it's been really some time since we first talked about this map ... and honestly I can't remember the rest of the map aside from what the screenshot shows, if I read my own post there are supposedly even steam/smoke particles in there somewhere ... really? ... can't remember ...
Maps need a lot of work to become distinctive; we're not all wizard mappers here but we try to help each other out in becoming better.
IMHO there's no (real) point in a bunch of "Hey!Woah!Great work!5/5" remarks as it sometimes seems people only do - personally I really prefer the posts (like I try to do for other peoples work) where some pros (if there are any) and cons are weighted against each other.
Gives you a chance to rethink your approach, act on the constructive criticism or tell me why ... for example ... you went with a minimal set of textures.

Please use the "REPLY" link to reply to other peoples messages,
that makes life (and understanding it) easier for others ... like :
following the thread of discussion.

dream(z*6) ... never said you did vote it 5 stars, somebody did though.
There's a definite tendency for maps to crop up and instantly have a 5-star-vote.
Since our new voting-system doesn't forbid self-voting I also have a certain degree of suspicion about who is voting these [self-constraint-censors-this-bit] contributions so highly. I'm not saying everbody is doing this, not even that it was so in case of this map ... but let me just say here:
If someone truely believes a node to be worth 5-stars then they should also tell folks about the Why,
personally I've seen this on other sites too so I wouldn't be hoodwinked by a 5-star rating if the screenshot looks lousy and nobody else voted and no comments are left behind ... can't be really 5-stars then, can it? ;)

Don't worry, with Pxtl (or whoever) constantly changing the system, no vote will stick around for long... >_<

Does the rating really make that much of a difference, MeatROme?

Stop whining ;b

I agree about the voting. Ive noticed a lot of people voting my map without leaving one detail. 12 votes and 14 comments. I wrote 6 of the comments, and 7 others wrote comments (alex256 wrote 2). So, asuming that everyone who wrote comments (besides me) voted, then 5 people voted without telling what they did or didnt like about the map. Almost half of the people didnt comment.

So, i ask everyone to at least write one sentence telling about any problems they encountered or anything they disliked. Ive been spendig a lot of time trying to think of good ideas that people like, and im not sure if anyone does like them because half the people who vote dont even comment. If your not going to comment then you might as well not even vote. Votes dont help the map in any way, its good advice in comments that help.

Weeeell, the votes do help give the abundance of content available some order .. it's a long-term benefit, considering newcomers will maybe still want to try out a map from 3 months ago, because the entries since then never exceeded 3 star ratings ... well, not as bad as that, but to make the point clear.
Leaving comments is a very hard thing in a field as broad as creating content for all the affiliated games can take us ... since they're all artistic fields we enter the realms of taste, professionality and emotion so fast .. or rather never leave them - which makes taking and giving of constructive criticism a razors edge to skim :-P

Just accept that some will only voice their opinion "covertly" - via voting it, some will only leave comments .. some will do both.
If you are into voting you should definitely vote on any node that you've tried out yourself - at least if it has a rating already - since once one vote is in you actually would need an "instantaneous" boost of 99 votes .. to make the result somewhere approaching a realistic value - but mostly people only vote their extreme opinions, seldom that the 3-star button gets hit ;)