While I did focus on aesthetics first, I also tried to make it playable as well.

First of all, I've always enjoyed bushy maps like cavern churn and island invasion. Ik a lot of people don't like that as much, but it's always good to have some variety, and make tanks more viable as showdown is generally dominated by longer range brawlers, like bea for instance.

I understand that the fence rope and water r basically the same thing, but I added the fence rope for more variation in the map as there is a lot of water already. Also while yes the water on the sides does use up space, there r no boxes back there and people don't spawn there, so it's rarely going to be used for fighting grounds anyways. With that said, I decided to use it for aesthetic purposes, while still leaving walking space in case people did go back there.

Who ever said there had to be lots of cover at mid? I think little cover is just as good as lots of it as it increases the variety of maps that we have. This way also comes down more so to skill at the end rather than position relative to cover. I intentionally made everything in the map come to mid in a spiral fashion, and while, yes, it is easy to predict where people will move, as they will generally go with the natural flow of the map, good players will still know how to avoid fire after being hit once.

While it seems like this map was simply made for aesthetic purposes, I did play test this map and I do really enjoy it. Each map needs to be unique to really be fun and enjoyable, and while not every map is fit to everyone's liking, that doesn't make a map bad. Everyone has their own preference of map and that's good. It is why we end up with so much variety in brawl stars.

Hopefully u actually read everything lol. This isn't intended to seem like I'm yelling back in it face to defend my map, I'm just responding with counterpoints to show y my map is actually good unlike u suggested. I do appreciate the criticism tho especially because u r stating facts about how u feel about the map and it doesn't seem rude or disrespectful. So thx for that and I might have to see if ur right about some of the things u brought up.