I believe we should start the selection process very soon. Bungie needs the better part of a month to prepare a playlist so we would need to have this in by the end of this month to have a playlist by the holidays.

I can't stress how important it is to have a holiday playlist up for Grifball. That is the time people are back at home relaxing with relatives, students are away from school, people who normally work 60 hour weeks are off and in need of a distraction. In other words prime XBL time. From my experience this is where we will collect the most XBL play hours, and the greatest number of individual IP's.

One of the reasons we have our own playlist is because we have a history of pulling in consistently high numbers, where other variants have failed to do so. Most don't know this but Bungie receives money from XBL for these numbers. Grifball is a small but important variant because unlike regular playlists, it pulls gamers away from other games, not just other Halo playlists.

We still may get some decent numbers among the regular Halo population, but no where near the numbers we would get from drawing new people in during the holiday break.

I suggest we do a "Round 1 winners" and pick one map from each category to set the standard and let builders know they need to move soon if they want in. A few days later a "Round 2 winners" and so on until the playlist is full.

Could start to make a rough draft spreadsheet for this. Have categories such as AA courts, nonAA courts and so on.We do have a good number of maps and could work on them a little more if needed to be matchmaking eligible! But I'm still confused on how the voting progress is going to work. Is its GrifballHub's decision or a combination of the AGLA and The Hub.

Concave was one of the first ones that I looked at and is definitely a favorite, you just need to make sure that you have an appropriate variant on it. For example, Concave without AAs would be awful and take forever.