12 Days of Mapping

The 12 Days of Mapping is a mapping tournament held yearly on Google+ (2016-2018), Discord (2019) and Reddit (2019)

The competition was first established on October 16, 2016 by Captain Patagonia and is Christmas competitio

n where mappers have to do mapping challenges (Usually upload a video on a certain topic) every day for 12 days. The challenges take place every year during the days leading up to Christmas.

During the 2016, 2018, and the coming 2019 Tournaments, The 12 Days of Mapping YouTube Channel provided daily updates on the competition, while telling a story about the contestants. Contestants are required to provide a countryball while applying for the competition, as this countryball is used to represent the contestant during the YouTube videos.

The competition typically had smaller mappers participate, however, the competition had a number of promediant figures participate over the years including:
 * Ankhor (2018)
 * Colonial Mapper (2018)
 * Caritasi (2016)
 * Cube Mapping (2017)
 * Obscurium (2017)
 * Buckeye Mapping (2017-2018)
 * Antarctica Mapping (2016)
 * Neim (2017)
 * Northern Mapping (2016)

12 Days of Mapping: 2016
For the first competition there were 8 contestants, 7 days, and the winner was Antarctica Mapping, who beat Lay Mapper in the finale.

12 Days of Mapping: 2017
For the second competition there were 15 contestants, 12 days (6 break days), and the winner was ARIS-Komuniszt, who beat Radiant Mapper in the finale.

12 Days of Mapping: 2018
For the third competition there were 9 contestants, 12 days, and the winners were Colonial Mapper and Lay Mapper. This year's competition took a step away from the popular vote form of elimination and toward judge elimination. The three judges were:
 * Captain Patagonia: Creator, Coordianator, and 2016 Champion
 * ARIS-Komuniszt: 2017 Champion
 * Lux: 2017 3rd Place Winner
 * On the 2nd day, Hugary -countryball survived a Popular Vote Elimination
 * On the 4th day, Olympus survived a Popular Vote Elimination
 * On the 6th day, Lay Mapper survived a Popular Vote Elimination
 * On the 9th day, 4x Productions survived a Judge Elimination

12 Days of Mapping: 2019
Information about the fourth competition will come as December approaches.