A version without the crazy hover speedboost. Added to official.

I think it's a very interesting map, there are quite some unusual and unexpected strategies that are viable here.

You forgot scalpel rush.

I with some heightmap rejiggering to allow more shallow water routes for non-water factories, possibly broken up with above water segments, I could see this working okay. However, that's a lot of work, and there is a lot of low-hanging polish fruit available in the maps-to-polish list.

quote: Decent 1v1 games are very rare (partly due to people just skipping the map if it comes up)

... and partly because of 3 slasher rockomm. Given the size of the starting area, it's ~1500 distance to attack. That is seconds.

The shores here have small bumps and issues with hovercraft. That could be fixed with a remake. It is also quite a silly map with a very small rush distance.

quote: The map plays fine as a high elo 3vs3

Now I wanted to see that!
There are 34 3v3 matches played on this map. By looking at names/ranks it seems like most games had one newbie or more.
One match was in "experienced room" so I watched that:
http://zero-k.info/Battles/Detail/120381
Right at start hoverscout fails to climb shore, then it is usual teamgame air randomness, then it is sfireman: "lets re, it was fail", then it is some fail striders then it is a licho nuking coms, then a sumo on head.
I quote spectator ivoryking: "such terrible play on all sides atm"
I am not convinced!

Darkside except worse. Unfeature?

the only list this should be featured on is 'failed map ideas'

A bigger one with nicer textures and more precise shallows (depth 6 instead of 20) would be interesting-ish.

Do try if you want to see it.