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Meridian is a famous map made by Fantao. It was formerly featured in Chaz's Picks, and is currently featured within the Community Picks.
It is Fantao's most popular map by a significant margin, and is also is currently the 6th most upvoted map within the original Bonk.io.
History[]
The map was first published in July 2016, where it likely received at least one to three hundred upvotes prior to being featured within Chaz's Picks, when the list was initially launched in late August 2016.
This is an image of Chaz's Picks a few days after it's initial launch, having Meridian being the third most upvoted within the list. It also features the map Climb, another map by Fantao directly below it.
As a result of being featured within the listing, the map rapidly exploded in popularity, steaming up towards nearly 20k upvotes just than one month later in early October 2016. During its existence and until December 2016, the map had changes made to it often, resulting in the deathly bars on the high end of each side wall to be removed, and for the single rotating tan rectangle in the centre of the map to turned into two with a gap between them.
This is an image of the top rated maps in October 2016, showing the map Meridian having grown exponentially at the time, likewise to other top maps within Chaz's Picks.
The map continued to grow in popularity in the following months, gathering a continuous stream of upvotes bringing it to where it is today with over half a million upvotes.
This is an image of Chaz's Picks in March 2017, by when the listing of maps had completed. It shows the map being just over 100k upvotes. The map was also just overtaken by Pyramid at the time.
How to Play[]
It consists of two tan-coloured rectangular shapes which both rotate as one when weight is put on either of them. Surrounding this are two slanted red walls on either side, and a "bowl-shaped" platform at the bottom of the map.
The goal of this map is to knock others through the fairly small spaces between the "bowl shaped" platform and the two slanted walls. It is also possible to knock others too high above this map, thus killing them.
Strategies[]
● Try getting others below the two tan-coloured rotating rectangles, while trying to avoid it yourself. This way, it is easier to knock players through the gaps, by simply turning the tan-coloured rectangles to knock others.
● When trying to get others to die in the map, make them go up too high, try doing it by bouncing back and forth between the walls, knocking them in the process. This way, the other player is knocked with far more force, making them more likely to bounce uncontrollably. As a result, they will have a greater chance of bouncing too high as a result.
Community's Thoughts[]
This map is possibly one of the most controversial maps on all of Bonk.io, due to its typically long match times and apparent lack of skill required to win. These characteristics mean it is generally viewed as a 'casual map'. As a result, the map is often very polarizing for Bonk.io players, with some fully supporting the map, while others have a strong dislike for it.