Coaches Poll: What Should the Modern Warfare 4 Competitive Map Pool Be?

Modern Warfare 4 launched with a deep map list that includes few good maps, but the competitive rotation has 13 slots to fill: five maps for Hardpoint, five for Search & Destroy, and three for Hijack. To find out which maps the people who actually play and prepare for them every week want to see, we polled the coaching staffs of the Call of Duty League.

Eleven of the 12 coaching staffs voted. Each staff picked five maps for Hardpoint, five for Search & Destroy, and three for Hijack, and the results were far more decisive than you might expect.

Hardpoint

The Hardpoint pool, based on the votes, is Lithium, Reactor U92, Rooftops, Munition, and Lotus.

Lithium and Reactor U92 were unanimous, picked by all 11 staffs. Rooftops was a near lock with 10 votes (90.9%), followed by Munition with 9 (81.8%) and Lotus with 8 (72.7%). Sentry was the first map left out with 6 votes (54.5%), and no other map received a single vote. Reactor U92 was also the clear pick for best Hardpoint map, receiving 5 of 11 votes, ahead of Munition (3), Lithium (2), and Lotus (1).

Search & Destroy

The Search & Destroy pool is Rooftops, Reactor U92, Munition, Lotus, and Coal.

This was the most one-sided mode in the poll. Rooftops, Reactor U92, Munition, and Lotus were all selected by all 11 staffs, leaving Coal to claim the final spot with 6 votes (54.5%). Lithium (3 votes) and Silkworm (2 votes) were the only other maps to get any support. Reactor U92 again took best map honors, this time with 4 votes, followed by Lotus (3) and a tie between Munition and Rooftops (2 each).

Hijack

The Hijack pool is Munition, Lotus, and Lithium.

Munition and Lotus tied for the top spot with 9 votes each (81.8%), with Lithium taking the third slot at 6 votes (54.5%). Beyond that, the vote scattered: Reactor U92 and Rooftops each got 2 votes, and Cachette, Sentry, and Silkworm each received 1. Lotus was the runaway pick for best Hijack map with 6 votes, followed by Munition (2) and Lithium (1), while 2 coaches weren't sure yet.

The Big Picture

Across all three modes, the coaches settled on just six maps to fill the 13 slots.

• Munition and Lotus are the only two maps to make all three pools.

• Reactor U92 and Rooftops are in both Hardpoint and Search & Destroy.

• Lithium is in Hardpoint and Hijack.

• Coal is the only map that appears in a single pool, Search & Destroy.

The best-map votes tell a similar story. Reactor U92 was named best in both Hardpoint and Search & Destroy, while Lotus took Hijack. Interestingly, Rooftops was picked on 10 Hardpoint ballots and all 11 Search & Destroy ballots but didn't receive a best-map vote in Hardpoint.

Just as telling is who was left out. Mumbai and Nautical received no votes in any mode, and Cachette's only vote was for Hijack. Silkworm received three votes in total across two modes, and Sentry was the closest miss, finishing 6th in Hardpoint with 6 votes.