The Bingo Hall: one big room and a podium
The Bingo Hall is where the night's numbers are called, and where the losers come back for a word: one room of 32 by 27 tiles, with a giant bingo ball on the floor and a wide podium at the top. The bazooka and the SMG lie up on the podium, and the only way up is the steps in front. It is the first map in the match setup, and it has nothing to hide under.
The map
The podium fills the top of the room, with the bingo cage on its top step, the caller's lectern on its left, the caller's table on its right and the number board on the wall behind. A red runner leads from the steps down the middle of the room, over the giant ball, to the doors at the bottom. The doors are only drawn on the wall: nobody comes in or goes out during a round. Round tables stand on both sides, the gift table and the prize table sit under the podium's two ends, the tea counter runs along the left wall and the raffle drum stands by the right one. The two blue carpets in the bottom corners and the bingo cards on the floor are only for looks.
The podium and its steps
The podium's rim is low. A walk and a dash both stop at it, from below and from above, and the steps in front, eight tiles wide, are the only way up or down. Shots, rockets and a bot's sight cross the rim both ways, so standing up there does not make you safe, and neither does standing right under it. The bingo cage stands on the top step, so you go up past it on either side.
That makes the podium a trap as well as a prize. It holds the bazooka and the SMG, but whoever takes one has only the steps to leave by, with no cover on the way down. If you are chased across the top, you cannot dash over the edge to get away.
Tables and cover
Very little here stops a bullet. The bingo cage, the lectern, the tea counter and the raffle drum are the only things that do. The round tables, the gift table, the prize table and the caller's table stop a man but let a shot fly over, so they slow down whoever is chasing you and do nothing about whoever is aiming at you. Players pass through each other, so a crowd on the runner blocks nobody. With no trees and no roof, the Hidden trick from how to play does not work on this map, and the bots can see you whenever you are in their range.
Where the weapons lie
| Weapon | Where |
|---|---|
| Bazooka | The podium's right wing |
| SMG | The podium's left wing |
| Sledgehammer | One on each side of the giant ball |
| Shotgun | On the runner, just inside the doors |
| Tazer | The tea corner, by the left wall |
| Flamethrower | To the right of the podium, on the floor |
| Baseball bat | To the left of the podium, on the floor |
That is eight spawns in all, two of them sledgehammers, and everyone starts with the walking stick in hand. The bazooka comes back more slowly than the rest after someone takes it. What each weapon does, with its damage and reach, is on the weapons page.
Health packs and spawns
The four health packs lie on the runner before the podium, on the chequered floor to the left of the doors, and on either side of the giant ball. Each heals 30 and comes back after 25 seconds. The eight player spawns are the four corners of the room, the middle of the left and right walls, the doors and the steps, and a new life starts at one with no enemy close by when there is one.
How a round goes here
A round lasts five minutes, and in this room it stays busy, with no walls between you and anyone else. Most fights start on the floor, with the sledgehammers beside the ball, the shotgun at the bottom of the runner and the tazer in the tea corner. Sooner or later someone goes for the podium. From there the bazooka covers the runner, and a rocket's burst catches everyone close by.
To break that up, come at the steps from the side, or fire across the rim from below: it does not stop your shots either. The flamethrower and the bat lie on the floor beyond the podium's two ends, within reach of anyone waiting below it. Keep the dash for crossing the open floor, where there is nothing to duck behind.
The Bingo Hall is one of the three maps, beside Four Seasons and the Community Centre, and the host can pick it when you play with friends. Play it now.