There seems to be no change to the complex map situation of the World Cyber Games. Next year will most likely feature the same maps. We have gathered some players' opinions about them amongst explanations of the situation.
On the one hand,
Xellos says "Martian Cross is not a Terran map". On the other hand, the top four in WCG 2004 were all playing Terran and some would not agree with him. Even though 
Martian "Imbalanced" Cross was played as one of the three standard maps played in every group. "They really don't have a place in such competitions in my opinion" -  FrozenArbiter |
"WCG maps are ¤%&! and imbalanced" -  Eriador[pG] |
| "They are very terran favored because of all the walls on each map. There is such a long way to all expos so toss/terran must split up their forces to be able to take out all zerg expos " - ZpuX |
| "They favored terran a 100%. Im sure all the terran players were licking their lips when these maps were made for WCG" - Freezer |
| "The maps are just bad, very bad. There is not a single map balanced for all matchups" - Fisheye |
"Terran are just too strong." -  KaaZ |
| "I dont think they're all terran favored but some are obviously really bad for certain matchups, and they aren't really fun to play either, so i would be glad if they could change it for next year." - ElkY |
The map situation is indeed both controversial and complex.
WCG 2004 Maps, balanced positionally but not racially?
As you might know, the four original maps before these were made were: Lost Temple, Legacy of Char, Jungle Story and Hall of Valhalla. You can see several similarities between Lost Temple and today's version of Khoral of Ceres. The main complaint people had regarding Lost Temple included that the map's advantages of certain positions versus other. Khoral of Ceres tried to change this by making all positions equal in terms of mineral patches, expansions, ramps - basically they tried to make it more balanced. A similar resemblance might be seen between Hall of Valhalla and Gorky Island where the later is perhaps a more symmetric version of the first. Nevertheless, some say that the postional aspect of the current maps still is horrible and must be changed. What also has been missed out is the balance between the races on a pro gaming level of play. The community would welcome a change of the maps for the next year. SG decided to look up whether this is likely or not.
 Hall of Valhalla. Positionally imbalanced. |  Gorky Island. Symmetric. Positionally balanced? |
Maps won't be changed?
Sources have told SG that the map making of WCG was a long process, not to mention an expensive one. Apparently, professional map makers with a history as Starcraft Gamers (notice the space - n.t.s) were put back into the scene and during a couple of months created what we now call the maps of WCG 2003/2004. Perhaps WCG wanted their own maps just like OGN has their.
SG were told that it is not very likely this process will take place again and that the maps are being prepared for the next year as well.
