Question about SC2 map setting in starter kit

I found an inconsistency in the default map settings.

The original LADDER_MAP_2023 list contains:
[“Ancient Cistern LIE”, “LastFantasyAIE”, ‘Flat64’]

But the documentation (starcraft2.md) says the default map is: Ancient Cistern LE

Could you clarify which one is correct?

Is "Ancient Cistern LIE" a typo, or is it a different map from "Ancient Cistern LE"?

Thanks!

Ancient Cistern LIE is a ported version of Ancient Cistern LE. Since our evaluation environment uses the Linux headless SC2 binary, and the latest available release is still v4.10, it cannot load the newer official maps. To address this, we ported Ancient Cistern LE ourselves using a community-provided patch: GitHub - aiarena/sc2patch.

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So how can we download the “Ancient Cistern LIE”, “LastFantasyAIE”, and ‘Flat64’ map files respectively? I can’t find information on downloading starcraft2 map files.

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You can search for the map names directly and you should be able to find them.

Maps ending with * AIE and * LIE are patched versions. They allow the latest maps to work with the last StarCraft II binary released for Linux. You can find these * AIE maps here: Maps - AI Arena Wiki

The map Ancient Cistern LE can be found here: Large-Language-Models-play-StarCraftII/Maps at main · histmeisah/Large-Language-Models-play-StarCraftII · GitHub

If you are using the latest StarCraft II version (and not the Linux headless binary), you do not need to patch the maps. You should be able to run the games as-is.

Just make sure you’ve upgraded both burnysc2 and s2clientprotocol to their latest versions.

do you mean these maps, i downloaded them to Maps (maps) folder, and headless SC2 instance still crashing, what else may be the case?

Sc2 AI Arena 2025 PreSeason 2

2025PS2_Maps.zip

Sc2 AI Arena 2025 Season 2 | Patched by Probots

2025S2Maps.zip

Sc2 AI Arena 2024 Season 4

2024S4_Maps.zip

alright, nevermind, it works now