Which is the act of abandoning, can be someplace or someone (!). Show us abandonment, the reasons, what is being abandoned and why, and how did this happen? Try to evoke an emotion. To help you: make it personal, what happens if you have to leave all you've got behind? What happens to you when you are abandoned?
But wait? Not abandoned? We voted for abandoned!
Well, that would have been too easy
We all have Euthanasia, Opacity, Abandoned.ru and Abandoned Places (which is probably one of the oldest of it's kind) in our bookmarks, right? And if that's not the case, we can always visit the Urban Ruins thread in the Level Design help forum right here on Interlopers... Maybe for this battle you need to turn to the 2009 world press photo winners gallery for inspiration (that's just a start though).
The deadline will be 4 weeks from now on Sunday 29th March. As usual, the close will be at the end of that day, at mignight GMT; for the closing times around the world, check here.
All the usual rules apply: Three screenshots max; from an official Valve Source engine game; custom content more than welcome. You can find the full rules here. If you've got any questions about the theme, the rules or the battles generally, either post in this thread or PM me or Jest@.
So get cracking, post plenty of W.I.P. shots and don't forget to mark your final screenshots.
Good luck to all. And don't abandon these map battles
A final note:
Thanks to all people that created an entry for Battle 32. I'm sorry to see that the number of shots marked as final was too little to take it to a voting stage (3 entrants would be sort of a minimum..) But don't throw away your .vmfs, they might come in handy in the future.