What are your favorite maps? (pick 3)

I had a number of runner ups for most liked.

Moon: This is a pretty good map. The choke point here actually makes sense, because it isn't too large and even it has a roof (that you can helldive/overload through). The reason it didn't make top 3 is the edges of the map are a deadzone.

Valley: I really like Valley, I like it a lot. The reason it didn't make top 3 is it seems small yet large. The sides are too vulnerable to aerial, the center is particularly deadly. It's a good map, just not the best. There could have been more done for cover, I wouldn't have made the plateau completely flat.

Power Plant: PP is asymmetrical,so it feels like a living map. There is a lot of well thought out cover and firing lanes. At the same time, the lower basin by the wrecked ship is too far away  from the action for non-flyers, with the ramps. Meaning, this often just comes down to flying.

Dead City: This one is a classic. Yeah, I used to hate playing it too often, as it seemed like the most common roll. Nowadays, you don't see it nearly as often. Center isn't too harsh of a dead zone, there's some cover on the perimeter, while having firing lanes.  If anything it could use a little more blockage down the side lanes. But center here is actually good, and the map feels like just the right size. 

Neutral Vote: Rome. I could go this way or that way on Rome. The side beacon city is low cut but complicated and I still don't know it by heart.  The other side beacon is woefully plain. That said, I don't mind the map, it just isn't particularly exciting. It seems I play this map a lot (and carrier), so that kind of adds to the dullness. But I like Rome, because the layout is pretty good. There's not much wrong with cover, meaning there's enough and not enough of it. It's just that one plain side that bothers me. Finally, if you grab both sides (and it's very easy to if you get center), this one falls victim to a 4 beacon vs 1 quickly. There's nothing wrong with that, but this one almost never clocks out. 

Moon/Valley/Dead City, in that order. Moon is hands-down my favorite map b/c there are so many different strategies and the fight is constant and can take many shapes. No map should have a safe, home beacon, and Moon is the closest to that.

Castle. Just the right mix of open terrain and cover.

If you vote for yam or canyon you must camp more than a troop of boy scouts

A repeat topic indeed, but still interesting to see other peoples opinions, and the reason behind it.
I think the favorites may change from time to time, depending also on the OP bots at that particular time, and the hangar you are playing. So for now I voted unusually Shenzen, Rome, and Castle.
I may just as well have said Powerplant, Dead City (but too many Ao Jun-hiding spots there), and Carrier (though a bit too long perhaps?). Or even Moon or Dreadnought. The variety is what makes it attractive. I hate Yam, but without it, the game would not be the same, and forces us to play a varied hangar.

Didn't need 3 choices, I could play Springfield all day long, that map has it all, brawling, mring, sniping. It's huge and non-simetric, imo, more than any other map it requires a team to win. Its unique, all other maps except jama are pretty much same thing with different color schemes... 

Canyon, Valley and Dreadnaught...not necessarily in that order.