What are your thoughts on the competitive nature of eclipse? Is it balanced enough for play? I'd like to add it into the map rotation for next season, but I'm not sure if it is or isn't viable in its current state.

In my opinion (and i'm pretty much using the sentiment of someone else's argument here because I almost completely agree), it is a balanced map but is very sensitive to major engagements early game which dictates the map and victory too early with too much of a snowball effect. Also with the 4 routes to marine base, I think we'll see a lot of very interesting starting splits and new tactics rather than a kinda boring 2-2-1, 1-3-1 kind of split.

I haven't played it officially but as a map tester (playing relatively high skilled mixes), it seemed like if marines could break through power sub and keyhole and win 2-4 major engagements, it was over. To balance this, I think res biting for aliens is quite easy and the rooms are often alien friendly. This means that marines have a high risk (easy to die in alien friendly rooms) but high reward (power sub map control) trade off.

Come backs are often rare, games are quite short, I'm not sure it's a good idea. Maybe you could add it in to the rotation for 1 of the later weeks and none of the playoffs so people practise it and play it but without too much of an impact in the season and you'll get your feedback there. Or you could play it for the first week of the season and see how the results go and you could say "Ok, eclipse was shit, we're gonna discard it and that match will be rescheduled to end of season with different maps".

Just put eclipse into the custom map cup. Surely the whole point of the cup is to help decide which maps can go into the season/what needs to be improved, which is exactly the issue we have with eclipse.

If there isn't enough space for another map in the cup, just take jambi out. We've already played jambi for at least one season, and I don't see any reason to take it out of the season map rotation now.