[GranitePenguin]

Just got mine. I agree the printing is really nice.

This is basically my first playmat and I have to say the first thing that jumps out at me is I'm going to have to use the mounted chipboard maps to support it.

This is an issue I didn't really think about, but playmats work great on a surface that is large enough to support the whole mat. For those of us where table space is a premium, a soft mat doesn't work very well. When I first pulled it out of the box, I was immediately faced with an inability to lay it out to see it. I had to put it on the floor in order to have a flat surface big enough to check it out.

When I'm playing with my ODE maps, I'm usually hanging over the coffee table by several inches (even with the Orange map) and I end up using the ODE box as a support system for the overhang. I can't do this with a soft mat.

This is not a complaint, just an observation about using mats in general that I didn't anticipate that's going to significantly complicate my being able to actually use it. :-(