I was reading the old forums, and I stumbled upon a "Top ten cavers" topic, which I thought was interesting, but now totally outdated since the number of core cavers that we know about at this point is so small that it would be useless to try to make some top ten ranking. Instead of doing anything about the the best cavemakers, what if we tried to make a list iconic caves? Levels that you can just think up off the top of your head because they were that iconic. I'll start:

The Cascades by canadianstickdeath
There and Back Again by Sefro
...Imperio! by shos
Bribe and Massacre by Jebby
Boot Camp by jellsprout
FCE III - Fury by Livio
Slackin by Ckjr
Chaos Theory by Jebby
Metal Madness by canadianstickdeath
Gridlock by google246 (AKA Snarwin?)
The Pipe Dream by Isa
Flying Arrows by irish_spirit
Midnight by Quirvy
Fiery Skyscraper by magnapple
Snowflake of Doom by canadianstickdeath
Not What U Expect 2 by canadianstickdeath

Controversial Section (levels that were not necessarily high quality, but still iconic)
Merry Christmas by Hannah Banana
The Long Crawl by canadisntickdeath
imbak by Cedric

Disagree with any of these? Any suggestions for levels that should be added to the list?  

They all seem iconic I agree (except the controversion ones). I don't know that I have the energy to link things, but what about
-Midnight by Quirvy
-One of the levels by MysteryMan (I can't remember what it was, but there was an intense puzzley one that was amazing)
-fiery skyscraper by Magnapple?
-Rusty Metal by Coliseumconnor (that's the account it is uploaded on)

Oh and to me Snowflake of Doom might be more iconic than metal madness by CSD

The Long Crawl imo.

IMO I feel that Whoops! is just as iconic as There and Back Again

I think Not What U Expect 2 was pretty iconic

Yeah
IDK what this level is so I can't add my judgement.
Yeah
I don't remember this offhand or how it was iconic
I still think Metal Madness was iconic, but I agree that the Snowflake of Doom was iconic, I forgot about it
I would agree with this, also in the controversial column
I don't remember this very well
I agree, if only because of the video

I've updated the list accordingly.

wow i'm so honoured to have made the list, i've finally made the big leagues !!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know why, but the brilliance in The Missing Link 3 (I think? gotta check the video) was super iconic to me

Also I think it was the Fiery Skyscraper which had that big black box flying around which nobody told me how to recreate but I constantly tried to do that with Triathlon...

edit: oh it's on the list, lol. nvm

legos gone bad
the drill (controversial)

I remember shos playing ML3 and he's up at the top of the cave trying to figure out what to do. There are three additional boulders you could add to the stack to help trigger the zero g glitch enough to duplicate the treasure. The thing is it looks sort of maybe possible to get all three boulders into the stack, except it wasn't. Shos had apparently tried for a long time to get all 3, and when I told him the last was a decoy and you could only get 2 iirc he just posted a random jumble of characters, lol. At the time I was hoping for another mini-freakout when I uploaded the video and he saw that you actually only needed one boulder b/c if you brought both you wouldn't be able to duplicate... but I guess he'd forgotten by then or didn't realize or maybe it just wasn't worth freaking out over idk. OK that's the end of my long rambling pointless anecdote.

lol that was hilarious. I wasted so much time on your caves, csd. so much.

Don't know about 'iconic', but some of my favourite ever levels not mentioned...

GET TO DA CHOPPAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!! by Yaya
Can't Stop the Flow by Harumbai

I do remember this very vaguely, but not well enough for me to agree immediately and put it up there.
I can't really say for sure about Legos Gone Bad since I was the one who made it. I honestly have no clue how iconic it was, so I'll hold off for now.
I think I agree with the Drill, but why would you say controversial? I think it got crapped on for being too hard later on, but I still included Imperio and B&M.
I don't remember playing get to da choppaaaa but I do remember a lot of people talking about it, so that may be worthy of the iconic title. I don't remember Can't stop the flow.

I'll wait for further discussion before I add anyone, vs last time where I added everyone I thought was iconic. If you agree with someone else's suggestions, please note so. There are a lot of caves that I don't know much about.

Also, anyone thing Realm of Dying Brain is worthy? I remember that being like fabled as the hardest puzzle cave way back in the day

For Seasons

Where's Spike World???

I'm probably biased, but I'd say it's not worthy. It's one of my better caves, but when I look at the levels in the first post and ask myself if it belongs with them, my instinct is "nope". Its title and final trap are probably more memorable in the collective Interguild mind than the level itself. And Flashmarsh gave it a 10/10 so it's not surprising that he's the one who nominated it  

related to the topic: what are some iconic/great levels that are still uploaded and playable (and on what accounts)? i am way too lazy to upload caves on my own these days

Snowflake Of Doom: cavetester
"Tutorial Cascades": canadianstickdeath
FCE III - Fury: x_wing2
ThereAndBackAgain: _flodo
Slackin: iscmf2
The Pipe Dream: isawithappendix
Fiery Skyscraper: magnapple2

Was gonna taunt the player with more tutorial messages, might finish someday. I had to make some untested changes to deal with the enemies currently in the level, so no promises.