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#1 Old 31st Oct 2016 at 2:47 PM Last edited by heaven : 31st Oct 2016 at 3:08 PM.
Default MTS Official 2017 Calendar Contest: TS2
Official MTS 2017 Calendar Contest: The Sims 2
Use your creativity to showcase your sims in a shot fitting for each month of the year. The picture should be a landscape or build/decor picture without sims representing the "feel" of a particular month. Have the living room decorated for Christmas? Take a picture! Have a pumpkin patch to visit for Halloween? Take a picture! Please use northern hemisphere seasons.

Rules
1. 1 picture per entry. You may only enter a month one time but may enter 2 separate months. (If you enter twice, you need to submit two different posts)
2. Only 15 entrants per month. Please no place holders. Each spot is only filled once the picture, that meets all the rules, has been submitted.
3. CC is allowed. However, please make sure to follow MTS rules for CC; no pay content.
4. Pictures must be 1000 (width) x 750 (height).

5. No photo editing.
6. When posting your picture, please make sure to include the month it belongs to.
7. Sims 2 only. For Sims 3 version, please go here and for Sims 4, please go here.
8. REMEMBER: This is a PG-13 Forum! Your entries may not include adult content, pornography, or other inappropriate content.

How to Enter
1. Pick a month and take a picture to represent that month.
2. Upload the picture to any image host - Tinypic, Photobucket, Flickr, ModYourPanties, etc
3. Start a new post on this thread - click Go Advanced, and you can click the little "Insert Image" icon in the toolbar, or just copy-paste the image location into some [img] tags. Make sure to include which month your picture is for.
4. Submit your post - doing so will submit your entry.
5. If you want to do two entries, you need two separate posts.

Duration/Time Period
The contest begins November 1st, as soon as this is posted. Contestants will have until November 30th to post pictures. However, if a month fills up before that date, that month will be closed for new entries and judging.

Contestants
15 per month maximum

Judging and Scoring
Judging will be done by a panel MTS Staff and these are the things that the panel will be looking out for when entries are judged.
  • Theme - Does your picture represent the month you chose?
  • Creativity - Originality of idea
  • Style - Use of space, props, is it pretty?
  • Rules - CC adherence, no editing, inclusion of month

Prizes
A sticker for both winners AND participants, like these.
A calendar will be made for download with each winning month.
And, of course, the blue ribbons for each month’s winner.

Questions
Q: I already entered 2 separate months for TS2. Can I compete in the TS3/TS4 calendar as well?
A: Yes, you may. You're more than welcome to submit for all the contests, giving you 6 chances to win!

The picture you post will be your final shot - make it good. Posting a random picture of a christmas tree, easter bunny, yourself, etc to reserve a spot is not allowed and it will be deleted.

Once your post has been added to the table, it may not be changed. Do not change the picture, you may not delete it and enter a new month instead, etc. If you choose to delete your entry, you are removing yourself from the contest and no further entries will be permitted from you.

If anyone is notified that they have used pay content, their entries will be disqualified. The spots they had will NOT be held.

Want a specific style of house or community building? Why not take a look at my profile and see what I build and then come ask me to make it!
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Destroyer of Worlds
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#2 Old 31st Oct 2016 at 3:15 PM Last edited by Karen Lorraine : 2nd Dec 2016 at 10:03 AM.
Contestant Entries

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1CharmfulInLovewithRedjoandsarah77CharmfulN_Fluen$eEssaJustpetroCatherineTCJDKankrittyMaddie_TriedPenelopeTTotallySimsCrazy
2gdayarsPenelopeTcamalsmaxongdayarsRaindrop_DCatherineTCJDN_Fluen$eMaddie_TriedFreelala
3Zarathustrajoandsarah77EssaFreelalaZarathustra
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Link Ninja
#3 Old 2nd Nov 2016 at 6:33 AM
Default April Submission
Month: April
Theme: tulips, gardening, outdoor still life painting


Uh oh! My social bar is low - that's why I posted today.

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#4 Old 2nd Nov 2016 at 10:49 AM Last edited by joandsarah77 : 2nd Nov 2016 at 11:32 AM.
Month: March
Theme: spring, flowers, birds.

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Mad Poster
#5 Old 2nd Nov 2016 at 7:26 PM
Default Entry Month July Summer Camping
Field Researcher
#6 Old 2nd Nov 2016 at 10:57 PM
Default February Entry-2017 Calendar Content
Month: February!
Theme: Melting Snow, Winter Garden.
Link Ninja
#7 Old 3rd Nov 2016 at 3:57 AM
Default January Submission
Month: January
Theme: Cozy indoors/Frozen Outdoors, hot cocoa


Uh oh! My social bar is low - that's why I posted today.

Scholar
#8 Old 6th Nov 2016 at 10:05 PM
I'll have a go

Month: September
Theme: Class, ready for school
(I kept the chairs pulled out to make it look like it was when the class broke for summer - students running to the bus!)


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Lab Assistant
#9 Old 7th Nov 2016 at 5:28 PM
Default May
Month: May
Theme: flowers

Alchemist
#10 Old 7th Nov 2016 at 9:23 PM
Q: Just to be sure, is it fine if pictures have butterflies or/and fishes on it?
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#11 Old 8th Nov 2016 at 9:37 AM
Butterflies or fish are fine, we'll call them 'nature'

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Alchemist
#12 Old 8th Nov 2016 at 5:53 PM
Thanks Karen Lorraine.
Mad Poster
#13 Old 8th Nov 2016 at 5:54 PM
My reading of the rules and the fact that no issues have come up from any of the images submitted thus far is that things that you have to use Live Mode for (half-finished paintings, lit fires, etc) are fine so long as the Sim who got them there isn't in the frame. Is this right?

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#14 Old 8th Nov 2016 at 6:46 PM
Of course Zarathustra! You can have an entire football team of sims on the lot, as long as they're not in your frame.

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Alchemist
#15 Old 8th Nov 2016 at 7:31 PM
Month : june
Theme : best time to harvest cherries.

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#16 Old 8th Nov 2016 at 11:05 PM
And my birds were 100% deco of course.

"I dream of a better tomorrow, where chickens can cross the road and not be questioned about their motives." - Unknown
~Call me Jo~
Lab Assistant
#17 Old 11th Nov 2016 at 8:37 AM
Default Entry
Month: December
Theme: Holiday lights


"Passion makes no accommodation for self-preservation."
Instructor
#18 Old 12th Nov 2016 at 12:27 PM
Month: December
Theme: It's Christmas!


Formally known as TotallySimsCrazy. Still addicted to custom content.
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Lab Assistant
#19 Old 20th Nov 2016 at 10:04 PM
Default October
Month: October
Theme: Spooky!


"Passion makes no accommodation for self-preservation."
Lab Assistant
#20 Old 22nd Nov 2016 at 10:32 PM
Month: October

Theme: Halloween/The Beast is Unleashed!

Screenshots

Animating is tough, but once you get it done, its worth it for the views. and a full 5 stars of course.
Lab Assistant
#21 Old 22nd Nov 2016 at 10:34 PM
Month: May

Theme: Woodland Animals

Screenshots

Animating is tough, but once you get it done, its worth it for the views. and a full 5 stars of course.
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#22 Old 23rd Nov 2016 at 12:38 AM
@HatSamPixie Both of your images include sims (pets) which are not allowed in this year's contest, sorry.

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Lab Assistant
#23 Old 23rd Nov 2016 at 1:31 AM
Sorry for barging in, but why aren't the may and september entries on the board?

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Mad Poster
#24 Old 23rd Nov 2016 at 2:57 AM
Quote: Originally posted by Karen Lorraine
@HatSamPixie Both of your images include sims (pets) which are not allowed in this year's contest, sorry.

The Halloween one is the "Leader of the Pack" - that's not a pet!
Is that entry OK?

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#25 Old 23rd Nov 2016 at 3:08 AM
No, its still a sim animal. Personalty I find that picture disturbing.

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