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.

Contestant Entries

	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
1	Charmful	InLovewithRed	joandsarah77	Charmful	N_Fluen$e	Essa	Justpetro	CatherineTCJD	Kankritty	Maddie_Tried	PenelopeT	TotallySimsCrazy
2	gdayars	PenelopeT			camals	maxon	gdayars	Raindrop_D	CatherineTCJD	N_Fluen$e	Maddie_Tried	Freelala
3							Zarathustra	joandsarah77	Essa	Freelala	Zarathustra
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Month: April
Theme: tulips, gardening, outdoor still life painting

Month: March
Theme: spring, flowers, birds.

Month: February!
Theme: Melting Snow, Winter Garden.

Month: January
Theme: Cozy indoors/Frozen Outdoors, hot cocoa

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!)

Month: May
Theme: flowers

Q: Just to be sure, is it fine if pictures have butterflies or/and fishes on it?

Butterflies or fish are fine, we'll call them 'nature'

Thanks Karen Lorraine.

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?

Of course Zarathustra! You can have an entire football team of sims on the lot, as long as they're not in your frame.

Month : june
Theme : best time to harvest cherries.

And my birds were 100% deco of course.

Month: December
Theme: Holiday lights

Month: October
Theme: Spooky!

Month: October

Theme: Halloween/The Beast is Unleashed!

Month: May

Theme: Woodland Animals

@HatSamPixie Both of your images include sims (pets) which are not allowed in this year's contest, sorry.

Sorry for barging in, but why aren't the may and september entries on the board?

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

No, its still a sim animal. Personalty I find that picture disturbing.