Official MTS 2017 Calendar Contest: The Sims 4
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. Minor photoeditting is permitted to create weather effects since TS4 does not have anything to simulate weather at this time. Your picture must still look like a game picture though so blurring, drawing objects/accessories/etc in, adding borders, etc is not permitted. For further details, please see the info button at the bottom of the rules list.
6. When posting your picture, please make sure to include the month it belongs to.
7. Sims 4 only. For Sims 2 version, please go here and for Sims 3, 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 TS4. Can I compete in the TS2/TS3 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	attuned	w_sims	Fizzy9	no.[666]bicycle	clw8	attuned	tscammell	Averex	Letcupcake	clw8	Letcupcake	justJones
2							no.[666]bicycle			Fizzy9		Averex
3												holysweaters
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I really enjoyed participating last year in this contest and have been searching for new things to do in TS4. Happened to stumble upon this on my one day off for a while, so wanted to go ahead and get an entry out. I found it was quite challenging this time around to not utilize any Sims in the photo, but fun all the way. Unfortunately, I feel resizing the photo did not go well with the size it was initially, but in any case, here is my first entry. I'll definitely at a second entry, but it will probably not be until later next week.

October
setting up Halloween party

Every year I struggle with the size: 1000 x 750. If I resize it, the picture looks distorted. If I crop it, bad quality. Any tips?

Actually got around my resizing problem! Now I'll start working on my next entry

December

Here's my second entry, this one is for the month of May

My first submission for April- Garden Weather

My second submission, July- Summer breeze

July - Relaxing by the pool

Entry 2 -
September - Autumnal plaza breeze

@no.[666]bicycle
Both of your images are the wrong size so I cannot enter you into the contest at the moment. Please can you resize them to 1000x750 pixels.

@tscammell The entry for September has a sim in it, so I cannot enter it into the competition, sorry.

I have re-sized both.

Is the deadline going to be extended if not all months get an entry, to allow others to (hopefully) enter? I would hate for there to not be enough entries to make a calendar.

We still have another 10 days to run. Why not encourage your friends to enter?

Oh trust me, I have begged my closest friend who plays sims to enter... no such luck... I will keep at it though!

Wanted to do something homey and reminiscent of the New England winters I grew up with. Hope you like it

All up-to-date, thank you for your entries!

Table updated, thanks for the entries

I'm new here and this is my first time entering, so if I did anything wrong or need to fix anything please let me know!

All up-to-date! Not long now! One more day to go, so you'd better hurry up and get those entries in

JANUARY-it's warm by the fire
(with a borrowed game)