Official MTS 2012 Calendar Contest: The Sims 3
Use your creativity to showcase your sims in a shot fitting for each month of the year. The picture should be a scene with sims in it representing the "feel" of a particular month. Have the family gathered for Christmas dinner? Take a picture! Beach party in June? 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.
2. Only 15 entrants per month. Please no place holders. Each spot is only filled once the picture 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 3 only. For Sims 2 version, please go here

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, or ModYourPanties
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.

Duration/Time Period
The contest begins December 1st, as soon as this is posted. Contestants will have until December 28th 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
Judging will be done by MTS Staff

Scoring
Theme – 10 points Does your picture represent the month you chose?
Creativity – 10 points Originality of idea
Style – 10 points Use of space, props, is it pretty?
Rules – 3 points CC adherence, no editing, inclusion of month
This is 33 points x 3 judges will be a maximum of 99 points per entry.

Prizes
Each month in 2012, the corresponding winning image will be posted in site news.
Also, a calendar will be made for download with each winning month.
And, of course, the blue ribbons for each month’s winner.

Chat Thread
If you don’t get a spot in your month, or want to post for more than the allowed amount of months, or just want to chat about the entries, please post in our Chat Thread!

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. If you want to post pictures like that, please see the chat thread linked above.

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.

Last edited by heaven : 15th Jan 2012 at 04:38 PM.

Contestant Entries

	January	February	March	April	May	June	July	August	September	October	November	December
1	cactusimotion	Redhead Creations	Alliteration	Miuki	Riptide651	Ghost_sdoj	Luckk	Morphead	cactusimotion	whiterider	ytrewqaaa	Majuchan
2	SIMul8rReviews	chloe.	Miuki	RylandHomes	Misanthrope	Riptide651	LadyAwesome	Redhead Creations	RomerJon17	Misanthrope	ganguro	Marcella17
3	SwirlyTop	leesester	ghostofsimspast	Innamode	RomerJon17	Marcella17	Japalion9	RylandHomes	lionessgirl	reddish96	shishi_hineko	shishi_hineko
4	Lunararc	viri2626	Jennuitte	Oceaneyez86	jen&tonic	corihummel77	leesester	ganguro	AMORel_97	simsample	ReyaD	Hellrazr
5	Rebents	Hypnotique	lstloveall3	SwirlyTop	viri2626	Hellrazr	ibesteph	Pavic	jsps13	uchuujin	SIMul8rReviews	lulyandrates3
6	Louma37	angiesupers	crocobaura	Cheesie	Mama0607	Zoetiggy	r_DeNoube	AMORel_97	Sammiannnz	Alan_Gast	Menanceman44	jsps13
7	emzz	XxCuBeZxX	jbeach34	StyxLady		Rebents	jbeach34	chloe.		Hypnotique	simsample	Lunararc
8		Simmakerlover98		LadyAwesome		x-fireflies-x	Jennuitte	frostypineapple			BCherri28	Amjosa
9		KnightDevil				TetraCycline	emzz	Alan_Gast				Fenisa
10		frostypineapple				Morphead						ladymumm
11		missroxor				BCherri28						Cheesie
12												Simmakerlover98
13												missroxor
14												SimsBoyPL
15												StyxLady

Scores and Winners

Last edited by heaven : 15th Jan 2012 at 10:43 PM.

Entry #2 (June):

Name: Approaching the island, as the sun rises overhead

Last edited by Riptide651 : 11th Dec 2011 at 02:58 AM.

Riptide, please refer to the "How to Enter" section above to see how to attach an inline picture and edit your posts. If they are not entered properly, they will not count.

Last edited by heaven : 1st Dec 2011 at 04:51 PM.

June

Last edited by Ghost sdoj : 1st Dec 2011 at 08:06 PM.

July
Edit: Okay, added a fix

Last edited by Luckk : 2nd Dec 2011 at 01:07 AM.

Luckk - your picture is 1000x700. You wouldn't happen to have an uncropped version to resubmit (1000 x 750), would you?

Ok, reentering my photos

Entry #1: (May)

Name: A Battle of Wits





Link: http://i.imgur.com/5E96O.jpg

Last edited by Riptide651 : 11th Dec 2011 at 02:58 AM.

Thanks for fixing them. Psst, next time, you can just click 'edit' and add them there. Off to update list now.

I reuploaded my second entry above

Ah, just edited my post with the original, uncropped screenshot.

Luckk, the picture MUST be 1000x750 as stated in the rules. I asked if you had uncropped so you could then crop to the correct size rather than trying to resize and distort what you had. Sorry for the confusion.

Okay, I figured out what was wrong. The first picture was accidentally 1000x700 rather than 1000x750 (Don't know how I missed that). When you asked for the uncropped I thought you meant the original. I never resized anything. Sorry for that. It has been fixed.

Yay, sorry about that. Confusion on both ends! Updated the contestant table now.

Just out of interest, if there end up being less than 15 entries for each month, will we be able to enter more photos because I have got many!

Sakura watching. (Hanami)

I don;t know if this goes into the chat thread or not, but I really think this contest needs more publicizing. Like, sending a PM to all members or more news or a publicizing thread, idk... Advertisement in general

December






Resized... sorry, I forgot to change the size.

Last edited by Majuchan : 6th Dec 2011 at 04:35 AM.

Majuchan - your picture needs to be 1,000 x 750. Right now it is 1,024 × 768. Please resubmit with the correct size. (Just edit your post and change the image).

August

"I'll always love you.."

Last edited by Morphead : 26th Dec 2011 at 11:50 PM.

Fun fun fun! I love it!

Entry #1: August

Entry #2: February





I can't wait to see everyone else's pics - they're all beautiful so far!

You've taken some amazing pictures everybody ^.^ Well done!
My graphics card isn't the best, but oh well =]

January

Well, I've got a couple of nice screens. Might as well try my hand at this.

I want to say... March.

Dang it, Cactusimotion! That's VERY similar to an idea I had planned for November.