The theme for the challenge for this month is Fairy Tales! We have also lifted the moratorium on 6.0 spoilers, including battle arenas and dungeons, so don’t be afraid to take the most awesome screenshots in Ultima Thul, Elpis, or even [Redacted] Extreme. (I still can’t bring myself to say it, though….)
Entries for the March Challenge will be accepted until March18th, 2022 at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.
To enter, send a screenshot on the theme subject to Admin Katarh Mest on the Discord! Include your character name for voting.
As always, the winner gets a small item from the Mogstation, their image as the banner on the front page of this website, and the rights to choose the next month’s theme.
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ENTM contests are open to the general screenshot community. You do not have to have participated in any ENTM contest before. You must, however, be a member of our Discord community to see the winner’s announcement. ENTM monthly contest screenshots must be “vanilla” – no mods, no Reshade, and no post processing allowed. You must include the FFXIV copyright notice on the shot to allow us to post on our website for voting. Please submit one (1) original screenshot for this contest, not used in any other contest before or posted on social media. Also please include the character name for voting. No other restrictions apply beyond these and the challenge theme as described above. Do not taunt happy fun ball.
Also please submit your auditions for Classic Cycle 13! You only have until March 9th for that!
Do you have what it takes to be Eorzea’s next S-Rank model ?!
Classic Cycle 13
It’s time to get back to our roots and do another Classic Cycle! Cycle 13 will be a six week combination of modeling and backgrounds, with emphasis on theme interpretation , composition, and the overall “mood” of each shot. ENTM screenshots are “vanilla” to keep things fair to our PS4 participants, which means no reshade/gshade, post processing, or other editing will be allowed beyond the base game. However, every in game tool is at your disposal to make a screenshot that’ll wow our judges and our audience.
Call for Models New and Old
How does Classic Cycle work?
Each week, your host Katarh Mest will collect a screenshot on the weekly theme, submit it to our judges for voting and commentary, and provide a public poll for your friends and the general audience to weigh in. You are strongly encouraged to share this public poll with your friends and on social media.
We’ve found over the years that the public vote is the best way to break ties when our judges can’t decide.
The overall winner each week is announced, and judges will provide you feedback on your shot.
At the end of the contest, we will announce our newest S-rank model, and if the rest of the community disagreed with the judges, a separate S-rank Community winner as well.
Can I have entered an ENTM contest before?
Yes! Classic Cycle is open to previous ENTM contestants, even winners, as well as members who have never participated in any of our contests before. We encourage folks who have won an S-rank recently to consider being a judge instead, though!
How do I enter?
To enter Classic Cycle 13, you will need to send two audition shots to Katarh Mest on the ENTM Discord. These shots must have the following settings:
Shot #1: A battle or action shot that has a visible enemy and your character visibly engaged with the enemy. This can be taken in the open world, or inside any dungeon, trial, or raid. Think of your chosen monster as your co-star. 6.0 zones are allowed, but not required.
Shot #2: A head shot of your character, from the waist or shoulders up, with your character facing the camera or having their eyes look into the camera using the eye tracking tool in Gpose. This shot should be taken in any major city-state (Eorzean or otherwise** – please see a note at the bottom) with all characters besides yours hidden. This shot will also be your portrait throughout the contest. 6.0 zones are allowed, but not required.
Send the following information to Katarh along with those screenshots:
Your character’s full In Game name
Your character’s data center and server
Your character’s name in the ENTM discord, if it’s different from your Discord handle
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Auditions for Classic Cycle 13 are open as of this posting, and will be accepted until March 9th, 2022, at 11:59 PM Eastern Time. The minimum threshhold of models to hold this contest is 6. The maximum number accepted is 12. In the event there are more than 12 models, judges will ultimately decide who gets left out. That said, we have not filled an ENTM contest for a long time, so don’t be shy! Send us an audition!
Classic Cycle 13 will run from March 18th 2022 to April 22nd, 2022. We realize this may run into Patch 6.1 at some point in April, so participants will be encouraged to submit shots early if that might be a problem. (You will be given all six themes ahead of time, so you can send them to us as soon as you get them, if you want!)
Call for Judges
ENTM is seeking at least 1 judge from an outside community. We tend to be very insular, and having a guest judge provide some outside opinions is crucial to keeping us from naval gazing too much.
If you are a leader of another community dedicated to screenshots and you have strong opinions about the quality of photography in the FFXIV screenshot community, we would love to have you be our part of the team. Or, if you are a photographer, a design or costume expert, or otherwise involved in art composition, staging, etc. out in the real world, that counts too!
As a judge, your commitment will be to provide no more than six 1 paragraph critiques each week, and to cast ranked choice votes for all models every week. You are welcome to offer models to ask for additional feedback, but you are not required to answer any model questions if you don’t have time. Having this outside viewpoint enriches our contests beyond anything I could explain.
If you are able to judge, please contact Katarh Mest on Discord to discuss things further!
** In ENTM, City-states are defined as a zone locked sanctuary, with no open world monsters inside. E.g. Sharlayan, Thavnair, Limsa Lominsa, Kugane, the Doman Enclave, Idyllshire, and so forth. (Conversely, Mor Dhona does not fit this definition, as it is not zone locked.)
Love is in the Air for a few more days, and after tallying all the votes, the winner for the loveliest shot for the month of February was Chibi Blu! A gorgeous background with plenty of floating hearts took this theme literally in the best possible way.
Congratulations!
Watch this space for the March Challenge, coming soon!
Valentione’s Day may have come and gone, but Love Is In The Air for the whole short month of February. We had five images submitted for the challenge this time.
Please click on each image to view it in a larger size, and then use your browser’s back button to return to this post. Once you have admired them all, please vote for your favorite on the Google Poll below! Voting will remain open until Friday, February 25th at 11:59 PM Eastern Time.
No email address are collected, but sign in is required to prevent double voting. If you are having trouble voting on the Google Poll above, please click on this link here to open the poll directly in another tab: https://forms.gle/uLpMeXpYD7uTzr2R9
The challenge for February is going to be Love is in the Air! As always, this theme is completely open ended and you can choose to interpret it however you want – agape love, platonic love, romantic love, or even your WoL’s new found love of Archon burgers.
Entries on this theme will be accepted until 11:59 PM EDT on February 18th, 2022. To enter, send a direct message to admin Katarh Mest on the ENTM Discord. Be sure to include your character name as you want it to appear for voting.
Please >>>click right here<<<< to join the ENTM Discord community if you have not done so already!
The winner will have their choice of small item from the Mogstation (minion, emote, orchestrion roll, etc), their winning image as our front page banner for the next month, and the right to choose the theme for the following month.
ENTM contests are open to the general screenshot community. You do not have to have participated in any ENTM contest before. You must, however, be a member of our Discord community to see the winner’s announcement. ENTM monthly contest screenshots must be “vanilla” – no mods, no Reshade, and no post processing allowed. You must include the FFXIV copyright notice on the shot to allow us to post on our website for voting. Please submit one (1) original screenshot for this contest, not used in any other contest before or posted on social media. Also please include the character name for voting. No other restrictions apply beyond these and the challenge theme as described above. Do not taunt happy fun ball.
Wow, we had plenty of votes for once this month! All of our beautiful screenshots showed off the moon in all its splendor and forms (including an unexpected Sailor) but the winner by a landslide this month was Snowy Drake, who executed a lovely symmetrical back shot with a gorgeous silhouette against the moon to perfectly capture this month’s theme.
Congratulations Snowy!
The February challenge will be posted soon, and we should have news for our next ENTM cycle now that we’ve given everyone a chance to finish Endwalker!
For the month of January, our challenge theme was To The Moon! in celebration of our newfound access to the lunar surface. That said, being on the moon wasn’t required for this shot, and our photographers and models were free to interpret this theme in other ways as desired.
We had six entries for this challenge. Please click on the center of each one below to view it in more detail. Use your browser’s back button to come back to this screen. And then vote for your favorite in the Google poll below! Voting will close this Friday, January 28th, at 11:59 PM ET.
Snowy Drake
Chibi Blu
Elessia Sedai
Forthyn Syel
Ignis Prann
Daiyu Elani
If you are having trouble seeing the poll embedded above, you can also click here to open the Google poll in another window: January Challenge Voting 2022
ENTM has lifted our spoiler restriction on the first four zones of Endwalker, so to celebrate, we’re asking everyone to go To The Moon! (As always, your interpretation of this theme is totally valid, so don’t limit yourself to the lunar surface. )
Entries will be accepted until 11:59 PM Eastern Time on Friday, January 21st, 2022. To enter, send a DM to Admin Katarh Mest with your character name and your best screen shot.
Please >>>click right here<<<< to join the ENTM Discord community if you have not done so already!
The winner of the challenge will receive their shot at the top of our website for the next month, and the rights to choose the next theme!
Please >>>click right here<<<< to join the ENTM Discord community if you have not done so already!
ENTM contests are open to the general screenshot community. You do not have to have participated in any ENTM contest before. You must, however, be a member of our Discord community to see the winner’s announcement. ENTM monthly contest screenshots must be “vanilla” – no mods, no Reshade, and no post processing allowed. You must include the FFXIV copyright notice on the shot to allow us to post on our website for voting. Please submit one (1) original screenshot for this contest, not used in any other contest before or posted on social media. Also please include the character name for voting. No other restrictions apply beyond these and the challenge theme as described above. Do not taunt happy fun ball.
ENTM contests are open to the general screenshot community. You do not have to have participated in any ENTM contest before. You must, however, be a member of our Discord community to see the winner’s announcement. ENTM monthly contest screenshots must be “vanilla” – no mods, no Reshade, and no post processing allowed. You must include the FFXIV copyright notice on the shot to allow us to post on our website for voting. Please submit one (1) original screenshot for this contest, not used in any other contest before or posted on social media. Also please include the character name for voting. No other restrictions apply beyond these and the challenge theme as described above. Do not taunt happy fun ball.
Happy New Year! The winner for our December 2021 challenge on the theme of Unfettered and Free was Daiyu Elani! Taking the theme at its most literal, she held a dance party with everyone’s favorite Lord of the Revel.
Congratulations! We’ll be announcing the first challenge of 2022 shortly.
Daiyu Elani
The ENTM hosts are also discussing our first longer cycle of the year. Note that due to the server congestion issues, we still have a hold on spoilers past the level 85 MSQ since so few folks have been able to complete the story as planned over the break. As a result, any longer cycles are more likely to take place once we know that all the participants have access to the game during their playable hours. Please be patient with us, as SE has asked for patience as well. (I also work in business technology and I am all too painfully aware of the server shortage since it’s impacting the long term plans of my department in the real world as well….)
The theme for the month of December was Unfettered and Free – anything goes as long as you’re not in 6.0 areas for now.
We had three entries this month. Please click on the center of each image to view it in larger detail, then use your browser’s back button to return to this page.
Vote for your favorite at the bottom of the post! Voting will be open until December 31st, 2021, at 11:59 PM Eastern time.
Damien Montclair
Escher Strange
Daiyu Elani
If you are having difficulty voting with the embedded poll, you can open the poll in another tab by clicking on this link instead: https://forms.gle/RbMDokbE3bt2qBr8A
