April Challenge 2021

The theme for April has been decided! For this month, our March winner Portia wants you to show off your Green Thumb. Entries for this month’s challenge will be accepted until 11:59 PM EDT on Sunday, April 25th.

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.

(belated) March Challenge Winner!

The delay is finally over and the the votes are tallied! And next time Katarh is putting a darn reminder on her work Trello.

The winner for the March 2021 challenge was Portia Baloumut! Congratulations!

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Portia Baloumat

The April challenge will be posted ASAP. In the meantime, if you are thinking about auditioning for Fresh Faces, go ahead and take the plunge!

(belated) March 2021 Challenge Voting

Due to a complete and total brain fart on Host Katarh’s part, March voting is a little bit late. After a last second panic scramble call for more entries, we have 5 total shots for voting!

Please vote for your favorite using the Google Poll below. Click on an image to see it in higher resolution, and then use your browser back button to return to this page.

Voting for this poll will be open until 11:59 PM EDT on April 8th.

If you are having difficulty voting in the Google Poll above, please click on the link to open it in your browser directly: https://forms.gle/hULVFR4hjNMB8FYx9

March Challenge

After a few days break I’m ready for MORE SCREENSHOTS so it’s time to announce our March Challenge! Lore Rowena has decided to keep it simple so the theme for the month of March is a very open ended: Spring

Entries for the March challenge will be accepted until roundabouts March 24th.

To enter, send a direct message to Katarh Mest on Discord with your entry and your character’s name for voting.

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.

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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.

All Stars Grand Finale

We are at the end of a two month journey. A few of our models hit bumps along the road, but somehow we emerged at the end with all 14 models still participating and voting each week, which is incredible.

I want to thank everyone who agreed to Rongi Pongi’s crazy idea for self-scoring, and I am grateful I had the opportunity to bring this cycle to fruition. We probably won’t do an All Stars cycle every year, and the next time we do I’ll probably have a different formula, but it was definitely a fun experiment to try and a good excuse to get more screenshots from some of our best models since we started in 2014.

After a good bit of head scratching and a lot of helpful fill-ins from Google Sheets, I’ve got the data that you all were waiting for: the winners!

In third place, with a cumulative score of 186, we have Elessia Sedai!

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Elessia

In second place, with a cumulative score of 182, we have Malkovich Malkovich!

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Malkovich

And our grand prize winner for our inaugural All Stars Cycle, with a cumulative score of 178, is Yomu Kazul!

Yomu

Congratulations Yomu!

Community votes are also a crucial aspect of our scoring system. Sometimes the community disagrees with our judges, but most often the purpose of the community score is to break the ties when the judges can’t agree themselves. Our winners for Community Votes this cycle are Elessia Sedai, Odharnait Green, and Ninifipsi Fini.

ENTM will be celebrating the two year anniversary of our website now that it is March, so our next project (while we prepare the next contest for everyone) will be an all inclusive community refresh of the website. Please stick around for additional news about this project in the next few days!

All Stars Round 8 Winners

Last week’s challenge was to go hang out with a new beast tribe. We had our models frolicking with the pixies, tinkering with the dwarves, or chilling with the Nu Mou. Voting was pretty tight, but the top three from last week were Malkovich, Elessia, and Yomu!

Host Katarh is currently doing a lot of spreadsheet math to tabulate the overall winner of All Stars. Please watch this space for updates sometime today!

February Challenge Winner!

Our theme for the month of February was Agape and we had four entries for the challenge. Voting was quite close, but the winner by a single vote was Lore Rowena!

Congratulations, and we’ll have an announcement for the March challenge up shortly!

Lore Rowena

All Stars Round 8: New Beast Tribes

It’s the final week! To wrap up All Stars, I asked the models to go to the First and take a picture with any one of the new beast tribes that were added. We had twelve models submit a shot this week.

Please look at each of the images below, and then rank them in order from strongest (1) to weakest (12) at the bottom of the page using the Google Poll! To view each image in a larger size, click on it in the middle. Then use your browser’s back button to return to this page.

If you are having trouble voting using the form above, please click on this link to open the Google Pool in a new tab: https://forms.gle/vjfsdymDVfTfuLtm9

All Stars Round 7 Winners

Sorry for the delay in getting this up – work consumed both models and host alike in the last 24 hours. For Round 7, we sent our models down to the dungeons. (Or Raids. Or other Duties As Assigned.) The three models who gave us the best shot this week were Ninifipsi, Stephen, and Yomu! Congratulations, and I hope you all got out of there alive.

We have one more week of All Stars before we determine who the grand SS rank winner is. (Who am I kidding, all these models are already SS rank.) We also have news about our next upcoming cycle soon – so for those of you who have been itching to get in on the ENTM action, please stay tuned!

February Challenge Voting

After a few delays because Katarh is forgetful, here are our entries for the February Challenge! The theme was Agape – unconditional love.

Please click on each image to view it in full size, and then use the back button on your browser to return to this post. Then scroll to the bottom, and vote for your favorite in the Google Poll! Voting for this round will be open until Feb 28th, 2021.

If you are having trouble voting on the form above, please click this link to open the form in another tab: https://forms.gle/AW23Di2wVg2HFktp7