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August 1, 2019

ENTM August Challenge

Hi folks! Ona has chosen the theme for August:

Dog Days of Summer

It’s hot and we are all sweating and melting as the final full month of summer drags on. For the August challenge, show us how you are beating the heat! ‘Dog Days’ refers to the relative brightness of the star Sirius during the late summer. This challenge is free style, and open to interpretation.

Stay hydrated and go take us some sweet end of summer shots!

Entries for the August Challenge will be accepted until Friday, August 23rd.

ENTM monthly challenges are open to the public! If you want to enter, please join our Discord channel and send a direct message to Admin Katarh Mest. Include your character name and your server along with your shot.

>> Click here to join our Discord Channel <<

All images will be posted for voting on August 24th, and voting will be open until August 30th. The winner will receive a minion from the Mogstation (or any other item of similar value) as well as earn the right to choose the September theme.

July 29, 2019July 29, 2019

ENTM Double’s Cycle Tryouts

Good afternoon everyone! It’s time for ENTM: Double’s Edition Cycle One!

Before I get into the try out’s – I do need some judges! So, if you’re interested please join Ni’ko on the panel for the first Double’s Edition ever!

Now, that said –

This is a Classic Edition, meaning no mods of any kind. If it’s not naturally part of the game, then it’s not allowed.

No body mods, gear mods, reshade, cropping or using photoshop to alter the image!

For Doubles Edition you need to have a partner, obviously lol! You will both be in every image (must be 1 image, not a single image for both characters) and you need to balance one another without outshining each other! So grab a friend or significant other and get ready to show how truly in sync you can be! Remember, this is a six-week commitment.

Have your images turned in by August 4th, 2019 by Midnight (EST). If you have any questions, feel free to ask! You can join our Discord below:

https://discord.gg/dDYSE5c

To try out for the cycle send (DM Admin Kai on Discord) me three images along with the following information:

-Full Names of both characters
-Their respective servers
-Data Center

Along with the following themes:

1) Our favorite glamour. Show off your favorite glamours in a fashion showdown!
2) Day at the Beach. Show us how you both enjoy a day at the beach together!
3) Portrait of both characters, shoulders up, in black and white. Example:

July 27, 2019July 27, 2019

ENTM July Monthly Challenge Winner

The July theme was “Postcards from the First.” The rules were – none! Free style, characters or no characters, taken anywhere from a 5.0 area.

Voting has closed and the community selected Odharnait “Ona” Greene’s submission as the winner for the month. This is definitely the perfect postcard to send to someone back in the Source after you’ve frolicked with the fairies in Il Mheg (and barely escaped their immortal clutches.) Congratulations!

The August challenge will be announced in the next few days, so stay tuned!

July 21, 2019

ENTM July Challenge – Voting!

Hi folks! The theme for the month of July was “Postcards from the First.” We asked our models and photographers to send us some of their favorite shots from Norvrandt, and this month we had a right eight entries for the contest.

Please take a look at the gallery below, and then vote for your favorite shot in the Google poll that is linked at the bottom of this post!

Voting will be open until 10:00 PM EST on Friday, July 26th. The winner will be announced some time on July 27th.

Rymm
Terra
Aldrid
Forthyn
Escher
Ni’ko
Schan
Ona

June 30, 2019June 30, 2019

ENTM July Challenge

Hi everyone! The winners of the June challenge, Yomu and Freja, teamed up to think of our July theme. In celebration of the new expansion, for July we want you to go out and take your very best:

Postcards from The First

With ENTM now running our scenic cycle, you have the option to do this as an character selfie or to do a purely scenic shot without a player character as the focus. Frames or filters are optional and up to you, provided you adhere to the theme as much as you can.

Entries for this are going to be open from July 3rd 2019 to July 19th 2019. To enter, please send your screenshot to Katarh Mest via a direct message on the ENTM Discord. Voting will be open for one week until July 26th.

“Wait, Kat, why July 3rd? Why can’t I send it now?”

Because I haven’t gotten through the MSQ yet that’s why! I promise to slog through by July 3rd.

ENTM Monthly Challenges are open to the whole glamour and screenshot community. Reshade/Gshade, post processing edits, and mods are not permitted for this challenge. Gpose and other in game tools are allowed and actively encouraged.

Please join our Discord channel if you have not already! https://discord.gg/n4fe7VF

June 29, 2019

June Challenge Results

Welcome to Shadowbringers everyone! We have our first challenge results of the new expansion today. And of course, we get to start things off with a nice fat tie and two winners for June. The theme was Underwater (right in time to match the same theme from IG2) and we had four models rise to the challenge. Two shots had the same number of votes to win.

Congrats to both Yomu and Freja this month! Each of you will get your Mogstation prize, but I’m gonna have to ask you to team up together to think up a July challenge.

June 26, 2019August 19, 2024

Scenic Cycle Winner Announcement

Once again I would like to thank all our photographers for being part of our experiment. Taking screenshots for six weeks straight is tough. Fighting for weather, getting told by me to redo the shot because of some technical issue, or just feeling uninspired – it all adds up. I tend to prefer shorter cycles because by week 6 I’m feeling personally burned out in any given contest. So whew! We made it!

One thing we wanted to see is if anonymous judging would be a viable way of determining a photographer’s skill without any risk of bias. (I trust our judges in ENTM to not have any overt bias, but they’re only human after all.)

The other thing, and I’ve seen this happen in several rounds of Classic Cycle, is that doing constantly well every week – even the weeks that you don’t win – is the key to having a triumphant finish in a non-elimination cycle

With exact one three way tie win under her belt, and a whole lot of close second place finishes in the earlier rounds, the winner of Scenic Cycle 1 is Sudedki “Suds” Nankali with a final score of 57. Congratulations! In second place, with a final score of 76, is Malkovich Malkovich! In third place, with a final score of 80, is Darius Stormcrow!

As a final treat, here is Suds’ complete portfolio from this cycle. She will be immortalized as ENTM’s first ever S-Rank Photographer.

Scenic Cycle’s galleries and judge’s feedback will be transferred to the Archives section of the website, so you can easily browse them again in the future.

Thank you all for being with us during the very first Scenic Cycle!

June 26, 2019July 4, 2019

Scenic Cycle Round 6 Results

Hi everyone! We had another first here in Scenic Cycle (because Scenic being…. you know… the first of its kind.) We had a tie early on in the rounds, but our photographers did such a great job with the Impressionism round that our judges…. couldn’t pick a winner. Or even two winners. That’s right, we had a three way tie this round. I don’t know if that’s an ENTM first, but it’s certainly a very rare occurrence.

So congratulations to Darius Stormcrow for Skybound Sanctuary, Sudedki Nankali for Champs de Citrouille en La Noscea, and Yume Aawkot for Wings and Prayer this week.

Please continue reading for our final week of feedback from the judges!

June 24, 2019August 19, 2024

ENTM June Challenge Voting

Hi folks! The theme for June’s ENTM challenge was coincidentally the same as one of the IG2 Cycle Rounds – Underwater! After the extension this weekend, we had four models rise to the challenge of taking a shot while swimming in the deep.

Please vote for your favorite! Voting will be open until 10:00 PM EDT Thursday, June 27th 2019. The winner will be announced as soon as possible afterward since the expansion is launching the next day :O

June 22, 2019August 19, 2024

Scenic Cycle Round 6

This is it! The final week of ENTM’s first ever Scenic Cycle!

Before I talk about the final round, I first want to thank our judges for all their hard work during this cycle. They take hours of their time each week, seriously thinking about each shot and how it was done and possible ways to improve it. We had a good balance of technical advice from Forthyn, literary and artistic viewpoints from Ona, and puntastic commentary on colors and emotions from Ni’ko. Thank you again for volunteering to be part of my experiment!

For our final challenge of this first cycle, we took a sharp 180 from the laser focused black and whites of Amsel Adams and went back in time to the previous heydey of landscape artistry – Impressionism! I asked for dreamy vistas and pops of color, and our team of photographers did their best. This was an extremely technical round and I’m proud of what our challengers did with the in game engine to attempt to reproduce Impressionist techniques.

Nine photographers submitted shots for this final portfolio. Please enjoy them over the next few days while our judges review them.