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Last’s week photo challenge was to take a free style shot on the theme of “Tavern.” Our models braved these dark and dusty bars across the world, getting into bar fights and getting behind the bar themselves to serve up beverages, but the winner by a hair this week was Damian Montclair whose friends all cancelled on them at the last minute to play FFXVI, giving us this amusing shot in response.
Congratulations! Classic Cycle 14 continues this weekend!
Better late than never! The challenge for the month of July is very simple – Chocobos! Take a screenshot inspired by this one word and share it with the world. You have until Monday, July 24th to send me a shot on this theme.
All shots must be in vanilla Gpose using the in game camera. The winner gets the right to choose the theme for the next month’s challenge!
To enter, submit your screenshot and your character name to Admin Katarh Mest on Discord.
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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.
Hello everyone and welcome back to our third week of Classic Cycle 14! We had an old theme last week to go back to our forum roots, but this week we’re introducing a brand new theme for this cycle: “Tavern.”
Our models were challenged to do a free style shot in any of the many taverns scattered around Eorzea and beyond. With no restrictions, they could choose scenic, fashion, or even an action oriented shot in this open ended theme.
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The winner for our June Challenge was Timtam James! Congratulations!
Please help us with community voting in Classic Cycle 14, and look forward to our July challenge coming shortly!
This week was our throwback fashion style swimsuit competition, a round first done on the OG Cycle 1 on the official FF forums. (Long before Gpose so they couldn’t be vertical, though.)
The judges and community had a much harder time this week since everyone was so gorgeous, but Val Viscera squeaked out a win by a single point against everyone else in the end. Congrats for a second week in a row!
Welcome back for our second week of the summer Classic Cycle of ENTM! This week is traditionally a “runway style” week focusing on the fashion, and we hearkened back to the original Forum Cycle 1 for inspiration with a swimsuit competition. (I don’t know about you, but someone definitely turned the heat on in the last week where I live.)
Our models were asked to take a vertical shot of their character, but otherwise they were free to choose the location and mood for their scene (and of course strike a pose.)
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Last week I asked our models to go take a scenic photo on an island, any island out there in Eorzea and beyond. Our models gave us some wonderful shots, but both the community and the judges agreed that Val Viscera had the loveliest island vista of them all for this round. Judges praised the choice of glam and pose, as well as the overall composition of this shot. It certainly makes me want to find a nice tropical island in the sun (or at least join Ona for drinks on the beach.)
Congratulations! We have five more weeks of beautiful screenshots to go, though, and it’s still anyone’s game!
The challenge for the month of June was Namedays.We had three entries.
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Greetings everyone, and welcome to Classic Cycle 14 of ENTM! We have six weeks of screenshots coming your way, and as always with our Classic Cycle style voting, we need the input from the community to help decide the winners each week!
The theme for round one was Island Sanctuary and this was intended to be a “scenic style” shot displaying the character against a pretty background. The only other rule was that this had to be taken on an island somewhere in the game (not necessarily the island sanctuary itself.) Other than that, our models were free to interpret the theme however they wished.
We had seven models submit their shots this week for your viewing pleasure! To view an image in full size, please click on the center of the image, and then use your browser’s back button to return to this blog post. After looking at each image, vote using the Google poll that is embedded below.
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We have two veteran judges and one new community judge for a fresh perspective for this cycle.
Odharnait Greene – Pronounced “Ona” (it’s a Celtic name) – Initially a model in the Classic TUMBLR Cycle, Instagram Cycle 2, and All-Stars, Ona has been a part of ENTM for several years acting as a part-time admin/judge/Elessia’s co-mentor/host/Bard-only/village crazy lady/local drunk. Though she has never won an official cycle, she is always happy to cheer on the models and provide advice on how to win a cycle. Classic “do as I say, not as I do.” Ona looks forward to acting as a judge and bringing back her classic critique style which is 2/3 actual advice and 1/3 drunkenly telling the models how absolutely beautiful they are and possibly making inappropriate comments about how hot they are.
Married to her amazing Wife- Amalie Greene (Fresh Faces 2 Cycle S-Rank Winner), she is an IRL social worker and photographer.
Elessia Sedai – No stranger to judging for ENTM, Elessia started out as a guest judge; from there, she participated as a model in various cycles, including All-Stars. Elessia has mentored alongside Odharnait and judged a few cycles as well. She is the host of Renovation Cycle and loves housing almost as much as glamour. “Keep calm and blame the healer” is her favorite motto (she has been healing in XIV for what feels like forever) and is trying out White Mage this raid tier. IRL, Elessia loves to write and take pretty photographs.
Yvesoix Sellemontiere (Blix) – Blix is new to the Gpose scene, but is no stranger to art critique! In their spare time, they enjoy researching different techniques and styles to broaden their understanding of photography and art in general. They bring an impartial, quality focused view to the team. When they’re not hyperfocusing on what makes art art and other pointless philosophical questions, you can find them running their own venue, The Bloody Bastard Dive Bar (colloquially known as “Brume Bar”) and building an Ishgardian RP community centered around stories of Ishgard’s lower classes.
Katarh Mest has been a participant in ENTM since the old forum days, when she was a community judge for YouTube Cycle 2. She threw her hat into the race in Forum Cycle 5, where she was promptly eliminated. Undeterred, she kept entering, until she finally won her own S-Rank crown in the first Runway Cycle. She has been the ENTM webmaster since 2019 and together with Kai Ulric helps to herd the cats on the ENTM Discord channel. When not in Gpose, she can be found fishing, dabbling in endgame content, or grinding out relic weapons. IRL, Katarh is a business analyst for a small software team, and is married to a professor who doesn’t play MMOs but admires her enthusiasm anyway.
