We are now holding an official competition to get the best screenshots out there to be used for the Ace of Spades Gallery.

The competition will consist of two judging rounds. The staff here shall judge and sift through all the submissions, picking out ones that fit the criteria the best, of which we shall send ~20 off to Ben who will make the final judgement as to which ~10 are put onto the website :)

Ben has mentioned some category suggestions: 'combat/constructions/art/custom maps/models'. However, if you are able to combine categories then we are interested in those too.

The submission consists of your forum username, an email, the file, and your suggested one to two word caption (but note that we might change this where appropriate). Please try and be moderate in how many submissions you make, so only choose the best and most worthy snaps.

Also note that we have limited the file type to .png .bmp .jpg. We'd prefer images to be .png since jpeg's are likely to be of lesser quality - which shall be a factor in our judging.

For an easy way to take screenshots, use Spadille, which uses the PrintScrn key to save them automatically.

Our thanks go to this thread for highlighting the need for an updated gallery.

Terms:
   •  Anything deemed unsuitable will be discarded.
   •  Images are to be of a decent quality, PNG is highly recommended
   •  Closing date for getting your pictures in shall be the 22nd of August

UPLOAD IMAGES HERE!

Are we allowed to edit them with software like photoshop CS5? Or do they have to be vanilla?

I would prefer to see un-edited images myself.
It's the main gallery to show exactly what AoS is like, so altered images (in my view) might not be the best.

Another note: Also probably best if the screen-shots are from the latest version of AoS, since that is what newcomers shall be playing, and won't have to be replaced too soon.

Are we allowed to have modded skins when we submit a picture? Or just the original skins?

great competition, i will do my best to try and win this thing! :D

but i have a problem with spadille, i dont understand what he wants when i open it for the first time o_O

I can't even get onto a server :O
Even if I do it'll take 10 minutes to load and my minimum ping is 700.

I suggest the COD map to attract more CoD kids.

nevermind, problem solved.

by the way i already have a bunch of amazing pics taken only minutes after i saw this competition :)

@Gregery:
If you look on the gallery submissions page, you'll notice there's a category specifically for modifications.

There's also an 'other' category if you use both modifications + combat for example.
It'd be nice to see some mods, as well as some with the default design.

how many pictures can u upload?

We have not placed a limit on the amount.. just pick your best ones to save the spam :P

do we post the images here? :D

No, you submit them here.

can the screenshots be planned or staged, or do they have to be random ? :D

Either, doesn't really matter. As long as it's deemed appropriate it will be considered.

Just submitted three screen shots, I hope at least one of them will be picked.

I'll start uploading screenshots when 0.55 comes out.

yeah...
we should get a new banner the one we have is quite old

I figured out what you can post when you cant get in-game (like me)

@QUESTIONDUDE:
It's probably better to not have captions printed on the image itself, just place it in the appropriate box.

I submitted some pictures, not sure if you received it, Stack. Could you give me some sort of confirmation? Sorry to use your time.
-Tyler

I received 2 from you.

Okay, thanks. I appreciate the notification.

Are we ever going to get to see everyone's submissions before it's over?

There doesn't seem much point to it otherwise.

The winning entries, after going through admin judging and bcoolface's judging, will be publicly displayed in the gallery.
I'd imagine we'd possibly upload all the entries somewhere else at some time however.

Did you receive any from me?
And it OK?
Oh and sorry for the printed caption,I just thought it needed it.

Yea we received it, and as said - I think it'd be best if future uploads were not altered really.

Dump em all on an image host somewhere so we can see all the entries, please :)

Should I send it again but without the caption?

this is awesome i wish there was a gallery to see the ones that have been posted
here's what i posted
Creeper Attuck!
Thanks to KomradPaul for pretending to not see me