• 🦜 Enter our annual housing contest! Pirates, Thieves or Treasure! 🏴‍☠

Set sail on a daring adventure! ☠️ Already 45 million gold in prizes and more shinies to come! 💰 This contest invites you to create a space that captures the essence of the high seas, the thrill of a heist, or the allure of hidden riches. 🏴‍☠️ Whether it's a pirate's cove, a thief's secret hideout, or a treasure-filled cavern, let your imagination run wild and bring your creative vision to life.

🔨 New to housing contests? No worries—there’s a Beginner category made just for you! ⚙️ Seasoned builders who often place high can test themselves in Challenge mode. 🏘️ Regular entrants compete in three separate house size groups to keep things even.

• 🎁 P R I Z E S 🎁

🏠 5 x Grand Prizes: a house of choice that's currently in the crown store

👑 30,000 Crowns in codes

👑 10 × 30-Day ESO Plus (that grant 1650 Crowns)

💰 45 million gold already!

🌸 20 × Apprentice's Flower Trick emotes 🐛 20 × Pink Torchbug pets

A heartfelt thank you to Bethesda for their incredible support, our deepest gratitude to our very generous partner Azura's Atelier, a German-speaking social guild from PC EU (you can find them at https://discord.gg/Wc8zhtc3NH) for their 25 million gold donation & a warm appreciation to the charming Kalamon for their fantastic codes donation.

• 🗂️ C A T E G O R I E S * 🗂️

🔹 Beginner mode
🔹 Regular mode, Smaller Houses (100/200)
🔹 Regular mode, Medium Houses (400)
🔹 Regular mode, Large Houses (600/700)
🔹 Challenge mode
Note: categories are subject to change depending on the turnout of the entries. *

• 🪒 J U D G I N G . P A N E L 🪒

Invitations are on the way to constitute a panel of experienced housers and housing streamers, the list of 10+ judges is to be announced.

• 📜 C O N D I T I O N S 📜

🔸 Entries open to PC-EU and PC-NA houses.
🔸 Set visitor permissions to open access (limited visitor or visitor) by the deadline.
"Limited visitor" permissions allow people to interact with built-in doors but prevents trolls from tampering with lights and player-placed doors. We advise you use this setting and create "reveal" effects with placed doors or items rather than interactable doors, but "Visitor" permission is of course allowed and the choice is yours.
🔸 House does not need to be set as primary.
🔸 Any house size is accepted.
🔸 Each person can only enter 1 house.
🔸 Entry is your own unique work. (no copy of other people's homes, or commissioned designs)
🔸 House can have participated or placed in previous contests.
🔸 House can be participating in other ongoing contests.
🔸 No editing of the house whatsoever after the deadline. If an issue blocks visits, contact @Lilarna in DMs.
🔸 EHT FX will not be judged.
🔸 "Beginner mode" is for players who have never won or placed in top #5 in a housing contest yet. On top of that, beginners can only have participated in 2 housing contests maximum prior to entering this contest. (screenshot contests do not count)
🔸 "Challenge mode" is for experienced players who do really well in contests and win or place high regularly.
🔸 If you're uncertain which category to enter, please contact @Lilarna in DMs.

• ⚖️ J U D G I N G . C R I T E R I A ⚖️

🔹 Personal Impact: These are bonus points: how much did this entry strike you emotionally or visually? (0 to 5)
🔹 Visitor Experience: Overall layout of the house, flow of the build. The pathway through the design is intuitive and/or immersive. (0 to 10)
🔹 Atmosphere: Lighting, colour, texture, clutter, storytelling & landscaping come together to set the tone. (0 to 10)
🔹 Theme Interpretation: Build aligns with theme clearly or cleverly. Abstract or symbolic takes are welcome. (0 to 10)
🔹 Complexity: Creative cobbles or structures. Original house used cleverly or well transformed. (0 to 10)
🔹 Technique: Seamless, polished, no unintended clipping or floating items. (0 to 10)