Greetings, Guardians! 

To celebrate our upcoming fourth anniversary, we're holding a contest where you can submit your original emotes and compete to have them added to our Twitch Channel. 

If you want to participate, please make sure to read the instructions and information* below:

*Subject to changes.

1) Requirements
- Have a Twitch account
Artists need to have a Twitch account to have attributions assigned to them. More info on rewards for winners in point 4) Winners.

- Original Emote
The artist confirms their artwork is original and new, created by them, not any other user. It must be related to Guardian Tales.

- Eligible servers and platform (in-game account)
We can only accept submissions from users who play on mobile on our servers: Europe, North America, South America, and Oceania.

- AI submissions WILL NOT be accepted
We will only accept original, self-made emotes.

- Submissions
You may send multiple submissions, but only one entry per artist will be selected by the team. Please note that the form only allows one attachment. If you need to send more, you can attach them as a zip file.

- Twitch requirements

Non-animated Emotes

- Size we need depending on auto-resize or manual upload:
Single square image: 112 x 112px and 4096 x 4096px.
In three square images: 28 x 28px, 56 x 56px and 112 x 112px.
- Format: PNG.
- Form: Square.
- Weight: Under 1MB.
- Background: Transparent.

Animated Emotes
- Size we need depending on auto-resize or manual upload:
Single square GIF: 112x112px and 4096x4096px.
3 square GIFs: 28x28px, 56x56px, 112x112px.
- Format: GIF.
- Form: Square.
- Weight: 1MB.
- Frames: Under 60 frames.
- If flashes: Under 3 flashes in the span of 1 second.
- Background: Transparent.

2) Send us your submission!
Send your submission to this form: HERE.

3) Contest period
- July 15, Start of event. You can already send us your submission!
- July 21, 23:59 UTC. The submissions will close.
- July 22. The Community Team will pick a total of 10 winners.
- July 23. At the time of the stream, CM Ky will go over the 10 selected entries and the community will select 5 winners from those.
Open until August 4, 23:59 UTC. The contest will take place in the next biweekly stream, not the one on July 23.

4) Winners
There will be 2 types of winners:
- Top 10. Selected by the Community Team. These will receive the rewards for winning (x2,000 Gems).
- Favorite 5 from within the Top 10. Selected by the community during the stream. In addition to the above, these winners will receive the Artist badge and have their emotes added to our Twitch channel.

5) Distribution of rewards
Once the winners are announced, they will receive the gems in their in-game mail within 24 hours. The artist badge will be added during the stream after the winners are announced. Please make sure to be present during the stream!

We look forward to your creations and love for the community. Thank you, as always! 

~Guardian Tales Community Tea