A three day event on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday with a final on Sunday.
On Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday at 6pm server time there will be 4 pictures posted on the forums to be recreated. You have 12h to post your recreations, anything posted after this will be disregarded. After 12h the officer team and elders who are holding this event will look over recreations posted and the 3 top will go to the finals on Sunday and can not compete the other days. The winners of each day will be announced.

The Officers and two volunteer Elder will choose random spots in Eorzea where they will take a screenshot with no interface. The mission is for the players that are participating to find these locations. Once they found the spot the have to re-create the original screenshot and will be judged on accuracy of location, angle of camera, time of day and emote. With a maximum of 4 points per photo, meeting all of the requirements. The three players with the most criteria met in their photos will compete on Sunday 2/7-2017 for the winning price.

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  Winning prize.

  
  




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  1st. Lakshmi Barding and 1mil gil.

  
  


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  2nd. Lakshmi Barding and 500.000 gil.

  
  


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  3rd. Lakshmi Barding and 250.000 gil.

  
  

Rules:

1. Find the spot and recreate it!
2. Pictures will be judged on accuracy of location, angle of camera, time of day and emote. (common emotes are used) If a criteria is met you get 1 point.
3. Screenshots are only in ARR area.
4. The areas are NOT in instances, dungeons, housing(area), MSQ, quests, and so on.
5. /gpose is allowed, no frames, no status, no color filter or screen effect. Lightning is accepted.
6. Every area is to be accessible from through normals ways, no hacks.
7. No helping or saying where a spot is, if caught you’ll be disqualified.

Sunday the finals!

The finals will be held on Sunday 2/7-2017. There will be 6 pictures total, one per officer/elder. This one is all about speed with a max time of 2h. The start is at 6PM server time. Find all photos and recreate them.

Judging will be as before. You'll have to plan out the screenshot if you want full score. This is not meant to be easy!

An Example of judging:

1.The picture to recreate.                                              2. Recreation.

The recreation picture would get one point for Location.
It is not the right time of day.
It's not the correct emote.
It's not the correct angle.
Total: 1 point.

An other example.

1. Picture to recreate.                                                   2. Recreation.

The recreation picture is in the correct location.

It's during the correct time of day.

It's not the correct emote.

It's in the correct angle.

Total: 3 points.

The Eventholders/Judges: Alinah, Shotzs, Jerrek, Kiosin, Ciel and Aza are not allowed to compete in this event.

Ladies and gentlemen it is time! Final Fantasy XIV: Stormblood is upon us! With less than 24 hours until the servers go live, Excelcius Gaming is excited to be roaring firstfold into the fray! Grab your best weapons and armour, load up on your potions and food! Let's see where our adventure takes us!

It's been nearly 4 years when Excelcius was formed and it is nearly 10 years that the founders of Excelcius met each other. In the 4 years we have been in FFXIV we have built a community of players and friends some have been with us from the beginning and we have met allot of great people along the way. With the release of Storm Blood we write the next chapter in the Excelcius story, we wait for the adventure that will unfold in Storm Blood as well as excitement with new classes and new skills.  I hope  we grow Excelcius more in the up coming months and years to come with the aim to keep quality player base as well as friendships that last.

As with any expansion we're hoping to set up some little fun events for our members. So let's have a look shall we?   

9am:  Discord Chat and general pre-server-activation schenanigans

10AM: SERVERS UP LADS AND LADIES

4PM:  BY this time we should have many members at/near the first primal fight. Let's get some 8 man FC parties to get people past these roadblocks.

7pm: Guild Photo!  Get some submissions in using the  exg_art_gallery section on our Discord!

All times are in BST.

If anyone else has any ideas or suggestions feel free to drop them onto an officer/elder and we will take them on board

we wish everyone a happy (and hopefully crash free) launch!