✵ Holiday Hills Guest Designer Mini-Event ✵

If a guest designer from a previous Holiday Hills within the same year is chosen, an additional winner will be rolled to allow others a fair shot at having their designs chosen for events like this!

• All submissions have an equal chance at becoming an official Holiday Hills Variant Recruit. These recruits can be exclusively encountered in the Holiday Hills Dungeon alongside 4-5 other themed Variant recruits.

• Only 1 entry per person. You may collaborate on an entry but this will count as both you and your partner's single submission for the event!

• Pokemon that were used in the previous year's Holiday Hills of the same season cannot be used. To diversify the designs we have across Holiday Hills, you may not use a Pokemon that was selected last year for your design. See the Past Seasonal Variants page for all previous event variants.

  • For example: Winter 2024 featured Scraggy, Skitty, Sandygast, Cutiefly, Teddiursa, and Deerling. A design for Winter 2025 cannot use any of those Pokemon. However, a design for Winter 2026 may use any of those Pokemon.

  • This restriction is only limited to the same season, meaning that a design for Spring 2025 may use a Pokemon that was featured in Winter 2024 but cannot use a Pokemon that was featured in Spring 2024. This restriction also only includes Pokemon that were officially selected and/or created by a member of the staff.

• Additionally, Pokemon that were used in the Holiday Hills immediately preceding the upcoming on cannot be used. There are over 400 options to choose from even without the Pokemon that have been blacklisted for the event, so get creative!

  • For example: Any Pokemon used in Winter 2025 cannot be used in Spring 2025; any Pokemon used in Fall 2025 cannot be used in Winter 2026; and so on.

• Selected designs will be added to the Past Seasonal Variants page and credited under the event they featured in.

• If you post an entry but then later change your mind before the deadline and wish to rescind it or submit a different design, please remove your original post as to avoid confusion!

• Your design will be made available for use across the group and its members if you are selected. Members will be allowed to make characters and even design their own evolved forms based on your design.

• If there are questions about your Variant design (especially involving how much someone is permitted to alter the design for their own character), you may be contacted for clarification by either staff or other group members.

• If your design is not selected, you are free to use that design however you please. Unless otherwise stated, all submission in the correct thread in the #contest-submissions channel require permission from the creator to use (often specified by the creator when posting). They are not free-to-use by default.

• Displays of poor sportsmanship before, during, or after the event will not be tolerated. Negativity directed at others may result in a warning and disqualification from the current and potentially future events. Avoid whining, self-deprecating comments, passive-aggression, and generally unsporting behaviour.

• Towards the closing date of the event, all entrants will receive 200 Candies for their efforts!

During the event, a designated thread in the #contest-submission channel will be available for new posts. To submit a design, post an image (preferably with a transparent background) of your Variant in the channel with the following information:

✵ A name for your Variant if you have one (note that unnamed designs will be given one if they are selected)

✵ Whether or not others may use the design in the event that it is not selected

Designs that are judged to be invalid (i.e. they do not fit the theme or fit a different Potion/Juice combination more than they do Seasonal), they will not be included in the selection process!

Be sure to check your designs in #design-check before submitting them if you are uncertain about whether or not your design would pass!

Design Rules & Tips

✵ All autumn-themed designs are permitted, even if they do not work with the theme of the dungeon. As stated above, anything involving Thanksgiving, bountiful harvests, season of giving, pumpkin patches, hay bales, and falling leaves are fair game!

✵ Do not make designs based off of real-world cultural folklore without doing your research. Anything deemed cultural appropriation or otherwise insensitive towards real-world cultures will be outright rejected and you will be asked to redesign your entry.

✵ You can check the Past Seasonal Variants page or the Potion Moodboards & Inspirations for an idea of what previous Seasonal designs looked like!

✵ Be sure to check in #design-check if you're unsure if your design passes! We will be conducting checks of any designs that are submitted without going through #design-check as well, but if it's past the deadline and your design requires changes, it may disqualify you from the selection process!

If you're ever unsure about anything, feel free to ask in the #questions channel for clarification!