Greetings fellow forumites.   In the past few days I have seen many posts about lacking proper tutorials within the game. Mostly in response to veterans of thousands of battles not knowing about some basic stuff. Sadly you and I, we can't do anything about that. What we can do, is to create our own guides to help our fellow players, new and old alike, to get better at the basics of World of Warships.   This contest is for everyone who believes to be able to construct a guide good enough to help new players to understand the game better.     As a little incentive I have a few prizes to give away.     1st price: Emden plus 7 days premium time + 100 MGT camos + MGT flag + 1000 doubloons 2nd price: Emden plus 7 days premium time + 100 MGT camos + MGT flag + 500 doubloons 3rd price: Emden plus 7 days premium time + 100 MGT camos + MGT flag 4th and 5th price: Emden plus 3 days premium time     Why are all the prizes Emdens?       It is what I had available when I came up with the idea for the contest. It is from a Tier that fits the theme of the contest (read below). If you already own it, I hope that the camos, the flag, as well as the doubloons will be enough of a motivation for you to still participate.     What do you need to do to win?       Please create a guide you would show a new player. It doesn't need to be about everything in the game. You decide if you want to explain the HUD-elements, the Tier I ships, the difference between ammo types, the various game modes, costs and rewards, or one of the many other things that are a part of the day to day gameplay. Of course you can also try to do a complete guide covering all the topics but it will not be judged by the amount of content but by its quality.   We do not need guides that go into the details of high tier battles.  At least not as far as this contest is concerned. Everything a player could witness until Tier V should be fine. Everything beyond that might be too advanced (I'd make an exception for manual attacks by CVs) but we will decide that case by case. A guide for the ocean map, that only Tier VIII+ players will ever see, would probably have a lower chance to win then a similar guide about Solomon Islands.   Your guide does not need to be in writing. You are free to use any form you deem proper to transfer your knowledge. You can write, draw a picture book or make a nice video. Or you can come up with something really special.   Once you are done, please post your guide to the proper forum section and place a link here.   Your entry must be created during the time of the contest. Content created sooner will not be recognized as a proper entry and is not eligible to win one of the prizes.   The entry must be created by you. Posting content originally belonging to someone else as your own will disqualify your entry and may exclude you from further participation.   As the entries are to be posted to the forums, all forum rules apply. So please restrain yourself from any use of derogatory terms, insults, obscene language, or any other inappropriate content. Entries that do not follow those rules might be disqualified as well.   The contest is open for entries from Thursday, 19th October till Thursday, 16th November 2017, 20:00 UTC.     How will the winners be selected?       After all entries are submitted, I will take some time to sort through all of them. Together with a few other volunteer judges I will rate the entries for their ease of understanding, form of presentation, creativity, and a few other criteria. In case of a tie by our internal measurements we might look at the amount of likes an entry has received (original post or link here, whichever is higher).   I hope to be able to present the winners a day after the contest but depending on the number of entries we might need a bit more then that to sort it through. The lucky ones will be named in an update to this thread and will receive a PM with their reward.     What will happen after the contest with all the entries?   My plan is to collect the best ones, not limited to the ones that won, sort them by the topics they address, and post it to the Newcomer's section. This will then be an easy to find resource we can point to if others need help with the basics. Hopefully Wargaming will pin it there.   If you do not want that to happen to your guide, please post a note to your entry in this thread. It will not in any way harm your chances to win.       Now get creative, help our current and future players, and win some nice things.       All pictures are property of their creators or otherwise legal owner. I do not claim any ownership to them. Doubloon chests and Emden at sea are property of Wargaming. German Sailors is property of Alamy.com Peregrine2015 is property of the Royal Navy.