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We’re coming up on that delicious time of year when we all gather together to celebrate Oktoberfest. But before you fire off the salute and tap that first keg, we wanted to give you the low down on a new contest to help you get your festival started League of Legends-style.

When you strap on your lederhosen for this year’s celebration, make sure you’ve got your camera ready, because you could win a super-special, top-secret Oktoberfest surprise if you submit a photo to the Oktoberfest Photo Contest.

Here are the rules:

• Your photo must be submitted by September 23, 2012 at 7:59 UK Time in either .png or .jpg format with a minimum resolution of 1280x720.
• No photo-editing! This is a photo contest about you and your personal celebratory style, so don’t add anything artificial – not even a caption! We have specially trained bloodhounds going over your entries that can nose out any photoshopping shenanigans, so we will find you.
• There should be much merriment taking place, probably involving your friends and family partaking of food, games, or other holiday delights. Bonus points if your Oktoberfest festivities involve playing League of Legends.
• You’ve got to be currently living and playing in Europe to enter. We’ll take expats, but unfortunately for all you North American leather-pants enthusiasts this is only for your comrades across the pond.
• To keep the Oktoberfest spirits appropriate high, a Bavarian hat must be visible somewhere in the picture – preferably on your head, but if you’ve got other ideas, go for it. If you don’t have a Bavarian hat readily available, you can put your arts and crafts skills to the test following these instructions on how to make one.
• We want you to have fun, but we’re a Pegi-12 game and your photograph has to be age-appropriate for all of our viewers. If you’re stark naked, committing a major crime, or otherwise engaging in something scandalous it creates a lot of potential red tape for us. We’d rather not cause an international incident, so keep it clean!

After the deadline on 23/9, we’ll be narrowing the competition down to the top 20 photos and then let you decide which summoner is having the most epic Oktoberfest. The grand prize winner will receive a custom smartphone case emblazoned with the League of Legends logo, and we’ll be doling out 3000 RP along with a special, Oktoberfest-themed skin to the top five.

To submit your photograph, upload it to the German Facebook page before the deadline on 23/9. Don’t miss this chance to fill us all with Oktoberfest cheer!