Contender
Non-competing
Cycles, 3000 samples, filmic, MBlabs add-on, Paintshop Pro for post processing
Quick but fun little render. Started with a MBlabs figure and then made him less pretty. A few scars. A broken nose. A little bit of cauliflower ears. Bulked up the upper body muscles a tad.
Some key lights and noise to add some softness to the image.
Rollers
Pure entry, 500 samples with denoising. I’m happy with my entry, not bad for a busy weekend. Tomorrow, I have to present myself for jury selection.
-WIP-
WIP
Baseball Bat so far just a few more models left
Wip
I Have the Baseball and Home Plate. next comes some materal or texture.
Ok bunch of (life) happened so this is going to end up the entry.
Pure entry Cycles 128 samples denoise calling it…
“Sudden Death Gingerbread Games”
Nice work.
Didn’t even have time to start myself so i guess i am pulling out again 
oh well, always next week 
Hello guys !
Did I post my entry correctly ? Just wanted to make sure, My first entry
Man against Machine
When it comes to sport, foosball is as far as I go 
Raw render:
Old version:
En Garde !
Pure entry. Cycles 256 samples, branched path tracing, procedural textures, compositor. All models are newly made.
The names ‘Ceyla’ and ‘Eve’ are inspired by ‘Cycles’ and ‘EEVEE’, btw. Just playing with the phonetic aspect though.
Runner
Pure, handpainted in blender.
I had to make a B&W 8K texture map for this one which is only 2Mb still.
I ran out of time but i still want to upload it !
And here’s the sketchfab version if you want to see the model:
and i forgot to put my old entry on it aswell, so here:
“Tools Of the Game”
Pure entry. Samples 250, Textures handmade in blender while the wood texture free of use. All models are made brand new.
one of the main focus of baseball is our tools of the game .
P.S i was going to make a ball cap, but due to lack of time. My first time on this challenge.
Here is my non-competing entry:
PRACTICE MAKES THE GAME-WINNERS
Pure Blender 2.79, Cycles, only procedural textures.
RobertT
“Jury” like in “court”? Good luck. I hope this worked out well for you.
Indeed, it would probably need something like a major asteroid impact to stop us.
Of course you did
Welcome to the challenge!
Welcome! It is funny that, this week, both first time entries focus on balls and bats.
Spectacular work. I love the reflection of the people (and the alley!) in the bowling ball. 
thx a lot!
It was a somewhat lucky shot, used this hdri https://hdrihaven.com/hdri/?h=de_balie
The cheering ppl was a simple b/w image from google, i replaced white for transparant and placed in the scene as image as plane. It worked almost immediately by my surprise.
