How to Enter the WARDOGS $100K Clip Contest (Deadline October 8)

Bulkhead is handing out $100,000 in real money for a single gameplay clip. The studio announced the WARDOGS $100K Clip Contest during the FPS Games Show on September 3, 2026, framing it as an alternative to spending the same money on advertising. The rules are short, entry is free, and you can submit as many clips as you want — but the process has two mandatory halves, and skipping either one takes you out of the running.

Quick answer: Post a clip of two minutes or less on X, YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram with the hashtag #WARDOGS100K and tag @WARDOGS, then submit that same clip through the form on the official contest site before 23:59 BST on October 8, 2026.

WARDOGS $100K Clip Contest prizes: real cash vs in-game cash

The prize structure trips people up because the same number appears twice. Bulkhead will pick 100 clips for a featured compilation. Only the clip ranked first gets money you can spend outside the game. Everyone else in that group gets $100,000 of the in-game currency WARDOGS uses for gear, vehicles, and construction.

Placement	Reward
#1 featured clip	$100,000 in real cash
The other 99 featured clips	$100,000 in in-game cash each
Outside the top 100	No prize

Contest slide showing the top 100 clips winning in-game cash and one clip winning real cash — The announcement breaks the prize pool into 100 featured clips and a single real-cash winner. Image: Bulkhead

Bulkhead will reveal the full list of 100 clips at a later date, after submissions close.

How to enter the WARDOGS $100K Clip Contest

Play WARDOGS and record something worth watching. Bulkhead is asking for funny mishaps, skilled plays, heroic saves, spectacular failures, and cinematic moments — anything that reads as “only in WARDOGS.” Trim the recording to two minutes or less, since that is a hard cap on entries.

First-person view of a WARDOGS player aiming down sights and firing at an enemy behind cover — Firefights like this one are the kind of raw footage the contest is asking for. Image: Bulkhead

Post the clip publicly on X, YouTube, TikTok, or Instagram. Include the hashtag #WARDOGS100K and tag the official @WARDOGS account in the post itself. Posting the same clip across several platforms is allowed and increases the chance the team sees it, since views and engagement are how clips surface.

Fill in the entry form at wardogs100k.com with the link to the post you just made. This step exists so Bulkhead has your contact details, and a public post on its own does not count as a complete entry.

Repeat for every clip you want to enter. There is no cap on the number of submissions, as long as each one is posted publicly with the hashtag and logged through the form separately.

WARDOGS contest presentation with the Play, Share, Win slogan on screen — Play, share, submit — the entry process runs in that order. Image: Bulkhead

What the submission form asks for

Have this information ready before you open the form, because a few of the fields are tied to your Steam account rather than your social handle.

Field	What to enter
Full name / Steam name	Required
Email	The address linked to your Steam account
Phone number	Required
Clip category	Only in WARDOGS, Absolute Cinema, Jackpot Moment, Heroic Play, Epic Fail, Funny Moment, Pure Skill, or Other / Misc
Clip links	YouTube, YouTube Shorts, X, TikTok, or Instagram URLs
Clip description	Optional context for the judges

You know the entry landed when the form submits successfully with your public post link attached. If the post is private, deleted, or missing the hashtag, the entry cannot be verified.

What Bulkhead is judging

A judging panel picks the winner, and the studio has published the criteria it is scoring against. Raw kill counts are not one of them.

Criterion	What it covers
Teamwork	Squad play and communication
Decision making	Unusual choices in the sandbox battlefield
All out warfare	Large-scale action and chaos specific to WARDOGS
Creativity	Standing out through execution, entertainment, or gameplay
Only in WARDOGS factor	Combining the above into something the game alone produces

In practice, that favors moments the game’s systems make possible — vehicles, building, destruction, and three-team fights over control zones — rather than a clean aim highlight that could come from any shooter.

Aerial WARDOGS view with the Space key parachute prompt while dropping toward a control zone — Drops into a contested control zone are exactly the kind of scale the judging criteria reward. Image: Bulkhead

Guy finds out the hard way this ain't Battlefield lmao
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Deadline and winner announcement dates

Date	What happens
September 6, 2026	Second closed beta ends
September 10, 2026	WARDOGS launches in early access on Steam
October 8, 2026, 23:59 BST	Submissions close
October 15, 2026	Winners announced, or shortly after

Note: the deadline is stated in British Summer Time, which is one hour ahead of UTC. Convert it to your own time zone rather than assuming you have all of October 8.

Eligibility and country restrictions

Not everyone who plays can collect. Country restrictions apply to the contest, and the specifics are set out in the terms and conditions alongside the full rules. Check your region before you spend a weekend hunting for the perfect clip.

Getting into WARDOGS before submissions close

WARDOGS is a tactical first-person shooter from Bulkhead built around gunplay, vehicles, base building, and destruction, with up to 100 players split across three teams fighting for control zones in Eastern Europe. Earning and spending in-game cash is a core mechanic, and the game pays out for team actions such as reviving squadmates or ferrying friendlies to objectives — which is also why the runner-up prize is worth something.

The second closed beta is running now for pre-order players, and early access begins on September 10, 2026. That leaves roughly four weeks of live play between launch and the submission cutoff.

Get WARDOGS on Steam

WARDOGS early access promotional card listing the September 10, 2026 release date — Early access opens on September 10, 2026, a month before the contest deadline. Image: Bulkhead

The odds on the real-cash prize are what they are — one clip out of however many thousands get posted. The in-game payout is the more realistic target, and since there is no limit on submissions, the practical strategy is to clip often, post everywhere, and log each one through the form the same day you upload it.