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Subject: Fanfic Contest: Results:::prize update

The Fanfic Contest is finally done! That’s right, after a long few months, the judges have read every single story and have decided on the winners. It was a long and perilious journey, but after much struggle, joy, tears, and the breaking of computers, we have finished!

Before I post the results, I have to say that if there was anything I’m disappointed about the contest, it was the number of disqualified entries there were. The word limits for each size grouping were set, and although there was some leniency, its something that some contestants simply ignored, which is not good for us or them. Makes all of us have to go and count each one to make sure it fits the qualifications, and that in itself for over 200 fanfic’s is a day’s job.

And a special thanks to BFO, who hosted the contest and took all the entries in for us to manage with ease. Although they recently switched hands, I think that tazmaniandude will make a good admin for the site.

Also, note that the judges, which were myself, papa john and psyched, were all allowed to post entries for the contest, although there would be no prize for us. And none of us judged our own work, just the same.

Now, on to the winners!

Short Stories

These fanfic’s were between 200-300 words, and were meant to test the skill of any writer to produce something that could be considered a story, and used the word limit as a bonus, not a chain to keep them down. Here is the winner:

* Halo: Betrayals, by Fragmaster T

There are also a few honorable mentions, in no particular order, which are:
* The Condemnation before the fall, by Kilroy
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* Smoking Niko, by Martin
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* Brothers, by Sir_Brilliant

Medium Length Stories

These fanfic’s were between 1,500 and 2,500 words, and are consistent with the length of an essay, or basically a few pages. It allows the length to divulge an entire storyline and plot, but also requires an intense amount of action, dialogue, emotion, etc. Here is the winner:

* Legacy, by Bronzey

And the honorable mention’s go to:

* Out Of Bounds: Cortana's Secret Paradox, by RVideo

* Turncoat, a Grunt’s adventure, by HBNpolarbear

Long Stories

I must say that these stories were the most difficult to judge, not because of the length and the time restraints the judges had, but also because there were so many good ones to choose from. I practically had to fistfight with the other judges (through the computer, of course) who got what. In the end, we had only one victor, but many, many honorable mentions.

These stories are meant to portray an entire theme, plot, and basically be one step down from any book one might read. They are the ones that take a lot of time, not only to write and read, but to understand, to comprehend the largess of the story. They have a certain flow that enables one to continue reading because it has their interest, and remarkably had us judges imbued in its mystical aura.

The winner is:

* Alpha team Black, by Kendall Davis

To tell the truth, the reason this one was picked above the others that you’ll see in a moment was because there was a distinctness to it that, although the rest were quite good, couldn’t match. It had a style that I have seen in many published books, and the dialogue, grammar, wording, flow, and feel were all there. Although I personally felt that the battle sequences were not as intense as they could have been, it was still a great read, and I recommend all to read it. Then again, I recommend everyone to read everything posted on this.

And the Honorable mentions:

* Dig In, by Papa john

* The Many Ghosts of Captain Keyes, by o1w

* Halo, at any Cost, by Cursus Honorum

* Defense of Earth, by Spaded

* Retaliation, by Rosco-128

* The Sangheili Prophecy, by Flamberge


That leaves us with the final category,

Poems

These poems display the love and affection that the writers have with Bungie’s work, and show their inspiration through the use of rhymes, special wording, and intriguing storylines. They had no length requirement and were meant for writers to express a more artistic side, which is exactly what we got. The winner is:

* Twas the Night before Halo, by Avenged Sayain

The honorable mentions are:

* Never get between a Spartan and his Cheesecake, by Kathryne Charles

* A MC Chear, by Kevin Albers


You thought that was it, right? For shame! We still have a few special fanfic’s we wanted to save for the end, just cause they were so damn…errr…something.

* Tale of a Grunt, by our own Gamejunkiejim

* Pimps at Sea, by Halifax

Both of these stories were NUTS, and I can tell you that if you have that weird feeling between your ears, you should check these two out.

Big thanks to psyched for helping us come up with the idea and find a site to host it, to BFO for hosting it, to OFG for helping out with it and to the contestants, who other than making our lives a living hell the last few weeks, have shown that there is still hope for the American education system. Unless all the winners aren’t American.

Now, for the prizes…a slight problem, but bear with me.

Because BFO has switched hands and now snowmanaxt, who was in charge but isn’t anymore decided to give prizes to the winners, the prizes will be delayed until we get an answer from BFO, which I’ll post immediately when I find out. If they say yes, then the prizes will go to the winners, and if no, then you better be content with being damned good writers!

If you would like to read more fanfic's, they are all posted here, at BFO

[Edited on 3/19/2006]

  • 03.17.2006 10:42 AM PDT
Subject: Fanfic Contest: Results

Check out these stories...

Dig In: The Jericho VII Conflict - Complete!

Entrenched - In Progress

▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀MJOLNIR BATTLE TACTICS▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀▄▀

Yes, it Certainly was quite an experience judging. I already miss those lost hours...

Anyway I'd like to thank everyone for entering, there truly were some great Fanfics entered. It was a close race for the winner in almost every section. I know just from my own experience from judging the Medium Length Stories, that there were at least TEN fanfics in the running for the winning spot.

Well Done, Everyone


Papa John

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Although they recently switched hands, I think that tazmaniandude will make a good admin for the site.
Well, we haven't switched over yet. Maybe within a couple days though.

Good job to all the writers who submitted work for the contest and especially to those who won. Also, good job to the judges as well for making such tough decisions in such a limited amount of time.

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Posted by: sir_brilliant
* Tale of a Grunt, by our own Gamejunkiejim

* Pimps at Sea, by Halifax

Both of these stories were NUTS, and I can tell you that if you have that weird feeling between your ears, you should check these two out.


And by nuts, you mean just too good to be true right? ;-)

Anyway, good choices in my opinion. I read several of those stories and they were pretty impressive.

--Hmm, perhaps if they have another fan-fic contest I could make a sequel. "Pimps at Sea 2: Rise of the dirty Riff-Raff"--

  • 03.17.2006 1:54 PM PDT

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Thanks! I'm glad people enjoyed it!

Sorry about the character limit thing, it was flawed though, you had no overlap. My story was too long for a medium and too short for a long.

[Edited on 3/17/2006]

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Posted by: GameJunkieJim
Thanks! I'm glad people enjoyed it!

Sorry about the character limit thing, it was flawed though, you had no overlap. My story was too long for a medium and too short for a long.

I had the same problem. I had to put in another 2000 words. Uggh.

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simply amazing great job to all the writers!

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Thanks Yoozel

  • 03.17.2006 4:11 PM PDT

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Posted by: Halifax
Posted by: GameJunkieJim
Thanks! I'm glad people enjoyed it!

Sorry about the character limit thing, it was flawed though, you had no overlap. My story was too long for a medium and too short for a long.

I had the same problem. I had to put in another 2000 words. Uggh.


I will not do that. The story was done. To add filler just seemed wrong to me.

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who submitted the worse fanfic within the group

  • 03.17.2006 4:20 PM PDT

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who submitted the worse fanfic within the group


I'm sorry, there isn't an awesomely bad award for the worst won. Although i won't lie and say that there weren't any bad ones...but it was something fun for us judges to discuss, i'll say that much.

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Woot Go Frag!

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Cool. Congratulations everybody.

Sweet! An honorable mention! *beats chest and hoots loudly*

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Posted by: GameJunkieJim
Posted by: Halifax
Posted by: GameJunkieJim
Thanks! I'm glad people enjoyed it!

Sorry about the character limit thing, it was flawed though, you had no overlap. My story was too long for a medium and too short for a long.

I had the same problem. I had to put in another 2000 words. Uggh.


I will not do that. The story was done. To add filler just seemed wrong to me.

Hehe, that's true...except I wanted to redo it. My first version was short and abrupt with a 3 line fight scene with the main bad guy. That didn't work for me. Unfortunately, I couldn't edit it since I'm not a member. So this was really my second chance...I just wish it didn't have to be so much longer.

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Its over at last, well how wants beer. *Opens a fridge.* Budwiser or Tennets? *Gets beer* So anyway, I didn't know of the poems.

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Chemical Weapon!

posted by:Achronos
Less self-righteous posturing and ad hominem attacks will keep this thread open and its participants' posting privileges retained.

it was reallty fun writing my story for the contest (its "The Other Half" and its in the long section if anyone is interested) and i liked reading other people's stories. the one thing i would like to see, however, if you guys do another of these contests, would be for the judges (or maybe one judge, speaking for all) to post a reply for every piece, telling the winning ones why they won, and the others how they could be improved. that was one of the things i wanted to get out of this, so if you do another one, consider it :)

  • 03.18.2006 4:23 PM PDT

There are plans for another fanfic contest,although news for it will be given on another thread. I'm just giving the heads up for that.

And although i haven't had a chance to look through it (and therefore i'm not sure i've said this), i'm going to give thanks once again to the judges and participants for the great work.

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*Drinks some beer.*

Another Fanfic Contest. Autumn time maybe?

  • 03.19.2006 4:45 AM PDT

Alright, final news on the fanfic contest, and it is regarding the prizes.

There will be no prizes

Sorry everyone, but snowmanaxt, who was in charge of BFO (and technically still is) cannot afford to pay for the prizes. Tazmaniandude, who is/will be the CFO of BFO (haha, cfo of bfo) also cannot afford prizes.

This does not give you the right to complain if you're a winner, or the right to gloat if you didn't win. Be happy and proud that you are damned fine writers. Chances are that it'll take you much farther than any prize can give you.

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Posted by: sir_brilliant
Alright, final news on the fanfic contest, and it is regarding the prizes.

There will be no prizes

Sorry everyone, but snowmanaxt, who was in charge of BFO (and technically still is) cannot afford to pay for the prizes. Tazmaniandude, who is/will be the CFO of BFO (haha, cfo of bfo) also cannot afford prizes.

This does not give you the right to complain if you're a winner, or the right to gloat if you didn't win. Be happy and proud that you are damned fine writers. Chances are that it'll take you much farther than any prize can give you.

Well, actually, I almost have full powers over the site, except the FTP account information, but no, there will not be any prizes.

The reason why Snow could no longer support prizes is because of a recent emergency that has occured which will pretty much empty his bank account. When the contest was being sponsored up until the end, Snowmanaxt had been the Webmaster of BFO.

Snow apologizes that he can't support the winners with prizes and I also apologize, as I don't have any way of ordering items at this time. I also wasn't aware that I'd be in charge of the prizes after he left, as my understanding was that he was going to come up with the prizes since he was the original sponsor of the contest.

With the exception of prizes, BFO would like to congratulate all winners of the contest and all who submitted works in the contest. You're all damn good writers.

Hopefully, the next contest sponsored by BFO will feature prizes for the winners for sure, just not this time around.

[Edited on 3/19/2006]

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*Bins beer. Refills beer fridge.*

Shame, I wondered what they were. There's always next time.

  • 03.19.2006 11:42 AM PDT

* Takes beer from Darth Eletius Fridge *

Yeah, Well done on the guys who won, i am sure your writing skills will help you in your future life.

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I can't seem to get any of the links to work to read the stories... anyone else having that problem?

  • 03.19.2006 12:27 PM PDT

Posted by: Tazmaniandude
Posted by: sir_brilliant
Alright, final news on the fanfic contest, and it is regarding the prizes.

There will be no prizes

Sorry everyone, but snowmanaxt, who was in charge of BFO (and technically still is) cannot afford to pay for the prizes. Tazmaniandude, who is/will be the CFO of BFO (haha, cfo of bfo) also cannot afford prizes.

This does not give you the right to complain if you're a winner, or the right to gloat if you didn't win. Be happy and proud that you are damned fine writers. Chances are that it'll take you much farther than any prize can give you.

Well, actually, I almost have full powers over the site, except the FTP account information, but no, there will not be any prizes.

The reason why Snow could no longer support prizes is because of a recent emergency that has occured which will pretty much empty his bank account. When the contest was being sponsored up until the end, Snowmanaxt had been the Webmaster of BFO.

Snow apologizes that he can't support the winners with prizes and I also apologize, as I don't have any way of ordering items at this time. I also wasn't aware that I'd be in charge of the prizes after he left, as my understanding was that he was going to come up with the prizes since he was the original sponsor of the contest.

With the exception of prizes, BFO would like to congratulate all winners of the contest and all who submitted works in the contest. You're all damn good writers.

Hopefully, the next contest sponsored by BFO will feature prizes for the winners for sure, just not this time around.


well said taz.

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