Story Contest Round 15: Semifinals

[vovan]

16 voters already. Wow, the news items sure did increase our popularity here.

And I think that now the Cradle is on the third place. Not tied with anybody or anything...

[Centauri18]

Okay, apparently I'm not even gonna get in the finals... :sigh: Okay, fine.

[vovan]

Originally posted by Centauri18
Okay, apparently I'm not even gonna get in the finals... :sigh: Okay, fine.

Don't get discouraged, Centauri. For one thing, there might be other people that have not voted yet - and in this case just one vote would put you into the finals. For another, the stories are so great, that if a person has not read even one of them, that might put it in disadvantage.

Besides, so much more the incentive for you to make the second installment even better, right?

[Centauri18]

Sorry Vov, I guess I'm just a little depressed. And I'm not sure I'll be able to make the second one too much better.
ANd maybe I'll have better luck with some later contest.

[DarkCloud]

Hmm... we sort of need a tiebreaker as Centauri/Cingis/cbraund are all tied in 4th place

...looking forward to the discount, are we, Centauri
you may still yet win

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This is our best voting turn out ever!

[vovan]

Originally posted by DarkCloud
Hmm... we sort of need a tiebreaker as Centauri/Cingis/cbraund are all tied in 4th place

Or another vote for Civ3King... That way, all the authors, whose nicks start with a c will be tied for fourth.

[Chingis Khan]

Is the quality of stories increasing rapidly on this forum, or it this just a tough contest round to be in? Personally, my votes go to 'Postmortem' and (hopefully) to 'Dinner with Xerxes'. But all the stories in this round are simply great.

[DarkCloud]

Just a tough contest round

[DarkCloud]

"Postmortem 2000 Years" by vovansim
My Dinner With Xerxes by Jeremy 2.0
""A Cradle of Thorns" by Lazarus and the Gimp

and the tied:

Pax Americana by Centauri18
Crossing the Rubicon by Civ3King

all continue onto the finals!

[vovan]

This is going to be another close one, I think. Though I am going to abstain as a partial voter this time around.

[MarkG]

vovansim, can you stop these "black posts"?
thanks

[vovan]

OK. I will stop them. Sorry about that.

[DarkCloud]

In that case vovansim- you are one step closer to getting the civgroups idea put forth

Markos listed it as one of his two prerequisites

[vovan]

Hmmm... I even started editing the black backgrounds out of the posts I already made - as I intended to do on Sunday... But since Markos specifically requested that I stop earlier, I have to obey...

And, btw, the second pre-requisite would be ... ?

[Centauri18]

Yeah, Cloud, what's the other prerequisite?