Story Contest History {NEW}

Contest 11:
(13-07-2002)
Winner: Obsession by Grundel (6 votes, 46%)
Second place: Forging an Empire by Metaliturtle (5 votes, 38%)
Third place: Nuclear Supremacy by Verto (2 votes, 15%)

Contest 12:
(03-08-2002)
Winner: “Es Frater Meus, Et Es Inimicus Meus” (“You Are My Brother, And You Are My Enemy”) by TheGuitarist (5 votes, 42%)
Second place: The Plight of One Worker by Insane_Ike
Second place (tie): Six Degrees of Seperation by Velociryx (3 votes, 25% each)

Contest 13:
(23-12-2002)
Winner: Mike's story by ChrisiusMaximus (6 votes, 66%)
Second place: Ghost of Thermopilie by Lord_Zalzabad
Second place (tie): The America Series by steamthunk (3 votes, 25% each)

Best of the Best Contests 9-13:
(26-01-2003)
(Since there was a considerably long break between contest twelve and the Best of the Best poll, the regular procedure for running a contest between the top stories of the last four contests was violated, and a fifth one was included.)
Winner: Mike's story by ChrisiusMaximus (5 votes, 42%)
Second place: “Es Frater Meus, Et Es Inimicus Meus” (“You Are My Brother, And You Are My Enemy”) by TheGuitarist (3 votes, 25%)
Third place: Civ3-Poem by DarkCloud
Third place (tie): The Epic Tale of Navalon by Kramerman
Third place (tie): Eyes of the Innocent by Grundel
Third place (tie): The Plight of One Worker by Insane_Ike (1 vote, 8% each)

Contest 14:
(14-01-2003)
Winner: The Culture Flip by Chingis Khan (Finals: 6 votes, 40%; Runoff: 11 votes, 58%)
Second place: Gandhi Kahn the Wise by bassman (Finals: 6 votes, 40%; Runoff: 8 votes, 42%)
Third place: Land of the Brave: The Celt's tale by SKILORD (2 votes, 13%)

Contest 15:
(02-04-2003)
Winner: Postmortem: Two Thousand Years Later by vovansim
Winner (tie): Crossing the Rubicon by Civ3King (Finals: 5 votes, 25% each; Runoff: 8 votes, 42% each)
Third place: My Dinner With Xerxes by Jeremy 2.0 (Finals: 5 votes, 25%; Runoff: 3 votes, 16%)

Contest 16:
(02-04-2003)
Winner: The Governor of Vitoria by chairmanmeow (9 votes, 39%)
Second place: The Phantasma of Hades by Lord Zalzabad (7 votes, 30%)
Third place: Manifest Destiny by SKILORD (6 votes, 26%)

Contest 17:
(02-07-2003)
Winner: A Soldier's Arms by Lazarus and the Gimp (Finals: 7 votes, 28%; Runoff: 9 votes, 53%)
Second place: Julius Caesar: A Tragedy in Five Acts by vovansim (Finals: 7 votes, 28%; Runoff: 5 votes, 29%)
Third place: Blessed be the Peacemakers by SKILORD (Finals: 7 votes, 28%; Runoff: 3 votes, 18%)

Best of the Best - Contests 14-17
(20-07-2003)
Winner: Gandhi Kahn the Wise by bassman (3 votes, 27%)
Second place: The Culture Flip by Chingis Khan
Second place (tie): A Soldier's Arms by Lazarus and the Gimp (2 votes, 18% each)

Contest 18:
(12-09-2003)
Winner: La Grande Nation by Kaos XIII (4 votes, 44%)
Second place: Pax Germania: A Story of Redemption by SKILORD
Second place (tie): Yuki's Tale by Lord Zalzabad (2 votes, 22% each)

Contest 19:
(19-01-2004)
Winner: The Fight For Freedom by ChrisiusMaximus (10 votes, 43%)
Second place: People of the Valley by Paddy the Scot (6 votes, 26%)
Third place: Who Can Stop the Winds of Change? by unscratchedfoot (4 votes, 17%)

Contest 20:
(10-06-2004)
Winner: Reload by vovan (Finals: 3 votes, 30%; Runoff: 4 votes, 67%)
Second place: The Muscles from Brussels and the Spanish Conundrum by unscratchedfoot (Finals: 3 votes, 30%; Runoff: 2 votes, 33%)
Third place: Stains of Blood and Ash by SKILORD (Finals: 2 votes, 20%)

Please visit the Stories Section of Apolyton Directory. It is maintained by DarkCloud, the current stories' file manager, and contains all the winning entries, as well as some other stories that are definitely worth the reader's while.

Story Contest History

Story of the Week Contest: November 12 - 18
(20-11-2001)
Winner: The Chronicles Of Imhotep by HawaiiFive-O (54 votes, 73%)
Second place: By the Rivers of Babylon by dr.charm (10 votes, 14%)
Third place: Thank Goodness for Time Travel... by deater (6 votes, 8%)

Story of the Week Contest: November 19 - 25
(27-11-2001)
Winner: World at War... The Iroquios threat by Grundel (14 votes, 48%)
Second place: Fabula Romae by Barfus (11 votes, 38%)
Third place: UN Poker by Pisthetaerus (2 votes, 7%)

Story of the Week Contest: November 26 - December 1
(04-12-2001)
Winner: The Mercury Device by Grundel (19 votes, 68%)
Second place: How You Decrease the Amount of Time a Turn Takes by The Flouridater (3 votes, 11%)
Third place: A Gift by Zardof
Third place (tie): The Glorious Saga of the Matlenoko by Rosacrux
Third place (tie): The Price of a Patriot by Dom Pedro II (2 votes, 7% each)

Story of the Week Contest: December 3 - 9
(11-12-2001)
Winner: For the Glory of Rome... by Velociryx (9 votes, 38%)
Second place: 1984 BC by ike0481
Second place (tie): Nkosi's Tale by Zardof (7 votes, 29% each)

Story of the Week Contest: December 10 - 16
(19-12-2001)
Winner: A Short Story in Pictures by dannyevilcat (7 votes, 41%)
Second place: U.F.O. by ike0481
Third place: A History Lesson by emseideman
Third place (tie): The Plains of Tyre by Grundel (2 votes, 12% each)

Lost Story Contest by steelehc:
(10-03-2002)
Winner: World at War... The Iroquios threat by Grundel (9 votes, 18%)
Second place: Generations - Episode 1: The Iron War by WTE_OzWolf (8 votes, 16%)
Third place: The Means and the End by Richelieu (7 votes, 14%)
Please note that the expiration date for the poll for this contest was never set. So, technically, you can still vote for the stories there. But since it has been so long, the number of votes will not be updated. Also, note that the top two stories are also mentioned in two other contests, even though they shouldn't be. That is the case for the simple reason that the authors of the contests chose to disregard their predecessors - steelehc ignored the previous contests, and included all of the stories in his single one. And civman2000 chose to ignore the results of this contest, by dismissing it as unofficial. Thus, OzWolf's story participated in contest #1, also. For more on that, refer to the history of the story contest below.

Contest 1:
(01-04-2002)
Winner: Generations by WTE_OzWolf - a story in two parts: Episode 1: The Iron War; Episode 2: From the Brink (10 votes, 53%)
Second place: Grecian! by Toasty (4 votes, 21%)
Third place: Bored... with twenty nukes in the arsenal by Kinniken (3 votes, 16%)
(The story was in pictures and does not seem to be available any more.)

Contest 2:
(15-04-2002)
Winner: Odyssey of a Hero by WTE_OzWolf (7 votes, 64%)
Second place: The Hunting Season by cbraund (3 votes, 27%)
Third place: Great Big Death story of MRkorth! by Jeremy (1 vote, 9%)

Contest 3:
(01-05-2002)
Winner: Crazed Greek Wanderings by Metaliturtle (6 votes, 66%)
Second place: Fate of The Dragon by cbraund
Third place (tie): Zulu Rules by Samuel Johnson (3 votes, 25% each)

Contest 4:
(17-05-2002)
Winner: Knights of the Black Cross by Rotten999 (11 votes, 46%)
Second place: A Debate in the U.N. by Metaliturtle (6 votes, 25%)
Third place: Dangerous Games by cbraund (5 votes, 21%)

Best of the Best Contests 1-4:
(21-05-2002)
Winner: Knights of the Black Cross by Rotten999 (5 votes, 33%)
Second place: Odyssey of a Hero by WTE_OzWolf (3 votes, 20%)
Third place: Crazed Greek Wanderings by Metaliturtle
Third place (tie): Generations by WTE_OzWolf - a story in two parts: Episode 1: The Iron War; Episode 2: From the Brink (2 votes, 13% each)

Contest 5:
(24-05-2002)
Winner: Dangerous Games II: To Die For by cbraund (5 votes, 42%)
Second place: Of Freindship and War by Civ3King
Second place (tie): A New Creation of Order by Sovy Kurosei (2 votes, 17% each)

Contest 6:
(02-06-2002)
Winner: Amy's Story by Bella Hella (8 votes, 53%)
Second place: Dangerous Games III: Patriots and Tyrants by cbraund (4 votes, 27%)
Third place: The Hidden Dagger by cbraund (2 votes, 13%)

Contest 7:
(07-06-2002)
Winner: The Dead and the Dying... by cbraund (5 votes, 45%)
Second place: The European Family by Toasty (3 votes, 27%)
Third place: Bad Neighbors by Metaliturtle (2 votes, 18%)

Contest 8:
(11-06-2002)
Winner: The Cost of War by WTE_OzWolf (6 votes, 38%)
Second place: Where the Sun Never Sets by History Guy (5 votes, 31%)
Third place: A Grand Day by johncmcleod
Third place (tie): Dagger Of Justice Series, Book 1: Power Gained & Power Lost by High Lord J (2 votes, 13% each)

Best of the Best Contests 5-8:
(16-06-2002)
Winner: The Cost of War by WTE_OzWolf (6 votes, 32%)
Second place: Amy's Story by Bella Hella (5 votes, 26%)
Third place: The Dead and the Dying... by cbraund (3 votes, 16%)

Contest 9:
(25-06-2002)
Winner: Our Secret War by GeneralTacticus (Finals: 6 votes, 33%; Runoff: 6 votes, 86%)
Second place: Civ3-Poem by DarkCloud (Finals: 6 votes, 33%; Runoff: 1 vote, 14%)
Third place: For Better or Worse... by cbraund (4 votes, 22%)

Contest 10:
(04-07-2002)
Winner: Eyes of the Innocent by Grundel (8 votes, 67%)
Second place: Tarhai Triad by beno
Second place (tie): The Epic Tale of Navalon by Kramerman (2 votes, 17% each)

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