Announcement

**vovan** · January 26, 2003, 20:52

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.

**ChrisiusMaximus** · January 27, 2003, 04:20

Great work vovansim as ever

**Jeremy 2.0** · January 27, 2003, 13:58

If you're really bored you can change the Jeremy in the second contest to Jeremy 2.0. I was Jeremy back then but lost my password.

Not that it's at all a big deal. And thanks for your efforts on this list.

**DarkCloud** · January 27, 2003, 23:17

Thanks for the good work Vovansim

I PMed Mark to top this

(Just one gripe- could you please make the warning in the 1st contest smaller... it sort of messes up the formatting

)

Nice work with the profile links, BTW.

**vovan** · January 27, 2003, 23:24

Thanks for PM'ing Mark, DC.

As for the warning - done. I hope it looks better now.

**DarkCloud** · January 30, 2003, 23:49

Yes. It looks much better!

Maybe if you added the dates to when the contests ended- it might be neat... or if you want; put a direct link to the contests... only if you want to, of course... I can look up the dates they ended if you like.

And I'll try to get a true "History of the Contest" about who ran it when fixed up at some point in the future...

good work

**vovan** · January 31, 2003, 00:55

DC, it is funny you would mention it, because I was just browsing the old posts, collecting the links to the old contest threads, and the dates of the contests.

So, I have all the links and dates for the contests currently in the history, plus I am planning on adding the contests held by Anatolia before civman. (There were two actually.) Though note that the dates I have are not when the polls expired, but when the contest finals threads were posted. I guess I could just add a week to each date, but I am not sure such level of precision matters that much.

Any ways, I will post what I have some time soon, likely tomorrow if I don't get overrun by homework and / or friday night parties (

), and then you can tell me if you think something is missing, or if you would like to add something.

EDIT: Oh, I also forgot something else

I am also considering including a short table of statistics at the end of the contest history. It would have information like, the author that got the most wins, the author, whose stories got into the finals most often, and such information, plus just some curious stats like how many ties in the finals there were (well, two

), what was the largest percentage of votes a single story ever got, what was the largest number of votes a single story ever got, etc.

**vovan** · January 31, 2003, 14:13

Updated.

Now, the contest names link to the threads, and there is a date for each contest. Plus, I have added the results of the first two contests held by Anatolia for historical accuracy's sake. (That also doulbes the number of wins for Grundel increasing it from two to four.

)

**DarkCloud** · January 31, 2003, 21:57

Though note that the dates I have are not when the polls expired, but when the contest finals threads were posted. I guess I could just add a week to each date, but I am not sure such level of precision matters that much.

Nah, you needn't worry about it

It's good enough as it is!

-

Oh, I also forgot something else I am also considering including a short table of statistics at the end of the contest history. It would have information like, the author that got the most wins, the author, whose stories got into the finals most often, and such information, plus just some curious stats like how many ties in the finals there were (well, two ), what was the largest percentage of votes a single story ever got, what was the largest number of votes a single story ever got, etc.

We had a chart like this before... but I can't find it- I was thinking of doing this- but since you want to...

I'll just try to research the historical accuracies

Lots of good work done here... I applaud you

-
1 more thing- could you please post a link to the section in the Apolyton Directory for the stories at the top perhaps? (or at the end if you prefer) With a little explanation:

"In the Apolyton Directory, all the winning stories are added by the current stories' files manager. Please visit the Apolyton Directory Stories section here: http://apolyton.net/dir/index.php?cat=113&t=sub_pages

Thanks!

**DarkCloud** · January 31, 2003, 22:02

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=35079

Here's the first contest ever- First Story Contest Poll Nov. 12-18

The chronicles of imhotep received 54 VOTES!!!!!!!! over 72 people voted!!! The stories forum was much mroe frequented in those days... unless of course, this was before the fora split

... although I doubt that!

**vovan** · January 31, 2003, 22:23

OK, I've added that link to the directory, DC.

Also, thanks for bumping the very first contest, which I missed originally. It is now also included. And you are right, the number of voters has got to be the record.

**DarkCloud** · January 31, 2003, 22:31

Also, this thread- the last of the weekly contests (dec 3-9)

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=37785

**DarkCloud** · January 31, 2003, 22:35

...You are on stalth mode, arenty you vovansim

IT doesnt say that you are online

-
oops. missed this one: http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showt...threadid=38594

**DarkCloud** · January 31, 2003, 22:40

Story Contest History
-Compiled by DarkCloud

Part I

The story contest was originally Anatolia's idea... Anatolia emailed MarkG about her idea; but did not respond to his reply quick enough and he posted in the Civ III stories forum asking if anyone was interested in running a contest.
Anatolia protested that the idea was hers and ended up in charge of the contest.
Eventually, a panel of 3 including Anatiolia, Steve Clark and Quinalla who chose the 5 stories which all would vote upon... this system was a compromise orchestrated by vovansim:

"The judges choose 5 stories they think are the best. Then they make a poll and the users choose the best story. This takes care of these problems: "

It was necessary, however, to be nominated, for the nominees to send Anatolia an email asking for nomination.
The first successful contest was held November 4, 2001 and featured HawaiiFive-O's "Chronicles of Imhotep" as the winner with 54 of the 77 votes taken in one week; setting a record that has yet to be broken for the Stories contest.

Thread: http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showt...threadid=35746 was the first thread in which Anatolia posted the weekly winners.

The winners for each of the four weeks that the contest was won were
HawaiiFive-O, Grundel (twice), and Velociryx.

Around this time, MarkG made the offer to give a discount from the APolyton Store to the winners.

After December 2001, the weekly stories contest ran down;
but not before 13-12-01 when Grundel was the first to ask if people could nominate others stories for the contest- since beginning a tradition that has continued until this day.
and december 17th's election for the week of the 10-16th! The last weekly contest run by Anatolia, which saw "A short story in pictures" by dannyevilcat win the contest with seven votes while ike0481 won second with six votes emsiedeman and Grundel tied for third with two votes a piece.
and on February 7, 2002 MarkG asked for someone new to take over the contest. since Anatolia had been last seen January 17, 2001; and according to Grundel-

anatolia was in a car accident, if i remember correctly from reading his post...so i know he may be out of circulation for a bit.

In that time, Barfus volunteered to run the contest, but that went nowhere.
Then on March 7, 2002- steelehc volunteered to run the contest...and carried through. This is the first story thread that we see civman posting extensively in.
Civman, throuought the month of March, assisted with the threads, helping steelehc post the finals, semifinals, nominations, etc and with the list keeping.

The first nominees in the new Contest system follow (Some people who have proved exceedingly important to the stories contests' history are highlighted):
1-Generations, by WTE_OzWolf
2-Grecian, by Toasty
3-Death of the Russians/Crazy Lincoln/World War 3, Ch1, by curlyboy24
4-Ich Bin Ein Berliner, by cbraund
5-The Means and the End, by Reichelieu
6-The Hunting Season, by cbraund
7-The German/British Conflict, by President Mike
8-If Only, by bassman
9-World at War, by easthaven
10-World War One, Act One, by Steele
11-Rodina: The Motherland, by bassman
12-The Persian Invasion of 1542, by President Mike
13-Canton National Historical Battlefield, by Coinich
14-The Republic of Athens, by Civman2000
15-Roma Victor, by Knight
16-Bicentenary of German Communist Republic, by sgrig
17-What Will You Trade For Iron, by Rotten999
18-Great Big Death Story or MRkorth, by Jeremy
19-Dominion of Canada, by Petey
20-Campaigns of Babylon, by Jimmy_Shark
21-California Dreamin, by curlyboy24
22-War Without Reconaissance is for Naught, by Big Ben
23-Bored... With Twenty Nukes in the Arsenal, by Kinniken
24-Odessey of a Hero, by WTE_OzWolf

Threads of Interest-

http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=45845 (MORE ON STEELEHC'S CONTEST-SKILORD's First appearance)
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=44639 (STEELEHC's CONTEST)
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showt...threadid=39328 (CAR ACCIDENT POST)
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/show...&threadid=38594 (THE LAST OF THE WEEKLY CONTESTS)
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showt...threadid=35746 "WEEKLY WINNERS"
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showt...threadid=40067 "REBIRTH" (Anatolia's Last post)
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showt...threadid=37673 (EARLY SUBMISSION RULES)
http://apolyton.net/forums/showthrea...threadid=35079 "FIRST STORY CONTEST"
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showt...threadid=34858 (GUIDELINES FOR CONTEST/VOTING PANEL)
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showt...threadid=33598 (MARKG's REQUEST FOR A STORIES CONTEST)
http://www.apolyton.net/forums/showt...threadid=33793 (ORIGINAL RULES)

Announcement

Story Contest History {NEW}

Story Contest History {NEW}

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment

Comment