Story Contest Round 15: Semifinals

DarkCloud · January 26, 2003, 19:02

Congratulations to all who made it this far!

The Spearman by Cingis Kahn
"Postmortem 2000 Years" by vovansim
The Salina Gambit by Samuel Johnson
""A Cradle of Thorns" by Lazarus and the Gimp
Crossing the Rubicon by Civ3King
Illusions of Victory: Dangerous Games V by cbraund
Pax Americana by Centauri18
My Dinner With Xerxes by Jeremy 2.0

vovan · January 26, 2003, 19:07

Well, since I am one of the writers, I will abstain from voting on this one...

DarkCloud · January 26, 2003, 20:02

Why abstain? You can vote for yourself AND others in this round

chairmanmeow · January 26, 2003, 20:09

I voted for Dinner With Xerxes, Pax Americana, and Postmortem 2000 Yrs. All very good stories.

vovan · January 26, 2003, 21:00

Hehe, convinced, DC. I voted for myself, and Xerxes

TheGuitarist · January 26, 2003, 21:55

I voted for six.

They're all so good! Arrrggghhh! The decisions!

vovan · January 26, 2003, 21:58

I am afraid we are going to have a three-way tie in the finals.

ChrisiusMaximus · January 27, 2003, 04:17

Its great to see so many excellent and well written stories coming through to the all new improved stories contest

My only slight twinge of sadness is that so many do not gain winning status, but as I said only slight!!

We all know the quality and content of all these works in this round are of wiining proportions but as Sean Connery's character said to the Highlander in the film of the same name, "There can be only one"

Kudos to all the writers and long live the stories contest and this forum

Centauri18 · January 27, 2003, 04:19

Damn. No way I'm gonna win at this rate.

Chingis Khan · January 27, 2003, 17:41

Dammit! I posted my vote but I failed to include "My Dinner with Xerxes" by Jeremy 2.0

Is it possible for a moderator to add my vote for that story or is it too late?

vovan · January 27, 2003, 17:59

I'm not sure that someone can edit a poll in terms of adding / removing votes, but I am sure that DarkCloud will consider your vote when counting the results for the final poll.

Jeremy 2.0 · January 27, 2003, 19:00

Quote:

Originally posted by Chingis Khan
Dammit! I posted my vote but I failed to include "My Dinner with Xerxes" by Jeremy 2.0

Is it possible for a moderator to add my vote for that story or is it too late?

WHAT!?!?

DarkCloud · January 27, 2003, 23:10

Quote:

I'm not sure that someone can edit a poll in terms of adding / removing votes, but I am sure that DarkCloud will consider your vote when counting the results for the final poll.

Moderators can do that... but for now, since I'm not a mod, I'll just consider it

...But if I find out that you are lying...

:banned:

SKILORD · January 28, 2003, 16:42

I cannot beleive that cradle of thorns doesn't have so many votes that was a great story.... at least in my opinion.

DarkCloud · January 28, 2003, 23:46

...As it is- it's tied for 3rd... I'd say that's doing well enough

vovan · January 29, 2003, 01:27

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 · January 29, 2003, 01:48

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

vovan · January 29, 2003, 13:12

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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 · January 29, 2003, 19:50

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 · January 29, 2003, 21:56

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 · January 29, 2003, 22:07

Quote:

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 · February 1, 2003, 08:27

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 · February 1, 2003, 12:10

Just a tough contest round

DarkCloud · February 3, 2003, 21:26

"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 · February 3, 2003, 22:37

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

MarkG · February 6, 2003, 05:40

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

vovan · February 6, 2003, 13:09

OK. I will stop them. Sorry about that.

DarkCloud · February 6, 2003, 21:45

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 · February 6, 2003, 23:13

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 · February 6, 2003, 23:32

Yeah, Cloud, what's the other prerequisite?