games/competition96/results.txt

From: whizzard@uclink.berkeley.edu (Gerry Kevin Wilson)
Newsgroups: rec.arts.int-fiction,rec.games.int-fiction
Subject: [Contest] ANNOUNCING THE RESULTS!
Date: 2 Dec 1996 21:21:43 GMT

Howdy, howdy, howdy:

First of all, it's been a great year for the competition.  A whole slew of
entries, and most of them really good.  We had some really bizarre entries,
which I always love to see, and we had a good voter turnout (60 votes, 8 of
which were for the Miss Congeniality vote.)  Promoted! was the only game
that did not receive enough votes to qualify for prize competition,
presumably due to its choice of OS.

I haven't done the prize picks yet, preferring instead to get this posted as
soon as possible.  SPAG 10 will contain those, as well as interviews with
some of the authors, and all the other usual rigamarole.  If you want to
submit game reviews (contest entries only) now's the time.  Reprints of
opinions posted to r.g.i-f are perfectly acceptable, but I may ask you to
spruce up things or something.  When writing out the results, I may have
forgotten an alias that someone used or something of that nature, so I'll
apologize in advance.  I'll email their scores to the authors, but other
than that I believe that the scores might just set some folks fretting
about how close they were, blah blah blah, so no public posting of scores,
just the raw place finishes.

I had a blast, guys.  I hope next year's competition is half as good.

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Anyways, without further ado, here are the 1996 Interactive Fiction
	Competition Results!

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1st Place: The Meteor, The Stone, And A Long Glass Of Sherbet
		by: Angela M. Horns, aka: Graham Nelson

2nd Place: Tapestry
		by: Dan Ravipinto

3rd Place: Delusions
		by the author, aka: C. E. Forman

4th Place: Small World
		by Andrew D. Pontious

5th Place: Kissing the Buddha's Feet
		by Anonymous, aka: Leon Lin

6th Place: Fear
		by Chuan-Tze Teo

7th Place: Maiden of the Moonlight
		by Brian P. Dean

8th Place: Wearing the Claw
		by Paul O'Brian

9th Place: Alien Abduction
		by Charles Gerlach

10th Place: Aayela
		by Magnus Olsson

11th Place: Lists and Lists
		by Andrew Plotkin

12th Place: Ralph
		by Miron Schmidt

13th Place: Reverberations
		by Russell Wain Glasser

14th Place: The Land Beyond the Picket Fence
		by Martin Oehm

15th Place: In the End
		by Joe Mason

16th Place: Piece of Mind
		by Giles Boutel, aka: Geoff Durden

17th Place: Phlegm
		by Adjacent Drooler, aka: Jason Dyer

18th Place: Sir Ramic Hobbs and the Oriental Walk
		by Gil Williamson

19th Place: Stargazer
		by Jonathan Fry

20th Place: Of Forms Unknown
		by Chris Markwyn

21st Place: The Curse of Eldor
		by Stuart Allen

22nd Place: Don't Be Late
		by Greg Ewing

23rd Place: The House of the Stalker
		by Jason Clayton White

24th Place: Rippled Flesh
		by Rybread M. Celsius

25th Place: Punkarita Quest One: Liquid
		by Rybread M. Celsius

26th Place: My First Stupid Game
		by Daniel McPherson

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	   And the Winner of the Miss Congeniality Award is:

			      Tapestry
				 by: Dan Ravipinto

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Great year everyone, and thanks for helping to keep text adventures alive!