[IFComp] 2004 IF Competition Results

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The competition has ended. Congratulations to Paul O'Brian, whose
"Luminous Horizon" took first place. The top three games were:

Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian
Blue Chairs, by Chris Klimas
All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows

The winners of the Miss Congeniality contest were:

Blue Chairs, by Chris Klimas
Sting of the Wasp, by Jason Devlin
Gamlet, by Tomasz Pudlo

Thanks to all authors for entering, and all judges for voting.

Stephen

Full results list:

1 Luminous Horizon, by Paul O'Brian
2 Blue Chairs, by Chris Klimas
3 All Things Devours, by half sick of shadows
4 Sting of the Wasp, by Jason Devlin
5 Square Circle, by Eric Eve
6 The Orion Agenda, by Ryan Weisenberger
7 Mingsheng, by Deane Saunders (writing as Rexx Magnus)
8 Splashdown, by Paul J. Furio
9 Gamlet, by Tomasz Pudlo
10 Trading Punches, by Sidney Merk
11 The Great Xavio, by Reese Warner
12 Goose, Egg, Badger, by Brian Rapp
13 The Big Scoop, by Johan Berntsson
14 I Must Play, by Geoff Fortytwo (writing as Fortytwo)
15 Identity, by Dave Bernazzani
16 Murder at the Aero Club, by Penny Wyatt (writing as Penny)
17 Bellclap, by Tommy Herbert
18 Magocracy, by Anton Joseph Rheaume (writing as Scarybug)
19 Typo, by Peter Seebach & Kevin Lynn
20 Kurusu City, by Kevin Venzke
21 Blink, by Ian Waddell
22 Chronicle Play Torn, by Penczer Attila (writing as Algol)
23 A Day In The Life Of A Super Hero, by david whyld (writing as
davidw)
24 Order, by John Evans
25 Who Created That Monster?, by N. B. Horvath
26 Blue Sky, by Hans Fugal
27 The Realm, by Michael Sheldon
28 Redeye, by John Pitchers
29 Stack Overflow, by Timofei Shatrov
30 Zero, by William A. Tilli
31 Zero One, by Shed
32 A Light's Tale, by Zach Flynn (writing as vbnz)
33 Getting Back To Sleep, by Patrick Evans (writing as IceDragon)
34 Ruined Robots, by nanag_d
35 PTBAD 3, by Jonathan Berman (writing as Xorax)
36 Ninja v1.30, by Paul Panks (writing as Dunric)

Stephen

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"Stephen Granade" <stephen-usenet@granades.com> wrote in message
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> 31 Zero One, by Shed
> 32 A Light's Tale, by Zach Flynn (writing as vbnz)
> 33 Getting Back To Sleep, by Patrick Evans (writing as IceDragon)
> 34 Ruined Robots, by nanag_d
> 35 PTBAD 3, by Jonathan Berman (writing as Xorax)
> 36 Ninja v1.30, by Paul Panks (writing as Dunric)
>

Anyone else notice that out of 13 games submitted under pseudonyms, 6 came
in the last 6? (Counting nanag_d, half_sick_of_shadows and Shed are not
pseudonyms, even though they don't have "(writing as ...)" attached to their
placings.) I.e., every game in the bottom sixth was written under a
pseudonym and, if you exclude davidw and Penny, which are just an
abbreviations of their real names, more than half of those writing under
pseudonyms came in the last 6.

Any chance that this means something?

Maybe you should just remember that it's bad luck.

--Max

 

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"Max" <remove_this_rabkin@mweb.co.za> wrote in message
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>
>
> Anyone else notice that out of 13 games submitted under pseudonyms, 6 came
> in the last 6? (Counting nanag_d, half_sick_of_shadows and Shed are not
> pseudonyms, even though they don't have "(writing as ...)" attached to
> their
> placings.) I.e., every game in the bottom sixth was written under a
> pseudonym and, if you exclude davidw and Penny, which are just an
> abbreviations of their real names, more than half of those writing under
> pseudonyms came in the last 6.
>
> Any chance that this means something?
>
> Maybe you should just remember that it's bad luck.
>
> --Max
>

You're not - heaven forbid! - hinting that perhaps people vote higher for
games written by people they know as opposed to ones they don't?

 

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> > 31 Zero One, by Shed
> > 32 A Light's Tale, by Zach Flynn (writing as vbnz)
> > 33 Getting Back To Sleep, by Patrick Evans (writing as IceDragon)
> > 34 Ruined Robots, by nanag_d
> > 35 PTBAD 3, by Jonathan Berman (writing as Xorax)
> > 36 Ninja v1.30, by Paul Panks (writing as Dunric)
> >
>
> Anyone else notice that out of 13 games submitted under pseudonyms, 6 came
> in the last 6? (Counting nanag_d, half_sick_of_shadows and Shed are not

I notice you're not counting "30 Zero, by William A. Tilli" as a pseudonym.

Andrew

 

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Max wrote:
> "Stephen Granade" <stephen-usenet@granades.com> wrote in message
> news:m0y8h1u3yd.fsf@granades.com...
> Anyone else notice that out of 13 games submitted under pseudonyms, 6 came
> in the last 6? (Counting nanag_d, half_sick_of_shadows and Shed are not
> pseudonyms, even though they don't have "(writing as ...)" attached to their
> placings.) I.e., every game in the bottom sixth was written under a
> pseudonym and, if you exclude davidw and Penny, which are just an
> abbreviations of their real names,

FWIW, I'd just like to point out that mine (I Must Play) should be
excluded as well. "Fortytwo" is, of course, just my last name.

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What is Bill eye till eye too odd? A stands for Argentina.

 

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"Fortytwo" <news2@g42DOTorg> wrote in message news:419f0e3c$1_2@127.0.0.1...
> FWIW, I'd just like to point out that mine (I Must Play) should be
> excluded as well. "Fortytwo" is, of course, just my last name.
>

I thought you were a bit too consistent for it to be false, but it's just
such a ridiculous name (no offence, of course, but I just wouldn't have
guessed)

--Max

 

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Max wrote:
> "Fortytwo" <news2@g42DOTorg> wrote in message news:419f0e3c$1_2@127.0.0.1...
>
>>FWIW, I'd just like to point out that mine (I Must Play) should be
>>excluded as well. "Fortytwo" is, of course, just my last name.
>>
> I thought you were a bit too consistent for it to be false, but it's just
> such a ridiculous name (no offence, of course, but I just wouldn't have
> guessed)
>
> --Max

*smile* People who haven't read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
tend to not know what to think about it.