Well, the Fanfic contest has closed, the result are in, and it's true to say that we didn't get many entries, but it's also true to say everyone who did enter has at least won something. Thanks to those who entered and a reminder for the next time to anyone else that the fact 100% of entrants won something is a good reason to enter future fic contests. Keep your eyes peeled (or even sign up to the
RSS gizmo) in the future for any we do run.
The quality of the entrants made up for apparent lack of quantity, and the judges had a tough time in scoring the four quality fics entered into the contest by the three participants. We did not get any entries into the comedy section, for reasons unknown. Possibly the Large Hadron Collider providing us more than enough comedy by failing to work, or possibly just general credit crunch misery, but either way, there was no funny. We did get four entries from three people, and though sadly we can't give you a nice picture to look at like with the fanart, perhaps we can reverse the equation and have a thousand words equal a picture.
In descending order, our fourth place entry but third placed entrant,
A Bards' Fallen Love earning a third place prize. The only non-FF6 entrant to the contest and the shortest, it is by no means a bad fic even if it was technically last placed, but Tesco was unfortunate to face very tough competition and only narrowly missed out on a higher placing.
The third and second places in terms of points went to
The Shadow and
About Being King. The latter story also won the General category, meaning that Lockpick wound up winning three prizes from the contest.
The winner overall in first place as well as the winner of the scene selection category however was
Mirrors into Windows by MeaPortia, earning the overall first place prize in addition to the prize for the category win.
Congratulations to our winners, and thanks to them for entering. For those of you who are now reading the winners and maybe
also browsing the rest of our fanfic library, perhaps you might feel inspired by what you read to
submit your own fanfics to us or tell a friend who writes to do the same. In fact, watch this space. There might be something along to write fanfics about.