Story Contest Round 12: Finals

DarkCloud · August 3, 2002, 10:25

Congratulations to all. Here are the four finalists.

Choose wisely

2-The Plight of One Worker by Insane_Ike
3-“Es Frater Meus, Et Es Inimicus Meus” (“You Are My Brother, And You Are My Enemy”) by TheGuitarist
4-Organised Chaos(Dangerous Games 4) by cbraund
6-Six Degrees of Seperation by Velociryx

TheGuitarist · August 3, 2002, 12:23

Ok, once again... When does the poll end?

DarkCloud · August 4, 2002, 13:32

Ah, shoot, forgot a timer... I think it's 5 days.

dnassman · August 4, 2002, 21:28

Once you place your vote should the results table be automatically updated or does it take some time. I just placed my vote and it said thank you for voting blah blah blah and took me back to this page. I clicked on view results and noticed that my vote didn't do anything. Any ideas?

TheGuitarist · August 5, 2002, 10:01

Quote:

4. Once 8 seconded nominations are obtained, a preliminary round with unlimited voting (checkboxes) is created to last for 5 days.
5. After 5 days, the top 4 are transferred to a final poll with radio buttons which lasts 4 days.

Whups - looks like the poll lasts 4 days.

It started on the 3rd, so that means it ends on the 7th, right?

DarkCloud · August 5, 2002, 16:00

Correct. ends at 15:24 GMT on the 7th.

TheGuitarist · August 7, 2002, 10:29

Well it's 15:28 GMT on the 7th and it seems that, in a wacky and unexpected upset, my story has won.

ChrisiusMaximus · August 7, 2002, 10:50

Congratulations,well deserved not to say the competition was'nt tough,all 4 stories were excellent.

As I've said before The Guitarist looking forward to your next piece.

Insane_Ike · August 7, 2002, 16:17

Hey?!!! Did I win?

My results show a five to five tie with Guitarist.

Velociryx · August 7, 2002, 17:09

Congrats fellow Columbian!!!

-=Vel=-

ChrisiusMaximus · August 7, 2002, 18:07

I think Darkcloud has forgot to close poll because The Guitarist was definitely in front when I posted earlier at 15:50 and according to his post on the 5/8/2002 at 21:00 it clearly states that the poll closes at 15:24 on the 7/8/2002 so I think the winner is The Guitarist.

TheGuitarist · August 7, 2002, 18:38

I believe DarkCloud forgot to put a timer on the poll, thus it was supposed to end at 15:24 but continued until later, thus resulting in a tie.

DarkCloud · August 7, 2002, 20:19

I'm sorry I accessed this forum a bit late...
I'm not sure how to handle this...
Also, I forgot to put my vote in :embarrassed: I meant to read them all... I have yet to vote still... But would give it to Vel, as his is the only one I've even read part of

ops:

Okay, well, I'll let civman handle this, but for certain:

Vel won 3rd... Congrats

and cbraund took home 4th.

DarkCloud · August 7, 2002, 20:24

Ike and Guitarist are tied at first for now... But it seems as though The Guitarist won :hmm: Yes, I'll let civman handle this mess

Apologies... I forgot to set the timer

I thought I would be around at closing as I was for the Prelims

TheGuitarist · August 7, 2002, 23:00

Um... hello? The poll still isn't closed... and the results are skewed since there have been numerous votes since it was supposed to end.

I understand that it's a big mess now, but somebody (either DarkCloud or MarkG) needs to do something about it...

dnassman · August 7, 2002, 23:18

Looks like Insane_Ike won this one. I loved that story. Hope you write more. Very humourous.

ChrisiusMaximus · August 8, 2002, 03:03

There is no way that Insane_Ike won,Darkcloud has already stated that he forgot to stop the poll on time.

Will somebody please sort this mess out!!!

Insane_Ike · August 8, 2002, 11:04

Yes, this is a mess.

It's kind of like that time my cousin Earl went to the hospital because he had a pain in his ass. Somehow the nurse figured out he had sat on a marble and she pulled it out. Later, when the doctor came around, although he didn't have to. He stuck his finger up Earl's ass anyways. The thing was, Earl didn't object. Boy did that doctor have egg on his face.

This kind of reminds me of that...sorta.

DarkCloud · August 8, 2002, 13:14

It doesn't need to be closed now-
The results were (when I saw it)
Ike- 5
Guitarist- 5
Vel- 3
cbraund- 1

TheGuitarist · August 8, 2002, 16:54

At 15:29 GMT on the 7th (five minutes past the time you said it would close) the results were-

Velociryx- 3
Guitarist- 5
Ike- 3
cbraund- 1

Verto · August 8, 2002, 17:03

Hm...I wonder when we'll have someone demand a recount. Want me to be the Supreme Court?

DarkCloud · August 8, 2002, 18:32

Well, if all else fails we can have a runoff.

civman2000 · August 12, 2002, 09:58

Guitarist wins. He's clearly not lying and he was in the lead when it was supposed to close. DC obviously made it last a day or 2 longer than it should have.

TheGuitarist · August 12, 2002, 10:25

I suppose we should have Mark or Ming edit the poll so the results are correct.