12-03-2005 03:51									#1
	Story Contest Round 22: Nominations Put an end to popups!

Here's the Round 22 Nominations thread!

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Please feel free to nominate away!

Remember you CAN nominate or second your own story.
But it MUST be finished.

*The reward is a discount at the Apolyton Store!

*Stories which are seconded will be bolded; and a story must be seconded to move into the Semifinals.

*Remember, to advance; a story must be nominated, then seconded... authors CAN nominate and/or second their own works

*Only 8 can advance to the quarterfinals

So- Let the Stories begin!

Good luck!

The Nominees:

Man on the Street by Jeremy 2.0
The Rise of Germany and Fall of the Dutch by Rob006.
Failure is their Salvation by Shogun Gunner
The Glory of News: SPECIAL WAR EDITION by Master Zen
Trappings of War by UnOrthOdOx

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Last edited by DarkCloud on 25-06-2005 at 04:32

	26-03-2005 04:39									#2
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I'll break this one open by nominating The rise of Germany and fall of the Dutch, by rob006, a deserving story indeed.

	26-03-2005 04:55									#3
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And how about Man On the Street, by Jeremy 2.0? I enjoyed that one, too.

	27-03-2005 02:01									#4
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I'll list them when they are seconded

	27-03-2005 04:40									#5
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quote: Originally posted by vovan And how about Man On the Street, by Jeremy 2.0? I enjoyed that one, too.

seconded

	30-03-2005 00:59									#6
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updated.

	12-05-2005 06:35									#7
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Thanks for the nomination!

I *really* should come to this forum more often.

	13-05-2005 01:20									#8
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-So should everyone

	01-06-2005 13:15									#9
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Well since you're having story contests, perhaps I should attempt to nominate a series of Onion-style faux reportings I've been writing for well over half a year now about the PTWDG.

Perhaps they might not be as funny if you're not familiar (at least loosely) with the PTW demogame. They began at the onset of my team's (The Glory of War) conflict with Legoland in the late industrial era and I initially thought it would be a merely temporary affair. But a lot of people found them hilarious so I kept writing them through war and peace and back to war again. There's a total of 13 news reports scattered throughout the 8 pages of the thread.

I understand if they do not conform with the type of stories which compete in these types of contests, but if they do then it'll be an honor for me to submit it for your consideration.

Here is the link to the thread where all the reports are, enjoy:

The Glory of News: SPECIAL WAR EDITION

-MZ

	03-06-2005 23:54									#10
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Dear Master Zen,

Thanks for your submission. It's good to finally get some more stories in this section!

quote: No word on civilian casualties on the ground, no bombers were lost to enemy action. Among the units participating was the vaunted 69th Bearded-Lady Bomber Squadron though their bombs fell short of the coal mine since their beards got in the way.

... What the heck?

quote: In a survey conducted by The Glory of News, 89% of the GoW population still did not know who they were going to war against, 78% thought that Lux still existed, and 58% thought that stormchicken tasted better than squid.

Truer words about real life opinion polls have oft never been spoken

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...so many pages.

I'll second it for the nomination- but I think that we should open the issue for the community to decide if they're allowed or not before I officially add it to the list.

Does anyone here have any objections?

*The main one that I would have is that it's arguable whether the story is completed or not and we have a policy only to accept completed tales.

	03-06-2005 23:59									#11
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Well the game is pretty much over now so I will probably write one last edition sometime during the next couple of days (hopefully the last and funniest)

Still, thanks for considering it, whatever the community decides I will respect.

	04-06-2005 00:05									#12
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I would like to Nominate: Failure is their Salvation - Shogun Gunner

	04-06-2005 00:06									#13
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quote: Originally posted by vovan I'll break this one open by nominating The rise of Germany and fall of the Dutch, by rob006, a deserving story indeed.

oh, 2nd

	04-06-2005 05:51									#14
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*Updated

*Seconded Shogun's Piece

*Still waiting for comments on the 'Zen' Situation.

	07-06-2005 00:09									#15
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thnaks for 2nd my story paddy! have you gotten around to reading my new one?

l8er

	25-06-2005 00:06									#16
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'News' stories are certainly deserving IMO.

Having ran a 'news' paper for the first Civ3 demogame, I can attest that they take just as much time and effort as any other writings. Best to look at them as a collection of short stories.

	25-06-2005 00:53									#17
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And now that UnO is here, I'd also like to nominate his TRAPPINGS OF WAR series for that same demogame.

I can only link to the last 3 stories:

http://www.apolyton.net/forums/show...threadid=135437

UnO should post the link to all the others. Fantastic pieces of literature all of them

	25-06-2005 04:23									#18
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Added. And I seconded your story since there was no objection

	25-06-2005 04:33									#19
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good value