                        _______  _________   ____   ____
                        \      \ \_   ___ \  \   \ /   /
                        /  \ /  \/    \  \/   \   |   /
                       /    |    \     \____   \     /
                       \____|____/\________/    \___/

                                                         Music Contest Entries
                                                              MC1 (1993) :  23
                                                              MC2 (1994) :  75
                                                              MC3 (1995) : 133
                                                              MC4 (1996) : 157
                                                              MC5 (1997) : 302
 Music Contest 5 Final Results - 28 Aug 1997               Total Entries : 690

>------------------------------------------------------------------ Contents --

         Introduction
         Files
         Schedule
         Articles
           The Final Results ............................. Snowman and GD
           The Automated Side of MC5 ..................... Snowman
           Music Contest 5 Prizes ........................ Snowman and GD
           Special Thanks ................................ Snowman and GD
           Comprehensive List of Entries ................. Snowman
         Closing

>-------------------------------------------------------------- Introduction --

 Music Contest 5 is over!

 Thank you for your interest and participation in the contest this year!  It
 has been the largest Music Contest ever.  The number of Music Contest entries
 has nearly doubled in one year.  Your participation has once again helped us
 have an exciting and successful competition.

 We are interested in your feedback on the contest.  Do you have ideas, rule
 suggestions, or other comments?  See the Closing section of the newsletter
 for information on where to send comments.

 GD / Hornet - gd@hornet.org

>--------------------------------------------------------------------- Files --

 Description      Location URL
 ---------------- -------- ---------------------------------------------------
 MC5 Web Page     USA      http://www.hornet.org/music/contests/mc5
 MC5 FTP Archive  USA      ftp://ftp.hornet.org/pub/demos/music/contests/mc5

 -- /music/contests/mc5 ----------------------------------------------------->

 /files/mc5-news.001    Music Contest 5 Updates Newsletter issue 1
 /files/mc5-news.002    Music Contest 5 Updates Newsletter issue 2
 /files/mc5-news.003    Music Contest 5 Updates Newsletter issue 3
 /files/mc5final.zip    Music Contest 5 Final Results
 /rookie                Music Contest 5 Rookie Entries (Directory)
 /intermed              Music Contest 5 Intermediate Entries (Directory)
 /veteran               Music Contest 5 Veteran Entries (Directory)

>------------------------------------------------------------------ Schedule --

 All times are given in GMT (Greenwich Mean Time).

 Date       Time       Event
 ---------  ---------  -------------------------------------------------------
 31 May 97  00:00 GMT  Contest starts
 14 Jul 97  00:00 GMT  Entry application deadline
 15 Jul 97  00:00 GMT  Entry deadline
 21 Jul 97  00:00 GMT  Voting round 1 begins
 04 Aug 97  00:00 GMT  Voting round 1 ends
 13 Aug 97  00:00 GMT  Voting round 2 begins
 18 Aug 97  00:00 GMT  Voting round 2 ends
 25 Aug 97  00:00 GMT  Contest ends, results released, organizers go home

                                       * <-- YOU ARE HERE

>------------------------------------------------------------------ Articles --

 :: "The Final Results"
 :: Snowman / Hornet - r3cgm@hornet.org
 :: GD / Hornet - gd@hornet.org

 _____Veteran

 Rank Song      Title                           Samp Form Tech Orig Over TOTAL
 ---- --------- ------------------------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----
  01  m5v-nine  Nine One One                    83.5 88.4 89.0 77.1 87.8 85.89
  02  m5v-mars  Martian Lovesong                82.6 82.3 85.1 85.4 84.1 83.97
  03  m5v-wond  Words Of No Difference          84.0 81.5 81.3 80.8 83.4 82.55
  04  m5v-emel  Emelie                          80.1 80.9 84.4 74.1 84.3 81.80
  05  m5v-digi  Digital Ritual                  80.3 78.1 79.2 81.1 82.1 80.73
  06  m5v-siir  Symphony In Infrared            78.3 81.3 77.3 76.6 79.8 78.98
  07  m5v-flow  Flow Moon                       78.2 78.8 77.8 77.4 78.8 78.40
  08  m5v-letl  Let It Loose                    76.2 77.5 74.2 75.0 76.1 75.87
  09  m5v-prev  Protonic Reversal               77.4 74.2 76.5 73.5 75.5 75.44
  10  m5v-twi   Twilight Groove                 74.5 76.1 72.7 72.2 75.3 74.48
  11  m5v-time  Time Flows                      74.2 73.4 73.0 69.7 73.8 73.08
  12  m5v-sway  Stairway                        72.3 71.2 72.0 70.8 73.3 72.33
  13  m5v-slik  Slickshift                      68.8 74.4 68.8 80.2 70.7 72.04
  14  m5v-gldn  Goldenrod                       73.6 78.4 80.0 55.9 71.9 71.94
  15  m5v-sotw  Song Of The Winds               71.7 66.2 71.0 73.2 72.3 71.28
  16  m5v-elfs  The Elfs' Village               69.2 66.4 71.0 75.9 68.8 69.84
  17  m5v-fant  Fantasy                         66.5 67.6 70.0 66.2 70.4 68.81
  18  m5v-fiel  Yellow Fields                   68.2 66.3 67.3 65.6 68.2 67.42
  19  m5v-alon  Alone                           66.2 63.1 68.6 67.4 68.4 67.21
  20  m5v-aber  Aberration                      64.6 64.6 68.1 56.4 66.2 64.61

 Rank Song      Handle          Author Name                    Country
 ---- --------- --------------- ------------------------------ ---------------
  01  m5v-nine  WAVE            Jeroen Godfried Tel            Netherlands
  02  m5v-mars  Necros          Andrew G. Sega                 Usa
  03  m5v-wond  Loonie          Ulf Liedberg                   Sweden
  04  m5v-emel  Radix           Jakob Svanholm                 Sweden
  05  m5v-digi  Basehead / Hunz Dan Grandpre / Hans Van Vliet  Usa / Australia
  06  m5v-siir  Human           Kochun Hu                      Usa
  07  m5v-flow  Mellow-d        Jaakko Manninen                Finland
  08  m5v-letl  Marwin          Ingemar Henriksson             Sweden
  09  m5v-prev  Scirocco        Ian G. Lyman                   Usa
  10  m5v-twi   Nemesis         Andy Wise                      Usa
  11  m5v-time  The Zapper      Marc Girard                    Canada
  12  m5v-sway  Chris Jarvis    Chris Jarvis                   Australia
  13  m5v-slik  Bibby           Andrew Bibby                   Usa
  14  m5v-gldn  Centurion       David Friberg                  Usa
  15  m5v-sotw  Warder          Vesa Norilo                    Finland
  16  m5v-elfs  Dustbin         Stefano Palmonari              Italy
  17  m5v-fant  Lord Blanka     Mark Sanders                   Usa
  18  m5v-fiel  Varg            Eivind Pedersen                Norway
  19  m5v-alon  Mickrip         Mick Rippon                    Australia
  20  m5v-aber  Cruel Creator   Zeev Nissan                    Canada

 _____Intermediate

 Rank Song      Title                           Samp Form Tech Orig Over TOTAL
 ---- --------- ------------------------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----
  01  m5i-tes   The Elephant Stomp              72.7 74.1 70.7 81.7 73.5 74.23
  02  m5i-lgdm  Legerdemain                     68.7 74.2 68.2 68.5 71.8 70.71
  03  m5i-orxn  Orientxpression                 72.7 65.5 69.9 74.3 69.7 70.22
  04  m5i-tunt  The Tunturi                     74.1 64.0 64.3 81.4 68.9 70.08
  05  m5i-medi  Medievel Journey                65.2 67.7 70.5 73.8 70.8 69.95
  06  m5i-stor  The Storyteller                 69.2 70.2 72.2 66.0 70.1 69.69
  07  m5i-snst  Sunset                          66.9 67.2 65.2 66.9 68.6 67.42
  08  m5i-tews  The East Wing Study             72.8 61.5 69.5 68.9 66.2 67.31
  09  m5i-bagh  The Streets Of Baghdad          63.2 68.3 64.1 68.5 68.1 66.89
  10  m5i-rmbr  Remembrance                     61.7 67.2 63.7 65.4 66.7 65.42
  11  m5i-iir   It's Raining                    61.1 63.4 62.2 61.9 65.3 63.50
  12  m5i-fft   Five Five Time                  58.4 65.6 64.3 67.8 62.7 63.48
  13  m5i-hbl   Hot Borrito Lambada             63.9 61.1 64.0 65.8 61.3 62.67
  14  m5i-dbtc  Day Before The Cataclysm        61.8 63.9 55.6 61.4 64.8 62.44
  15  m5i-asin  As In A Dream                   63.5 58.7 63.7 59.0 63.3 62.10

 Rank Song      Handle             Author Name                  Country
 ---- --------- ------------------ ---------------------------- --------------
  01  m5i-tes   Silke              Andreas Reuterberg           Sweden
  02  m5i-lgdm  Soundgod           Chris Snyder / Evan Korzan   Usa
  03  m5i-orxn  Stereoman          George Marinov               Bulgaria
  04  m5i-tunt  Crux               Miska Natunen                Finland
  05  m5i-medi  Mental Trip        Gilad Michael                Israel
  06  m5i-stor  Dna-groove         Eliran Ben-ishai             Israel
  07  m5i-snst  Wolfgang           Brad Folkens                 Usa
  08  m5i-tews  Yehar              Olli Niemitalo               Finland
  09  m5i-bagh  Vegas              Tj Lerner                    Usa
  10  m5i-rmbr  Wark               Libor Krivak                 Czech Republic
  11  m5i-iir   Blaze              Hubert Wojtowicz             Poland
  12  m5i-fft   Quantum Porcupine  Joshua Shagam                Usa
  13  m5i-hbl   Cosmic Eclipse     Paul Clift                   Australia
  14  m5i-dbtc  Legendd            Nathan Ridley                Australia
  15  m5i-asin  Crakerjak          Jeremy Simon                 Usa

 _____Rookie

 Rank Song      Title                           Samp Form Tech Orig Over TOTAL
 ---- --------- ------------------------------- ---- ---- ---- ---- ---- -----
  01  m5r-frel  Funky Religion                  69.4 72.8 71.9 67.3 74.7 72.24
  02  m5r-trbp  Travelling By Piano             70.9 72.4 72.1 68.1 72.2 71.45
  03  m5r-lunx  Lunar Excursion                 65.6 64.9 64.2 66.5 70.4 67.48
  04  m5r-bts   Below The Surface               63.6 64.0 63.9 58.6 67.1 64.51
  05  m5r-wave  WAVE                            59.2 63.4 64.3 61.4 64.2 62.98
  06  m5r-ttn   True To Nature                  60.4 62.9 57.7 62.1 64.2 62.24
  07  m5r-hafa  Hafasika                        61.7 61.2 59.2 65.7 62.0 61.96
  08  m5r-dtn   Distance To Neera               62.1 59.5 61.5 61.1 63.1 61.90
  09  m5r-abax  Abaxis                          56.8 54.4 52.4 53.2 56.1 55.03
  10  m5r-sbf   Shaped By Fear                  52.6 54.6 52.5 58.4 54.8 54.66

 Rank Song      Handle            Author Name                      Country
 ---- --------- ----------------- -------------------------------- -----------
  01  m5r-frel  April             Maria Dahl                       Sweden
  02  m5r-trbp  Jazzman           Przemek Tumidajewicz             Poland
  03  m5r-lunx  Lift              Jud Bumpas                       Usa
  04  m5r-bts   Zephyr            Christopher Micali               Usa
  05  m5r-wave  Crazy             David Stewart                    New Zealand
  06  m5r-ttn   Vado              Vadim Elkind                     Usa
  07  m5r-hafa  Frotus / Froggie  Elijah Carlyle / Evan Valentine  Usa
  08  m5r-dtn   Idle              Thomas Bjrkman                  Sweden
  09  m5r-abax  Silky             Dave Kinsella                    Uk
  10  m5r-sbf   Nuce              Kris                             Canada

=-----------------------------------------------------------------------------=

 :: "The Automated Side Of MC5"
 :: Snowman / Hornet - r3cgm@hornet.org

 _____Introduction

 In 1993, I hosted Music Contest 1.  It was a small contest with only 24
 entrants.  I sent out a lot of personally written email that year, trying to
 convince people to enter.  Most of the contest promotion was done through a
 few scene-oriented BBS's.  All of the rules, results, and other assorted text
 files were written in DisplayWrite Assistant with a little help from Norton
 Commander's built-in editor.  I used a hand-held calculator to process many
 of the vote sheets that were submitted.  I had time to answer all questions
 and comments with long responses.

 Life was so simple back then.

 With each passing Music Contest, more and more people entered.  BBS's didn't
 reach enough people so we started uploading advertisements to Internet ftp
 archives.  My Norton Commander text editor showed signs of age: no paragraph
 alignment, spell check, column blocking, etc.  My calculator's buttons were
 worn down.  No longer did I have time to answer all questions and comments
 with thoughtful replies.  Most of the tasks that used to be done by hand were
 heavily automated in order to deal with the rapid growth of the contest.

 Each year, I enter into Music Contest over-confident that my skills will be
 able to automate the work and bring it down to manageable levels.  Each year,
 the utilities I write are pushed to the limit and my confidence dwindles.  I
 always seem to be barely ahead of the game.  In a way, this is kind of fun.
 It presents me with a real challenge.  During the off-season, I learn more
 tricks by working on the Hornet Archive and when MC starts back up again I
 see if I can apply them.  It's just one example of the cyclic nature of MC.

 _____Scripting Incantations

 Often times I wonder if people realize how much automation is necessary to
 host something like Music Contest 5, or how difficult that automation is to
 implement.  Voting sheets aren't sent out by magic.  There is no shareware
 program that reformats judges' song comments.  And to top it off, Music
 Contest utilities are totally non-reusable from year to year.  Utilities I
 built for MC4 would not have been able to handle the demands of MC5.

 Humor me for a moment.  I'm going to show you just one example of "behind the
 scenes" automation.  This might seem trivial, even boring.  But after reading
 this, you might look at contest organizing a bit differently.  It might even
 scare off a few of you from trying to organize your own music contest (with
 good reason).

 Music Contest 5 would not have been possible without the language Perl.  Perl
 is _built_ for stuff like MC5.  The strength of this language is in text
 manipulation: voting sheet processing, assigning judge forms, final results
 calculations, etc.  But even with the rich set of functions that Perl has,
 some of the Music Contest 5 algorithms still require a lot of thought and
 planning.

 _____Ring Around The Circle

 On 21 Jul 1997, I sent out 165 public-judge and 19 core-judge voting sheets
 for round 1.

 Ask yourself this question:

   "If I had 165 public judges, 19 core judges, 105 rookie songs, 97
   intermediate songs, and 101 veteran songs, how would I go about creating
   judging sheets and sending them out?"

 Now think about these:

   - Out of 184 judges, how many do you expect to actually finish voting?
   - Approximately how many times should each song be voted on?
   - If a judge gets all rookie songs, isn't it more likely that they won't
     finish their voting?
   - How do you assign all songs an equal number of times?
   - After all the judging sheets are turned back in, what happens if a few
     of the songs aren't voted on enough times?

 Let's say that GD and I had reason to believe that we would get about 70% of
 judges to complete round 1 voting.  That means we can expect about 130 voting
 sheets back.  In actuality we got back 131, so we weren't too far off.  All
 calculations for round 1 will then be based off the assumption that we'll
 probably get back about 130.

 Start with the core judges.  There aren't so many of them, and we can
 probably count on almost a 100% completion ratio.  We need each song voted on
 by at least 1 core judge, and we have 303 songs.  That means that each judge
 would have to vote on about 15.947 songs (303 songs / 19 judges).  I say
 15.947 and _not_ 16 for a reason.  We can't just give 16 songs to every core
 judge because then we'd end up with at least 1 song being voted on by more
 than a single core judge (preferential treatment!).  A few calculations
 later, we realize:

   18 judges *     16 songs = 288 songs voted on
    1 judge  *     15 songs =  15 songs voted on
   ---------   ------------   ------------------
   19 judges * 15.947 songs = 303 songs voted on TOTAL

 So now we have a game plan.  We give 18 core judges 16 songs, and 1 core
 judge 15 songs.  That wasn't so complicated, was it?

 Uh oh!  What happens if a core judge gets nothing but rookie songs?  They
 won't enjoy voting very much, might give lower ratings, and be reluctant to
 be a judge for us again next year.  We can't let that happen.  We have to
 find a way to assign songs so that judges get a nice distribution of rookie,
 intermediate, and veteran.  Well, it one thing to say we need a nice
 distribution, and quite another to actually do it.

 As it turned out, we had a really even number of rookie, intermediate, and
 veteran songs this year.  Almost 100 exactly in each division.  This worked
 to our advantage when assigning songs to judges.

 First let's start by building a list of all assignable songs:

   Rookie song #1
   Rookie song #2
   Rookie song #3
   ...
   Rookie song #104
   Rookie song #105
   Intermediate song #1
   Intermediate song #2
   Intermediate song #3
   ...
   Intermediate song #96
   Intermediate song #97
   Veteran song #1
   Veteran song #2
   Veteran song #3
   ...
   Veteran song #100
   Veteran song #101

 But if we work our way down this list, we're probably going to be giving
 judges all rookie, intermediate, _or_ veteran entries (instead of a nice
 mixture). Let's interlace the ordering of the list a bit:

   Rookie song #1
   Intermediate song #1
   Veteran song #1
   Rookie song #2
   Intermediate song #2
   Veteran song #2
   Rookie song #3
   Intermediate song #3
   Veteran song #3
   ...
   Rookie song #97
   Intermediate song #97  <-- Oops!  Last intermediate song... let's just
   Veteran song #97           continue on with rookie and veteran.
   Rookie song #98
   Veteran song #98
   Rookie song #99
   Veteran song #99
   Rookie song #100
   Veteran song #100
   Rookie song #101
   Veteran song #101      <-- Oops!  Last veteran song... let's just continue
   Rookie song #102           on with rookie.
   Rookie song #103
   Rookie song #104
   Rookie song #105

 Cool.  Now if we just work down this list in a linear fashion, each judge
 will probably get 1/3rd rookie, 1/3rd intermediate and 1/3rd veteran.  The
 judges at the end of the list might get slightly more veteran or rookie
 entries, but that's life I guess.

   #
   # CORE JUDGES
   #

   $circle_pointer = 0;
   for ($i=0; $i < ($#judges_core + 1); $i++) { # for each core judge
     if ($i < ($#judges_core)) { # unless this is the _last_ core judge
       for ($j=0; $j < 16; $j++) { # assign 16 songs...
         push(@temp_entries,$combo_entries[$circle_pointer++]);
       }
       &form_print($judges_core[$i], @temp_entries);
       undef @temp_entries;
     }
     else { # this is the last core judge
       for ($j=0; $j < 15; $j++) { # assign 15 songs...
         push(@temp_entries,$combo_entries[$circle_pointer++]);
       }
       @temp_entries = sort @temp_entries;
       &form_print($judges_core[$i], @temp_entries);
       undef @temp_entries;
     }
   }

 But now we move on to the public judges.  This one isn't so easy.  You see,
 we have 165 public judges.  If every song was voted on by just 1 public
 judge, it means that each public judge would have to vote on 1.836 songs.
 First off, that would give us only 2 judges per song total (one core, one
 public).  Second, we would be underworking the public judges by only giving
 them a couple songs to vote on.  Let's increase the number of public judges
 per song a bit.

 What happens if we want each song to be voted on by 8 public judges?

   303 songs * 8 public judges = 2424 song votes

   2424 song votes / 165 public judges = 14.691 songs for each public judge

 OK, that works out.  Some public judges will get 15 songs to vote on, and
 some will get 14.

   114 judges *     15 songs = 1710 songs voted on
    51 judges *     14 songs =  714 songs voted on
   ----------   ------------   ------------------
   165 judges * 14.691 songs = 2424 songs voted on TOTAL

   2424 songs voted on / 303 songs total = each song voted on 8 times

 Then we have each song voted on a total of 9 times (1 core judge and 8 public
 judges).  Can't we just apply the same algorithm to public judges that we did
 to core judges?

 We could, but there is one big problem.  All we have is a list of 303
 assignable songs.  If each public judge is going to get 14-15 songs, then
 we're going to run out of songs to assign really quickly.  We need some way
 to hit the bottom of the list and keep going from the top again without
 interruption.  Then our list of assignable songs would be a circular list,
 repeating over and over again each time you went around!

   #
   # PUBLIC JUDGES
   #

   $circle_pointer = 0;
   for ($i=0; $i < ($#judges_public + 1); $i++) { # for each public judge
     if ($i < 114) { # for first 114 public judges
       for ($j=0; $j < 15; $j++) { # assign 15 songs...
         push(@temp_entries,$combo_entries[$circle_pointer++]);
         $circle_pointer = 0 if ($circle_pointer >= $num_entries);
       }
       &form_print($judges_public[$i], @temp_entries);
       undef @temp_entries;
     }
     else { # for the last 51 public judges
       for ($j=0; $j < 14; $j++) { # assign 14 songs...
         push(@temp_entries,$combo_entries[$circle_pointer++]);
         $circle_pointer = 0 if ($circle_pointer >= $num_entries);
       }
       @temp_entries = sort @temp_entries;
       &form_print($judges_public[$i], @temp_entries);
       undef @temp_entries;
     }
   }

 Uh oh.  What about that 70% judge completion?  Well, 70% means that about 6.3
 judges will be assigned to each song overall.  That should be enough to get
 accurate results.

 Now you just simply pass the list of songs for each judge to a subroutine
 that builds an email containing the judging sheet, and send that email out.
 Here's the really scary part... run the script once and only once!  Each time
 it is run, another 1.5 megs of email go out to judges.  And what happens if
 184 judges get two copies of their voting sheet?  Then maybe 10-15 get
 confused and write me email asking why this happened.  And it takes time to
 answer 10-15 emails.

 In a nutshell, that's how the round 1 voting sheets were created.  The entire
 utility was written to be run once and then deleted.

 _____The Big Picture

 What I have shown you was one small part of one utility used during one
 contest. The scripts I've had to write during this contest include:

   Script                   Size  Purpose
   -----------------------  ----  --------------------------------------------
   mc5_enter.cgi             13k  Online entry registration
   mc5_entry_stats            7k  Online entry statistics
   mc5_judge.cgi              9k  Online judging registration
   mc5_judge_stats            8k  Online judging statistics
   mc5_entry_verify           8k  Verify an uploaded entry
   mc5_judge_assign_round1    9k  Round 1 voting assignments
   mc5_rnd1_sendcomments      1k  Send round 1 comments to entrants
   mc5_rnd1_total            11k  Calculate the results of round 1
   mc5_judge_assign_round2   15k  Round 2 voting assignments
   mc5_rnd2_total            15k  Calculate the results of round 2

 In total, I probably wrote about 10 good-sized utilities and 5 little ones,
 for about 110k of raw Perl source.  110k of source code is a fair amount to
 write from scratch.  It also does not include the time it took to construct
 all of the web pages, write the rules, answer email, or manually fix problems
 that entrants or judges have.

 _____Conclusion

 Next year, I'll once again sit down and write the same sorts of scripts for
 Music Contest 6.  I'll start out over-confident, thinking that during the end
 of 1997 and early 1998 I've become so much more resourceful.  And then you --
 the scene -- will suddenly do something that I wasn't expecing.

 I'll get nervous, starting to fall behind in my duties as contest organizer.
 But I won't let on.  No, it'll be my little secret.  You'll talk on #trax
 about which songs you like while I stay here at work until 3 o'clock in the
 morning trying to debug several important subroutines.  In the end, the
 contest will finish up normally and you'll never know how difficult it was.
 But that's ok.  I don't mind.

 You see, I actually _enjoy_ staying here until 3 in the morning trying to get
 scripts working.  I live for the challenge of organizing the contest. It's
 one of the reasons that Music Contest and The Hornet Archive have been around
 for so long.

 The circle continues...

 Snowman / Hornet - r3cgm@hornet.org
 23 Aug 1997

=-----------------------------------------------------------------------------=

 :: "Music Contest 5 Prizes"
 :: Snowman / Hornet - r3cgm@hornet.org
 :: GD / Hornet - gd@hornet.org

 _____Introduction

 In MC4, over 150 people entered, hoping to win prizes.  In MC5, over 300
 people entered, not expecting to win prizes.

 However, there are prizes!

 _____The Prizes

 20 GUS ViperMAX soundcards have been donated as prizes for Music Contest 5.
 One soundcard will be given per entry.  Here is how the prizes will be
 distributed:

   Top 12 Veteran Entries
   Top 05 Intermediate Entries
   Top 03 Rookie Entries

 The soundcards will be mailed to the winners once mailing addresses have been
 confirmed.  James Hsu, the person who donated the prizes, will ship the
 soundcards.

 We wanted people to enter MC5 because they wanted to compete, because they
 wanted to have fun.  We didn't want people entering just for some sort of
 prize.  In fact, we knew that these soundcards were going to be given away
 as prizes before the contest even started, but just kept it a secret until
 now.  Sneaky, eh?  :)

 _____Conclusion

 If you have won a soundcard, enjoy your prize!

=-----------------------------------------------------------------------------=

 :: "Special Thanks"
 :: Snowman / Hornet - r3cgm@hornet.org
 :: GD / Hornet - gd@hornet.org

 The organizers wish to thank the following people for their tremendous
 efforts.  All of the people listed below have made significant contributions
 to the contest.

 The following individuals helped us balance the voting distribution.  On
 extremely short notice, they accepted extra songs to judge, in addition to
 their assigned voting ranges.

      George Nowik (Floss)
      Vincent Voois
      Andy Voss (Phoenix)
      Gene Wie (Psibelius)

 We would like to thank James Hsu for donating the prizes.

 We wish to thank Kleitus for preparing the MC5 judging guidelines.

=-----------------------------------------------------------------------------=

 :: "Comprehensive List of Entries"
 :: Snowman / Hornet - r3cgm@hornet.org

 _____Veteran

 Song Title                    Author              Handle           Country
 ---- ------------------------ ------------------- ---------------- -----------
 aber Aberration               Zeev Nissan         Cruel Creator    Canada     
 alch The Alchemist            Peter Hajba         Skaven           Finland    
 alon Alone                    Mick Rippon         Mickrip          Australia  
 anna Anna                     Eric Hamilton       Dilvish          Usa        
 antc Antechamber              Jeremy Rice         Jrice            Usa        
 aptc Apprentice               Matt Friedly        Subliminal       Usa        
 atec Above The Eagles' Cries  Elliott Lee         Protocol         Usa        
 bisw Bitter Sweetness         Vincent Voois       Vv               Netherlands
 blss Bliss                    Simon Jarosch       Vivid            Germany    
 care Carexidentifyerworx      Wolfram Zieger      Da Nme!          Germany    
 clus The Clusterkind          David Oranchak      Smeg             Usa        
 cold cold.hearted.bitch       Jared Blalock       B00mer           Usa        
 coqu Coquillage               Sherman Wu          Zastar           Usa        
 cym  Change Your Mind         Cantegrel Fabrice   Heatseeker       France     
 dark Dark Structures          Ben Reed            Ranger Rick      Usa        
 dbrk Day Break                Charles Scheffold   Daredevil        Usa        
 dest Clandestine Destiny      Gene Sumter         Inner Vision     Usa        
 digi Digital Ritual           Grandpre / Vliet    Basehead / Hunz  Usa        
 dopa Dopadelika               Federico Fantini    Riders           Italy      
 dsky A Different Sky          Liam Hesse          Liam The Lemming Uk         
 duet Duet                     Andrew Carlson      Leviathan        Usa        
 elfs The Elfs' Village        Stefano Palmonari   Dustbin          Italy      
 emel Emelie                   Jakob Svanholm      Radix            Sweden     
 fant Fantasy                  Mark Sanders        Blanka The Black Usa        
 fiel Yellow Fields            Eivind Pedersen     Varg             Norway     
 fire Yell Fire                Chris Whitney       Celorn           Canada     
 flow Flow Moon                Jaakko Manninen     Mellow-d         Finland    
 flud Flood                    David Newman        Rhino            Uk         
 fos  Flight To The Other Side Rori Steel          Cullyn           Australia  
 frid Friday Night             Aaron Yee           Imode            Usa        
 gbjo Get Back Jojo            Yuri Balagurov      Jbal             Russia     
 gldn Goldenrod                David Friberg       Centurion        Usa        
 glut Sinnenglut               Marc Wallowy        Assign           Germany    
 gwop Gardens Without Peace... Jorge Nunes         Dextrose         Portugal   
 habl Hats And Barrels         David Dupplaw       Dd               Uk         
 han  Hard As Nails            Ezio Ponari         Ez               Italy      
 hang Hanging Time             Adi Sapir           Doc              Israel     
 hbit Habits                   Stefan Dreverman    Logs            Netherlands
 heat Icy Heat                 Marcelo Santos      Sledgehammer     Brazil     
 hghr Higher And Higher        David Menkes        Behemoth         Usa        
 hllc Hallucinogenic           Felix Tan           Dedloc           Usa        
 hol  Holoscope                Brett Paterson      Firelight        Australia  
 holy Holy Writ                Patryk Lykawka      Soundmaster      Brazil     
 jsaf Jazz Safari              Yannis Brown        Yannis           Australia  
 letl Let It Loose             Ingemar Henriksson  Marwin           Sweden     
 litc Lost In The Cold         David Yancey        The Decomplier   Usa
 litt Little Mascerade         Bjorn E. Henriksen  Toejam           Norway     
 lost Lost Paradise            J. Kristbjornsson   Mesonyx          Iceland    
 lovs Love In The Stars        Anthony Oetzmann    Airon            Germany    
 mars Martian Lovesong         Andrew G. Sega      Necros           Usa        
 mna  Mana4                    Alex C.             X7               Australia  
 moth Moments Of Truth         Johannes Agustsson  Jojo             Iceland    
 mrmd Mr. Madman               Matej Bartos        Blue Zone        Slovakia   
 mwtf The Magic World In 35mm  Andre Uesato        Andre Uesato     Brazil     
 narf The Question What Narf?  Jimmy Rimmer        Rimbo            Usa        
 need Need To Suffer           Fabio Napodano      It-alien         Italy      
 nine Nine One One             Jeroen Godfried Tel Wave             Netherlands
 nwlf My New Life              Mirko Buffoni       Mix              Italy      
 ontf On To The Future         Brendan Rogers      Caliban          Australia  
 pair Matching Pair            Asbjoern Andersen   Mystical         Denmk/Swdn
 pars Parsoniana               Rossi Angelo        Icecreacker      Italy      
 past Running Past             Andy Chen                            Usa        
 pesh Pesh Dimensions          Jorgen Hegstad      Caramel          Norway     
 phot Photosynthesis           Chris Egerter       Gooroo           Canada     
 prev Protonic Reversal        Ian G. Lyman        Scirocco         Usa        
 puri Purification             Brendan Ebel        Phaze            Usa        
 salv Second Salvation         Mark Clifton        Parity           Usa        
 secl Secluded Lagoon          Rene Wiersma        Zaigamor         Netherlands
 sgaz Stargazer                Gary Meakin         Bassq            Uk         
 shad The Shadow Exploded      Mehran Khalili      Screamager       Luxembourg 
 siir Symphony In Infrared     Kochun Hu           Human            Usa        
 silk Silk Touch               Patrice Tarabbia    Mercure          France     
 sill Silhouettes              Mike Ladanyi        Porus            Canada     
 sipt Superimposed Thoughts    Troy Watson         God              Canada     
 slik Slickshift               Andrew Bibby        Bibby            Usa        
 som  Sins Of Masochism        Thomas Bilger       SpeedRavr        Usa        
 sotw Song Of The Winds        Vesa Norilo         Warder           Finland    
 sql  Squelch                  Krisjanis P. Gale   Thehacker        Usa        
 star Starrider I.             Zsolt Trencsenyi    Tren             Slovakia   
 sway Stairway                 Chris Jarvis                         Australia  
 sylp Sylphide Wings           Ian Stocker         Rabiteman        Usa        
 tal  Tracks And Lines         Daniel Markov       X2c              Uk         
 tbdr The Broken Drumloop      Alexander Joscht    Looza            Germany    
 tgtw The Green Twist          Erno Helen          Urge             Finland    
 tide Tides                    Marco Pietribiasi   Pedro            Italy      
 time Time Flows               Marc Girard         The Zapper!      Canada     
 tlus Tantalus                 Luv Kohli                            Usa        
 trfr True Friend              Matteo Zatti        Teo              Italy      
 twi  Twilight Groove          Andy Wise           Nemesis          Usa        
 unq  Unanswered Questions     James Lu            Steihl           Usa        
 visi Visions                  Andrew Utting       Aksen            Australia  
 what I Can't Take It! What?   David Wiernicki     Perisoft         Usa        
 witp Walking In The Park      Linus Persson       Vectro           Sweden
 wol  Whisper Of Love          Liam Widdowson      Legend           Australia  
 wond Words Of No Difference   Ulf Liedberg        Loonie           Sweden     
 wood Waltz Woods              Knut Arild Erstad   Soulman          Norway     
 worl Other Worlds             Martijn Sneijders   Thaylor          Netherlands
 wtf  Wear Tito's Funk         Aaron Zafran        Xenoc            Usa        
 zeni Zenith Of Time           George E. Nowik     Floss            Usa        
 zila Godzilla                 Andrew Voss         Phoenix          Usa        

 _____Intermediate

 Song Title                    Author             Handle            Country
 ---- ------------------------ ------------------ ----------------- -----------
 abd  Abercorn Ditty           Mike Burgess       Graffix           Usa        
 angr Anger                    Joshua Szmajda     Darius            Usa        
 asin As In A Dream            Jeremy Simon       Crakerjak         Usa        
 bagh The Streets Of Baghdad   Tj Lerner          Vegas             Usa        
 bell Bellona                  Hans Johansen      Optic             Norway     
 bhor Beautiful Horror         Vincent Lau        Dark              Netherlands
 brai Brainstorm               Kent Hansen        Drud              Norway     
 broc Sunday Morning Brocolli  Edward Chapin      Meat              Canada     
 bwl  Blind World Living       Michael Kotcherov  Black             Russia     
 char Charismatic              Eric Biesterfeld   Eneff             Usa        
 chln Chemical Land            Jed Haldeman       Placebo           Usa        
 cont Contradictions           Robert J. Casey    Blaster           Usa        
 crse The Curse                Dustin Crenna      Sabbath           Canada     
 daem Daemon Girl              Matt Swoboda       Smash             Uk         
 dbtc Day Before The Cataclysm Nathan Ridley      Legendd           Australia  
 desc Descent                  E. Ananian-cooper  Irvin             Australia  
 drea Dream Wave               Petri Karjalainen  P-tec             Sweden     
 eos  Erosion Of Society       Chris Wallace      Cheech The Sneech Usa        
 farm Farm Animals             Mike Burrell       Mikpos            Canada     
 fdiy Feel The Devil Yourself  Dmitry Tereshkow   Dj Muscle         Russia     
 fegn Feign Innocence          Jordan Peot        Daf               Usa        
 fft  Five Time                Joshua Shagam      Quantum Porcupine Usa        
 hbl  Hot Borrito Lambada      Paul Clift         Cosmic Eclipse    Australia  
 hvns Heavens                  Joshua Drumm       Halberd           Usa        
 iir  It's Raining             Hubert Wojtowicz   Blaze             Poland     
 imag Imaginary                John O'laughlin    Mild              Usa        
 imov Immortal Move            Simon Peter        Dynamite!         Germany    
 inme Internal Mechanism       Eirikur Torfason   Southpaw          Iceland    
 ivan Ivan                     Tomas Szepe        Fish17            Czech Rep.
 jack Remembering Jack         Bobby Tamburrino   Blackwolf         Usa        
 jbob Jizrobob                 Bryan Turley       Zero Aenosi       Usa        
 jrny The Journey Ahead        Louis Gorenfeld    Farmer            Usa        
 lgdm Legerdemain              Snyder / Korzon    Soundgod          Usa        
 lmmb Leaving My Mind Behind   Patrick Nissley    Pikkle Jar        Usa        
 lotw Light Of The World       Mark Abersold      Arcturus          Usa
 lum  Luminescence             Zach Heitling      Darkheart         Usa        
 mank Mankind                  Olivier S. Masse   Parallax          Canada     
 mda  Mda                      Andrew Franks      Derelict          Usa        
 mdrm Midnight Dream           Tomas Lehuta       Laser Harp        Slovakia   
 medi Medievel Journey         Gilad Michael      Mental Trip       Israel     
 mhai My Hat And I             Stephen Bank       Myrddin           Canada     
 midn Midnight Ensemble        Greg Heo           River             Canada     
 mnlb Midnight Lullaby         Andrew Nissley     Catspaw           Usa        
 mpf  My Purple Frisbee        Jay Sandler        Escape Velocity   Usa        
 mshp Meshing People           Brian Wallace      Draygen           Usa        
 mtds Methods                  Robert Olofsson    Evade             Sweden     
 neb  Nebulous                 Christopher Eargle Shade             Usa        
 nwhr Nowhere                  Rnan O'ceallaigh  Mosh              Finland    
 orxn Orientxpression          George Marinov     Stereoman         Bulgaria   
 peac Peacemaker               Christian Jhansson Deone             Sweden     
 pola Polar Seas               Seth Katzman       Kleitus           Usa        
 pssi Sly Spy                  Art Koziol         Pavlov            Usa        
 ptdt Pocket Development       Karl Ahlstedt      Fireside          Sweden     
 ptis In Space                 C. Cushman         Space Toaster     Usa        
 pudb Pick Up Da Bassline      Matt Whitfield     Tronix-d          Uk         
 puzz Puzzle                   Maciej Piskorski   Magic             Poland     
 qos  The Queen Of Snow        Rafael Lpez       Volt              Spain      
 ragi Ragibo's Revenge         Brent Kerby        Magister          Usa        
 re   Reliving                 Anpe               Anpe              Spain      
 rjs  Reject Society           Ben Grubbs         Nitemare          Usa        
 rmbr Remembrance              Libor Krivak       Wark              Czech Rep.
 rotp Return Of The Prince     Daniel Fegles      Redhaze           Usa        
 scpi Stan Colella Private Eye Glenn Barnett      Rhythm Greene     Usa        
 seiz Seizure Of Time          Andrew Davis       Shih Tzu          Usa        
 sham Shameful                 Jacqueline Smith   Miss Saigon       Usa        
 smjt Project Jt               Thomas Witte       Phex              Germany    
 snst Sunset                   Brad Folkens       Wolfgang          Usa        
 sor  Sorrow                   Benoit De Greift   Bs4               Belgium    
 sotm Secrets Of Mind Dream    Andrs Hansson     The Unknown       Sweden     
 soul Soul's Remorse           Jemi White         Haze              Australia  
 ssno But She Said No          Daniel Rodrguez   Multivac          Spain      
 stor The Storyteller          Eliran Ben-ishai   Dna-groove        Israel     
 subr Summer Breeze            Robert Sundelin                      Sweden     
 swee Sweetly Beguiled         Vesa Latva-mantila Imaginary Unit    Finland    
 taba There And Back Again     Steffen Unger      Klausi            Germany    
 tame Tame                     Chris Hampton      Beek              Usa        
 tati Thtisumu                Nick Rose          Phantasm          Canada     
 tes  The Elephant Stomp       Andreas Reuterberg Silke             Sweden     
 tews The East Wing Study      Olli Niemitalo     Yehar             Finland    
 thsr The Suplana Revival      Sanders Smith      Mr.sanders        Russia     
 tiyt This Is Your Towelette   Joe Koss           Rockoon           Usa        
 tmar The March                Rune Holm          Titanstar         Norway
 tmqr The Missing Quarter      Tomer Baruch       Shudder           Israel     
 toso Two Souls                Aleksey V. Vaneev  Picoder           Russia     
 tpp  The Prostitute Principle Chad Desrosiers    Husanak           Canada     
 tpst Times Past               Adam Prestin       Lupin             Usa        
 trns Trans                    Robert Heinrich                      Hungary    
 trod Three Toed Tree Trod     Jim Crawford       Pfister           Usa        
 ttcc Lake Titicaca            Jori Kemppi        Jobe              Finland    
 tunt The Tunturi              Miska Natunen      Crux              Finland    
 turb Turbulence               Jaanus Kase        Terminus          Estonia    
 viru Virulent Criterion       Tatekuni Ito       4go10             Usa        
 visn Vision                   Joshua Barker      Cyphermonk        Usa        
 wind Windward                 Fred Fredricks     Fred              Usa        
 wns  Wild Nights              Mike Trzcianowski  Mixhaus           Usa        
 ywr  Yakuma Warrior           Marc Bovenkamp     No-xs             Holland    
 zoom Zoom                     Imre Olajos, Jr.   Lala              Usa        

 _____Rookie

 Song Title                   Author              Handle            Country
 ---- ----------------------- ------------------- ----------------- -----------
 abax Abaxis                  Dave Kinsella       Silky             Uk         
 afrl Army From Rlyeh         Olivier Schwab      Vaevictis         France     
 ami  I Am Not Ami            Nick Borgen         Nick Borgen       Sweden     
 amok Amok                    Fragis Daxtilidis   Mad Prophet       Greece     
 anpd Another Production      Frederik Modrup     Mufka             Denmark    
 beim Beatime                 Mikolaj Straczynksi Miks              Canada     
 bkpr Broken Paradise         Don Williamson      Alioth            Uk         
 blow Blow Up The World!      Wilser Ramirez Ng   Pingood           Dominican R
 bts  Below The Surface       Christopher Micali  Zephyr            Usa        
 bush Lost In A Bush          Jay Raymond         Spanked           Canada     
 cap  Cats At Play            Mei-ling Grey       Minggrey          Uk         
 cdyn Crystal Dynasty         Abe Gong            Datz              Usa        
 cgrv Corpulent Groove        Ben Saylor          Drop-d            Usa        
 chia Chiakloq                Thomas Axelsson     Axl               Sweden     
 chip Chippy Fun              Robert Davidson     Toxygene          Usa        
 clmm Clouded Memory          Jonathan Carter     Kincajou          Usa        
 cotf Children Indigo Flowers Bojan Landekic      XCEL              Canada     
 crpr Circle Prime            Mike Isaacson       Red Lightning     Usa        
 ctcl Cataclism               Valter Biscak       Strawinski        Slovenia   
 dawn Tomorrow's Dawn         Jonathan Mcpherson  Eon               Usa        
 dbch The Debate Changes      Clay Busker         Paradoks          Usa        
 dims Dream In My Soul        Lorenzo Convertito  Dreamers          Italy      
 dnf  Downfall                Anton Sazonov       Hydro             Russia     
 dofd Dreams Of Deception     Chris Eldred        Bargel            Usa        
 dots Dance Of The Shadows    Olivier Dagenais    Omega             Canada     
 dtn  Distance To Neera       Thomas Bjrkman     Idle              Sweden     
 dtra Dream-train             Matti Kotala        Ore-gano          Finland
 elys Electric Ladyshave      Jyri Huttunen       Recc              Finland    
 escl Escaping Life           Austin V. Huang     Ausphex2          Usa        
 esi  Earth Sought Imni       Ganesh Viswanathan  Ganesha           India      
 espe Space On Purple Eyes    Dmitry Balagurov    Moore             Russia     
 etn  E. T. 9000              David Debaecke      Vitamind          Usa        
 fade Fade                    Jeremy Thizy        Pantheon          Canada     
 fnbs First Night By The Sea  A. Matchugovsky     Manwe             Russia     
 frel Funky Religion          Maria Dahl          April             Sweden     
 from Forests Of Magic        Robert Janelle      Fred The Cat      Canada     
 ftof Feel Heat Of The Fire   Moshe Haim          X-rabbit          Israel     
 ftz  Fanatazy                M. Vaynshteyn       Myvay             Usa        
 hafa Hafasika                Carlyle / Valentine Frotus + Froggie  Usa        
 happ Happiness Forever       Paul Miseiko        Lopithecus        Canada     
 hom  Hard On Me              Liron Benvenisty    Dark Princess     Israel     
 ilsn Illusionary World       Proico Proicov      Hell Hound        Bulgaria   
 jst  Sour Thoughts 97        Jakub Steiner       Jimmac            Czech Rep.
 klrr Killer R                Chad Maron          Niller            Usa        
 kneo Know Eachother          Zac Hilbert         Zechno            Usa        
 llgb Loa & Legba             Chris Pottroff      Carterusm         Usa        
 loma Life On Mars            Jon Lowman          Smeer             Usa        
 lunx Lunar Excursion         Jud Bumpas          Lift              Usa        
 lust Lust Maker              Graham Rose         Mcscooter         Australia  
 lywm Loosing You...          Johnny Baruch       Johnny            Israel     
 mess Messiah                 Greg Spira          Mist              Canada     
 mgam Mindgames               Alexei Schoulga     Bludrainger       Russia     
 mirr Mirror Universe         Jeffrey Abshire     Decker            Usa        
 msbx Music Box               Nathan Rische       Rose Blooming Red Usa        
 mshe Musicbox She            Pekka Ruuskanen     Hiq               Finland    
 nova Supernova               Brantley Lancaster  Cblii             Usa        
 nowr Nowhere In Spave        Dan Samblanet       Xbig_d            Usa        
 nwbr New Breed Of Old        Eric Smith          Arcain            Usa        
 ocmy Oceanic Mystique        D. Travis North     Coplan            Usa        
 octf October Fog             C. Buecheler        Shaithis          Usa        
 odsy Spiritual Oddysey       Rick Toothman       Shapeshifter      Usa        
 pac  Pacadatphia             Matt Feato          Hog               Usa        
 pand Pandora                 Steven Marx         Kronin            Usa        
 pitz Pitzdahero              Clemens Richter     Calandrian        Germany    
 piwa Piercing Water          Danny Aley          Exokai            Usa        
 play Modern Playboy          Stellan Andersson   Highlander        Sweden     
 prim M5r-prim.xm             K. Tantivitayatan   Istyle            Thailand   
 prl  Promised Land           Erika Yuri          Lady Lethal       Brazil     
 pty  Purgatory               Owyn Richen         Lucifer           Usa        
 pulz Pulse                   Mattias Inghe       Ming              Sweden     
 rawn Rawn                    Niklas Saers        Beren             Norway     
 rock Rythum Make Body Drop   Kevin Driscoll      Iago              Usa        
 rowa Ride On Waves           Marcel Lipovsky     Selfman           Slovakia
 rts  Reaching The Sky        Tim Soderstrom      Tigerhawk         Usa
 sbf  Shaped By Fear          Kris                Nuce              Canada     
 scle Sacred Lifeline         Mark Crouch         Letharus          Uk         
 sirn Siren's Reflection      Jason Hyde          Cardiac Arrest    Usa        
 ste  Ett Trevligh Litet Hus  Peter Hilsson       Kraftwerket       Sweden     
 stfo Six Trillion Feet Over  Brian Wickman       Salo              Usa        
 sub  Sound Of Urban Bruise   Bouthors Damien     Hollow            France     
 surg Surge                   Jeff Freeman        Freebase          Usa        
 susd Sustained Desperation   Matt Peters         Venom             Canada     
 tamu Tamuli                  David Matthew West  Kyp               Usa        
 tce  The Cassandra Effect    Justin Reid         Stein             Usa        
 tech Tech-o-matic            James Wong          Cygnus            Australia  
 thir Thirteen                Josh Hastey         Ith               Usa        
 tkex The Khalil Experience   Jose Carlos Bravo   Tooms             Spain      
 tqmm Tranquil Memory         Josh Hines          Realm Dweller     Usa        
 tral Jungle Trail            Brian Kemp          Broam             Usa        
 trbp Travelling By Piano     Przemek Tmidajewicz Jazzman           Poland     
 trdm Trance Dreams           Michael Goddard     Magnesium         Australia  
 ttbo The Two Become One      Doug Payton         The VR Band       Usa        
 ttn  True To Nature          Vadim Elkind        Vado              Usa        
 ttwn Then There Were None    Ryan Sprott         Ryan              Usa        
 tytf The Youth, The Future   Korey Miller        Gemini            Usa        
 uatd Unable To Dream         Chris Ploran                          Usa        
 udrm Utopian Dreams          Mike Hildebrandt    Paradox           Canada     
 unfd Unfulfilled Desires     Brian D. Fritz      Psion             Usa        
 vom  Vomit                   Andreas Du Rietz    Marauder          Sweden     
 vsns Visions                 Petr Nemec          Pnsoft            Czech Rep.
 waig Water Is Good           Rune Vendler        Echo              Denmark    
 wake Wake Of Sorrow          Cameron Naquin      Doombringer       Usa        
 wave WAVE                    David Stewart       Crazy             New Zealand
 wsdw We Smoken Da Weed       David Cigan         Element           Canada     
 yest To Yesterday...         Courtney Risch      Saxy              Usa        

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