[Mini Contest] Write a Short Story - Winners announced

[iFros 1,891]

 

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Winners announced!

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So the  "Best Short Story Tellers of the Week" are : 

 

1st place: @Tsunami wins a Golden Wrensh:

• His story:

 

 

 

I was a normal person. An average person, but with a passion for video games. Video games were part of my life. But now, they have left me. Or I have left them. And with them, I have left my old self. Today is Halloween. It happened yesterday, the 30th of October. The day that has changed my life, two years after I joined Tanki Online.

 

I still remember the day I joined. I was trying to find a costume for Halloween. Trying and failing. I asked my friends for help, and one of them showed me his costume of last year. A costume with tanks, pumpkins, and words. The words? ‘Tanki Online. Beware of Godmode_ON’.

 

He had made it himself, due to a short-lived devotion to Tanki Online that had coincided with Halloween. He told me that if I played the game and liked it, he would give me the costume. So I started playing. But I didn’t stop. I couldn’t stop. The next night, I wore the costume. I left it in what I had always thought of as my Memories Wardrobe, full of mementoes. Mementoes of games. Video games.

 

And then, 2 years later, having reached the rank of Generalissimo, I wanted to wear it again. So I went into my Memories Wardrobe, and I dug out the costume. I saw, or thought I saw, a light in the pocket. And then, when I put my hand in, I found a model of a tank. A perfect model of my favorite combo. Isida Hornet. And it wore the new Halloween paint.

 

As I realized this, my eyes shut. I tried to open them without success. And when I did open them, I was in a map. A map of Tanki Online. And not just any map. It was the new map Halloween, and it was a big map. Big enough to hold 15 of those tanks. And in the center of the map, surrounded by tanks? Me. A human. Standing in the center, my teeth chattering and my eyes wide.

 

Then, with a vivid, unreal feeling of seeing the word in my brain, I heard the word ‘Ready’. I felt something changing, but the startling, nerve-wracking truth escaped me until the roar of engines filled my head. I looked down, and saw the interior of a tank as I had often imagined it. I tried to move and found that it was similar to walking or running. Again, I heard something. This time, ‘Go!’.

 

I felt, rather than saw, the other tanks moving towards me, and knew that they had no good intentions. I started running away as fast as I could, instinctively thinking of pressing ‘4’. To my surprise, I saw a yellow arrow in my mind’s eye, signifying a 40% increase in my speed. As a grim game of cat-and-mouse started, I discovered that I was a Wasp/Thunder, wearing a paint that I could not recognize with my limited view.

 

I started shooting the Hornets that were chasing me in an effort to keep them away. My stomach tightened as I remembered that they were vampires. They would heal themselves while damaging me. I had to stop them.

 

I wondered if I could drop a Gold Box to distract them, and I found out with the now-familiar visions that I had 183 available to drop. Immediately, I started dropping them, but to no avail. They were still on my track, although some of the weaker-minded tanks started moving towards the drop zones. I had lost time. I felt myself slowly but steadily weakening as some of the vampires locked on me, and in my panic I shot, my self-damage forgotten. Darkness enveloped me as my body froze.

 

I was falling. Falling into a black pit. When I opened my eyes, there was silence. I was no longer in the map. No longer a tank. I saw a light near me, and went towards it. It was the model tank. As I touched it, my eyes shut again and I felt myself rising. My vision returned to show me my wardrobe. I realized that I was holding the model tank, a tank so perfect it was almost real.

 

When I left the wardrobe, I discovered that 5 minutes had passed. I opened my laptop and logged on to Tanki. When I went to Server EN1, I looked at the chat. Everyone was talking about the ‘Vampires and the King’ event that had just finished. They were saying that the King, Godmode_ON, had dropped gold boxes even while they chased him, and the solution dawned on me.

 

My heart was pounding and my body numb. I had not only played as Godmode_ON, I had been him. And the paint, the unrecognized paint, was Devil. I had become a tank, the most famous tank in the Tankiverse. Or I had been hallucinating. A hallucination caused by my addiction. Maybe the sight of the costume and the tank had put me in a sort of dream, a trance. Or maybe I had created the whole vision with my imagination. I may never know what happened in the Wardrobe. Anything is possible.

 

But I knew one thing. I needed to stop playing Tanki. Keep the costume that started it, and the model tank that ended it. But not the account that was my career in Tanki Online. Last night, two years after I started playing Tanki Online, I closed the game for the last time. Tonight, I will wear the costume bearing the legend ‘Tanki Online. Beware of Godmode_ON’.

 

2nd place: wins a Tangled Turret:

• His story:

 

 

 

At the Magadan battle field in the snowy day hiding behind an alpine tree. Gunshots, mines detonating and tanks burning up had got my heart racing and to add to that, now it was my turn to fight in the battle with team red against the nefarious blue. Eventually with my tank having a sniping capability, I chose to stay back and shoo each enemy down. Sure it was cowardly, but quite effective. Though my strategy soon backfired since the enemy team, observing the effectiveness of my shaft, adopted the same strategy and started hunting me down. Out of ammo, I felt as a sitting duck, for close range tanks started targeting me. It was only a matter of time until I was to be exterminated, however fate arrived.

“Ppkp_GT has dropped the gold box.”

Now instead of me being the center of attention, everyone rushed along for the gold box. I felt if as I were saved, but an adjacent tank had the same idea as I. We were both targeting the tanks, which were chasing the gold box, until our eye’s crossed to each other.

I was either me or him. Turrets locked upon each other waiting for a reload. Though when both of us reloaded, fate had again come to my aid in form of a miracle. A tank leap out of a ledge on an attempt to gain the gold box, but instead blocking the other tank’s shot thus leaving me an opportunity to win the battle. After I fired the decisive shot, I contributed to our team’s victory and left the snowy field with 3 stars and the First position.

 

 

 

3rd place: @Benefactor wins a Teddy Bear:

• His story:

 

 

 

Once upon a time, there was a young boy who was online and came across Tanki Online. He decided it could be an interesting game to play. He logged in, gave himself a gamer name, and proceeded to play. Unbeknownst to him, the Match Making placed him in a battle with other Legends trolling the recruit level. After being spawn-killed multiple times, he investigated on how to get better. He read the Tanki Wiki pages, the v-logs, and also contemplated on making a purchase or two. All this investigating was taking up all his time. So he decided to quit this game, go to school and study hard. He picked up a part-time job during summer vacations and spare time. He saved every penny. A few years later, he was finishing his degree in college and received many job offers. Today, he is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife and 2.5 children. He owns a big house and two cars…. The boy woke up. He asked his parents to buy him online items for this game. His parents decided to spoil him and did as he asked. All through school the boy played Tanki as much as he could using every spare minute he had. All through high school he played every spare minute. He got a part-time job and spent all of his earnings on Tanki. College came but he could not keep up with his school work because it was interfering with his Tanki time. He soon gave up college and because he had no viable source of income, he stayed home and played Tanki all day and all night. He found the easy way to get through life. The years passed quickly and he soon found himself alone. What had he done all these years? So much that life offers out there and all he did was stay in his room and let the years pass by as if it was just one huge day. He began to contemplate “what if I lived life and not be a slave to the screen?”

 

 

 

 

~Congratulations to all the winners, you all deserve it!

 

Note: To all the winners, please enable "Accept gifts from all players" option in the settings menu so that you can receive your gifts.

 

PS: All the entries had some minor grammar faults, don't worry it won't count for this time. But always try to review your entry before submitting them.

 

~Prizes will be sent as soon as possible.

 

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Huge thanks to all those who participated. Honestly there is so many amazing entries, but the win unfortunately is only for 3 people. Don't worry guys, there is so many chances in other contests that will come soon! so be prepared for them!

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Original announcement:

 

 

 

How to participate: 

 

Write a short story about something special that happened to you or it can be even from your imagination, but keep in mind that it must be related to Tanki Online. So get your spirit ready for this amazing contest!

• Submit your short story in this special form.

Entries will be judged by:

• Originality.
• Creativity.
• The quality of the Story itself.

Rules:

• Entries must comply with the rules of the game;
• Any use of aggressive language such as insults will lead to instant disqualification;
• Any entry that offend the game in any way will be disqualified;
• The story must of course be short;
• You can participate only once;
• The story must be yours;

 

The winners will be called  "Best Short Story Teller of the Week" .

 

Best entries will  receive:

• 1st place: Golden Wrench :  
• 2nd Place: Tangled Turret : 
• 3rd Place: Teddy Bear : 

 

 

Dates:

• March 3rd, 2019  — Contest Start, entries accepted.
• March 9th, 2019, 17:00 UTC  — Contest end, submissions will be closed.

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Good Luck everyone, Let's see what you got!

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Like this topic if you want more similar contests!

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Edited March 9, 2019 by iFrosTiger

[iFros 1,891]

Contest start.

 

 

Like this topic for more amazing contests!

Edited March 2, 2019 by iFrosTiger

[Initiate 1,306]

Nice idea, you should ask the devs for some promocodes as rewards :)

Sorry, one thing: I don't have a google account but it needs me to sign in to fill out the submission form. Can we send it as a PM?

[iFros 1,891]

promo codes mostly give 1 container from which u probably will get 125 mines, these gifts are better

 

oh and here is the part i regret not caring about my imagination :/

welp, none of us are authors so who knows ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

 

man i dont even know where to start \:

can i write something related to space exploration? not a guide but a story

 

oh and its not yet march 3rd in UTC time, so if i submit before will it be accepted?

You can write any story type you would like, but the most important thing is that it must be related to Tanki. And as long as you submit your entry before the deadline, it will be accepted.

[AncientFire 1,894]

You can write any story type you would like, but the most important thing is that it must be related to Tanki. And as long as you submit your entry before the deadline, it will be accepted.

ohhh i guess i did not read the rules properly

 

welp this should be ez  :D 

[iFros 1,891]

Nice idea, you should ask the devs for some promocodes as rewards :)

Sorry, one thing: I don't have a google account but it needs me to sign in to fill out the submission form. Can we send it as a PM?

I removed the sign in requirement. You can participate now without a google account.

Edited March 2, 2019 by iFrosTiger

[iFros 1,891]

ohhh i guess i did not read the rules properly

 

welp this should be ez  :D 

Good luck ;).

[Adab 2,896]

Nice contest, Goodluck to all participants!  ^_^

[FrozenRailgun 1,771]

Go everyone! Hope you can get those gifts!

[u812ic 1,629]

How short is short and how long is short? I know one 4 words long (or short). It's in Latin, so with the translation, it would be 11 words long. Naw, I won the last one. Let someone else have a chance. 

Edited March 2, 2019 by u812ic

[iFros 1,891]

How short is short and how long is short? I know one 4 words long (or short). It's in Latin, so with the translation, it would be 11 words long. Naw, I won the last one. Let someone else have a chance. 

Feel free to do what you feel is right ;)

[iFros 1,891]

Nice idea, you should ask the devs for some promocodes as rewards :)

That would be hard because the chances are low for such a request.

[u812ic 1,629]

Will we be able to read the short stories? Who are the judges? Will we be able to vote?

[iFros 1,891]

Will we be able to read the short stories? Who are the judges? Will we be able to vote?

The short stories that will be shown to you are the ones that belongs to the winners. For the current time, I'm the only judge which means voting won't count this time.

[iFros 1,891]

Update:

 

If this topic stays active, this might turn into a weekly contest. So invite your friends! And be active :).

Edited March 4, 2019 by iFrosTiger

[adil161_7 21]

Good luck everyone!

[Person_Random 4,991]

How long can this story be?

[iFros 1,891]

How long can this story be?

I mean you judge it by yourself, just find a way to end it when you realize that it's too long. Because it's hard to define a short story but by only what it's talking about and what it takes for it to be a complete one. It really depends on your personal judgement and that's a part of the challenge ;).

[DieselPlatinum 5,121]

I mean you judge it by yourself, just find a way to end it when you realize that it's too long. Because it's hard to define a short story but by only what it's talking about and what it takes for it to be a complete one. It really depends on your personal judgement and that's a part of the challenge ;).

Does it have to be this short?

 

Once upon a time, the end. :ph34r:

Edited March 4, 2019 by DieselPlatinum

[iFros 1,891]

Does it have to be this short?

 

Once upon a time, the end. :ph34r:

No, Haha. You know that it's hardly possible to win with such a story(even if it's not). Just make the one that you feel is the best one and will grant you a winning position. As I said before, it all comes down to your heart and your imagination.

Ps. the "once upon a time" sentence is not a necessary thing that you should begin with, you can start your story with anything you like.

Edited March 4, 2019 by iFrosTiger

[Initiate 1,306]

 

Hey, I've decided I won't participate in this one, for two reasons: I'm busy, and second I'll maybe do what Conq did for the Guide writing contest, and let those who perhaps don't write in real life get a chance for the top place, which I would obviously take if I tried :) xD

Let me know if you are doing another one in the summer :)

No, Haha. You know that it's hardly possible to win with such a story(even if it's not). Just make the one that you feel is the best one and will grant you a winning position. As I said before, it all comes down to your heart and your imagination.

Ps. the "once upon a time" sentence is not a necessary thing that you should begin with, you can start your story with anything you like.

How about this: Once upon a time, it ended. Is that good? ;)

[GorgoBlesk 831]

Once upon a time, there was an MM battle. It was Massacre CTF. Both teams tried to capture enemy flag but it was nearly impossible. Both teams had lots of extremely skilled campers so short range players had no chance. Suddenly, Godmode_ON came and the battle was extended to 30 minutes. Godmode_ON had M4 Titan Rail with Stabilized rounds.

 

Campers in both teams welcomed Godmode_ON and thanked him for the time extension. All noobs and mults left after they saw that Godmode_ON had 75% Spectrum module.

 

Battle continued and everyone in the enemy team tried to kill Godmode_ON but it was too hard. Battle moderator came and called Cedric who also equipped 75% Spectrum module. He had M4 Viking Magnum.

 

Godmode_ON asked: 'Why Magnum?' Cedric replied: 'Times have changed, my dear friend. Players forgot about the potential strength of this turret.'

 

The battle continued as the players were killing each other. Only Godmode_ON and Cedric were not killed. Their modules were strong enough to keep them alive until their repair kit was recharged.

 

Godmode_ON said: 'Cedric, do you know why I am here?'

Cedric did not know.

Godmode_ON said: 'I am here to fight for the removal of drones. They should have never been added.

Cedric replied: 'Only that? No problem.

Godmode_ON said: It is Women's day and I decided to finally reveal my true identity. I am just making a v-log and I will upload it to youtube.

Cedric cried: 'Please, do not do that, my dear friend. I will do everything for you.'

Godmode_ON said: 'Will you marry me, Cedric?'

Cedric replied: Yes, I will, Elisabeth, I love you...

 

Godmode_ON and Cedric suddenly left and probably started a Skype or Discord call. Players in both teams were really happy. They wished all the best to these 2 legends. They added each other to friend list and created clan called Camperia (CMPR).

 

2 weeks later, there was a huge wedding in London. Maf, Hexed, Ninja, Hate and all the other moderators of Tanki were happily dancing with their lovely counterparts.

[AncientFire 1,894]

 

you have to submit your entry in the form -____-

this one: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdHHIgbv2AY2Re7MeWSf6IXkhcPnP9EsUz5FogK_QSJ3tZVgA/viewform

[u812ic 1,629]

Nothing like reading the instructions on the first page.  ;)

[iFros 1,891]

 

 

Once upon a time, there was an MM battle. It was Massacre CTF. Both teams tried to capture enemy flag but it was nearly impossible. Both teams had lots of extremely skilled campers so short range players had no chance. Suddenly, Godmode_ON came and the battle was extended to 30 minutes. Godmode_ON had M4 Titan Rail with Stabilized rounds.

 

Campers in both teams welcomed Godmode_ON and thanked him for the time extension. All noobs and mults left after they saw that Godmode_ON had 75% Spectrum module.

 

Battle continued and everyone in the enemy team tried to kill Godmode_ON but it was too hard. Battle moderator came and called Cedric who also equipped 75% Spectrum module. He had M4 Viking Magnum.

 

Godmode_ON asked: 'Why Magnum?' Cedric replied: 'Times have changed, my dear friend. Players forgot about the potential strength of this turret.'

 

The battle continued as the players were killing each other. Only Godmode_ON and Cedric were not killed. Their modules were strong enough to keep them alive until their repair kit was recharged.

 

Godmode_ON said: 'Cedric, do you know why I am here?'

Cedric did not know.

Godmode_ON said: 'I am here to fight for the removal of drones. They should have never been added.

Cedric replied: 'Only that? No problem.

Godmode_ON said: It is Women's day and I decided to finally reveal my true identity. I am just making a v-log and I will upload it to youtube.

Cedric cried: 'Please, do not do that, my dear friend. I will do everything for you.'

Godmode_ON said: 'Will you marry me, Cedric?'

Cedric replied: Yes, I will, Elisabeth, I love you...

 

Godmode_ON and Cedric suddenly left and probably started a Skype or Discord call. Players in both teams were really happy. They wished all the best to these 2 legends. They added each other to friend list and created clan called Camperia (CMPR).

 

2 weeks later, there was a huge wedding in London. Maf, Hexed, Ninja, Hate and all the other moderators of Tanki were happily dancing with their lovely counterparts.

 

 

Hello  please submit your entry via the special form. Otherwise it won't be accepted.

Edited March 6, 2019 by iFrosTiger