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We finally got to the end! After weeks of educated and completely uneducated guessing, it's finally time to present the winners of the CoN Name That Tune quiz game. We had a great turnout of over fifty participants, though not everyone was able to participate each of the three weeks, and the final round was incredibly close, with the difference between first and second place only a matter of minutes taken. From our final round of participants, I'm happy to announce our winners:

• First Place: The_Pink_Nu1


• Second Place: Sherick


• Third Place: FallingHeart


• Special Prize, drawn from all participants: Archetype

As promised, each winner is getting right away, via email, a gift certificate to be used at AmaCoN. As always, supporting CoN by buying everything you can through AmaCoN will feed the beast and allow us to do more and more contests in the future.

And speaking of which, we've got an easy contest for you now, again to celebrate this week's Tenth Anniversary of CoN. We've got ten four by six inch prints of the Caves of Narshe logo just waiting to be mailed to you, and all you need to do is click a button to be in the running to get one. I can't put the button right here, but here's the next best thing: a link to the easy signup page. If you participated in the last CoNtest, you're already in, so don't worry. We'll draw the winners on 12 August!

And one last thing for now: did you miss signing up for Name That Tune? Or did you participate, but want more quizzes? Well, everyone can now play for fun, all eight rounds of quizzes are now open to everyone, and will be for the next month. Just go back to the Name That Tune homepage and kick it back out!

More to come this week, so stay tuned.

The final round is now underway, again, sorry for the delay. This round will start immediately, and will run until 11:59pm GMT on 24 July, just to make sure that everyone has plenty of time. The final winners will be announced soon after, since I will probably be traveling for work on the 24th and 25th.

This is the round that will determine the winners, folks, so give it your all. We're taking ten of our best performers from the second round to have a shot at the big prize; your finalists, alphabetically, are:

alphasmart
archetype
Death Penalty
Dragon_Fire
FallingHeart
Nytecrawla
Sherick
Shotgunnova
Silver_Zombie
The_Pink_Nu1

And then we added two bonus participants, footbigmike and MogMaster, due to the fact that they won the two other groups in the second round. So, there you have it, the top twelve folks going for the big prizes, totaling $60 in AmaCoN gift cards!

If you're not in this list, though, make sure you participate in the final week anyway; anyone who participates this week can still be eligible for the $5 consolation prize. And, to help everyone out a little bit, we've updated the hint page to link to our last.fm pages.

Once we finish up this last round, everyone will have a chance to take all the quizzes they weren't able to take as part of the actual contest, and we'll have score leaderboards too. And after that, who knows? We'll try to set something up for you!

If you signed up for our contest, well, it's on now. You will have until midnight GMT (7pm EST) next Saturday, 7 July, to get your answers in. You've been broken into four groups, and each group gets a different quiz. The top scorers from each of the four groups will move on to the next round next week.

I'll send out a PM to everyone participating - good luck to every one of the fifty-two of you who signed up!

No need to wait any longer, you can sign up to participate right now! We will be kicking off the actual participation in a couple weeks, but for now you can make sure your name is in the hat so we can assign you to your groups; plus, for us, we'll know what the prize pool is going to be earlier if we get all the signups early too.

To sign up, just go to the new special Quiz page — that's right, we're bringing back the quizzes this month for you guys to celebrate our Tenth Anniversary with us. But, like Laszlow said, this time you don't get by on your Final Fantasy knowledge. It's up to your knowledge of music, the staff, and some good old-fashioned detective work. Or random guessing, since you've got a 20% chance of guessing right every time!

Don't worry, though, because we're also giving you some hints, some cryptic, some not. To learn more about whose music you're angling for, have a quick look at our "About the Participants" page.

The more people we get involved, the more money we can guarantee will roll out of the contest. So get your friends involved. If they're not on CoN, bring them in, because anyone with an authorized Caves of Narshe account can play, not to mention participate in these very forums and use all the other interactive features of CoN.

Get started, and post in here to let us know you're in!

That's right! In honor of the Caves of Narshe's upcoming 10th anniversary, a second CoNtest (quite possibly the first of several) is coming up very soon! This CoNtest is going to be quite different from last year's, with concept by Del S and code by Rangers51 and Tiddles. I won't tell you exactly what it's about yet, but here are a few hints:

1) This CoNtest will use a tournament-style setup coded directly through the website; no more emailing in submissions.

2) Again, this CoNtest will almost certainly favor contestants that frequent the forums and chat more often than others; it's similar to the incognito CoNtest in that respect.

3) For the most part, this CoNtest will NOT be about video games, not even ones that CoN covers; if you have an extensive knowledge of video games, it isn't going to help much. If at all.

4) Bogut.

That's all I'm saying, so let the anticipation begin! This time there will be guaranteed prizes for the first, second, and third-finishing contestants in the form of Amazon.com gift certificates, so the stakes are pretty high. You can expect this new Contest to drop sometime in the next few weeks. Until then, prognosticate away!

Want to sign up? Signup should be available in the evening of 18 June or sometime on 19 June - it's as simple as clicking a button. To stay updated so you know when you can sign up, either subscribe to this thread or make sure you can receive email from board administrators.

It's been a while since the last update, hasn't it? Let's not point fingers. We'll try to be faster next time, honest.

We've got 35 new pieces of fanart for you this time, from five of our six games: Final Fantasy IV, Final Fantasy V, Final Fantasy VI, Final Fantasy VII and Final Fantasy Tactics - some from our wizened veterans and some from first-time submitters.

If you head over to the gallery, you'll find some great fanart from:

• Galsic



• Ishigaki Mitsuo



• Kame



• SilverFork



• kittytreats



• Narratorway



• PrinceofDamycan



• Rujuken


• Zeromus_X


• EqwanoX


• Hikaroo


• CloudyFan

So, thanks to everyone who contributed, both new and old! Oh, and to Kappa and Mimic, who, along with me, put this update together. Enjoy!