THE CONTEST
Left 4 Dead News in conjunction with L4Dforums.com is running a competition for you to win a copy of Left 4 Dead. In order to enter you need to register at L4Dforums and submit your story in the Zombie Fiction Contest subforum. This is the only place entires will be accepted.

THE RULES
1) Your entry must be your own work. Entries borrowed or stolen from other sources, be they other fan fiction writers or other sources will be disqualified.
2) Your entry must be in the region of 1000 to 3000 words.
3) Your entry must be submitted by the (TBC) competition closing date. This will be confirmed once a release date for the game is confirmed.
4) The story must be zombie related but does not have to be set in the Left 4 Dead universe. If you are unclear on what constitutes a Zombie (why the hell are you reading this??) Please see this for details.
5) Must be unique to the contest. We will not be accepting entries that you have written and submitted or published elsewhere.
6) You may enter more than one story to the competition but each must be individual. i.e. no part 1, part 2, part 3 etc)
7) The winner will be decided by the staff of L4Dforums.

THE PRIZE
One copy of Left 4 Dead for PC delivered by Steam on release date.
Publication of your story on left4deadnews.com.
The envy of all your friends and the curses of all your enemies.

GOOD LUCK!!
We wish all entrants the very best of luck. The winner will be announced on left4deadnews and L4Dforums. The decision of the staff will be final. No cash alternative will be offered.

Thank you,

Alan 'AzH' Smith
L4Dforums

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Good luck to all!

I look forward reading the entries (if they're as good as the first one, it should be great).

This gives me the urge to write a quick story. Not that it will be actually in the contest; conflict of interest in judging there

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I may make a quick story, hopefully intergrate teh ceiling cat chronicles.

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Ceiling Cat + Zombies = Pwnage.

I'm writing a short story but as I'm a mod it wont be eligible for winning

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Will you be getting a cd or you have to download it off steam?

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I believe it will be sent to the winner using Steam's gifting system.

DT will correct me if I'm mistaken.

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You are correct.

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I have a question about the contest. Are the stories going to be judged at one point in time or are they considered "judged" as you turn them in? If it's the latter, then it would seem unfair to the people who post stories sooner than later because their writing would be forgotten...

Just wondering!

When the deadline is reached...all of them are going to be turned in. Also they are not judged by us.

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Good question, to which the answer is.... [Drum roll.]

They'll all be judged when the deadline (yet to be announced, DT will decide once a release date for L4D is confrimed).

We aren't judging them as they come. Well, we're reading them (at least I am, can't speak for the other staff) but we won't judge them until the deadline.

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What he said.

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You might want to start paying me for answering all these question

Jokes, I enjoy it.

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There has been an addition to the rules.

You may enter more than one story to the competition but each must be individual. i.e. no part 1, part 2, part 3 etc)

Please use this thread if you have further questions.

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