TBT's Winter Short Story Contest and Valentine's Event Winners!

[Chris]

TBT's Winter Short Story Contest ran between January 15th-31st 2021, where 107 people submitted winter and/or Animal Crossing themed short stories between 500-2000 words in length. The TBT staff team narrowed down the entries to a top six and then the first, second, and third place winners were decided by a community poll that ran between February 22nd-28th 2021.

Thank you to everyone who participated in this contest by submitting entries and voting in the community poll. The results are in and here are the winners of our Winter Short Story Contest! Clicking on the titles will take you to the winner's original submission post so that you can read their story.

First place goes to Imbri with 27 votes!
They have won a Gold Trophy collectible and 150 TBT bells for their efforts.






Joint second place goes to Kattea and LittleMissPanda with 22 votes each!
They have each won a Silver Trophy collectible and 125 TBT bells for their efforts.







Third place goes to NefariousKing with 16 votes!
They have won a Bronze Trophy collectible and 100 TBT bells for their efforts.

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[Chris]

TBT's Valentine's × Festivale event ran February 14th-21st 2021. In this event 102 members spread the love by designing an Animal Crossing themed Valentine's card for another member of our community. Below are the TBT staff team's favourite picks for this event!

Pavé Tail Feather Collectible Winners
Aniko
Dog
Firesquids
Holla
Mick
Pyoopi
xSuperMario64x

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Prize distribution for both the Winter Short Story Contest and Valentine's × Festivale Event will take place later tonight (EST). When the prizes have been sent out Jeremy will post in this thread to let you know, so keep an eye out for that!

Thank you again to everyone who participated in either the writing contest or the card-making event!

 

[xSuperMario64x]

omg I got staff fave!!! It's been so long since that happened to me (since the 2017 fair)!!!

thank you so much staff!! I absolutely loved this event, we should def do more like it!!
❤

 

[Kirbyz]

congrats to everyone!!

 

[jiny]

congrats to everyone <33 !!!

 

[Foreverfox]

Congrats to everyone in both events! I'm so happy to see that alot of my friends won in something! I actually felt like I did a good job with mine, and I'm really proud of it, but better luck next time I suppose!

 

[SpaceTokki77]

congrats to all the staff favorites! these were so fun to see/read
everyone is so talented!

 

[LittleMissPanda]

It's an honor to have gotten second place Thank you so much for hosting the Winter Short Story contest! It was a lot of fun writing and reading so many fantastic entries! Congratulations to all finalists and winners! And congratulations to the Valentine's staff favorite winners as well!

 

[Holla]

Ahhh thanks so much for the staff fave! The best part of all was making @Zhongli ’s day of course. Was a super fun event to take part in for sure!

 

[Firesquids]

Ahhhh! Thanks so much for the staff fav!
It means a lot, especially with so many other great entries.
I loved these events so much and I eagerly wait for the next one!

 

[deana]

Congrats to all the winners!

And thank you staff for another wonderful event!

 

[Xara]

congrats, everyone!! even though i didn’t win, it was still an honour to be one of the short story finalists . that’s honestly never happened to me before and it meant a lot :’). i also smiled so big when i saw @Firesquids’ card won staff favourite!! that card means so much to me and i’ll cherish it forever. <3

and staff, thank you so much for another awesome event! i hope you all will be able to relax after this - you deserve it. ☺

 

[Yanrima~]

Congratulations to the winners. It’s fun sending each other valentine cards!

 

[Nefarious]

AhhH I didn’t think I would place! It’s such an honor. I’m thankful to everyone that took the time to read all the finalists’ stories. I’m at a lost for words really, but there’s a whole lot of gratitude haha.

Congrats to the winners of both events and the finalists! Very well deserved!

 

[Aniko]

What? OMG!!! I'm so shocked! Thank you very much! (is it real?)

Also, congrats to the other winners, I love yours very much, there were so many good entries for that event.

Congratulation to the the writing contest winners! I loved reading those.

 

[Imbri]

Thank you, there were so many incredible stories submitted, it was an honor to be chosen as a finalist. To win first place is doubly so.

Congratulations to all the finalists and winners in both contests. I loved reading all the stories and I'm blown away by the artistic talent in the cards.

 

[Sheep Villager]

Congrats to everyone who won! I had a blast seeing all the cute cards everyone made.

I admit I was a too sluggish to read all the writing contest entries, but the ones I did read were all very fun.​

 

[Plainbluetees]

Congratulations to all the staff favorites! And to staff, for making such awesome events. I love the regular purple feather, too. : D

 

[The Pennifer]

AhhH I didn’t think I would place! It’s such an honor. I’m thankful to everyone that took the time to read all the finalists’ stories. I’m at a lost for words really, but there’s a whole lot of gratitude haha.

Congrats to the winners of both events and the finalists! Very well deserved!

I wanted to congratulate all the winners too of course, but I particularly loved your story! I really want the pigeon’s dream to come true!

 

[Midoriya]

Thanks so much for hosting these events, staff, and congrats to all of the winners! I loved looking through all of these. Simply amazing!