All the votes are in for the July-October 1998 round of the Internet Ray
Tracing Animation Competition, and the winners are:

   First place:   the Pool Shark (poolshrk.mpg) by Neil Alexander
   Second place:  Perpetual Pingpong (pingpong.mpg) by Warwick Allison
   Third place:   Rusty's Late (rusty.mpg) by John VanSickle

And our Honorable Mentions for this round are:

   Artistic Merit:   LAC COMMANDER CANYON RUN (canyon.mpg) by H. E. Day
   Technical Merit:  Dominoes Game (cjdom.mpg) by Christof Joswig
   Concept/Theme:    Infinite game voyage (dmgames.mpg) by Darko Martic

The complete tabulated results of the public vote are available:

   ftp://ftp.irtc.org/pub/anims/1998-10-15/results.txt
   http://www.irtc.org/anims/1998-10-15.html

Congratulations to the winners, and thanks to everyone who participated in the
competition.  Please join us for the current round!

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The IRTC Admin Team