CYS's Final Fantasy-esque battle engine blew us out of the water, and the gameplay was addictive and funny. A perfect recipe for winning! CYS wins a copy of the now renamed MMF2: Developer.

Life can be bitterly cruel. Snerlin misses out on the top prize by one point. Normally I wouldn't do this, but because of this potentially evil twist of fate, a special consolation copy of MMF2 (Standard) has been arranged for Snerlin - time to celebrate :)

Coming in at a very respectable third place is Christmas Stone by Hishnak, a platformer which was liked by all. Sadly, no prize, but you get respect - which is infinately better than a copy of MMF2. Well... perhaps not.

A small exploratory platformer from Scaneider. The game was deemed as a whole as being of a high standard, but it was also considered to be very hard - maybe unfairly so. Still, it's really worth looking at.

5th place; a very nice shoot-em-up - one of the rare games that isn't actually a platformer! Barfer Sickmess has all the trimmings - fun gameplay, a co-op mode and a running demo if you leave the title page running. Despite these traits, many judges thought that the code was shockingly disorganised.

A sequel to a previous Christmas competition entrant, this game features a customisable robot. How cool is that?! Sadly, not cool enough to make it any higher - but it's cool enough.

Scraping in just below Radix entry, this game is great for a quick ten minute blast. Santa Hanta is arguably the most well presented game in this competition which shows a great deal of professionalism.

Pretty much a pure destruction simulator, and in eighth place is Robot Santa by Ben Mercer. This game fell down primarily on the lack of a Christmas theme.

So where were the Christmas references again? That was the question asked by most of the judges that really knocked down this fun twist on the Sokoban-style gameplay. D'oh!

Highly Gameboyish platformer with flawed jumping and plenty of penguins.

Stealthy platformer with some Metal Gear Solid parodic references. Sadly it falls just short of the Top 10, but still a very worthy game.

High speed collect-em-up platformer (complete with present indicator!) with some horrible earthquake effects!

Rabbits abound in yet another platformer, breeding like... well, rabbits, really. Relatively ok, but sadly it just proved to be too basic to score higher, and was repetitive as well.

Christmas what?? Mix Rayman and perhaps a dash of Robocod and you get something resembling this game. Unskippable cutscenes and some eye killing levels do not help this games cause, but it's still reasonably good fun.

A somewhat chaotic deathmatch platformer with bots - but without a two player mode!

A mish-mash of different game styles all blended into one, but the judges came to the conclusion that it doesn't really work...

Super bouncy platformer where you must use the presents as projectiles and try and throw them into Santa's sack. Somewhat awkward to control, but innovative nonetheless.

Starring the worlds biggest collectables! This game fell because it was painful on the eyes, the textbox bug was irritating, and the game as a whole could have been seriously improved. A shame.

An extremely buggy platformer, interspersed with some flying sections (that Andi likes!) and Mode7 trickery.

A fairly simple game that had nothing whatsoever to do with Christmas. Well, nearly nothing anyway.

At least he had a go.

No source supplied! But saying that, Mr Carson did state that he didn't want to give it out, so he knew that the inevitable disqualification would take place. A shame really, because Ornaments is really quite good.

Disqualified on three counts - all detailed by clicking on the link. Even if it were a valid game, it would have performed extremely poorly - maybe even last.