Contest Result: Whose Haiku Was Haiku-est of Them All?

Are you the winner of our latest contest? Maybe! Well, click through to find out, and to check out all of the finalist entries. We be emailing the winner within the hour so keep your eye on your inbox!

Here at OLC we like to keep things on the up and up. So to make sure a winner was picked without any bias, we forwarded the contest finalists’ entries to Stephen Totilo of Kotaku (a master poet, himself.) Totilo sent us word of his pick earlier today, and we’re happy to announce that Ronald Diemicke has won a copy of Jagged Alliance! Ronald’s entry was straight to the point:

Damn Mercenaries
They always want more money
To hell with this country

Stephen’s reasoning behind the pick? “… [it] may break the rules of haiku, but does so with style. I feel like I’m reading lines that could be spoken by a real video game character, yet they’re in haiku. It suggests to me that all game speech could be poetry, if only we look at it in a certain way. And that’s a beautiful thing.”

So there you go, Ronald – the code is on the way.  Perhaps you have a career in writing poetry about grizzled and cold hearted mercenaries… well, ok, not sure if that’ll pay the bills, but it’s worth a shot.

Below are the entries by the other finalists. Everyone did a great job, and be sure to stay tuned, we’re anouncing the next contest tomorrow.

Alex Babski
Duke Nukem 3D: Atomic Edition

Duke will kick some butt.
Where porno rules all the land.
Duke will rule it all.

Joshua Koehn
Game: Postal 2

Cats are silencers
They fit well on my shotgun
Meow meow bang

Billy Gibbs
Unreal Tournament, GOTY Edition

In glorious High School
Capturing the flag in class
learn the shock combo

Brandi Swenson
Fallout 2

The desert is hot
The GECK is what I search for
Chosen One I am.

Max Knerler
Duke Nukem 3D

Nukem Balls of steel
heart made of gold
DNF an untold story

Matt Silvestri
Arx Fatalis

Twenty-plus weapons,
Fifty powerful rune-spells,
What more could you want?