It's official! The First Ever (And Maybe The Only) IF Mini-Competition
(TFE(AMTO)IFM-C) has begun! Grab the premise (premise.txt in this
directory) and have at! Here's the rough schedule of events:

     May 19th: Premise posted and uploaded; those lucky few with fast
       feeds start work early.

     May 20th: Contest officially begins.

     May 20th-June20th: IF authors around the globe frantically work on
       their (short) masterpieces, based on said premise.

     June 20th: Contest sumission deadline. Authors must submit game
       file and source code (any authoring system will do) to me by this
       date. Authors can either:
         E-mail me (lpsmith@rice.edu), attaching the game. 
         E-mail me and tell me where to find it. 
         E-mail me and ask me where to upload it. 
	 E-mail me and explain that they don't have e-mail access, and
	   could they please make other arrangements?

     June 22nd or thereabouts: All game files uploaded to gmd, probably
       to reside in the ftp://ftp.gmd.de/if- archive/games/mini-comp/
       directory.

     June 22nd - July 22nd: Leigons of adoring fans play the resulting
       masterworks, e-mailing me with their favorites and write-ins.

     July 22nd or thereabouts: Voting ends.

     Some time after that: Winners announced, source code uploaded to
       gmd, a tired lpsmith goes to bed.