emmzee hosted this contest with some help of Hercules (me). The most noticeable thing about this contest is that it turned out to have two winners (zzblue and Theta14), tieing for place one. There was no tiebreaker system or whatever, so the contest had two winners. This also meant that Theta and zzblue were to host the next contest together, which they did. Originally, there was no 2nd place because of the tie for place one. Flimsy placed third and Knightt 4th. I changed this around for this archive, though.

Also, Lemmer judged this contest as well, but he sent in his scores too late. Also, emmzee disagreed on his judging -- see here.

zzblue and Theta did a pretty decent job hosting the first 24 hours of ZZT contest being hosted by two people. On the other hand, there was some ruckus about KevEdit not being allowed in the contest. A tiebreaker rule was brought to life, so that we wouldn't have two participants both winning the contest again.

Knightt finally managed to win a 24hoz, after having stood on the "other" podium places (2nd and 3rd spots) a few times. Also, for one of the first times in 24hoz history, a few entries were disqualified for reasons other than being a junk entry (during the Summer 1999 and Spring 2000 contests, one or two entries were DQed as well). Reasons this time were "lack of topic compliance" and "lack of name and id number on title screen".

Knightt hosted his second 24hoz (first one being the Autumn 1999 one), but this time he did so because he won the previous 24hoz. The MZXers Kev Vance and Lipid, as well as the AKware team, did a great job and of course, zzblue lived it up to the expectations.

jimbob was on the judging council as well, but he dropped out. After a long time of absence, Tseng was back on the 24hoz judging panel, too.