The 2005 competition was organized by Greg Boettcher.

Place	Game	Author	Avg.	Std. Dev.	No. Votes	Prize Chosen
1	Whom The Telling Changed	Aaron A. Reed	7.13	1.62	24	$180.00
2	Bolivia By Night	Aidan Doyle	6.77	2.39	22	$100.97
3	Threnody	John "Doppler" Schiff	6.25	2.21	24	sonnets
4	Flat Feet	Joel Ray Holveck	5.92	1.61	24	Neverwhere
5	Second Chance	David Whyld	5.38	2.29	21	Mysterious Journey 2
6	Authority	Eva Vikström	2.79	1.44	24	$60.00

You'll need an interpreter to play these games. Actually, you'll need more than one interpreter, one for each game type (ADRIFT, TADS 2, and Z-Code). To find out which interpreters are best for your system, consult ifwiki.org's list of IF interpreters.

The Spring Thing would like to thank the following people:

Adam Cadre, for starting the competition;
Mike Snyder, for writing the voting program;
Peter Seebach, for hosting and technical help;
Stephen Granade, for occasional advice; and
all of the prize donors, for their generosity. here here

Obviously, the general purpose of Spring Thing is to promote interactive fiction. More specifically, there are three aims that make Spring Thing different from the annual IF Comp:

1. To provide a place for promoting medium-sized to long works of interactive fiction.
2. To provide some springtime relief to the dry season between the autumn deluges of the IF Comp.
3. To encourage excellence and discourage shoddiness. (To this end, there are entry fees, non-bugginess requirements, etc.