The 2013 competition was organized by Greg Boettcher.

Voting ended on April 28, 2013. If you haven't already played the games, you can download them below.

A big thanks to all who voted in the comp, and to those who donated prizes. And congratulations to all the entrants.

Place	Game	Author	Avg.	Std. Dev.	No. Votes	Prize Chosen
1	Witch's Girl	Mostly Useless	6.85	2.15	13	$370
2	A Roiling Original	Andrew Schultz	6.08	2.29	13	$171
3	Encyclopedia of Elementals	Adam Holbrook	5.00	2.55	9	$80

All three games in one archive		SpringThing2013.zip	2,495 KB	ST.net	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
Encyclopedia of Elementals by Adam Holbrook	Quest	EncyclopediaOf Elementals.quest	155 KB	ST.net	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
A Roiling Original by Andrew Schultz	Glulx	roil.zip	559 KB	ST.net	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
Witch's Girl by Mostly Useless	HTML/ Twine	WitchsGirl.zip	1,778 KB	ST.net	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror
		ST2013readme.txt	2 KB	ST.net	IF Archive	IF Archive Mirror

You'll need a Quest interpreter to play Encyclopedia of Elementals, and you'll need a Glulx interpreter to play A Roiling Original. To download these, see the links above. To play Witch's Girl, you just need a web browser.

The Spring Thing would like to thank the following people:

Adam Cadre, for starting the competition;
Mike Snyder, for writing the voting program and for running a mirror;
Peter Seebach, for past hosting and technical help;
Stephen Granade, for occasional advice; and
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 the 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 in game authorship and discourage shoddiness. (The entry fee seems to be fairly effective for this purpose, usually weeding out substandard games.) .