Some Rather Important News
As some of you are no doubt aware after a recent disagreement with this site's administration I have become convinced that this forum's moderators and admin are capricious, prejudiced, hypocritical, and unwilling to be held accountable. As a result, I've made the decision to "leave" AH.com, and instead run
a new alternate history discussion forum called AltHistoria.
I say "leave" because I will still be on here somewhat often, will still check my PMs, and will still partake in the two main forum institutions that I set up/run - the Minecraft server, and this contest. However in the case of the latter, I will no longer be acting as the Contest Overseer - I intend to set up the Map of the Fortnight contest over on the aforementioned AltHistoria and run it myself there, but instead of abandoning it here I intend to hand over its administration to another member of the forum: Upvoteanthology.
I've given Upvoteanthology the templates I use for threads, and I'll be advising her on the fine details, but starting in the New Year she will be the Contest Overseer of Map of the Fortnight on AH.com. She's a good friend of mine and I am certain of her abilities to run this contest with the dedication and enthusiasm it needs, so I ask that you warmly welcome her and this new era in this contest!
I have a couple of extra pieces of minutiae I'd like to note. Firstly I will be posting links to the MotF entry and voting threads on AltHistoria, similar to how I posted new threads before, so if you're not able/willing to be on AltHistoria often it will still be possible for you to keep up to date with the contest there should you wish to take part. Secondly, I shall still be "running" the ongoing Map Duels rather than handing them over to Upvoteanthology - hopefully I can get them resolved soon, as some of them have been going on for a very long time.
And if you have any questions about this that I haven't addressed yet, please feel free to ask them!