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Time's up and we have the results. The top four stood apart from the rest right at the beginning of the voting and never looked back. The final placings, however, weren't found out before the last stages.

And this is what we ended up with:

UFOPOLI - Bringer of Dawn 62
Timoteus - The End Is Nigh 53
nkorppi - Southwest to Citadels 50
4) Timoteus - Colonizing 49
5) UFOPOLI - Fantasy 36
6) Huilumies - Venus Light 29
7) Nata - Love 28
8) TOMItu - By the Sea 24
9) TOMItu - Venus Number Third 14

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Thank you to everyone for participating, congratulations etc.!

This first edition of the translation contest was dominated by local veterans but I hope this will become a tradition and next year also attract some international participants, as this turned out to be such an enjoyable and refreshing contest. I personally don't really feel like going back to Finnish anymore

And here we have the victorious effort once more:

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BRINGER OF DAWN (Kirkas kipinä) (English lyrics by UFOPOLI)

Darkness crept through the northern lands
Crushing life with its callous hands
Silencing every joyful note
Seizing me by the throat
Hope was remote
Nighttime enforcing its harsh demands

Some gave up on the losing fight
Some still fighting with all their might
Taking in brutal and ruthless blows
But when ending was close
Then something arose
Turning the tide with redeeming light

Bringer of dawn
Bringer of hope
Embrace this wayward soul
Never douse its bright spark of life
Sleep by the star and the candlelight

Bit by bit, life regained its hold
Though never like in the days of old
When I'm gone, in a thousand years
If the sky is still clear
My light perseveres
Healing the lands with its rays of gold

Bringer of dawn
Bringer of hope
Embrace this wayward soul
Never douse its bright spark of life
Sleep by the star and the candlelight

Bringer of dawn
Bringer of hope
Embrace this wayward soul
Never douse its bright spark of life
Sleep by the star and the candlelight

Always strong, never gone for long
I was born from the light
Born for the fight
Standing alone in the endless night

Timoteus kirjoitti:more entries.

Next year, hopefully. The first time is always a first time.

Timoteus kirjoitti:Bringer of Dawn is a great piece of lyrics set to a challenging song. Congrats!

Thank you. It was both great fun and great pain to write. More than in normal contests, it felt like writing a song of my own.

Timoteus kirjoitti: I thought I had a shot at the bronze at best but I'm glad to be wrong.

Apparently, it paid off to work on the more difficult ones that fewer people dared touch. I think Manala was easily the most difficult of the bunch, especially if you wanted to maintain the original rhyming scheme.