Our third Mod of the Year competition is over and out of fifteen excellent entries there can always be only one winner. Unlike the rest of the field, from day one there has been literally no competition for the top result, and with a large 15.2% of the votes, Nick Falzone with Chiaroscuro wins the bit-tech Mod of the Year 2008 competition!

In second place, Apple Core Duo by Cyprio rides in shortly behind, and The Reflection HTPC by Magnus Persson closes into third place but only after plenty of place changes between third to sixth place throughout the competition!

A full run down of the results is as follows:

1 Chiaroscuro by Nick Falzone 15.2%
2 Apple Core Duo by Cyprio 9.3%
3 The Reflection HTPC by Magnus Persson 8.8%
4 Battlestar Galactica Case Mod by Boddaker 8.3%
5 Cosmos Skulltrail by Coolmiester 7.8%
6 MCE2.0 by Sleepstreamer 7.6%
7 FiveWood by cc3d 6.2%
8 Rogue by craigbru 6.0%
9 Team Fortress 2 Sentry Mod by Ton Khowdee 6.0%
10 Tiny HTPC by ichessblumen 5.6%
11 Sinuskurve by Sonnenschein 5.4%
12 Eco-Intel Mod by Planet Express Klan 3.7%
13 Bloo Balls by Cheapskate 3.5%
14 Paperazzi by acey 3.3%
15 C&C GDI War Factory by milotic858 3.2%

You can see for yourselves how close the voting was - with Rogue by Craigbru and the TF2 Mod by Ton just one single vote apart at the very end, and with just four hours to go before the close of the competition several people had identical votes or within a few of each other as well making for a really close competition. The BSG Mod by Boddaker rose from a mid-table start in 7th to narrow in very closely to 3rd place, but couldn't quite pip Magnus to the post, and despite the Cosmos Skulltrail starting strongly in third place, it had unfortunately dropped to fifth just a few days ago.

Well, congratulations from all of the bit-tech team! Nick walks away with a massive prize pool, which includes the following:

• Intel Core i7 940 CPU
  
• Intel Smackover X58 motherboard
  
• Cooler Master ATCS 840 case
  
• Crucial 1,333MHz 6GB tri-channel memory kit in a choice of colour: red, green of blue
  
• Zotac GeForce GTX 280 AMP! graphics card
  
• Enermax Revolution 85+ 850W PSU
  
• OCZ V2 SSD
  
• Hiper Aluminium Keyboard
  
• Noctua NH-U12P SE1366 CPU Cooler for Core i7 CPUs
  
• CyberLink Suite 7 Ultra - every single one of Cyberlink's latest software packages bundled together
  
• Iolo 64-bit System Mechanic

Stavros Stavrou, in second place has won:

• Foxconn Bloodrage X58 Core i7 motherboard
  
• G.Skill 6GB tri-channel memory kit
  
• Asus GeForce EN9600GT Matrix graphics card
  
• Cooler Master UCP900 Ultimate PSU
  
• CyberLink Suite 7 Ultra - every single one of Cyberlink's latest software packages bundled together
  
• Iolo 64-bit System Mechanic
  
• Noctua Cooling Kit (1x Noctua NF-P12 120mm Fan, 1x Noctua NF-B9 92mm Fan, 1x Noctua NT-H1 Thermal Compound)
  
• Hiper Anubis PC Case (HTC-1K614A) with a pair of Hiper HFF-1B12S case fans

And finally, Magnus Persson has won:

• Crucial Ballistix Tracer 240-pin DIMM (with LEDs), DDR2 PC2-64004-4-4-12
  
• Asus P5Q motherboard
  
• Tagan A+ Case El Diablo Advance PC case
  
• In-Win Na storage
  
• Hiper Type M880 PSU (HPU-4M880)
  
• Cooler Master CPU cooler

Firstly we'd like to say thank you to all our industry partners who provided invaulable support by sponsoring this years competition! We’d also like to say a massive thanks to you, our readers, for participating in the contest and crowning bit-tech’s Mod of the Year. Stay tuned for modding updates throughout 2009 because we plan to make things even more impressive!

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