I'll admit that I was very torn between them. I got a very good Minecraft digging for silver feel from Koto's and it almost won. Took repeated listens to both of them before twinchenzo pulled ahead in my opinion just before the deadline.

I got it only now - the pure irony of the fact than my entry about a runner who finished second got me a runner-up prize.

OH THE IRONY! I guess I should make something about hitting jackpot next time :)

I got it (just). Almost disqualified you for not having a connection, since I'd already disqualified someone else for that and they directly mentioned silver. Made the connection on a whim though and spent a while thinking. In the end, I decided that, unlike theirs, however well written it was, Flint was the key part of the story, whereas their bracelet wasn't.

Heh, I was going to make a song about John Silver, but then I decided to leave it for the Talk Like a Pirate Day.

Thank you. :-) I also liked Silver Is Good Enough -- I think it has a potential to grow into something even larger. I personally prefer more "orchestral" pieces, where I can sort of "scan" the sound for different instruments/tracks, so I could vividly imagine an alto sax, maybe an overdrive guitar joining in with some drawn-out wailing somewhere around the 0:32 or 0:40 mark. (By the way, was it a live recording, or did you use some sampling software?)