Note: In a dramatic turn of events, the victorious silveroranges were stripped of the award as their entry was inadvertently placed in the wrong category. Although traumatized by their short-lived brush with fame, they plan to return again and take away a prize they can keep.

Three silveroranges recently received laurels in the 5k competition. Their entry, The 5k Audi TT VR Gallery constructed entirely using Javascript and coloured table cells entirely under 5kb, won honours in several categories.

The purpose of the competition was expressed on the original contest site thusly:

Purpose
The idea behind the contest is that the rigid constraints of designing for the web are what force us to get truly creative. Between servers and bandwidth, clients and users, HTML and the DOM, browsers and platforms, our conscience and our ego, we're left in a very small space to find highly optimal solutions. Since the space we have to explore is so small, we have to look harder, get more creative; and that's what makes it all interesting. Just celebrating that is all.

Rules
All HTML, script, image, style, and any other associated files must collectively total less than 5 kilobytes in size and be entirely self-contained (employing no server-side processing).

After a grueling qualifying process, the elite team of judges which included Jason Fried (37signals), mschmidt + token + per (Kaliber10000), Rob "CmdrTaco" (Slashdot), Peter Seidler (Razorfish), and others ranked the entries. The silverorange entry was in the HTML-only category and came away with a 3rd Overall and 2nd in Functionality.

Congrats to those silveroranges who came away victorious!

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