This was actually the Winter 24 hours of ZZT contest of 2001, but zzblue didn't find any time to host it in 2001, so he hosted it in early 2002. This means 2002 will probably have two Winter 24hoz contests, so don't get confused.

This 24hoz had the lowest amount of entries until early 2002, which was a shame. Still, some good entries were pulled out and the team of Leamas and Grinch (two brothers) ran away with the victory. This is the second time two ZZTers are victorious in a 24hoz, but last time it was a tie for first place, while a team won here.

Dexter was a judge as well, but he didn't send his scores in on time. Eurakarte and Zamros were listed on the site as judges as well, but according to zzblue, he just did that to "make them feel important" -- they never really were judges.

Just like last season, not a whole lot of entries. None of them got an average score above the 8, too (zzblue had the highest, with a 7.6). This was the second 24 hours of ZZT contest hosted by two people; however, this time it's two brothers (Leamas and Grinch). zzblue ran away with his third 24hoz victory so far, which is a record! Hercules and Myth are the only ones that have won two 24hoz's at this point, too. Also note that Ultima's entry got disqualified due to cheating.

This contest turned to maybe the most disappointing 24hoz to date. Only 8 entries and no real results. Apparently one judge didn't send in his scores and zzblue wasn't pleased with the entries at all. He decided to "fuck the establishment" and not post any official results. Theta14 was called out as the winner by zzblue, and he got to host the next contest.

Theta14, who "won" the previous 24hoz in a strange way, decided to have side-contests during this edition of the 24hoz. Besides the main topic (which people make a game about), there were three art topics (autumn, vehicle, superhero/-heroine), three programming topics (platformer, racing, inventory) and a junk topic (pirates). People had the choice to participate in one or more of these four contests. All were judged seperately. You had 24 hours to work on the game entry, followed by 6 hours of rest and 18 hours for the side-contest entries.

The winner of the main "game" contest would get to host the next contest and the other winners and 2nd spots could win judging places (even though this was never confirmed by the host of the next contest, so it was quite useless). Note that only the winners of the "game" side-contest were mentioned above. PlastikFish (Robert Pragt) won the art contest, Nanobot won the programming contest and Mr_Alert won the junk contest.