Your fic didn't suit the judges tastes. For me, I don;t like the dark sad ending to AK47's fic, so you have placed higher than him if I had been a judge. Just because it didn't place doesn't mean it wasn't good; it just means the judges tastes preferred the ones that placed, not that yours wasn't as good in quality.
Meh. That is boring. I think ours are gonna be graphic one top, text underneath. Not to flashy or anything. Maybe graphic on side, if I can figure out the CSS code that makes that work...>__<