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After an extremely close race, round three is over. 244 points secured a place in Round 4, which is comparable to previous years—321 was required in 2013, and 243 points in 2012. Pool C's was the round's highest scorer, mostly due to 32 featured pictures, including both scans and photographs. Also from Pool C, finished second overall, claiming three featured articles, including the high-importance Grus (constellation). Third place was Pool B's, whose contributions included featured articles on the Russian battleships RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP Poltava and RUSSIAN BATTLESHIP Peresvet. Pool C saw the highest number of participants advance, with six of eight making it to the next round.

This year's first featured portal came in this round, with taking Portal:Literature to featured status. The round also saw the first good topic points, thanks to and the 2013 Atlantic hurricane season. This means that all content types have been claimed this year. Other contributions of note this round include a featured topic on Maya Angelou's autobiographies from, a good article on the noted Czech footballer Tomáš Rosický from and a now-featured video game screenshot, freely released due to the efforts of.

Sixteen semi-finalists
This is, of course, only a bite-sized sample of each person's work, and in no case represents the whole contribution of the participants.

Runners-up
And, of course, just because they didn't pass to the current round doesn't mean they didn't make valued contributions to Wikipedia. Here's some of the work done by those who didn't pass.