Since voting is over I'll leave my impressions.

The game: First off, and most obviously the English is very poor. However, I'm actually quite used to reading work emails that are written with very similar grammar/tense/plural/etc issues and decided straight away I wouldn't take the mistakes into account when ranking, as English clearly wasn't the author's first language. That said, The Game struck me as a good start, but needs elaboration on how/why the various heads of state were acting funny. Also, it felt like it lacked an ending, that it was cut off before the ending in fact. I mean I can see where it's almost certainly going to go, but the way it ended left me feeling unsatisfied.
I found the story a creative use of common ideas and themes, as well as a new or different twist on those fore-mentioned themes. A a whole there is a good idea here, if a poor execution. While considering the poor execution I also got the impression that the author worked very hard. I felt like he/she really gave it all they had, and I appreciated that.

The Man with a Thousand Dicks:
Again a creative story, at least in the sense that it didn't use archetypal themes, ideas and plot devices really in any way shape or form, excluding the "good guy slays towns bad leader" scene, that frankly seemed to be injected into the story more than an intrinsic element. I did find fault with the flow of the story. The various sentences felt more like a news reporter factually restating the events of a story for the viewers tuning in, than it felt like a narrator spinning a yarn. I'm not sure if this could be solved with the creative use of segues or if in fact a full re-write is necessary. Again the story felt incomplete, mainly for this reason. All the elements, characters, plot are there but it needs more glue keeping them together such that the distinction between a story and a report is more evident. In this defect I found the story to be childish, either the effort wasn't put in or the abilities of the author are lacking. This is all the more disappointing because the author clearly has some skill for description AND plot.

Friendship: Childish tripe. The story flowed and felt like a fifth grader recounting their summer vacation. Further the plot as a whole felt common and one dimensional. Also, the word Pokemon was used far, far too often. To be honest this story had little redeeming value either as entertainment or exposure to prose. I'm not really sure how this story could be made better and still be this story.

Firefly: My favorite in the bunch. There is a great story here dying to make it's way out, and like the first elaboration is needed. Unlike the first, however, the elaboration is necessary to make sense of the ending more than to gain a sense of fulfillment. Good descriptions, a quick original plot, the author has a talent for writing. Still though, the story felt rushed both as an impression that it was written in too short of a time and that it tried to cover too much in too little ground. It seems like we are at a climatic or critical point in a much bigger story and if we had read that the characters and situation we find them would make sense. As it stands though, to use a cliche, more questions are raised than answered. That this was too short (in several ways) aside, this story was the most entertaining and the easiest to read.

Edit: I want to note that I did my best to examine and critique as many elements of the story as I could, and to express my thoughts in the least offensive way possible while preserving the impressions that I had.