I'm not sure what the first Christmas click competition is, but an earlier one was run by Klikkety Klik / TFGF back in 2001.

Thanks to a November 2002 Daily Click post from Chris Street and on the old Klikkety Klik website, I have identified the games and brought back the 2nd and 3rd place winners. I have tracked these games down and added them to Kliktopia so that you can enjoy these slices of Clickmas history from some well-known developers and studios!

Gingerbread Man by Akira of Natomic Studios (2nd place)

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Description: According to Natomic "It's basically a small one level long Platform/Puzzle game."

Story: According to Natomic "Some evil misguided candies have kidnapped Santa Claus. If he is not rescued he will be tried and put to death for his acts of manslaughter against nearly a third of the population of Candy Land. Mrs. Claus entrusted you with the task of going to Candy Land and rescuing old Saint Nick. Make your way through the level by dodging gum drops and hard caramel candy. Collect the keys needed to open the chests and find Santa."

Archival history: Thanks to Yxkalle's work for Kliktopia I found that the Andi Smith's Natomic GitHub from 2014 features both the game and its source code.

Santa Pies by Andrew Mather of O3 (3rd place)

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Description: According to O3: "Simple christmas game, You have sixty seconds to eat as many mince pies as possible. Control Santa, and eat them pies!!! Features internet score submission so you can find out just who ate all the pies. The game was coded in Jamagic and created for the Klikkety Klik code can be found in the Tutorials section at JamInn."

Archival history: This is one of the few 2D games made in Jamagic. I found version 1.2 of the game in Podunkian's archive, and I found the source code on my computer downloaded from the Clickteam forum back in July 2002. According to the source, the origina game was made in just 2 days. Source code description from JamInn: "Open source 2d scrolling game, with eight directional movement, collision and animation control. Fully commented".