The specification for Round 5 is:

Coresize	8000
Max processes	8000
Duration	80000 cycles
Max entry length	100
Min distance between warriors	100
Rounds fought	200
Instruction set	Redcode '88 Standard
Battle method	One-on-one all fights all (without self fights)
Scoring method	Win: 3 points Tie: 1 point Loss: 0 points

The deadline for entries was Mon 9 Mar 1998 23:59:59 GMT.

Name	Author	Points	Score
Foggy swamp	Beppe Bezzi	4296	100.0
Freight Train	David Moore	4257	99.1
MyHeremPaper	John K W	3700	86.1
Kitchen Sink II	Robert Macrae	3599	83.8
Hail Storm	Robert Hale	3587	83.5
Vortex	Ilmari Karonen	3447	80.2
Froglegs	John Lewis	3330	77.5
Quick and Dirty	Planar	3255	75.8
Dandelion Citadel	Simon Wainwright	2713	63.2
SNOWMAN v3.15	John Metcalf	2540	59.1
Rusty Old Scissors v4	Ryan Coleman	2492	58.0
Shoot from the hip	WolfWings	2278	53.0
Dwarf 4sa	Compudemon	1794	41.8
(no entry)	George Eadon	0	0.0
(no entry)	Edgar	0	0.0
(no entry)	Björn Günzel	0	0.0
(no entry)	Paul Kline	0	0.0

Name	Score
David Moore	470.9
Robert Macrae	462.1
Beppe Bezzi	461.2
John K Wilkinson	453.4
Planar	381.8
Ryan Coleman	378.4
Paul Kline	361.6
Robert Hale	359.3
Ilmari Karonen	356.2
John K Lewis	337.7
Edgar	287.2
Compudemon	182.0
Björn Günzel	179.5
George Eadon	139.3
John Metcalf	136.0
Wolfwings	97.1
Simon Wainwright	63.2

Beppe Bezzi was pessimistic about his chances with Foggy swamp, but came through to win, just ahead of David Moore, whose Freight Train steamed its way into a very close second place, which combined with Robert Macrae's fourth place, sent Moore to the top of the leaderboard, with a nine point lead over Bezzi and Macrae.