Hollywood couldn’t script a more dramatic ending if they tried! With the Best Actor category next, and only three Oscars left, there was an 8-way tie for the Championship. Jen, Bobby, and Eric seperated themselves from the pack by correctly selecting Sean Penn. You had to see it to believe it!
As a result of four generous contributions, $125 will be donated in the Champions’ names to Salvaide, an organization dedicated to fostering social and economic development in El Salvador. Truly a gift that keeps on giving.
Thank you to all 170 of you who participated in this year’s competition. You have made OscarFest 2009 the greatest and best yet. I leave you with some some interesting tidbits about this year’s competition. What have you discovered?
FACT: 170 people voted in OscarFest 2009, eclipsing last year’s total by 55.FACT: $125 will be donated to Salvaide in the Champion’s names. That’s $41.67/Champion.
FACT: The average participant got 11.4 categories correct (out of 24).
FACT: Males averaged 11.4 correct picks.
FACT: Females averaged 11.7 correct picks.
FACT: People related to me averaged 12.7 correct picks.
FACT: My former roommates averaged 11.75 correct picks.
FACT: 87% of participants correctly picked Wall-E for Best Animated Feature, the highest for any category.
FACT: 17% of participants correctly picked La Maison en Petits Cubes for Best Animated Short, the lowest of any category. None of the three Champions got this category right either.
FACT: Last year’s Champion, Mark Tong, got 2 more correct picks this year than he did during his championship run of 2008, but he still still placed a dissapointing 17th place overall.
FACT: The oldest participant in this year’s competition was Grandmar Barbieri at 85 years.
FACT: The youngest participant in this year’s competition were my cousins, Gianna and Adilene, at 1.5 years old.
FACT: 134 participants scored worse than my 1.5 year old cousins, Gianna and Adilene, who, by the way, cannot read or write and have the intelligence of a 1.5 year old child. They have likely never seen a movie in their entire life.
FACT: 12 individuals scored worse than the random pick generator, that is, worse than if they had closed their eyes and randomly banged the keyboard with a meat tenderizer to make their picks (Janis, Lisa, Shara, Ellie, Jenifer, Chris, Bardia, Drew, Karl, Sharon, Dane, and Gene).
FACT: This year’s co-champ, Eric, submitted his picks minutes before the Oscars ceremony began and left the message, “I haven’t seen any of these movies!”. He got was right on 83% of his selections.
FACT: Dr. Gene Gurkoff has now scored 2, 1, 5, and 2 in his four OscarFests for an impressively horrendous average of 2.5 correct picks/year. Only once (2008) has he scored better than the random pick generator.
February 23, 2009
friends and family, movies, Oscarfest