2010 Oscar Contest Results

Here at Robot Panic headquarters, staff has been working around the clock to tabulate the scores from last week’s Oscar prediction contest. It was a close race, with the runner-up coming only one point behind the winner. But we have a winner all the same, and they’ve won their choice of any one of the ten films nominated for Best Picture on DVD! That’s one hell of a prize, so be sure to send your mailing address to mailbag@drunkengamersradio.com to claim it!
Before I announce the winners, let’s give give out some superlative awards.
First is the Intuition award, given to the person who best predicted the final outcome. This was actually a tie between Alex Ma and Brian Bedard, who racked up 34 points in the prediction category. That’s a whopping 17/24 correct! Not too shabby, you two.
Next up is the In-Touch award, given to the person whose desired outcome was closest to the final results. This award goes to Grant Montgomery, who got 14/24 correct in the “want to win” category. Looks like you’ve got great taste, Grant!
The Well Duh award is given to the category or categories in which there was a unanimous outcome. This year’s award is a tie between Best Visual Effects (Avatar) and Best Animated Feature (Up).
Finally, the Who Now? award is given to the category or categories in which not a single person correctly predicted the outcome. This is another tied category. The first award goes to Best Animated Short. Our voters came out overwhelmingly for Wallace And Gromit: A Matter of Loaf & Death to win it, but it ended up going instead to Logorama. The second category is Documentary Short; Here the favorite was The Last Truck: Closing of a GM Plant, but the award instead went to Music By Prudence.
Now before we get to the scores themselves, let’s take a quick look at the breakdown (my statistics professor would be proud):
- Mean: 35.89
- Median: 36
- Mode: 36
- Range: 27
- Standard Deviation: 7.45 (With a standard variance of 55.56)
And now, for the part you’ve all been waiting for: The results! If you don’t see your name below, it is likely that you were disqualified, either for submitting your ballot too late, submitting an incomplete ballot or not formatting the ballot correctly.
1.) Brian Bedard – 46 points
2.) Geraldine – 45 points
3.) Alex Ma – 44 points
4.) Rusty Shackleford – 43 points
5.) David Webb – 40 points
6.) TIE: Scott Grannan & Josh Hunt – 39 points
7.) Nathan Godwin – 37 points
8.) TIE: Apoch, Tiggermango, Grant Montgomery & myself – 36 points
9.) Ryker XL – 35 points
10.) John Luedtke – 34 points
11.) Alek Shybut – 33 points
12.) Skeletonframes – 24 points
13.) Lag – 23 points
14.) Fluffynuts – 19 points
Thanks again to everyone for entering!


The second film in the Heisei-era of Godzilla films is the classic Godzilla vs. MechaGodzilla II. I’ve chosen to skip the Godzilla vs. Mothra or Godzilla and Mothra: Battle for the Earth because it’s hard to find and the only noteworthy part of the film is the introduction of Mothra’s evil twin Battra. For those unfamiliar with Godzilla lore, Mothra is a giant Moth and defender of nature. Two fairies (no seriously) have the power to summon him whenever Godzilla or some other walking disaster threatens the Earth. Mothra has his own line of successful films in Japan and they are mainly aimed at children. They are kinda cool, but after awhile, the screaming kids just get to you and you wanna chuck something at your TV. And if you’re like me, you just got a new TV so why go through all of that? So we’ll leave Mothra for another time and deal with this killer movie.
Not everyone is happy about this new ultimate weapon, a back up pilot named Kazuma Aoki believes that his prototype airship The Garuda is the real savior for the Earth against Godzilla. Meanwhile on a mission to an island in the Pacific, a Japanese team discovers a dinosaur egg. The decide to take the egg back to Japan to study it, thus attracting Godzilla and Fire Rodan who begin fighting over it. The scientists escape with the egg and it hatches into another Godillasaur who is quickly dubbed BabyGodzilla. Of course Godzilla appears to rescue the tiny creature and that’s when the showdown begins. MechaGodzilla and Garuda are sent to intercept while the scientists study BabyGodzilla to determine if there is any weakness that they could use against Godzilla. 

