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!

Hey Everyone,

Just a reminder that tonight at 7pm Central, Mitch (rwiggum) will be hosting a live Oscar chat in our Ustream page. In the meantime, we’ll be recording the podcast (not live) and chatting along.

If you haven’t already, fill out the ballot for our Oscar Contest. The winner will receive their choice of Best Picture Nominees on DVD.

Speaking of prizes, if you like free stuff, you’ll want to listen to the new episode of Drunken Gamers Radio, which will be released on Tuesday or Wednesday. We’ll have the Nation Red contest as well as an Xbox Live giveaway. Listen later this week for more details.

We hope to talk to you tonight!

We here at Robot Panic love a little glitz and glamor. Don’t get John started on red carpet fashion, he can talk for hours about some of his favorite dress/handbag combos throughout history. (His favorite was Holly Hunter at the 1988 ceremony, in case you were wondering). So to celebrate the most important film awards of the year, we will be holding another contest. It will be just like last year, but this year we will be offering a prize to the winner!

Now, on to how you enter. The scoring will be familiar to those of you who entered last year, but if you are new, it may be a little bit different than how you are used to doing it. For each category, you will make two picks, rather than just one. The first will be the film that you predict will win the award. If you get that right, you will receive two points. The second pick will be the film that you want to win the award. If you get that right, then you will get one point. For example, let’s say I want Coraline to win for best animated film, but I predict that Up will win. Here is what that will look like on my ballot:

Best Animated Film:

1.) Up

2.) Coraline

Remember, the first pick will be the prediction, and your second will be the pick you want to win. If it helps, you may put a (p) next to your prediction and a (w) next to the one you want to win. Another thing that I should point out is that you must fill in every category. Last year there were several people who would have likely won if they had not put “I don’t know” in several of the categories. To curb that this year, any incomplete entry will be disqualified.

The Prize

As I mentioned earlier, the winner of this year’s contest will be awarded a prize: any one of the ten films nominated for Best Picture on DVD. Considering the quality of the nominees this year, you may have quite the choice on your hands. In the event of a tie, a random name will be chosen from the first-place entries.

How to Enter

So here’s all you have to do:

1. – Copy the below ballot into the word processor/email client of your choice.

2. – Go here for a list of all the nominees.

3. – Fill in each spot on the ballot with your choices for that category.

4. – Send your entry to OscarPanic@gmail.com with the subject “Robot Panic Oscar Ballot: (Your name here)” before 4:00 CST on Sunday.

5. – Join us at 7:00 CST on Sunday at the uStream page (located here) to live chat the awards and see how you’re doing!

Now snag the ballot after the break and get to it!
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Don’t forget! Tonight Mitch (aka “Rwiggum”) is hosting an Oscar viewing party and Oscar pool tonight at 7pm Central Time over at our uStream page. In the meantime, if you haven’t already, check out the original story to fill out your ballot and send it in.

See you there!

After a year of great films, the 2009 Academy Awards are almost here. To celebrate, we here at Robot Panic will be holding an Oscar Pool. All you have to do is fill out your entry form, (more about that below) send it in before noon CST this Sunday, and join us on our uStream page on Sunday night as we live chat the awards!

Now, on to how you enter. We’ll be scoring this a little differently than normal. For each category, you will make two picks, rather than the usual one. The first will be the film that you predict will win the award. If you get that right, you will receive two points. The second pick will be the film that you want to win the award. If you get that right, then you will get one point. For example, let’s say I want Kung Fu Panda to win for best animated film, but I predict that Wall-E will win. Here is what that will look like on my ballot:

Best Animated Film:

1.) Wall-E

2.) Kung Fu Panda

Remember, the first pick will be the prediction, and your second will be the pick you want to win. If it helps, you may put a (p) next to your prediction and a (w) next to the one you want to win. So here’s all you have to do:

1. – Copy the below ballot into Word or your word processor/email client of choice.

2. – Go here for a list of all the nominees.

3. – Fill in each spot on the ballot with your choices for that category.

4. – Send your entry to mailbag@drunkengamersradio.com with the subject “Robot Panic Oscar Ballot: (Your name here)” before noon CST on Sunday.

5. – Join us at 7:00 CST on Sunday at the uStream page (located here) to live chat the awards and see how you’re doing!

Now snag the ballot after the break and get to it!

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