In a 13th hour upset for the Simesite Oscar sweepstakes, it was learned today (Mar. 9) that former Athens stringer Samantha Stenzel, now based in Chicago, sent in her vote on March 3, but mistakenly sent it to an old e-mail address of Peter Besas, who never saw it. Sam also guessed eight of the categories correctly, and thus is a co-winner with the other three winners. Virginia Michie will be working on those plaques over the weekend, and we’ll be sending them out to the winners shortly. We definitely will add a few obscure categories for next year’s sweepstakes to prevent such ties in the future, and apologize for the brief hours of confusion.

Revised results:
8 – Meyer, Adams, Hollinger, Stenzel
7 – Silverman (Mike)
6 – Price, Watkins
5 – Besas, Torres, Segers, Marich
4 – Silverman (Mark)
2 – Michie, Bryer

Thanks to a suggestion made by Virginia and Larry Michie, we have done a switcheroo on the nature of the award to be given to the winner of the Simesite Oscar Sweepstakes.
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by PETER BESAS 

It’s Oscar time once again, the third round on the Simesite. So all you film buffs, gamblers, hotshots, filmic psychologists, put on your thinking caps and send us your picks for what you think will be the winners of the Academy Awards for 2005.
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