# Oscar Pool 2013 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [January 14, 2013, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121 "2013-01-14T01:26:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/21 "2013-02-24T19:41:27Z")
> [@Rollo\_Tomasi](#): > > Another newbie here. Thanks for doing this! No problem! I love it. Biggest pool group in a few years. We’re at 17 and I’d love to get to 20. ---
**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/22 "2013-02-24T23:41:16Z")
In! ---
**Author:** ![Meltdown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Meltdown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meltdown)\ **Post date:** [February 24, 2013, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/23 "2013-02-24T23:59:22Z")
Me too! ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/24 "2013-02-25T01:34:32Z")
Looks like we were all looking at the same cheat sheets. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/25 "2013-02-25T01:58:20Z")
Wow, that was a shocking way to begin. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/26 "2013-02-25T02:13:51Z")
Don’t get too pumped or disappointed on the pool. My win-loss is currently incorrect. I will fix itself later, I assume. I’m 2-2, but it has me at 1-3. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/27 "2013-02-25T04:33:40Z")
None of us had Tarantino for screenplay. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/28 "2013-02-25T04:58:19Z")
> [@Mahaloth](#): > > None of us had Tarantino for screenplay. Wow. I did. Which is, perhaps, why I was in first place going into Best Picture. I’d like to thank all the people who made this possible … ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 5:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/29 "2013-02-25T05:04:53Z")
Twicks wins! I’ll post full results tomorrow. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![GrandWino](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/grandwino/32/67_2.png) [@GrandWino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrandWino)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 5:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/30 "2013-02-25T05:40:32Z")
I also had QT for screenplay. Ended up #2 this year… Good job Twix! ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/31 "2013-02-25T05:58:23Z")
Congrats, Twickster? I didn’t sound _too_ sullen, did I? ---
**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 6:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/32 "2013-02-25T06:05:23Z")
To be honest, I have no idea how the question mark got there. I’m typing in the dark so that’s my excuse, but seriously: Congrats! ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/33 "2013-02-25T13:31:15Z")
1 twick’s flicks picks 19-5 76 11:26 PM 2 Defending my Crown 18-6 75 11:53 PM 3 Meltdown 17-7 70 11:38 PM 3 Labtrash’s Oscar picks 2013 17-7 70 11:35 PM 3 nuveena 17-7 70 11:33 PM 3 Filmatelist 15-9 70 11:18 PM 7 Sigmagirl 17-7 69 10:55 PM 8 Mahaloth’s picks 16-8 67 11:53 PM 8 P.J.'s picks 15-9 67 11:50 PM 10 Rollo’s Picks 16-8 62 11:43 PM 10 Maserpicks 16-8 62 11:24 PM 12 KLP’s picks 13-11 56 07:00 PM 13 skammer 12-12 55 11:50 PM 14 JohnT’s picks 9-15 51 10:58 PM 15 Kolak of Twilo’s picks 9-15 45 11:19 PM 16 RickJay’s PickJays 11-13 42 12:24 AM 17 faithfool’s fumbles 8-16 41 10:38 PM 18 Yeti’s Goldmember Awards 9-15 38 09:52 PM 19 winners 7-17 35 08:16 PM 20 Casey1505 8-16 32 11:39 PM 21 Cad’s Awesome Oscar Picks 7-17 31 09:03 PM ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/34 "2013-02-25T14:26:27Z")
Thanks, everyone. I would like to thank Flavorwire’s [Can’t Miss Oscar Cheat Sheet](http://bit.ly/139XJWv) for helping me win my pool last night. (Seriously. Usually I use _Entertainment Weekly_’s picks, but I absent-mindedly threw it in the recycling prematurely this year. Luckily, rather than relying on my own very random choices, I got an email from Flavorwire yesterday morning.) ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/35 "2013-02-25T14:46:36Z")
Congrats **twickster** When I said I’d like to climb out of second, I didn’t mean DOWN ! 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/36 "2013-02-25T14:55:38Z")
Entertainment Weekly wouldn’t have helped you. I took their advice in a lot of categories and did pretty poorly. ---
**Author:** ![Casey1505](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/dc4da7/32.png) [@Casey1505](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Casey1505)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/37 "2013-02-25T15:00:05Z")
Clearly, the AMPAS got it all wrong last night, not me. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/38 "2013-02-25T15:12:36Z")
> [@Skammer](#): > > Entertainment Weekly wouldn’t have helped you. I took their advice in a lot of categories and did pretty poorly. Hm. I usually do a straight EW ticket and come in top five, though I don’t think I’ve won with it. Remind me to check out Flavorpill again next year. ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/39 "2013-02-25T17:28:09Z")
> [@twickster](#): > > Hm. I usually do a straight EW ticket and come in top five, though I don’t think I’ve won with it. Remind me to check out Flavorpill again next year. I got help from an odds website - just googled “oscar odds 2013”, then adjusted those for my personal choices, and subsequently crapped it up :p. ---
**Author:** ![Rollo\_Tomasi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/58956e/32.png) [@Rollo\_Tomasi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rollo_Tomasi)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2013, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121/40 "2013-02-25T18:47:00Z")
I went with a combination of predictions from In Contention (my Oscar website of choice), plus a few gut picks. And I ended up in tenth. There’s a lesson in there somewhere. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oscar-pool-2013/647121.md?page=1)