My warm thanks for all the time and efforts of Kaxon and King Morgoth :)
*is flattered*

I'll also give my thanks to K&K for running the contest. If you didn't, well, someone else probably would, but they wouldn't be nearly as cool.
*bows down*

That must make me the John Juanda of the Oracles.
And that makes me the Chris Moneymaker of the Oracles.
D'oh

As for the social topic, I'm going to have to approve. The stats topic is, well, the stats topic. This year's oracle is pretty much proof that contest newbies/unknowns can know what they're talking about, too. Ness26 and TheKnightOfKnee, I'm looking at you. Extremely impressive first time runs.

Ah crap, knew I was forgetting something...

Praise Part II
The n00bs there kicked our asses - Ness26 and TheKnightOfNee
Do I need to add anything? Seriously, wow. These are the two best results ever for a first contest (Alanna grabbed 4th in SpC2k4).
From the former champion in me, kudos to you guys, you just showed us all how to play this game...two more names to add to the "Watch these guys" list...

Moment of the contest
Match #14 - Mega Man X vs Mega Man
Winner: Mega Man X - 58.12%
Seriously, that was gold, especially since I had to fix it and had no clue what the hell went wrong...

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If King Morgoth and Kaxon weren't running this, I wouldn't be sure if someone else will actually do it. The dedication this two users give to such a complex contest to run each day, non-stop for at least 31 or 63 matches, is impressive.

All I can say is that I'm lucky enough to have found this, and as someone already said, I'm sure I wouldn't care this much about the Oracle if you two didn't care like you do. So, you're the real winners here.
*blushes*
Oh great, I sound like kawaii now...>_>
To be honest, the day-to-day work is not as bad now as it was back in SC2k4 when I was still doing this by hand. We work a fair bit more in between the contests (He updates the scripts and adds new ones (yay for auto-results!), I add features to the site) but we managed to make everything pretty much automatic on a day-to-day basis, otherwise it wouldn't be manageable with over 150 predictions each day.
At the end of SpC2k5 (which is the last one I officially hosted), I was breaking down. Kaxon, who had helped when I was away for a few days, decided to try the unthinkable: switch everything from the Excel spreadsheets to a fully functional SQL Database/PHP website. Within a month. Fun times, really, fixing the last errors during the first match, but somehow we pulled it off, he accepted to host it, and the rest is history.

Oh and if people are really wondering what keeps us running, well we both enjoy what we're doing, and seeing 150 people jumping in and enjoying the contest is a great reward. Oh and traffic on the website went from 7,000 hits in the 63 days of SC2k5 to 24,000 hits last month. And that's the best incentive I could ever get to get off my chair and code new features!
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SpC2k4 Triple Crown WINNER (Oracle, Betting, Spread Betting)
SC2k4 - 12th place