And the winner is....

Jingjing takes it! With an Olympic Record 474 Superpower Points, Emma IS the winner of the Olympic Supergreat Fun Pool Time.

The Olympic Pool rookie, John, turned in a great pillar-to-post performance to take the Silver Medal ahead of the only other researcher, Scott, this quadrannual pool's Bronze Medallist.

You three will be taking home the big bucks. Your cheques for the full winning amounts (minus administration fees) will be sent as soon as you've submitted Prize Claim Application Forms W-3 and W-4, presented your cases to the SGFPT Prize Claimation Committee and awaited the necessary 90-day appeal period.

The two fabulous McDonald's Mascot Mugs will be delivered to the Official Honorable Mention Award Near-Winner, Meggy M. Congrats on being just good enough to not win anything of any real value.

Jubiliant cheers go out to Laura and Nicole as well for correctly guessing the number of SCANDALS! We extinguished the flame with a total of 9 global embarrassments. Three fewer than that achieved on my first real date in high school.

As for the rest of you (us), I suggest that you take a few moments to post polite messages of congratulations to the winners while contemplating why you didn't take the time to actually figure out who might win some of the damn events. I don't think you were given a single Taikwando contender...I mean, c'mon. Are you all that rich that you don't even want to try to win? Did you think you were going to get a charitable donation receipt? (You are not)

Now, on to our Biggest Loser (TM, thanks NBC). Izzy, you really sucked eggs, didn't you? Although it was great to see you pick up a point for Dong Dong's trampoline bronze, it seems that your strategy to pick the athlete with the greatest name and not the greatest training regime (or narcotic supplier) failed to meet the minimum Olympic qualifying standard.

As made clear in the rules and regulations, the last place finisher of this pool will be required to sport (pun intended) a henna tattoo, as selected by the other contenders, in a public place of the body for no less than one week.

Non-loser competitors: please post your suggestions, with doodles if possible, on the blog at your earliest convenience.

Thanks to all of you for donating copious amounts of time and Olympic Spirit. We'll see you in Vancouver, re-incarnated as an Inukshuk in just 20 months or so!

With great respect,

Huanhuan

The Final Tally:

Emma, 474
John, 432
Scott, 414
Megan M., 382
Laura, 377 (includes 10 SPPs for SCANDAL! Guess)
Grant, 368
Lisa, 359
Laurie, 359
Shelli, 326
Jennifer, 319
Megan W., 301
Luke, 300
Mark, 299
Nicole, 296 (includes 10 SPPs for SCANDAL! Guess)
The Bell Family, 292
Colin, 276
Alli, 262
Craig, 232
Izzy, 146