Box office contest Labor Day Weekend

[Jedi Master Carr]

So here we go the final weekend and it comes down to this weekend
here is last week's top five
1 Takers SGem $20,512,304
2 The Last Exorcism LGF $20,366,613
3 The Expendables LGF $9,527,937
4 Eat Pray Love Sony $6,815,555
5 The Other Guys Sony $6,285,712

New Releases
The American
Machete
Going the Distance

Pick for the 4 days and all points are doubled.

[Crusader]

I just want to remark something at this point for next years rules:

I think the inclusion of double point weekends and special rules for certain movies a little bit inbalanced. This summer had a lot of damp squib/non-starter movies that basicly did not live up to the fact that we gave out additional points.
On the other hand double point weekends might give competitors an awesome lead if they end up scoring nearly every movie right while other competitors have awesome weekends but do not have the fortune to score those on a double point weekend.

So my suggestion is to maybe revamp the double point weekends and/or add a system where everyone gets his best 2 weekends doubled(double point weekends excluded) and his worst 2 weekends removed(as always).

[Jedi Master Carr]

It is something we could consider. Really, though we didn't have that many double weekends, just Memorial Day, the 4th, Labor Day, and we had double points for Toy Story 3. Memorial day did have some bad movies, but the 4th did have regardless if you love it or hate it Twilight, and Toy Story deserved a double points. Labor Day is always rough because nothing usually opens on it. I am open to suggestions next year, also could consider the schedule. I know next summer has some larger movies (mainly sequels, the Final Harry Potter Movie, Pirates, Transformers). But I am open to change.

[CMJ]

1. Machete - 15.55M
2. Takers - 13.53M
3. The American - 11.54M
4. Going the Distance - 11.10M
5. The Last Exorcism - 9.22M

[Yog]

1. Machete 17.11M
2. The American 15.63M
3. Takers 11.34M
4. Going the Distance 10.85M
5. The Last Exorcism 8.17M

[Jedi Master Carr]

1 Machete 16.33
2 The American 14.22
3 Takers 11.77
4 Going the Distance 10.45
5 The Last Exorcism 9.78

[Crusader]

1 Machete 17.22
2 The American 12.75
3 Takers 10.72
4 Going the Distance 10.71
5 The Last Exorcism 7.80

[CMJ]

What was the final verdict?

[Jedi Master Carr]

What was the final verdict?

Sorry I couldn't post earlier been bogged down with school and work. It appears Yog got the most points last week but not enough to top you. You did win and I will post the final totals tomorrow.

[Jedi Master Carr]

1. The American (Focus Features) / 2,823 YOG
$16,662,333 | - | $5,902 | $19,806,118 | New

2. Machete (Fox) / 2,670 CMJ
$14,102,888 | - | $5,282 | $14,102,888 | New

3. Takers (Sony / Screen Gems) / 2,206 / 0 CMJ
$13,535,992 | -34% | $6,136 | $39,986,817 | 2

4. The Last Exorcism (Lionsgate) / 2,874 / 0 CMJ
$8,750,191 | -57% | $3,045 | $33,522,575 | 2
5. Going the Distance (Warner Bros. (New Line)) / 3,030 JMC
$8,508,290 | - | $2,808 | $8,508,290 | New

Weekend points
CMJ 90
Yog 60
Jedi Master Carr 20
Crusader 10

Contest points
CMJ 800
Jedi Master Carr 650
Yog 640
Crusader 505
Lilaena De’Ville 100
Lykaios 25

Congrats CMJ my only disappointment this year besides losing is that we had little participation maybe need to come up with a different method like Crusader mentioned to encourage participation. I am open to ideas.