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Congratulations to gatorfan for a very impressive top score of 73% predicting the Academy of Country Music Awards winners. He broke the tie with Jerome Scott by having more points because he used his 500 and 200 point bets wisely. -Break- While some of this year's winners were expected -- like Miranda Lambert for Female Vocalist and Florida Georgia Line for Vocal Duo -- others were pretty tough to predict. Our leader, gatorfan, made  some savvy predix such as Luke Bryan for Entertainer of the Year, Cole Swindell for New Artist, Lambert's "Automatic" for Song of the Year, and Dierks Bentley for Video of the Year. You can see how your score compares to his in our leaderboard rankings of all contestants, which also includes links to see each participant's predictions. Or you can find your score by clicking on "My Award Scores," which appears in the gold menu bar when you're signed in to your account.

While everyone knows Austin as the "Live Music Capital of the World" and for its SXSW festival, few people know this: Just down the road in San Antonio, independent film is Big, and there are indie filmmakers everywhere putting out quality entertainment for those who know where to look. This past weekend, August 27-30, the second annual Horrific Film Fest showcased a lot of that talent and allowed some of those filmmakers to meet a few horror movie icons and learn a few things from them as well.

Here's a brief rundown of what went on: Thursday night the festival kicked off at 6pm with live local bands in a show that ran until midnight. Headlining the show were Cursor, Ashley Ford, and the Saturday Night Shockers. The whole thing was emceed by Ari "First Jason" Lehman. Midnight rolled around, and San Antonio's After Dark Paranormal Research took a few...