Nope, I don't think that it's real either. And they want YOU to PAY to go to L.Vegas when YOU might be getting the prize, PSSHT! If we were, then THEY would pay, right? Hah, I've stopped sending poems there, I haven't found a web where I could send them, you have one? I submitted a poem that I thought was the most boring I've written and now they're sending all sorts of praise . . . " You Poem Received First Place ....." "Your Poem has Won and IPOD Shuffle!" hah, yeah right!