SPiN's Hottest Significant Other Tournament: It's all Walcott!

After five weeks, 32 candidates and approximately 4,000 e-mails, the readers have spoken and we finally have a winner in SPiN's inaugural Hottest Significant Other Tournament: the unbelievably sexy Jennifer Walcott.

Walcott, an August 2001 Playboy Playmate, has captured the heart of St. Louis Rams defensive back Adam Archuleta, as well as the hearts of our readers. In a one-sided championship game, Walcott easily defeated Canadian actress Elisha Cuthbert 68-32.

No. 8 seed Playboy Playmate Jennifer Walcott is officially the Hottest Significant Other. (Getty Images)

Walcott's inexorable run to the title as an eighth seed may remind some of Villanova's improbable journey to the 1985 NCAA national championship. The similarities are mind-boggling. Besides both being eighth seeds, both played near-perfect championship games. And then, the stunner: Walcott is from Ohio, and the 1985 Villanova coach, Rollie Massimino, recently coached at Cleveland State!

Outside of a close overtime affair with Eva Longoria in the second round, Walcott wasn't seriously tested by anyone. Her strong inside-outside game rivals that of former Duke All-Americans Bobby Hurley and Christian Laettner. On the way to the title, Walcott defeated the top seed, model Elsa Benitez, as well as Tiger's wife, Elin Nordegren.

Several readers -- like Sam from Florida -- spewed anger toward us for "favoring Walcott" because we posted "hotter pictures of her" and took the time to engage her in a Q&A. Trust us, if she showed up at a Playboy party, you'd use this tournament as a ruse to talk to her, too.

Sam wrote, "Could you show more favoritism toward Walcott? The final story is 95 percent Walcott, not to mention two e-mails supporting her to one supporting Cuthbert. In such a meaningless tournament, explain to me why you think it is so important for Jen to win. One last point: Instead of including washbuckets like Steffi Graf and Misty May next time, where is Marat Safin's girlfriend or Lleyton Hewitt's or even James Blake's? All three [would] put most girls in this competition to shame."

Washbuckets? Sam, use mom's camera phone and snap a picture of the supermodel you're dating, mmmkay? Thanks.

And now that we are officially firing off 43 e-mails to the fetching Playmate on a daily basis -- in hopes that she'd ditch the football player for a lowly writer -- we were able to coax her into another Q&A.

SPiN: You're officially the Hottest Significant Other. How do you plan on celebrating?

Jennifer Walcott: I think I'll celebrate it with my favorite athlete, Adam!

SPiN: Might the crown cause tension among other playmates, specifically Carmella DeCesare?

Jennifer Walcott: No, Carmella and I are good friends and we've been up against each other before in casting for movies, music videos and you win some, you lose some. I think the main thing is that we are happy with the men we are with, and you can't compete with that.

SPiN: Has Adam Archuleta been to heaven, er, the Playboy Mansion?

Jennifer Walcott: Yes, for dinner once with Hef. When we are there, he will just keep looking at me and telling me how hot I am!

SPiN: Our tournament, and our rules: Your victory means you're the top seed next year. If you had to pick the No. 2 seed, who might you choose?

Jennifer Walcott: I would say Elisha. Or Eva. It was real close between Eva and I.

SPiN plans on patenting this unusual concept and bringing it back next year, and the year after that, and so on, until the Internet no longer exists.

Between now and then, enjoy thought-provoking and witty SPiN columns, fun interviews, captivating tournaments and other off-the-wall features that pertain to the wild and wacky culture of sports.

But before we turn off the lights and close the door on this tournament, we leave you with more bizarre reader e-mail from the Foxy Four (and our snarky comments). And of course, we left all your beautiful spelling and punctuation errors for the world to see.

Oh, and one last thing: More than a handful of you swore that you were related to Walcott or Cuthbert, but we're calling baloney. Nice try, though!

Dennis from Minnesota: How can you set up Carmella for the fall? That is a horrible picture of her, no wonder Elisha is winning. I guess that shows that 'skin wins'!! Any other photo (if there is a clean one) of Carmella is used she will run away with it.

Skin wins -- how revolutionary. Do you work on Madison Avenue?

Reggie from California: Elisha Cuthbert might be the girl next door youd rather go out with, but you must be kidding if you think she is hotter than Carmella Decesare.

You can read, right Reggie? Because the readers selected Cuthbert. You could force us to watch men's figure skating and we still wouldn't reveal our pick.

Patrick from Louisiana: I chose Elisha because of the way she looked in that "girl next door" movie...both are knockouts and you cant go wrong either way...oh hey ladies I'm single. LOL.

Somehow, we think you'll be single at this time next year, too, Patrick.

Ed in Alberta: Even if I'm from Elisha's hometown and I believe that she's the hottest Canadian in Hollywood right now, I'd say that Jennifer will win this contest without any doubt. Jennifer will be the next big star from Playboy since Pam Anderson, Anna Nicole Smith, and Jenny McCarthy. Winning the Spin contest will gravitate Jennifer's career towards the pinnacle of progress.

That's the phone ringing. It's Spielberg. And he's asking about Walcott. Who's on line two? Did you say Tarantino?

Eamonn from California: As a Sharks fan I already hate Sean Avery, and the fact that he is dating Ms. Cuthbert makes me wish Scott Stevens would come out of retirement and "meet up with him" as he crosses center ice with his head down.

If this happens, how will Cuthbert handle it in her blog?