Competitions thread: What have you won?

BlueGreenSpiral

My list in no particular order

Izotope RX 5
Large box of Minestrone soup powder
Layr
Zed Synth

Feel free to mention any current competitions...

JeffChasteen

A couple of literary grants for fiction writing (thank you NEA)
Perfect attendance for the second grade
That's about it...

[Deleted User]

I've never won a thing in my life - aside from a few awards for design, but those were snaffled away by the corporates I worked for.

BlueGreenSpiral

I forgot about a karate medal I won about 30 years ago when the opponent immediately kicked me in the balls and got disqualified.

CracklePot

@BlueGreenSpiral said:
I forgot about a karate medal I won about 30 years ago when the opponent immediately kicked me in the balls and got disqualified.

Daniel-san?

BlueGreenSpiral

First and last match for me @CracklePot

Sonic talk (via twitter) and ubk happy funtime hour (ask a question) have weekly competitions. Both very entertaining podcasts

BlueGreenSpiral

The prize on sonic talk are from izotope and ubk happy funtime hour is not quite weekly and the prize is a vst from kush audio

oat_phipps

My state’s 1994 Blockbuster World Video Game championship. The games were NBA Jam, Sonic 3, and Virtua Racing. I lost regionals because my opponent won the coin flip and got to pick the Bulls in NBA Jam. I stupidly chose the Magic over the Kings and Richmond, banking on Skiles/Anderson’s 3-point shooting getting hot and carrying me through.

It was like a sequel to The Wizard, only if the movie was over in 30 minutes.

hellquist

Me, personally? Almost nothing.
Teams I’ve been in, where most would think I’ve contributed quite a bit? Right:

• Guitarist in a band that won best (new) band in Sweden (Rock-SM -93)
• Guitarist (as above) for second best band in Rock-NM (Scandinavia), beaten by Dizzy Miss Lizzy (Denmark)
• Clan leader in the worlds best clan in Quake2 Rocket Arena 2 (late -90’s)
• Worked as a developer in the team that created several of “Swedens best web site this year” for repeated years (late 90’s).
• I’ve taken several digital/strategy agencies to winning all kinds of international global awards in my role as a board Creative Technology Director, including “Best agency” and “Agency of the Year” 5 years running, for different companies, apart from the regular marketing malarkey (Gold Lions, Gold Eggs, Webbys, Strategy Concept Of The Year etc…they [marketing people] have awards for more things than most people know they are being measured on) and have have contributed to two of the Top10 Best Campaigns of the 00’s in the UK (all of the 00’s and 10’s).

I value those things mainly as learnings in life (though they DO look nice in my CV), but none of them best “my kids” or “surviving an open heart surgery (triple bypass)” along with “always positive”, but I guess that is more "living" or "surviving" than "winning".

Pretty much all of that carries no meaning though. Most of it I couldn’t dictate if I was even running for. I had fun when doing all of it (apart from possibly the surgery, but that was more the result of having too much fun for too long), as I live after the motto: if you are not having fun doing it you are doing it wrongly.

All I ever wanted to do was to be a rock star, the rest just happened along the way. I failed on the rock star part. So far. Now I don't think I even want it.