Have you ever won any contests in real life?

When I was about 12, I just missed out on representing my school at county level in cross-country. Hard to believe that now because I can't last more than a couple of minutes running, and I'm definitely not the fastest runner in the world. The top 5 people went through to represent the school, and I was pipped to fifth on the last stretch when someone came sprinting past me, and I just didn't have enough left to catch up.

About two or three years ago, I was employee of the month for our region at work. Not really a massive achievement, but at the time I was happy with it.

At the weekend, the short film we made for last year came second in either the Best HE Drama or Best Film at Festival category (not sure which, but I think it was Best at Festival) at the Inspire Film Festival. We're all really proud of that, since we're the first group from our year to enter into a festival.
 
In high school in my ceramics class, we had a contest day where the whole period we did contests. There was one where we had to throw a pot on the wheel with paper bags over our heads, unable to see much of anything and whoever centered the pot and made it the most even on all sides won. I came out the reigning champion and scored myself some candy. xD

Other than that, I don't think I've won anything.
 
A few softball championships and an allstar trophy.
I played soccer too but we were always last place. One season we didn't even win one game. :wacky: But it was still fun as hell.

I also won a cool pinwheel thingy for 2nd place in musical chairs when I volunteered my summer at a daycare in 3rd grade. I would have usually pissed over getting 2nd and not first, but the first place prize was a barbie and I HATED barbie. :monster: Don't ask me how I remember this.

Probably other stuffz I can't remember.
 
Well, I think this counts one time my family and I went to a skating ring and we skated but they cleared out the ring to have a limbo contest; there were like 15 other people in the game but I won, and my prize was free cotton candy and bunch of tickets to win a prize at the counter, its probably the only thing I have ever won XD
 
I did a lot of oratorical speeches back when I was in highschool. :hmmm: I think I won first in the school contest, and then they set me up to participate in the inter-school contest. Eventually I got to regionals. First time around there, I won third place and the second time, I won first. I stopped during my senior year altogether because I didn't feel like continuing anymore. D:

I was also part of the track team when I was in junior year. Inter-school championships, I won bronze in the 100-meter dash. Then gold in the 800-meter relay.

From sophomore until senior year I joined every essay writing contest. I won only once. Thankfully it was awarded first place. :wacky:

I also won raffles, though I'm not sure that falls under contests. :wacky: Just small wins. Biggest was I won the jackpot of a Hershey's raffle--prize was a big, big box full of Hershey's chocolate and goodies. I was very happy. :mokken:
 
Back in middle school, I won a few poetry/essay competitions. Since then, I've just written for school stuff. In my free time I write sometimes, and now I try to write songs. I don't do many competitions with my writing anymore.

Last year, my doubles partner and I made it to regionals in tennis. It was a fun experience and we hope to do even better this year :)

And congrats everyone on the art competitions and singing competitions and all that :) It's cool to know we aren't all just nerds with no life on here haha.
 
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I won a football competition for my primary school when I was eleven. I was goalie for our team and only let the ball in once.

I've also won a race on Sports Day. I can't remember how far it was, must've been a few hundred metres or so.

And the last thing, which isn't so much of a contest, is receiving an award for getting a higher grade than my predicted one for history at GCSE level.
 
The very 1st thing I ever won was in 5th Grade I played/started on our pee-wee football state championship team. In high school we had never won our conference since the 60's. My freshman year we stunk it up and went 2-8, and my sophomore year-senior year we went 7-3 and won our conference 3 years in a row.

Onto video game competitions, I beat my friends in Halo3 when we play 2v2. In college football im not too bad, I've beaten my friends a few times, but in madden its a different story. I get my ass handed to me whenever I play so I gave up on madden lol.
 
I've won academic competitions. I won Quiz Bee 4 years in a row during 1st to 4th grade. Then I lost. Then I won another 2 years after that. I've helped my high school win our Avocado League Academic League 2 years in a row during junior and senior years. :griin:

My best win was against this sophomore when I was just a wee freshman in the "Health" category. :griin:

Other than that, I've won art competitions as well. Although there was this one time when I got disqualified because of an obscure (and actually quite moronic) rule that barred my entry from even being considered. I was so mad. :hmph:
 
Lets see.. I broke my middle-school record in pull-ups. Then some midget broke mine. technically./ f*ckers.. I came 2nd in debate class during my senior year, and then I got kicked out of it.. and I always win at putt-putt. I don't know why..
Something just occurred to me,.
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Well since i cant say wrestling looks like this gonna be a short post too bad, sense I won alot in that department. The only award Ive one was the Stock Market Game back in middle school, we was in a group of three competing with each other and other schools. Their could only be a 1st,2nd and third and this contenst was nation wide too. I couldnt believe it but My team won 2nd place in the stock market game, and We got to go to this really nice cermony it was so cool. and the reason my team won is really because of me, although im sure wwe was a big reason my team actually won because of google my teacher told me that, and yes i was the one that suggested that to my team. the thing is other people invested in them when google was doing good, my teacher said my team got with them when they where low on sales and when they picked up by ALOT thats what helped xD
 
Won a N64 Super smash brothers torunie at 2010 video game convention. Kirby ftw.
 
I won a contest on CBBC when I was a kid! Everyone was asked to send in a drawing of Moomin, and the prize was a Moomin house complete with the characters and furniture. I loved it! Sadly the house got warped over time and managed to melt in my wardrobe... but I still have and love the figures! :)
 
Not really.

I'm not one to enter contests or anything like that.

I'm very lazy when it comes to that sort of thing. It doesn't help that I have a mindset of, 'I won't win anyway.'

So yeah no.

I've won on the lotto and things like that, but not in anything in which I actually have to do something to win.
 
I have not entered any contests simply because I'm not the competitive type of person, mainly because I know that I won't win anything if I tried so I don't bother wasting my time on a contest which I get nothing out of.
 
I have terrible luck and have not won any real contests before. I have won a chocolate hamper at a work function once though. It was very delicious!
 
I won a drawing contest when I was 7.

Too bad I suck at drawing now :sad3:

And that's all. I suppose I would enter one if one slammed in my face and said "ENTER THIS CONTEST." But sadly they don't, so you have to go looking for them, and I am far too lazy to do that.
 
I once won a trophie for a cooking competition (It looked so crap!), and medals for running but nothing major, when it comes to talent, im pretty much dried up XD
 
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