What are the weirdest/coolest/most unique contests you've ever entered? I really want to know if people actually enter pie-eating contests.
What contests/raffles have you won?
Through work I've done my fair share of <insert food>eating contests. Most recently it was ice cream, but have done pie, wing too.
Haven't ever won but did finish a close second on ice cream.
Now if it was beer chugging I'd win every time.
I entered a milk drinking contest. The goal was how fast a person could drink a gallon of milk and keep it down. I drank the gallon in half an hour and felt fine. Two other people made it under the hour time limit but they puked. At that time in my life I was drinking over a gallon of milk a day anyways so I was a lock to win that thing.
I once had a chinchilla that won "cutest pet" at a local fair....
Personally, I did well in spelling contests as a kid. But those SCRIPPS kids today would have kicked my ***
I'm a two-time champ for a cow judging contest (1st place individual, then 1st place team (I was 2nd overall, 1st was a teammate) at our office, and three if you count the time I was a coach for ISU's team that won.
The year I won sucked because I should have been 2nd place in the nation which results in a box of awesome cheese, but the contest people lost all the cards for my company. Figures the time I win something, it still doesn't pan out.
We're going for three in a row because free pizza.
Screw trophies and prize money. EVERY contest's top prize should be a box of cheese
3rd place at my hometown's 4th of July fest talent show when I was 10yo. Played "The Entertainer" on the piano, and beat out some rock bands and adult singers. I won $15.
1st place, woodwind division, for a state competition held by the convention my church belonged to. The prize was a $400 scholarship to a choice of 6 colleges "approved" by the convention. I went to nationals held in Des Moines, but didn't win. If I had, it would have been a full year's tuition.
The biggest thing I can think of winning was in the Chicago area, back in the 80's, a top 40 station would call random phone numbers once an hour, and whoever answered the phone would be asked "What's your favorite radio station?" If you gave the station's call letters, you won $1,000. Out of however many million phone numbers, it selected ours, and I happened to be at home when my mom answered. I had run downstairs to see who was on the phone, heard my mom repeat the question, and about screamed the answer at her. Pretty awesome for a 12 year old.
I saw someone win a PT Cruiser at a Nebraska-Omaha hockey game. (Back when PT Cruisers just came out) A woman had to hit a hockey puck from the red line into the goal, but the goal was covered by a board with a hole at ice level probably only an inch wider than the puck. I remember thinking "Ooo. That puck has a little english on it." Arena exploded when the puck went through.