Screw 4 years of ACen awards in a row. Let's reminisce about REAL competition from back in our youth. If anyone here was involved in livestock competitions then I can guarantee they got a crash course in cutthroat and underhanded dealings. People who think sports parents who are into competition youth leagues are nuts would not even be able to fathom the shit that I have seen go on in livestock competitions.
So any 4-H Grand Champions in da house? Give a holla. There's probably like 10 trophies in the parents attic from sheep/chicken/duck/geese livestock competition. Let alone Grand or Reserve ribbons from photography or other stuff like that. I also want to point out that if you were so manly like me you also did cake decorating one year just for the hell of it. I will admit making just one rose was a fucking bitch.
I also won the Pinewood Derby and I wasn't one of those kids whose dad took the damn thing to a shop to run on a lathe. It certainly didn't win points for looks but it won =p
At any rate if anyone is feeling washed up I want to remind you that at some point you will just no longer be competitive. Hopefully no one here has to go straight to embittered alcoholism once high school ends
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/29854P.S. I want to get my AWA Pro 2004 award someday
-Some washed up AMV editor