"Niche" Events/Contests!

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Okay, here's the idea:

Have you ever won a "niche" event (like an eating contest, obstacle course contest at a sporting event, etc.)? I just won my second eating contest of the year, and it just made me wonder if anyone else participated in these goofy events as well, haha.

My first contest:

I attend school at Miami University, and at one of our home football games (i think against buffalo) there was a pizza eating contest on the field. I kind of pride myself on my eating abilities, although I'm not obese or very large by any means (6 ft 2, ~200 lbs, you can see my pic in the "post yourself" thread on page 29).

I was pitted against five other students to eat as many personal pizzas as we could in one minute. I put down two pizzas in that minute, albeit I was pretty full, haha. I won a suite for one of our hockey games: Miami hockey is one of the best college hockey teams out there, if any of you don't follow it.

My second contest:

Today, I participated in a contest called "King of the Wing" with a couple of my fraternity brothers. Teams of four were faced with the challenge of eating 50 Buffalo Wild Wing wings in the shortest time possible. The top four overall teams went on to the final round, where each team would have to eat an entire apple pie in the shortest amount of time.

My team finished the wings in 2:09, placing second behind a team that finished in 2:08. We went on to the final round, and finished our apple pie in 1 minute 10 seconds.

Our prize was gift cards to BWW and Qdoba. Kinda lame, I know.

But anyways, have you ever participated in one of these events? Personally, I love them, because they are goofy and the only real thing you gain from them is a pride in one of your weird talents. Haha :)
 
I was in a Quaker Steak and Lube (Best Chicken wings EVER) wing eating contest, and I won. It was to see who could eat the most wings in 90 minutes, and I scarfed down 62. I know, I'm proud of it too.
 
Haha good gosh, 62 in 90 minutes? See the thing about wings is, you can eat a LOT in a short amount of time. However, after it finally hits your stomach, there's absolutely no way you can go on. I bet you ate 3/4th of those in the first 30 minutes and just sat there in agony, haha. Either that, or you were smart and paced yourself, and still sat there in agony ;)
 
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Haha good gosh, 62 in 90 minutes? See the thing about wings is, you can eat a LOT in a short amount of time. However, after it finally hits your stomach, there's absolutely no way you can go on. I bet you ate 3/4th of those in the first 30 minutes and just sat there in agony, haha. Either that, or you were smart and paced yourself, and still sat there in agony ;)


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:) That's exactly right, I scarfed down 45 in the first thirty and it took me another 60 to finish the last 17. Twas horrible, but hey, I got 62 free wings for winning.

Well, actually I got a free 124. The contest was free if you won it, and the grand prize was a free amount of wings that you ate.
 
Nice. My prize pales in comparison to that. 10 dollars at Bdubs will buy you like 12 wings, haha :P
 
Won the award for longest consecutive time spent on a PC longer than anyone at my school...

No but I actually won a drawing contest, I could post the pic, but it is incredibly horrid, idk how I won...
I also got 2nd in a creative thinking contest.
I also got 2nd in a endurance contest, ran as fast as possible for about 20 minutes straight.

And just now, I had a sudden urge to break the Goldeneye 007 speedrun record, but I doubt it.
 
Nice zopy. You should post the picture, I'm sure its 100x better than anything I could draw. Haha. What exactly did you have to do for creative thinking?
 
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Nice. My prize pales in comparison to that. 10 dollars at Bdubs will buy you like 12 wings, haha :P
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I DIDN'T KNOW OTHER PEOPLE CALLED IT BDUB! I thought I was a genius for thinking that up!




I won first in drawing contest years back
I took first in the stock market games in the state (meaning I made the most fake money in the time period lol)
I also took 6th place in the Illinois State Carpentry Competition which I am extremely proud of!
I also won a contest with a teacher once that told me it would take 3 months to perfect a TIG weld like his and I told him I could do it by next week.... yeah he bought me food service that week ^.^ I felt pretty awesome!
I don't know if this counts but back in my grade school days I held the record for making teachers cry on their birthdays... I was uh.. not so good.
 
1. what is BDUB?
2. never won anything in my life :'(
3. love to eat but only am 6'2 135 lbs
4. i love paintball!
 
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Nice. My prize pales in comparison to that. 10 dollars at Bdubs will buy you like 12 wings, haha :P
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I DIDN'T KNOW OTHER PEOPLE CALLED IT BDUB! I thought I was a genius for thinking that up!




I won first in drawing contest years back
I took first in the stock market games in the state (meaning I made the most fake money in the time period lol)
I also took 6th place in the Illinois State Carpentry Competition which I am extremely proud of!
I also won a contest with a teacher once that told me it would take 3 months to perfect a TIG weld like his and I told him I could do it by next week.... yeah he bought me food service that week ^.^ I felt pretty awesome!
I don't know if this counts but back in my grade school days I held the record for making teachers cry on their birthdays... I was uh.. not so good.
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Nice! Carpentry is pretty cool. I see that you said Illinois State, but your location says STL. I've visited a friend in Freeburg Illinois multiple times, but when asked where he lives, he just says STL. Maybe you know where this place is?

What exactly is a TIG weld?

Sharp: Don't let your size distract you!
 
A couple of years ago, I had an undefeated tennis season. I went 9-0. My team went to state and I won all 5 of my matches there too. That year I was ranked #2 in the state. I was and still am proud of that one. I'm making a run for it again this year. So far, 9-0 with 4 matches left. :)
 
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What exactly is a TIG weld?

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Stands for "Tungsten Inert Gas" Weld. It's a type of arc weld that uses a tungsten electrode that isn't consumed like in other arc welding methods.
 
Cool, thank you Professor NinjaFluff :D

Purple that's awesome. Out of all the leisure sports I played in high school, tennis was the one that I wished I was actually good enough to play competitively.

Anyone else have any cool accomplishments?
 
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Nice. My prize pales in comparison to that. 10 dollars at Bdubs will buy you like 12 wings, haha :P
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I DIDN'T KNOW OTHER PEOPLE CALLED IT BDUB! I thought I was a genius for thinking that up!




I won first in drawing contest years back
I took first in the stock market games in the state (meaning I made the most fake money in the time period lol)
I also took 6th place in the Illinois State Carpentry Competition which I am extremely proud of!
I also won a contest with a teacher once that told me it would take 3 months to perfect a TIG weld like his and I told him I could do it by next week.... yeah he bought me food service that week ^.^ I felt pretty awesome!
I don't know if this counts but back in my grade school days I held the record for making teachers cry on their birthdays... I was uh.. not so good.
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Nice! Carpentry is pretty cool. I see that you said Illinois State, but your location says STL. I've visited a friend in Freeburg Illinois multiple times, but when asked where he lives, he just says STL. Maybe you know where this place is?

What exactly is a TIG weld?

Sharp: Don't let your size distract you!
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Yeah Freeburg isn't far from here.... I live in the Saint Louis area so I just say STL people know it way better than my little town ^.^

TIG welding is awesome fun too... Unlike other processes where you just gotta point and pull the trigger (or strike) you have to use your foot, and both of your hands all controlling different things while at the same time keeping a neat uniform weld and not burning though :p

and BDUB is Buffalo Wild Wings! well it is for me anyway
 
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