Okay, so it's probaby been done before, but I haven't seen it as a thread, and my piss-poor search skills don't get me anywhere (I either get no results because I'm too specific, or pages and pages of results because I'm too vague).


The Classic Nickelodeon thread got me to thinking..

What cool contests have you won?

I've won little door prizes, and some scholarships, stuff like that, but nothing MAJOR.

About the best thing I ever won was a copy of binaural a couple of days before it was released. The radio station had been advertising that the next day, whenever they played a pearl jam song, the 1st caller would win a copy. I woke up late the next morning, rolled over, turned on the radio, listened to the tail end of a commercial, and then the first few notes of "animal"...

I had won the CD within about 2 minutes of waking up.

I made my boyfriend proud.

i won a free trip to disneyworld about 7 years ago, but it was just for different workers in my company, you couldn't bring anyone along.

i had a great time, and never made it to the parks. just hung out at the hotel bar and drove around orlando with one of the other winners.

I've never won anything big, but I have won door prizes before like gift cards to resturants ect...

I won tix to see Guns'n'Roses/Aerosmith show in 87 at Pocono Downs,PA. I then proceeded to win the Grand Prize which was an Aerosmith autographed 3'x5' VHS and an Aerosmith tour jacket. I was 14 and the tour jacket was an XL. I still have the autographed VHS.

Peeps make your best offer.

ive won tickets to see weezer, system of a down, incubus and audioslave

I won the last place in a band contest.

i used to win stupid things when i was little.
I won a coloring contest at Genovese once and won this cool Crayola gift thingy.

i won first prize at a science fair in one of those grades in elementary..i think it was 3rd grade, we'll go with that

and i won the stock market competition in my Accounting class a few years ago

and i won spike's soul in a hide and go seek game

WJET Toyota Star Athlete of the Week

I've won many a competition, a newspaper award, a science fair, awards in school, and a couple scholarships but my biggest achievement was winning this in 94, 97, 98, and 99 for figure skating:

The Joan Vassar trophy is presented annually by the Vassar family to the highest ladies freestyle skater who is a home club member of the Westminster FSC of Erie. The award is given in memory of their daughter Joan, who suffered brain damage at birth and was unable to participate in many activities but did a great deal to encourage her family to use what abilities God had given each of them. It is presented each year to encourage skaters to do their very best in whatever they do.

I lost out in 95 and 96 to Allison Irwin. Yeah, the bitch from Big Brother 4. Also, finally getting my Golds in my Senior Moves for skating was a huge accomplishment for me.

oh yes, I forgot my highest honor.

some sort of "best at math" award given out by the faculty at my 8th grade "graduation" (I was actually proud of that one).

and highest PSAT score in my high school (I was actually embarassed by that one, because who fucking cares if you have the highest PSAT score.. you NEED the highest SAT score to make it count, right?)

-I won the trophy for the fastest kid in grade school 2 years in a row. (7th and 8th grade)

-I won worst guitar player award 2005

-I won a free Pepsi back in the summer of '87 (twist and play)

congrats! Athletics were never my strong point. I'm a big chicken. Once I started having to do sommersaults on the balance beam, I quit gymnastics. Once we had to teach the horse to jump over the little ditch, I quite horseback riding (you get the idea).

what's this whole worst guitar player award all about?

I won an essay contest for the Daughters of the American Revolution when I was in 7th grade. No, seriously I was asked out by every guy after that one.

when i was in 5th grade we had to do the D.A.R.E. thing everyone has to do at some point. they had an essay competition and i won first place for the whole school. now im 21 and drink/smoke pot every day. my brother has my award hanging on his fridge so he can show his friends how smart i used to be

hmmmmm that was the permenant vacation tour, excellent

-lets see, ive won pizza for a year because the penguins scored on the power play. thats one large pie with 3 toppings once a month. irony set in as it was from pizza hut, and i had just quit there about a month before hand

-turkey cup championship for the past three years (so im told, i dont know if i won the inagural year or not). this is at the deck playing hockey, from 9am until about 3pm or so.

-ive won several league championships as part of various teams, kendrews, card sharks, duece droppers, stacked and i think one or two others

-kids in my class voted me most likely to annoy mrs sirko the art teacher

Oh, I won several ribbons and money from horse showing

The best was a few weeks ago when I won two first, two seconds and a third

The Ten Club's "Yellow Ledbetter" Contest in 1994.

I'm terrible Lenny. I can't even play a G chord. a G chord Lenny!!!!!!!!!