[Other Sport] Have you ever won a competition?

[zefarelly]

back in the mid 80's Via Beatties model shop near the clock tower, I entered and got a runner up prize in a design your own subbuteo team, prize was a free team of your choice . . .had I won they would have made my designed kit team .

I think I painted my own, as we regularly did back then. I don't recall which team I chose from the shop.

 

[zefarelly]

I guess it's sometimes how the mind works, as first time of reading I thought she gave you a small hamster!!!

some people would be very excited by that

 

[maffew]

Hereford and Worcester under 18 schools trampolining championship when I was 14. Trophy somewhere still. Tbh I only kept going due to some seriously fit girls in my club

 

[AZ Gull]

Hereford and Worcester under 18 schools trampolining championship when I was 14. Trophy somewhere still. Tbh I only kept going due to some seriously fit girls in my club

Bounce.

 

[Guinness Boy]

Won the weekly pool comp at a Weymouth caravan park back in the 80's

No big feat,as I was playing regularly back then

Oh,the prize?

Another week at the caravan park

As no one else has dug up the Jurassic era joke yet........


......I assume second prize was two weeks?

*smashes drums and exits stage left*

 

[Razzoo]

I won a 7" yellow vinyl copy of Hurdy Gurdy Man by the Butthole Surfers on the John Peel show. I used to tape it regularly and I still have the moment I won recorded somewhere. About a month after I had been announced as a winner, there was still no sign of my record so I wrote directly to Peel to ask politely if I was getting my prize. He duly sent it to me with a lovely note ( on a Gary Davies postcard) telling me he was sorry but he'd lost my address. I still have the vinyl but lost the postcard years ago.

 

[Gabbafella]

I won a giant Weetabix stuffed toy and a Bertie Bassett watch from co-op when I was about 10.
I drew a picture of Jason Donovan for my little sister when she was really young, my mum sent it in to Just 17 and they published it. Also had a mural I painted used in an episode of Grange Hill.

 

[Deleted member 2719]

Name the new leisure centre in Selby. And the winner is "Selby leisure centre"! [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

I won ring side seats to Chris Eubank/Dan Sherry.

I was a bit further back, did Eubanks really connect in a way that Sherry made out

 

[Carlos BC]

I have not

 

[spongy]

Rudyard Kipling Junior School

Best Christmas card design 1986

My parents probably still have the certificate somewhere......

Cubs inter-sussex front crawl 100m 2nd place in the late 80's

Longhill High School yr9 Ms Taylor tutor group "holding your breath for longest" champion..... unofficial competition. Held in the staircase of T-Block, I remember waking up at the bottom of the stairs, apparently I passed out....

Fun times.

 

[Swansman]

Not really. Never been that thrilled about competing, always preferred collaborating.

 

[Eeyore]

I won the St Luke's School Juniors Subbuteo league in June 1981. You only held the trophy for a month though.

I lost the 'World Cup Final' the following month though. That would have been a strange trophy to win as I donated it in the first place.

 

[ForestRowSeagull]

Extremely niche but I won the bat Graham Napier hit 152 against Sussex with. Was going to use it in a game but it's obscenely heavy.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

I won the Soccer AM ‘Take it like a fan’ quiz, winning the chance to take a penalty in front of the North stand at the Amex (half time of the Blackpool game, in the first Amex season), and slotted it home, to win £500 from ‘Fenners’ pocket, and a hug from Bianca Westwood

 

[Birdie Boy]

I was a bit further back, did Eubanks really connect in a way that Sherry made out

From what I can remember, yeah he did but my memory is often foggy.

I wasn't actually ringside, they are all flat on the floor, I was second row behind ringside which was a better view. I was also sat next to the trainers, second, fighters that were on the bill and were all from USA.

I also remember the ruckus with one of Chris's brothers kicking off ringside, to the right of where I was.
I tried getting to the after party, someone I knew was going but I couldn't get a ticket. Turns out there was no alcohol only OJ and they were charging for it! Glad I missed it! [emoji3]

 

[The Antikythera Mechanism]

I won the Brighton youth tennis tournament in 1968 (1-6:6:1:6-2) at Falmer.

 

[Mr Putdown]

There used to be a supporters scheme called Palace Lifeline some years ago which was set up to help the club buy players, iirc our monthly contributions did actually get spent on players, the most notable being Mark Bright. In return we had the chance to win monthly prizes such as signed balls etc plus a chance once a year to win a holiday at Ron Noades holiday villa.

FF to Jordan’s reign when the annual big holiday prize was converted to a cash prize of about 10k. Jordan being Jordan, a year went by without the raffle being held at all. When this was pointed out he announced they would hold it the following year for twice the prize money. I was one of the most vociferous voices arguing that this was wrong, suggesting it should be two equal prizes.

I won it.

 

[Sirnormangall]

I won the Soccer AM ‘Take it like a fan’ quiz, winning the chance to take a penalty in front of the North stand at the Amex (half time of the Blackpool game, in the first Amex season), and slotted it home, to win £500 from ‘Fenners’ pocket, and a hug from Bianca Westwood

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I see you’re left footed - don’t we need a left back?

 

[BN9 BHA]

I won 4 night trip to Denmark including staying at a very nice hotel, meals, drinks and some entertainment. This was a competition in a plumbing and heating trade magazine.
I was one of 100 that won the comp, so really this was a 4 day piss up with 99 other plumbers.

 

[Eagle Slayer]

Won £600 on the Hat trick lottery against Palace in 2013 with only the second ticket I ever bought.

Had a few £500 wins on the Bingo in Worthing.

Won a few fishing rods over the years