Asklemmy

Just some minor nonsense. But all of it yields a fun memory.

I won a hat from a Wario Ware (Wii) tournament at my country's biggest nerd-convention circa 2009. Got like a 15 minigame lead on the second place too.

I won a(n imported, we're brazilian, these were never published here) copy of a My Little Pony Comic Omnibus from a giveaway at an MLP forum I participated in some 10 years ago. I never read the physical comic, it just sits untouched at my shelf. I just read the pirated .cbr

A few months later my SO won a Hot Topic Vinyl Figure of Princess Luna (also imported) from another giveaway at the same forum, and gifted it to me.

• I was the winner of my school's science competition, I'd made a volcano that could emit "lava" (baking soda and vinegar)
• At school I won a contest where we had to design posters for movies that didn't exist, and the winner would get theirs put on the wall
• Lots of high-speed go-karting sessions!
• Not sure if this counts as a competition, but I had an admin of an art website select my art and feature it on the front page for a while which resulted in it getting almost 500,000 views (I remember panicking wondering why I suddenly got so many messages in my inbox!)

I won a keg of beer on the entry ticket to a local beer festival.

A local hotel/chateau had organised it. They had failed with their marketing, and managed to pick the same weekend as a much larger beer festival in the same city.

I got ticket #26 on day 1, Saturday. I don't think they sold more than ten tickets after me that day. I walked past with my dogs the following day and there were like four people there.

Oh, and I also won the demo competition at a local demoparty. First prize was a bag of chips and a brush for doing dishes.

And the 64k intro competition at the biggest demoparty at the time. First prize was a big-ass box of sponsored hardware - graphics cards and processors and stuff.

I won on a radio call-in show called "name that tune," three times. They took two callers. First one gets one second of music and time to answer. If they fail, the second gets ten seconds of music and time to answer.

I was in the one-second position all three times. I was sort of amazed that I kept winning. The prize was a CD in each game. That's how I got into Stabbing Westward, as I wouldn't have bought Whither, Blister, Burn and Peel myself, but it was a prize.

My family won a Super Nintendo from a mini wheats box when I was a kid.

I won a robot R2D2 in a raffle. This was like over 10 years ago. It had voice commands, and somehow understood me better than Siri.

I won an Xbox 360 a long time ago from a Coca Cola competition. You had to use codes from the bottle caps and then quickly answer some quiz questions correctly. But you had unlimited tries. So I just kept clicking random answers quickly until I got all questions right at a ridiculously low time.

Good times. Borrowed Guitar Hero, LA Noire, Batman Arkham Asylum and Red Dead Redemption at the library, had a blast.

My phone service provider used to do daily roulette type giveaways.

I won a free return flight to basically anywhere in Europe.

I actually never did anything with it, because at the time I couldn't afford to pay for someone else to go with me (I would have gone with my partner).

I regret not just flying on my own, but them's the rubs - I was, and am, a bit of an idiot.

I also once won a game key by making a funny YouTube comment on a Unit Lost video once too - but I never used that either; it wasn't a game I was interested in, I just liked to watch the vids for a bit of a laugh.

I don't win much, but when I do I squander my wins.

I won The Game.

I believe you all lost.

nothing lifechanging and not much is memorable. Only thing I can remember actually is a rocking chair. I do not enter things very often.

F'n fruitbasket when I was about 10. Nothing after that. Although I don't usually participate.