My winning streak!

Doesn't exist.


Competitions. Awards. I can think of few times that I have ever won anything.

I remember in school having ceremonies at the end of the year for those who performed the best in a given subject. I never won any. I got frickin' Certificates of Endeavour, which is essentially ruffling my hair and telling me that I'm pretty okay too.

I am also terribly unlucky when it comes to things like raffles and all that. Never won a single one in my life. xD Eh, they're usually for good causes, it's all fine. :stare:

Ah well, next time, right?!

What about you lot? Ever won an award? Prizes? Are you secretly a top tier chess player and have won many tournaments?

Nope. No awards. Never entered a tournament or anything.

I can see it now.

"Shauna: She's pretty okay"

According to several ~totally trustworthy~ advertisements around the internet, I'm the lucky winner of a lot of money, several dates, free downloads and a couple game consoles. Now, if only I get around to filling out those surveys with my master card information.

When I was younger and actually tried in school I once got a certificate for being in the top 3% in the state for English as a subject. The local paper stuck me on the front page and everything (it was... a pretty small paper >.>), that's really the extent of it though.

I used to win a lot of awards for my art at school. I also once won a certificate for being the best at General Knowledge on our year 6 holiday/trip thing. Knew all the answers to random questions about stuff. Yep. I was cool.

I also won Best Member on an internet messaging board once, I know. I really am cool.

I won a sandcastle making competition in France when I was 8 or 9 :cool: Won some bubbles to blow, smurf yeah.

I wouldn't call this winning anything, but in elementary school I always got an award thing for my grades and attendance. I got it every year along with a bunch of other kids. The vice principal who did the awards every year always mispronounced my name.

Also in Elementary school, I won a drawing at a soccer game. Only drawing I think I've ever won. It was for a $100 gift card to Price Chopper. My parents just took it to buy groceries and I never really got to do anything with it.

I won soccer tournaments in middle/high school. Also my soccer team outside of school that my dad coached often ended the season in first place.

I also got accepted to read a poem I wrote in a conference. Had an all expenses paid trip to New Orleans for it. This was my third year in college, and the poem was something that I wrote like Sophomore year in high school. It was crappy, but I didn't have any time to work on something new. Somehow it got accepted. The following year I actually worked hard to write a new thing to try to get into the conference. This piece was a thousand times better than my stupid poem, but I wasn't accepted for that one.

In Highschool I won multiple first in state awards for journalism related things.

I just won a free book from Goodreads :D Signed and it's an early copy, it's supposed to in the mail currently. It doesn't officially come out for a few weeks.

One time, when WoW teamed up with Mountain Dew they had this like point bid system. I put in of course for a laptop a computer a whole everything. Didn't win any of it. But i put a random like 5 points on a bag. Won the bag :cool:

I won the cooking contest on here! :D

Won various awards for stuff in grade school, like grades & attendance.

Won an award @ an Academic Decathlon.

Won $600 in Vegas.

Won an autograph copy of TV Guide from the cast of The Big Bang Theory.

Won various trinkets from work for being error free.

Won a bobble head for winning Fantasy Football in '09.

Won a T-Shirt from another message board.

Won a game here.

Last thing that I won was an "Excellence in Physical Education" award in high school that was awkward because I was atop of my class and got that...
However I have good luck with raffles, except it's not me who wins, I give my luck to whoever I'm talking to at the moment of the prize getting called. Due to this my girlfriend won disneyland tickets two years ago that was fun.

I won a chicken dance competition at Dollywood when I was little. Scored tickets to Dixie Stampede's opening weekend for me and my family. Ha!

I won plenty of my swimming events back when I swam competitively.

Last night I completely owned the guys in both Rummy and Yahtzee (3 Yahtzees in the first game, wut!?).. Lol They were pissed. Mwahahaha.

Won honor roll all year in 4th grade- even though my teacher threatened to fail me for missing too much school .

Won a set of autographed photos of the Chinese VK band Silver Ash back when they were new and I joined their street team.

And of course my eoff forum awards. Most notably "Drunkest Member" & "Most Likely To Be Secretly Cooking Meth" xD

I won a writing contest in the fourth grade and was sent to a university to attend a conference for it. I thought for some reason that I was "going on to the next level" of the competition so I wrote a whole new story for it and was pretty bummed out when I wasn't able to present it. :aimmad:

I won things sometimes but it wasn't without a great deal of effort or luck. I even won a raffle one time which had a $50 gift card and it was perfect timing because I was dead broke at the time. Used the money to get myself lunch and a metro card.

In high school I won an award for kindness :-) I was proud! But kindness doesn't win you money in competitions, which is what I really want!! That never happens!

- I won 'Guess the Best Screen Name' comp on here and Jiro sent me a cuddly tonberry
- I won the Super Mario Bros gaming comp on here by a country f***ing mile. Dat Matt sent me Mario made out of beads.
- I would have won the Super Mario Kart comp if I had not been playing the slower UK version. God damn Americans and their NTSC SNES consoles.
- Best Newbie Ciddie
- Most Underrated Ciddie
- I won the heart of MissH which makes me luckier than any lottery winner on the planet.

There were times I either won or lost competitions.

I keep seeing this thread title as "My winning steak" and I keep thinking Shauna won a steak cooking contest and now I really want to eat it and I'm not happy that it's not real. How dare you trick me, Shauna! :argh:

I'll just leave this here...

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I won a lot of academic awards up through 10th grade. I skipped a year in math, and I remember my friend being so excited she got a "High Honors" award for the proficiency test. I showed her my "Highest Honors" award and she was mad as a bug. After 10th grade though my academic career was all bees in the wind.

I won one of those raffles in middle school where they just do a generic drawing of the little "OMG you did something nice, here's a piece of paper" things. I picked a teddy bear with a Christmas sweater. I think I finally threw that ratty old bear out recently, but I kept his sweater. smurfing nice sweater, that.

Going further back, I went to the same elementary school for K-6. By 4th grade I had never once received a "Citizen of the Month" award, despite being a smurfing angel. Fortunately, I figured out the system. My poor fourth grade teacher, for the first few months I was pretty troutty. My mom kept getting called in for conferences like "WTF!" I got detention for the first time. And then a few more times. ...And then I went back to normal. And you're smurfing right I was Citizen of the Month that month.

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Originally Posted by Shlup

After 10th grade though my academic career was all bees in the wind.

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What? I mean don't get me wrong, I like it, but what?

Have you never seen bees try and fly in the wind? It's like "smurf man, that's terrible."

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Originally Posted by Shlup

After 10th grade though my academic career was all bees in the wind.

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This is the greatest description of anything, ever.

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Originally Posted by Bubba

- I won 'Guess the Best Screen Name' comp on here and Jiro sent me a cuddly tonberry
- I won the Super Mario Bros gaming comp on here by a country f***ing mile. Dat Matt sent me Mario made out of beads.
- I would have won the Super Mario Kart comp if I had not been playing the slower UK version. God damn Americans and their NTSC SNES consoles.
- Best Newbie Ciddie
- Most Underrated Ciddie
- I won the heart of MissH which makes me luckier than any lottery winner on the planet.

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Awwww ❤️❤️❤️ You are so wonderful!!! Best Newbie Ciddie is a great achievement!!!

:-p Love you xxx

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

I keep seeing this thread title as "My winning steak" and I keep thinking Shauna won a steak cooking contest and now I really want to eat it and I'm not happy that it's not real. How dare you trick me, Shauna! :argh:

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I had some winning steak the other day. It didn't win any prizes, but it felt like one because I was so hungry that night.

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Originally Posted by Bubba

I'll just leave this here...

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I'm so turned on right now...