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>Thank you very much. This is the kind of answer I was looking for. :)
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>>Now that that is settled, I would be (as I am sure everyone is) interested in knowing what the heck you are talking about. Which contest prompted this query of your's?
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>As announced at a recent conference, and you may have seen on a specific Web site, a big contest has started. That contest is excluding most of the planet. And, this is what we were referring to. :)

I still haven't figured out which contest it is but...

The way I figure it, winning a contest and the value placed on that win depends on the situation. Winning any contest depends on personality and luck. Is the winner of a contest, even if it included a universal invite, necessarily the best? Not always.

I compare contest winners to degree holders (i.e: B.S., M.S., Ph.D.). It doesn't matter what contests have been won, or what degrees are held, but what are done with these rewards.

I wouldn't bother to lose sleep if a company wants to push it's own 'contest' as being the end-all and be-all. Let us each judge each other as we judge ourselves and let a person's accomplishments in life and in the workplace dictate ability, not his or her gamesmanship.

Matt

P.S. Jeez, I'm really full of it today aren't I?