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VIDEO 31 May 2013
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He really can’t contain his joy!
Arvind Mahankali just won the 2013 Scripps National Spelling Bee. I’ve never seen someone that happy to win a competition.
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These brilliant images were chosen as the finalists out of more than 37,600 photos received.
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FEI, a company that manufactures microscopes, regularly holds a macro photo contest in which entrants must submit pictures of things that cannot be seen without magnification. Here is a selection of a few of the entries into the competition for 2012.
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VIDEO 13 Sep 2012
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Random people come up with the best ideas.
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The results of the 6th Annual Wikimedia Commons Picture of the Year contest have been announced recently. About 600 photographs had been submitted for the contest and here are the pictures that received the most points in the community voting.
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ANIMALS 26 Jun 2012
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29 dogs from around the world have taken part in the annual World’s Ugliest Dog contest in Petaluma, California.
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21 Nov 2011
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This is another selection of incredible photographs that participate in National Geographic Photo Contest 2011. It seems that judges will have a difficult time choosing the winner.
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All these photographs were submitted to Photo Contest 2011 announced by National Geographic. The deadline will come up on November 30, but you can already see some of the best images from the categories Nature, People, and Places.
National Coming Out Day celebrated by bisexual, lesbian, transgender and gay communities became the main theme of this Photoshop contest. Artists were asked to Photoshop celebrities and change their gender.
When everyone else is gearing up for the holidays these guys are gearing up for a Barbie Beauty Contest. Each contest along the road will lead some lucky Barbie to the Miss Universe contest. The one hosted recently was in Venezuela. These guys spend hours, days, and money to create a perfect Barbie that might win the title.
These photos are from National Geographic’s Photograph Contest 2010. The images are in three different categories including nature, places, and people. It took eight weeks for the judges to select these winners.
The new beauty queen of Italy is a chubby woman who weights in at 170 kilograms (375 pounds) at the age of 33. Her name is Angela Scognamiglio. Being “Miss Chubby” feels “very moved”, Angela assures. This unusual beauty contest was held in the village of Forcoli, near Pisa.
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We posted already 20 ugliest dogs ever who had also participated in this contest and some of them here were the winners. The photos in this post are from the 22nd annual World's Ugliest Dog contest that took place in Petaluma, California this year. This year a 4-year-old Chihuahua mix Princess Abby Francis won the contest.
There are some amazing digital photos. With the technology that is available today they are so detailed even the ones that are Photoshopped appear to be real. They were taken by different photographers for the 2010 Digital Photographer of the Year Contest.
Who do you think has won the bra untying contest held in China and got $146? Make your suggestion now. The answer is inside this post.
Fastest eaters seem to love participating in different contests to prove that they are the hungriest and are able to eat the most food in the least time. Can you eat your lunch in less than a minute? These people can! So look at their faces. Maybe you will find a familiar one.
Competition for blowing water out from a teapot is not the most stupid of the contests existing now.
But in any case, it would take the first place on the list of the most pointless competitions ))
The contest is finished and the final results are already known.
The work that won are in the end of the post, but even the works that ended on the last positions are worthy of attention, so let’s have a look.
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You've already guessed who’s taking part at such beauty contests in Thailand?
If you go there one day, be careful, otherwise the meeting with a lovely girl could turn out to be a meeting with a former guy ))
How girls react to victory in different contests.
Here are the most disgusting workspaces I’ve ever seen! I don’t know how people can actually work there!
This was a photo contest on Gizmodo about disastrous” workplaces. And I might say – they totally correspond!
Another set of great photos.
If you haven’t seen the two previous parts, they are here:
Part 1
Part 2
As usually, several days before the Super Bowl the Wing Bowl took place in Philadelphia.
Here are some photos from this contest.
But if you’re eating, it would probably be better to skip this post ;)