For more on the Miss Camel Beauty Contest, watch our past documentary on the festival here.
Earlier this month, Katy Perry selected Lakewood High School of Lakewood, Colo., as the winners of her "Roar" lip dub contest (watch their winning video above), meaning the school would get a special concert from Perry herself.
Nobody went higher in an exciting contest watched by 80,000.
This year's winner, of a song contest watched by hundreds of millions, was someone in a dress with a beard.
Results in the contest, watched by an estimated 125 million viewers across Europe, are determined by a mix of votes from official national juries in participating states and those phoned in by the public.
In a contest watched by almost 19,000 spectators over the four days at Scarborough, the home side were always battling to stay in the game after conceding more than 400 runs on the opening day, although they hoped to salvage a draw after entering the last day at 276 for one following on, which put them 23 behind.
(It reminds me of the episode of "Freaks and Geeks" in which Nick, having competed in a disco contest, watches a guy strut onto the floor and start waving scarves and a wand. "They didn't say you were allowed to do magic!" he says, dismayed).
However, the Clones clash had little of the excitement produced by the tremendous Owenbeg contest watched by a crowd of 3,159.
Staying behind, he sleeps in late, dances in his underwear (à la Tom Cruise in the film Risky Business), makes his special waffle recipe, wins a radio trivia contest, watches an action-packed football game, and finds a penny.
It lacked the bite, the sometimes uncontrolled passion, the downright nastiness that often litters these home-and-away contests, watched by addicts to a game that divides families, let alone rival supporters.
What followed was a series of poor contests, watched by small crowds.
