When you won in '75, your "prize" was a bowl of beef stew.
But it has been cancelled this year for fear of terrorist reprisals, and Florence and her Charlie circle, calling themselves "Fringe Angoulême", have devised a Couilles au cul – balls in your arse – prize which (with all 30 official nominees men) "will be won by a woman".
If you make it to the end in one piece, your prize will be a special disco, funk and soul party with surprise guests.
Because it serves a very specific function, which is appraising and tracking the value of tangible assets, as in not your prized Xbox or that plaster Elvis bust you got from the flea market.
Monster Hunter 4 – like Phantasy Star Online, which originally had no player versus player features – is different: the sense of achievement is in successfully conquering a challenge with a group of people and showing off your prize in the form of brilliant new equipment and weapons.
If you're chosen as a winner, you're given a window during which you have to confirm your U.S. shipping address in order to receive your prize.
And I wouldn't encourage them by saying this awful event is your prize in life for being a strong person.
But these weren't the kind of events we see today, with the whole stadium style and huge audience, massive prize pools, and so on this was far more turn up and maybe have a pint or two as your prize in the end.
You can fill it in on theguardian.com and submit your prize entry online.
There is an entrance fee to race, but if you come in first or second place, your prize will be bigger than the entrance fee was.
