Nonetheless, here are some things we learned from the nominations … The final show of Broadway's 2011-12 seemed seemed to bring out the ogre in critics, inspiring a contest to see how much invective one could pour on to this gospel-and-country-scored adaptation of the 1992 Steve Martin movie.
It's an awe-inspiring contest in which the small matter of a marathon is merely the third and final component.
Alice Gabriner, a CPOY judge and senior photo editor at National Geographic, found the contest inspiring.
He wrote that the experience of winning the Breaking Barriers essay contest was inspiring, "namely in the confidence and hope in myself that the contest sparked... the experience showed me exactly what setting my mind to something can accomplish: big things".
Even in the less-inspiring 2012 contest, 130 million voters turned out, or about 58.6percentt.
When I asked her the secret, she said it was the resources provided by her school, extremely "supportive parents" and a grant from Intel that let her spend part of each day inspiring and preparing students to enter this contest.
The 38-year-old Englishman is famed for his exploits in the bi-annual contest between Europe and the United States, inspiring his team to victory at Medinah in 2012.
A really inspiring new Houses of Parliament might emerge from an architectural prize contest opened to all comers, a familiar practice abroad but one the British seem to be wary of.
The Woodland Trust said of the summer photography contest: "To receive so many entries just goes to show how inspiring the great outdoors can be".
I was invited as a neighbor to go to the school and judge the Gettysburg contest about 10 years ago and just wept when I saw the heroic, inspiring efforts of the kids.
To honor the amazing things girls across the country, Seventeen magazine launched their second annual "Pretty Amazing" Contest with the goal of finding a girl who's making an impact in her community and inspiring others to do the same.
