The Last Poster Wins! [v21]

[Noblejanobii]

What a bust.

I got there early and it was pretty quiet, but people really liked my faerie dragon costume (I went by the alias Puff the Magic Dragon). When it came judging time, the wire for the inflatable wings got snapped again (I swear, this is the third time it's happened), but I figured I'd just make due without them fully inflated. Despite that mishap, I still figured I had an extremely strong chance at winning considering I had a full-fledged mascot costume while no one really had anything even close to that. Meanwhile, the DJ there totally thought I had the best costume (he was a pretty cool guy and tried to get people excited despite the place being pretty quiet that night). Still, I spent the whole night trying to be a good sport by dancing and being the most active person there the entire night. Let me tell you, dancing in a mascot costume gets HOT. I figured it would be worth it, though.

Instead, the judges give it to some weird girl in a typical, easily-brought-off-Amazon Cinderella costume. They totally didn't take the judging seriously and weren't fair about it at all. The first guy gave me a 7, the second guy gave me an 8, and the last guy gave me a ?. Oh no, then he changed it to a 7. Huh? So, 23 in total. I figured maybe they were just using a very tight-fisted system or rubric where nobody gets perfect 10s, so I didn't think anything of it at first. Then, people in average, run of the mill costumes went up. ALL of them got scores higher than me. ALL OF THEM. What. the. hell. Some of them even got an 11/10 score which made it clear this was just some very lame and stupid joke.

I was going to buy a drink and grab dinner there, and I'm glad I didn't. I didn't even stick around to pick up a free t-shirt. I wouldn't even want to wipe my butt with it.

If it makes you feel any better I lost to a UPS driver.