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6It's that time of the year again. The whole town is assembled at the central park, ready for that one traditional competition the town is well-known for. The host (usually the mayor) will be there to explain the rules, introduce the winning prize, and start the event.
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8Everyone in town will either participate or join the audience, depending on how athletic they are. The contest will always start with a fireworks shot, followed by a crowd shot, and depending on how much time there is still left for this episode, a couple of shots of minor contestants before moving on to the main characters wishing each other good luck.
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10Expect the {{Competition Freak}}s to be wearing sports uniforms during the entire episode. The prankster, the bad guy, and the bungling inventor will not miss this opportunity to somehow rig the game.
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12Either the main character wins, or [[DarkHorseVictory a muggle/nobody]] will win the game when the amount of cheating reaches ridiculous heights.
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14!!Examples:
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17* ''Manga/CandyCandy'': There's a rodeo contest.
18* ''Manga/CardCaptorSakura'': There's a town scavenger hunt.
19* ''Anime/KirbyRightBackAtYa'': The series does this quite a lot, sometimes with absurd fads sweeping the town. One episode included the residents of Cappy Town collecting figurines of themselves, which [[TheStoic Meta Knight]] thought was absurd... [[NotSoStoic until he saw one of himself and changed his mind]].
20* ''Manga/KomorisanCantDecline'': There's a contest to design the town mascot. Ultimately, the winner is Tsurezure, making a cameo from ''Manga/{{Ojojojo}}''.
21* ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': Many episodes feature the cast coming across some town in the middle of a themed Pokémon competition like flying, skateboarding, cooking, dancing, etc. Taken to ridiculous levels during the ''[[Anime/PokemonTheSeriesSunAndMoon Sun & Moon]]'' saga where, due to the story being grounded for the most part on Melemele Island, the only city there had ''multiple'' contests.
22* ''Anime/{{Wowser}}'': There's a town contest every three episodes.
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25* ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'': In [[Recap/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuckChapter9 "The Billionaire of Dismal Downs"]], Scrooge participates in the Highland Games to try to fit in.
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28* ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'': Team RWBY enters a traditional local Fighting-Type tournament to earn some local currency.
29* ''Roleplay/JourneyThroughTheMultiverse'': When the heroes arrive at The World of Phantoms, the third one, a town in Tibet holding a contest to see who can catch (or kill) the most ghosts, with a winner receiving a chest. However, things don't end well, and the contest [[spoiler:was just to see who'd be a good meal for the monster inside the chest]].
30* ''Podcast/PokemonWorldTourUnited'': Episodes 020 and 021 take place around the Cerulean Contest. Episode 20 is Victor competing in a Master level competition, while 21 is Rose, Cobalt, and Cira in a Beginner Contest.
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33* ''Series/{{Eureka}}'': The show does this often with scientific contests, such as the "build your own dog" contest.
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36* ''VideoGame/TheLostCrown'': While not restricted to one episode, Mr. Branwen, owner of Celtic Corner, is hosting a photography completion in town, which Nigel can participate in.
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39* ''WesternAnimation/AlfredJKwak'': It features a town-wide triathlon.
40* ''WesternAnimation/AngelinaBallerina'': In the 2001 series episode "Treasure Tandems", Angelina and the other mouselings embark on a treasure hunt/scavenger hunt in teams of two on bicycles.
41* ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'': In [[Recap/TheClevelandShowS1E17GoneWithTheWind "Gone with the Wind"]], a big karaoke contest happens at The Broken Stool in this episode, featuring tons of people from around stool bend, including Cleveland, Donna, Tim, Arianna, Lester, Kendra, Coach [=McFall=], and Gus.
42* ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'': The GrandFinale, [[Recap/CodenameKidsNextDoorOperationINTERVIEWS "I.N.T.E.R.V.I.E.W.S."]] has a mammoth worldwide scavenger hunt with [[BackForTheFinale almost every operative and villain of the show]] and the winner receiving the Delightfuls' Birthday cake. Near the end, Nigel (Numbuh 1) wins and is selected by Numbuh 74.239 to join the Galactic KND, [[spoiler:just to be informed that he might never return to Earth, which in turn means that he'll probably never see his friends and family again]].
43* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'': The episode [[Recap/TheLoudHouseS3E24TheWriteStuffRacingHearts "Racing Hearts"]] focuses on Luna and Sam competing in a town scavenger hunt across Royal Woods that helps them realize they have different interests. They bond and strengthen their relationship as a result.
44* ''WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart'': It has ''three'' of these episodes: "Head Chef", "Baost in Show", and "Thumb War".
45* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E35BigSulkyTheFunnyFaceCompetition The Funny Face Competition]]," Molly, Tooey and Auntie Midge bring the funny face competition back to Qyah, and most everyone in town competes.
46* ''WesternAnimation/RatedAForAwesome'': Ned Falcon, a professional skater, enters a small-town contest of skateboarding, knowing full well he would outclass most of the other contestants.
47* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'':
48** "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS1E16SolarSystemBakeOffKidKartDerby Solar System Bake Off]]" has Boxwood Terrace hold a kids' baking contest. Mindy wins a ribbon for her Saturn cake, and Mitchell wins a ribbon for his cake replica of the Saturn V rocket.
49** "[[Recap/ReadyJetGoS2E9ThatsOneGiganticPumpkinJetPropulsion That's One Gigantic Pumpkin, Jet Propulsion!]]" sees Jet enter a pumpkin contest. He inadvertently makes his pumpkin ginormous through the use of a Bortronian sun lamp, and wins the ribbon for biggest pumpkin.
50* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'': In the aptly titled [[Recap/SonicBoomS2E39Victory "Victory"]], Team Sonic and their cyborg counterparts take part in a charity soccer game.
51* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': In [[Recap/SpongeBobSquarePantsS9E15SanctuaryWhatsEatingPatrick "What's Eating Patrick?"]], Patrick competes in Bikini Bottom's annual eating contest against the last winner, Oswald [=McNulty=]. He prepares for it by binging on Krabby Patties while running on a treadmill.
52* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': In [[Recap/WinxClubS1E8AFriendshipSundered "A Friendship Sundered"]], riders from all across Magix city are competing in a race à propos the Day of the Rose. Amongst the contestants, we have three of the Specialists and Darcy. If her participation sounds odd, well, that's because she's there to make it seem as if Riven's friends have sabotaged him and then swoop in to rescue him.

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