[kane]

Heres my 2 cents:

I do first for myself, not for respect, not for kudos, not for regonition. I do it to come away with knowledge and to go out and have a little fun. Yes everything is done in a competition which when you examine human nature there are going to be some faults and missed calls but everyone has to deal with these at one point or another. Instead of comming away from this being pissed off come away with it knowing you learned something and knowing you had some fun. If you participate in first for regonition your doing it for all the wrong reasons, there is an underlying meaning to first beyond the education, beyond the gracious professionalism, the basis of first was to create an environment where people could have fun and enjoy themselves, so stop worring about the regonition and just have some fun.