Now I see a few people referring to this as an competition !! I don't believe that this was intended as a competition but as a friendly get together to compare notes on various methods of growing in a solo cup and killing some time over the winter . When you compete there are winners and losers and I don't believe for one minute there are any loser's on AFN . It's no big deal and I'm not being critical and you can refer to it as a competition if you wish who am I to judge . Personally I would prefer it to be referred to as Winter Party a long winter party .