James: Part of the fun of the contest is that if you do well, you get a sucky prize — something ugly, useless, and/or unwieldy. Instead, we got a small homemade ornamental item. First prize was a bag filled with eight pounds of human hair. A couple years ago, if I remember right, the top prize was a non-working car. Our ornament was a bit of a letdown in the sense that it was reasonably nice.