Soy un perdedor.

So, as I said yesterday, the Yale Glee Club composition contest had about 70 entrants, so I was expecting that to be a pretty typical number for choral composition contests. This morning I learned that I did not win the Meistersingers contest, and I also learned that they had 171 submissions. I mean really. This large number bothers me just a bit, and I'm considering if I may have been thrown completely off-course by the less-than-30 entries in the Bells of the Sound Composition Contest I won. Specifically, I'm wondering if instrumental composing generally has less competition, and thus I'm wondering if I should direct my focus largely into that instead of choral.