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I urge my fellow architects to boycott this and other such competitions........Its just another method of getting us all working for nothing, or very little. We recently invested £6000 in our submission for the resent Ullswater Yacht club competition as did 140 other practices only to see a local practice with an extremely poor design win when there were many other fantastic designs submitted. Can anyone explain why competitions are good for our industry in a period when fees are such a hot subject. Surely its just another way of clients getting a vast amount of quality free ideas. RIBA shame on you for supporting this.