Competitions

These goos are from the Competitions category, people famous for participating in or running contests, games, and sweepstakes. Browse another way.

Angela Perez Baraquio

Will her students be saying aloha to the new Miss America? Go »

Ariadna Gutiérrez

You might be told that your guess for this Columbian model is the most correct in the universe, only to hear an announcement four minutes later that someone else is the right answer. Go »

Arvind Mahankali

Knowing words like "knaidel" will help this 13-year-old win any game of Scrabble. Go »

Atilla Iskifoglu

This champion bartender's got more than enough talent to win any game of Tapper. Go »

Bill Morgan

Luckiest man alive? This Australian won the lottery twice after reviving from a coma. Go »

Bobby Fischer

Like a knight on a crusade, if you're searching for this goo's identity, don't get rooked into thinking he's a king goo. Go »

Boris Spassky

This Soviet champ lost his cool in Iceland. Go »

Bugha

It took a lot longer than two weeks for this Twitch star to get good enough at a popular video game to win $3 million playing it. Go »

Camilla Lyman

Did the plumber or the clumber find his/her body? Go »

Carrie Prejean

Beauty queens aren't known for scandals about marriage equality, but sometimes they're known for scandals about racy photos. Go »

Chandro Tomar

Not many grandmothers embark on professional sports careers, and fewer still choose sharpshooting, but this Indian woman struck a bullseye and became a feminist icon. Go »

Chris Moneymaker

With a last name like that, who expects to win a game of cards against this guy? Go »

Darvin Moon

I wouldn't put money on this goo to win the world series. Go »

Dorsa Derakhshani

What's happening inside the head of chess players is what should matter, not what's happening on top of them. Go »

Evie Clair

It's already hard performing in the finals on a reality competition series. It's almost impossible when one of your parents passed away the day before. Go »

Garry Kasparov

found himself in deep trouble Go »

Hikaru Nakamura

Trying to earn a living on Twitch during a pandemic must have been risky, but chess players are used to making a bold Gambit. Go »

James Holzhauer

Was a long-running game show broken by this high-betting sports gambler, or was it simply mastered? Go »

Joey Chestnut

Don't act like a nut unless you want to choke on this dog. Go »

Joey Chestnut

He loves eating food so much that his last name is a kind of nut and his new fiancée sounds like a chocolatier. Go »

Judit Polgár

This Hungarian knows that the queen is the most powerful piece on the chessboard. Go »

Kathrine Switzer

Despite a race official trying to physically prevent her from running in this historic event, she finished the race. Go »

Magnus Carlsen

he became king of the world at 19, and he didn't even have to castle Go »

Phil Hellmuth

If this goo checks to you, don't call, because he will call you an idiot goo player. Go »

Priyanshi Somani

Holy math! How in the World did this child prodigy mentally calculate the square root of 10 six-digit numbers in record time and win the first place Cup as the youngest participant in the competition held in 2010? Go »

Robert Santoli

This New Yorker said DON'T LET THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG but he has really good fortune because if you think he is EASY BREEZY you may see him on an EXHILARATING WATER SLIDE. He is also LIVING IN THE MOMENT because he has THREE WISHES and one of the three wishes he asked for was GOOFY PICTURES. Go »

Ronnie Coleman

He's no lightweight baby: He was so determined to be one of the best bodybuilders in the world that the sport left him paralyzed, and still he lifts. Go »