How competitive are you with your system?

My take is that I think it’s almost impossible not to wonder how your system compares to others’.  I believe it’s human nature. 

@thebrokenrecord 

“I actually think it’s a good idea”

l am flabbergasted. My flabber has never been so ghasted. A tournament is not such a crazy idea? Look at Woodstock, or Glastonbury that were just someone’s idea.

Your tournament💡moment is maybe not so illogically impossible. There are DJ and gaming tournaments so why not?

l think @mihorn is a candidate having actively and professionally promoted his modified gear, and has confidently self-praised his own projects. 
 

Of course the USA is a big country to get everyone interested together.

Such a competition would be logistically not easy unless you demo REALLY LOUD!

How my system compares to others could not be more irrelevant. I've been in the live music biz forever (or at least since the 60s), and an audio geek for as long, so I know how to get my system sounding to my tastes...everybody does that, possibly to varying degrees of success. I don't schlep other systems into my listening space like a reviewer, and neither do most others. There are cult like adherents to room conditioning, floating cables, magic fuses, etc., none of whom make much sense to me, and I'm perfectly happy with that. Since most of my friends aren't audio geeks their attention span when I try to show them some new item often peaks in 3 seconds. This is a solitary hobby for me, my wife likes the way things sound, and I change things in my system when I feel like it. 

That's a losing proposition and not healthy. Be happy with what you have and if you want to "upgrade", don't do it out of envy of someone else's stuff. 

"competitive" isn't the the same as being able to compare.