You are compared with 99 other people chosen randomly. If you are better than everyone else in a specific domain, you win 1 million €/$. What do you choose?
I’ve done it my whole life, at 5 years old I took apart a old kitchen timer. I broke it, but figured out what I did to break it, what broke it originally, and what I could have done to fix it.
I learned HVAC by being thrown into a truck, and learned it in the nineties.
I learned HL7, Cerner, and a bunch of other shit. Eventually becoming a technical expert for a 4 hospital system. Then I had a mental breakdown. But I can still problem solve better then 99% of them.
So I recently one the northern Territory chilli eating championship, and in a month’s time me and 6 others are competing in the Australian championship to crown Australia’s best chilli eater and decide who will he going to America for the world championship.
Shooting, combined carbine and pistol, using Practical Competition Shooting League (competition/armor division) rules. Five stages.
I’m in the 20% percentile for PCSL shooters; I am not good when compared to them. On the other hand, very, very few people nationally compete in any kind of shooting sport. People that personally own firearms make up roughly 32% of the US population. People that practice regularly with the firearms that they own make up a much smaller percentage of that. Of the people that practice, people that compete at all, much less regularly, make up a tiny fraction of all firearm owners.
Even if the 99 truly randomly chosen people are all in the US, I’ve got pretty decent odds that I’ll be competing against people that have no experience in shooting on the clock. If those 99 random people are people from anywhere, then, given that gun ownership is very low pretty much everywhere else in the world, the odds are very, very good that the people I’d be competing against wouldn’t even know how to effectively operate a firearm, would be unable to follow the rules, and would end up getting disqualified for major safety violations.
But if the challenge was international, you could get unlucky. Some countries like Germany, Switzerland, or Russia have a very popular shooting sports community. But I like your idea. I would take olympic archery. I’m fine enough to participate in national championships, but I don’t stand a chance to the pros. Plus, it would be that an average person doesn’t have the muscles to shoot 72 arrows on a target at competition distance.
Not because I’m particularly good at it - just because it’s incredibly niche and the few dozen other people on the planet who also work in my field would probably not be amongst those 99.
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