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* ''[[Rocket Power]]'' included a sand castle contest. The various entrants spent lots of time and effort on elaborate sand sculptures, but first place went to a little girl who made a tiny sand tower with a bucket. Reason? It was a sand ''castle'' contest, and hers was the only one that could be called a "castle".

* In an episode of ''[[Pepper Ann]]'', the eponymous character completely wins over the judges of a beauty pageant with her heartfelt speech about being herself... but another girl wins because the entire pageant was rigged to give her the prize—she's the daughter of the president of the company that organized it.

* In ''Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks'', the Rainbooms advance to the final round of the Battle of the Bands despite ''completely tanking'' their semi-finals performance, being unfairly advanced over the objectively superior performance done by Trixie and the Illusions. Justified in that this is part of the villains' Xanatos ~~Gambit -- the~~ Dazzlings gain power from negative emotions and discord, and set up the Battle of the Bands in the first place to power-up off of the strife and competitiveness it would produce among the school. By having the contest be unfairly rigged in such a blatant manner, they guaranteed the entire audience would be ragingly pissed off and powering them up to the maximum, while at the same time driving the mind-controlled Trixie far enough over the edge that she'd sabotage the Rainbooms and take them out of the final round entirely. (Of course our heroines escaped for the final act and won, but the Dazzlings made a ''very'' respectable effort.)

* In ''Equestria Girls: Rainbow Rocks'', the Rainbooms advance to the final round of the Battle of the Bands despite ''completely tanking'' their semi-finals performance, being unfairly advanced over the objectively superior performance done by Trixie and the Illusions. Justified in that this is part of the villains' Xanatos Gambit—the Dazzlings gain power from negative emotions and discord, and set up the Battle of the Bands in the first place to power-up off of the strife and competitiveness it would produce among the school. By having the contest be unfairly rigged in such a blatant manner, they guaranteed the entire audience would be ragingly pissed off and powering them up to the maximum, while at the same time driving the mind-controlled Trixie far enough over the edge that she'd sabotage the Rainbooms and take them out of the final round entirely. (Of course our heroines escaped for the final act and won, but the Dazzlings made a ''very'' respectable effort.)

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