Weekend Snippet 5: Piping Snob

So after all the other excitement, I headed over to Hamilton Saturday night for a kind-of-a-big-deal invitational contest.

As with many of these contests, I always feel myself looking back and overanalysing things.

See, the thing with many of these contests is that there are usually the same faces year in and year out. I've been dealing with seeing some of my contemporaries competing, and now placing, at these events, but the one that keeps getting me is when I see the kids that I remember first starting out.... and now they're placing at major events.

To be fair, the contest was won by one of the few "old guard" players there (he has played well enough to win, imho, several times before, but just fell victim to some dubious judging decisions in the past), but it was the first time that I really felt some of the younger players performed as if they belonged.

And you know what? I'm okay with that. I'm not such a big asshole that I can't acknowledge quality performances just because they're given by pipers' whose age makes me feel like I've let that aspect of my career pass me by.....

Just means I'll have to work my ass off if I want to get back to that level again. Only time will tell.