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I agree with a lot of what Whitcre said in that article. I think its important to enter competitions, even if you have no intentions on winning. Some one has to listen to your music to determine if you will win or not. And even if you dont win a judge that liked your piece could contact you for a commission or remember you when you are applying for that composition professor job. I also like competitions as its a motivator to get music performed. Often times, composers only get music performed on their universities one composition studio concert or their recital. So competitions, and even conferences and conventions, are another arena for performances. I personally have entered more competitions that I can remember and have won one of them. And Im not going to lie, I liked winning. Even though I know music composition competitions are so subjective that winning is like saying your the best at thinking, but its nice to know that your hard work is recognized by people outside of your bubble. And the prize money I won was nice too.