Okay, I'm a competition nay sayer. I was taught in college that cooperation is better than competition. I'm sure that competition in free flight is all in good fun for those who take the hobby seriously and have for many years. The truth is that after about four years of building free flight airplanes I decided I wanted to build and enter a plane for competition. I spent hours on the plane over weeks. One decal had a crummy air bubble which ruined the whole thing because nearly half of the judging points are based on appearance. So I withdrew my entry. The problem wasn't with my building abilities, it was with the quality of the kit's decals. I even spent close to $10. on "decal solvent solution" which was supposed to make these decals go on right. It didn't work. It didn't work in the test I made and it didn't work with the real application. I should have known. I've tried to use the kit in question's decals before. The whole point of this competition was we had to build this company's kit which has bad decals. I would have had a nice looking plane if I would have listened to that small voice telling me, near the end of the build, "Forget it, the decals won't work and you've got a great looking airplane and forget about competing!" Everyone want's to win in life and be the best but no one cares about the loser. Now I have a great airplane I can't stand to look at because the one decal I put on has an air bubble.