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At the 2025 Kentucky State Fair, several culinary categories, including brownies, lacked a first-place winner.

Fourteen categories had no first-place prize, an increase from seven in 2024, while some had a first-place winner but no second or third.

Fair officials stated that judges are not required to award every place, leading to some entries receiving no ribbons at all.

While contestants expressed curiosity about the judging process, the fair's rulebook doesn't offer a clear explanation for the lack of first-place awards in certain categories.

If a bunch of brownies enter the Kentucky State Fair and none of them get a blue ribbon, do they even count?

This year’s second place brownies certainly made an impact in recent days, when word spread that the chocolatey

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