It’s exactly like speed cubing.
“I’ve been to a couple of these now and I’m always stuck with the same question: why? Why oh why oh why? It’s not prize money - there’s hardly any in it. And it’s not women - there aren’t any at these things. There aren’t even spectators, unless you count other competitors, plus the few glum relatives who appear to have been taken here against their will. My best guess is that it’s all about the quintessentially American obsession with glory, however fleeting. Everyone wants to be the king of a hill: that’s international. But the number of aspiring kings always dwarfs the number of available hills. So in this country, we build more hills. We’re geniuses, in fact, at building more hills. We’ve got a league for everything, including underwater hockey and lawnmower racing. That’s db drag racing. It’s utterly pointless: a car stereo competition with cars you can’t drive and stereos you can’t listen to. Until you realize that it allows a group of people to call themselves the best in the world at something.”
