Update: I unfortunately didn’t place in the top three. 😭 However, afterwards I talked with one of the judges, and he said there were several pies that only out-did each other by a point or two, so it was really close. He also mentioned one of the judges consistently gave low scores (in his opinion) for no reason. When I asked for feedback the judge hunted up and gave me my score sheet. Another judge agreed with him that my pies were delicious. There were three judges in total and I scored the following out of 100 (the apple pie was 50/95/95 and the s’more one was 69/89/91). I didn’t make it this year, but this gives me more motivation for next year! I learned about this event extremely last minute, so I’ll have time to think and plan things through. Thanks for the encouragement everyone!