I used to avoid competitions and preferred to just place my own bets on sports to see how it goes. I was glad to win and sad to lose, and it was between me and sports. In autumn, however, I entered a Sportsbet EPL prediction competition, and after months of it going on, I must say that I do find it engaging when various people make predictions for the same games, and then I can see how other people are making their decisions and how they are performing as well. At first, I thought I had no chance there, but I'm currently lucky to be in top-10, so now I do care about remaining there 
I am avoiding competition as i do think it will put more pressure and i end loosing rather than having a cool time gambling. If you think and you are winning congrats on you and i might join a competition at a later time when i am free off tensions and nothing to worry. Right now i do have a regular job and watching sport and betting is my only pass time, until then i might continue being a lone better.