A forum participant submitted a few entries to my local homebrew club's annual competition here is Gainesville, FL, and did fairly well: a gold and silver in category 25 (melomel) with two different pineapple meads, along with a Best of Show mead for one of them. I did the judging for the mini-BOS for the category, and sampled a number of the other entries, and the gold/BOS was well deserved. Congratulations!