I have participated in several business plan competitions, not so much to win the competition, but to have a reason to finish writing the darn thing under press

I have participated in several business plan competitions, not so much to win the competition, but to have a reason to finish writing the darn thing under pressure. My biggest success didn't win any prices (but we participated with it) and the business plan/idea which did win a price I shelved immideatly after, as it wasn't that interesting to me and it was too niche to make a really big impact, from my point of view.