All of the big knife fora have intermittently hosted blade sharpening competitions. In EVERY case guided systems have won.
A sharpening competition would be purely subjective. A cutting competition is not subjective.
Oops,my bad. I should have said "blade sharpness" competitions! The ones I reference use the protocol from BF that Phil uses:
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