"It was dangerous," Violet added. "A lot of people died competing in it, until they discontinued it at some point in...the 18th century, I think. They revived it in the 1990s with an age restriction--you had to be at least 17 years old to complete--but a boy died that year, too, and I don't think it's ever been held since." Violet thought to herself that no amount of money or glory was worth kids dying over it.