With questions like this - are we in danger of encouraging music makers to be in more of a competition than they and life already is?

Is there then a real danger that what we really encourage by this - is winning? And that those names who become well-known and successful will become so as a result of life's natural winners and self-promoters - rather than from life's natural music makers?

Being good at self promotion in any field - could be thought of as genius but success at this can be measured to an extent by the fame received. I am not too sure how musical genius can really be measured.