Competitive pitch events seem like they would be detrimental to doing good business for both parties involved.

It's all just needless drama, as if multi million dollar investment deals aren't exciting enough. These kinds of things should be dealt with in a professional matter, especially given that I doubt most startups view their product as the equivalent of an unpurchased property on a Monopoly board during the tenth roll.

On an unrelated note, can someone please confirm my suspicions that the header image used is from Guildwars?