Texting for Dollars

This article is about a guy who lost a text messaging contest at a state fair due to a missing exclamation point.

A silly bit of news in and of itself, but a slightly scary sign of the times. TEXTING contests at a state fair? I mean, I guess it is slightly healthier than all those old eating contests, future carpal tunnel surgery aside, but it seems a bit sad.

I wonder if people with full QWERTY keypads were handicapped...?