Well a couple of weeks ago I competed in my first National level powerlifting meet. It was an interesting event with well over 100 lifters and spanning over 4 days.
I didn't get the results I wished for but over all I am happy with how things went. The week before the meet I had a cold that took a bit out of me and interfered with my training schedule. I didn't lift of a week and a half before the week an I think it let my legs tighten up.
During my warm up sets my quads went tight and after that I felt like I just climbed 10 flights of stairs. This bothered me for the rest of the day and I had cramps off and on in my quads and hamstrings. After my bench press I finally got some Powerade in me and it helped a little, gotta watch the salt intake on the day to help with cramps.
My squats went pretty good 200kg opener went fine and my 210kg second attempt went well. 212.5kgs didn't go as well. My quads cramped and it was a miss. That was disappointing since I have hit 215kgs in the gym.
  Bench press was interesting. My 130kg opener went up with out a hitch. But my 135kg second attempt stopped half way up. Attempt 3 at 135kgs was on its way up when my right hamstring cramped and put a stop to it. It was disappointing since I have hit 135kg in the gym.
Deadlifts have been a killer for me over the past few months and I have struggled big time. Funny thing is today I had no problems and could have gone heavier. 170kgs was easy, 180kgs went up surprisingly easy and 185 kgs was no problem. Go figure, my most troubling lift goes the best of all. Since I pretty much stopped dealifting 2 weeks before the meeting this was an interesting revelation for me.

 In the end I ended up with a 525kgs total. I wanted better numbers but it was a great experience and I am ready for the next one.