International classical guitar competitions are public events designed to identify and award outstanding classical guitar soloists, ensembles, and composers.
Some competitions also have newly composed "set" pieces which serve to increase the classical guitar repertoire.
The guitar seems to be the absentee in musical competitions until the Second World War.
In recent years, many international classical guitar competitions were established.
(€1,000) Analysis of data at a piano competition, with many high-level participants, has made it doubtful that judges are able to make fully objective judgments; because there was a small correlation between the order of appearance of participants and their ranking: On the other hand, if a competition has many professional-level artistic participants, it may not even be possible to make an objective judgment of who is "best"; because: given numerous professional-level artistic performers, there may not even be room for the concept of comparison; since this presumes the existence of a "best" interpretation, which is itself questionable (and would be a commercialization of art; viewing it from a mass-consumption or absolutist point of view).