Bar came about 1ft off the ground then just nothing. IT WILL COME! 
Itd help if you said the store
Well played matey!
Any pics of the event?!
That's a fantatic result!
/lucky to be placing second with. 200kg squat which was nice as that's my old PB plus 30kg in 3 months. 117.5kg bench which was limited by my shoulder (did 120x2x2 recently), also the pause is a killer! Deadlift was frankly awful at 205kg; a combination of american football and someone shutting a door on it has left my right hand strangely limited. After completely failing my singles at the end of my program I reloaded the bar to 200kg (the last of my warmup sets to not be a problem) and raged out 8 reps twice, and yet as you will see on the day 212.5kg messes me up. Feel like a total novice as well, but the only way is up! Next comp will be sometime in the first half of next year and I'm doing an HST cycle before I hit my powerlifting program again, and hopefully this time I'll lift in the 90's class instead of being flu'd up to my eyeballs and maybe I'll get my 240 deadlift...
160-180 I can rep nicely, so I think it's a psychological thing
I train myself, so I have to complete a rep or I'm ****ed! I've got good equipment, but having some **** screaming at you and motivating you really helps. nothing like the fear to get your arse out of the bottom of a squat! But yeah absolutely, I did so much more in terms of adding weight to lifts in a given time in my new powerlifting gym in the summer than at any point in my 2 ish years of proper lifting at my uni gym. There is a guy in my new gym who deadlifts 340kg, and there is a picture of him somewhere doing a lateral raise with two 25kg plates pinched in each hand 
he makes me feel tiny and scared.
