They took away my victory

I have a Nintendo DS. Got it in July of 2008. One of the first games I purchased for the ds is Animal Crossing. A cute little casual role playing game, where you go around as the only human in the town and make friends, collect items, win tournaments, and basically live in the world and work to pay off the house. This game is fun. You can be really serious and into it like I am, or you can casually play from time to time just to have something fun to do. You start in the town with one kind of native fruit, I had apples, and go on to make friends and connect thru the wi-fi with "ds to ds" and get new fruit and grow those kind of trees. I have all the fruit that is possible to collect. I am on my last house payment, I have a mansion. I have made friends, lost friends, collected every kind of fossil there is to get. Collected many fish and bugs. I have won fishing tournaments and bug-offs. I have gotten some of the special items that takes many tries and many days to collect. I would think by now my game would know I am supposed to win everything. Well, it doesn't. Every April there is "flower fest". You plant as many flowers around your house as you can, keep them watered for a week and the person with the best garden wins a nice little trophy. I started two days before the fest to make sure I had a lot of flowers, nice colors, and in good shape. I arranged them in rows and put like colors of each flower corresponding to with what row, so all reds were on the left then white, and yellow. Aligned them so they made a perfect little square. Made it beautiful, watered everyday. So sure that I was going to win. Week was up and I logged in to get my trophy out of the mail. Walked out of my house to the mail, and no blinking light for the mailbox. No indication that I had gotten anything in the mail. I ran to the bulletin board and read that Peewee won! That I did not win, but someone else did. That all my prep was wasted on some gorilla that had only been in my town for a few days won, the same guy that had one flower in his front yard. In the game you can run all over the other neighbors flowers and destroy them, so I made sure I did that everyday to secure my victory. ONE FLOWER. I soon turned the game off and told my man what happened. He told me to google it and see if there is a reason. I looked for a few minutes thru cheats and tricks to see what I had done wrong. Of course many people before me had the same problem. (which made me feel better) I didn't plant my flowers close enough to my house. There was about one flower width size around my bricks on the ground where I had not placed my flower bed. I really wish I would have known about that earlier. If I am the only one playing this game, and Nintendo set it up so as long as I try to participate in everything, I win. So how could the game not see that I had planted all those flowers? So as you imagine, I was sad, defeated, and furious at Peewee. I'll have to wait till next April to try again. I have yet to play and this happened yesterday. I will of course turn the game back on soon, probably later this afternoon. I have other things I need to get done and things to collect and letting Tom Nook take my money from me. This game has not heard the last of me yet. And I have to go back to make Peewee's life hell as well. Good gaming to all!!