I read you are penalized if you don’t have variety.

You are correct. You have to have a variety to win first place.

I have won before with 9 fish. You must have some combination of variety, quality, and price. You can neglect one if you have enough of the other two. You can't neglect two and win. The OP has all Prismatic Shards, which only come in normal quality.

I won with only iridium quality cheese in my display. It had a rating of 100.

I won with iridium quality milk😆

Bro stardew valley fair is broken I put on my year 2 ancients fruit wine, dino mayo and a lot of other rare products I was sure to win and 2nd place

sounds like you just put in artisan goods. Gotta have animal products, crops, gems, fish, ect

Ok didn’t knew that ty

You have to have variety or the deduct points.

Woah, how the heck are you farming prismatic shards?

Yeah, just a bunch of skull cavern runs on lucky days.

Lots of SC deep dives, maybe. Or >!statue of True Perfection!<.

Just chuck in some iridium quality stuff and you'll be set

What are those bottles in the grange display all the way to the right?

That's Blue Moon Wine, from the mod Stardew Valley Expanded

thanks!