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	Mark your calendar...APRIL 1ST CURT DAVIS INVITATIONAL MUSTACHE GROWING CONTEST OF PADDLE SPORTS - tons of prizes! It is a well known fact that only a small percentage of the worlds population can wear a mustache without looking like a complete fool. That's why the contest starts on April Fools day. It is with this sentiment that Joey Hall of DeadmanProductions.com and myself of Effort.tv are very proud to bring you the first ever mustache growing contest of paddle sports. Officially named the CURT DAVIS INVITATIONAL, everyone is invited to compete. Yes, put on specifically for the wide wide world of paddling, the first annual CURT DAVIS INVITATIONAL shall commence on April 1st...April Fools day. All entries must be submitted no later than Saturday, April 1st. By Monday, April 3rd, all competitors will be announced and posted on the Effort blog as an official competition roster. There are prizes and there are rules. First, the rules... Prize packages announced! Fan and critic emails History and inspiration Rules Sponsors Archived Mustache Growth - see the full process of growing a two month mustache. April 1st, 2006 - See the original entries! April 9th, 2006 - See the first week of stache growth. April 16th, 2006 - Week two of growing... sleazebag, scuzzball status. April 23rd, 2006 - Competitors have gone completely insane at this point. April 30th, 2006 - It all seems to stem from passion and love... May 7th, 2006 - Greetings net nerds, see the sixth installment... May 14th, 2006 - Remember back in the day, the good ol days, the salad days... May 21st, 2006 - Alright, that's it... May 28th, 2006 - First, Mustache growers! If you have not already done so you may now shave... June 9th, 2006 - Today is the big day. We've made you sweat it out long enough and we've decided to unveil the winner's podium. Here you have it. As we promised we will be awarding 1st-3rd place and a couple honorable mentions. Believe me people, it was a tough process and we would have had everyone be a loser if it had been up to us. Well... it was up to us actually and most of you did lose. So, we're pretty happy. Who actually has a mustache and is really a winner, really? The correct answer is nobody. Furthermore, we are all now much dumber by participating, facilitating and organizing this contest. If you are reading this you will no doubt be less intelegent when you finish than when you started. SCORING - 100 Point scale based on 5 criteria - First we take into consideration the mustache itself including two of the five criteria 1. Shape/Style - the shape, color, thickness, sheen and overall beauty of the mustache 2. Donkeyness/Legitimacy - how very suave or on the other hand, stupid, the mustache makes you look - Second we looked at the presentation over the course of the entire contest, considering three remaining criteria 3. Humiliation - it is very humiliating to have been a part of this event so everyone gets at least one point for that. the main focus here is what did you do while you had your stache to publicly humiliate yourself? where do you work? did you have to go in front of business people every day? some competitors dropped out due to this simple fact. 4. Creativity - what media did you use to present your stache? how was it shaped? what lenghts did you go to give your stache that little extra pop? 5. Salesmanship - did you sell it to us or didn't you? why should you have won this contest? this quality showed who was real and who was an impostor. Thanks and we'll see you next year. Spencer Cooke, Effort.tv And the results... 1st Place - Steve Althaus from the USA simply kicked the ass out of this contest most every week. Steve is a true donkey and that is a high compliment. He has humiliated himself in front of all of us several times over and his presentation was second to none. Especially his knowledge of donkeys in the last round. 2nd Place - Craig Adams from New Zealand was original and enthusiastic most every week and sported a really nice stache for the duration. His level of humiliation was beyond most. Turd Place - Pat Bresnahan from USA was not a contender until week 8 when he pulled the most impressive public humility stunt of the whole contest by going on national television with his ridiculous mustache. If he had not also had an impressive mustache he may not have pulled into third, but those two elements bumped him up. Take a look at the fabulous Prizes to see what these handsome devils have won. And if you'd like to see the overall results and scores click here. Honorable Mention Awards: Evan and Austin Smith, Father and Son combo-stache-iation-villes-burg-town-son-son-idized-ton-hooha Pyranha I:3 and Eskimo Kendo - Placerville, CA We are awarding Austin and Evan the spirit award. These guys personify companionship in mustache growing and paddling. That's something we could all use. Ronald A. Swaggard, Wilderness Systems Pamlico 140, Florence, SC Ron gets the most substantial mustache award. Just look at that thing. That is a real adult, grown man mustache. Philip Young, Riot Magnum, Bryson City, NC Philip gets the Mullestache award. It was Moffatt who had this one until Philip busted out this serious mullet. Sorry Moffatt, but Philip was stocked with way more hair and looked way more redneck/hippie/harley hawg than you. Again, we wish everyone could have lost or won but it just wasn't in the cards. Though, everyone will have their Curt Davis Mustache t-shirt provided by NOC to mark the occasion as a stepping stone in the history of paddle sports jackassery. Sincere apologies to Chris Tretwold. He did not in fact drop out of the contest for the last week of competition. He sent his entry and somehow I missed the email or something. So, just so you know Chris is not a quitter, and he has one hell of a mustache. Chris finished the contest in a blaze of glory and fireworks. His mustache embarrassed us just as much as it did him. And that's all we were trying to do with this contest folks. I think that Zuzana also sent in a late entry so she's not a dropout either. Come back and visit Effort.tv around July 15th when you may purchase our new kayaking DVD, "ENTER the DONKEY*" for $14.99. watch the video trailer - CLICK HERE We will be donating 5% of all the sales of the DVD to the Green River Access Fund and the Eastern Surf Kayaking Association. Click the image below to see the DVD cover wrap larger. The video focuses on about 12 paddlers but includes around 50. Featured paddlers are: Chris Gragtmans, Spencer Cooke, Ben Marr, Joey Hall, Cooper Lambla, Yonton Mehler, Drew Hayes, Kelsey Thompson, Pat Keller and more. The running length is 1 hour and 11 minutes. It also includes a director's commentary in the extras. The DVD chapters menu looks something like this: 1) Meet the Donkeys 2) Appalachia creeking 3) Introducing Heehaw Jones 4) Eastern Canada full coverage 5) Grabass at the World Surf Championships in Costa Rica 6) North Alabama Whitewater Festival Event Coverage 7) East Coast Surf Kayaking 8) Spillway Carnage 9) Green River NC (hey, we live here so we had to do it) 10) Colorado playing on the Arkansas 11) Ecuador Surf Kayaking 12) Heehaw Jones Strikes Back 13) Uganda White Nile River 14) Transylvania County Creeking NC watch the video trailer - CLICK HERE Thanks a ton to Xackers.net and Boatertalk.com for promoting the event. Sponsors: Contest started on April 1st. Email us with any questions or comments at curtdavismustache@gmail.com			Roger from IR is a real cracka! He has this hilar mustache shirt. Check it out! If you can't read it due to the photo being small it says "guns don't kill people, people with mustaches kill people." Man, that Roger is one wacky dude.