Jonathan Rice, freestyle champ (photo by Andy Blackburn)

TO ALL WINNERS: Congratulations!

TO ALL CONTESTANTS, SPONSORS, AND ATTENDEES: Thank you!

The Second Annual Beard Team USA National Beard and Moustache Championships took place on October 8, 2011, in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

The complete results are set forth below.

Note regarding scoring: In the final judging, each judge ranked his/her top three contestants from the finalists selected earlier. Each first-place vote was worth 5 points, each second place vote was worth 3 points, and each third place vote was worth 1 point.

Moustache Category:
First Place ($600): Patrick Gorman, 10 points
Second Place ($300): Benjamin Jurgens, 10 points
(The judges selected Gorman over Jurgens in the tiebreak.)
Third Place ($100): Glen Moore, 6 points
Other finalists:
Sam Holcombe, 6 points
Taylor Weldon, 6 points
(The judges selected Moore over Holcombe and Weldon in the three-way tie for third place.)
Daniel Lawlor, 5 points
Steve Scarpa, 1 point
Detleff Steinhoefel, 1 point
Paul DeLeone
Matyas Kovach

Partial Beard Category:
First Place ($600): Toot Joslin, 18 points
Second Place ($300): Bill Mitchell, 14 points
Third Place ($100): Nate Johnson, 5 points
Other finalists:
Michael Schrader: 4 points
Kevin Demarest, 2 points
Joe Blossom, 1 point
Ryan Messer, 1 point
Eric Moberg
Chris Noe

Full Beard Groomed Category:
First Place ($600): John Myatt, 14 points
Second Place ($300): Burke T. Kenny, 11 points
Third Place ($100): Doug Renfro, 6 points
Other Finalists:
Benjamin Whitney, 6 points
(The judges selected Renfro over Whitney in the tiebreak.)
Rafael Diaz, 3 points
Blair Johnson, 3 points
Joseph Camacho, 1 point
Jeff Roth, 1 point
John Benedict
Maximo Garcia
Gary Faulkner
Jeb Sturmer
Marq Vigilio

Full Beard Natural Category:
First Place ($600): John Burgess, 13 points
Second Place ($300): Bryan Nelson, 12 points
Third Place ($100): Neil Moherman, 12 points
(The judges chose Nelson over Moherman in the tiebreak.)
Other finalists: Rick Angood, 3 points
Al Skipper, 3 points
George Scripture, 1 point
Aarne Bielefeldt
Dave Grams
Trevor Cranmer
Bob Gallagher
Thomas Gerdes
Dan Hudy
Alan Kelly
Geoff Kershaw
Myk O’Connor
PJ Rhymeswithsausage
Andrew Shuler

Freestyle Category:
First Place ($600): Jonathan Rice, 13 points
Second Place ($300): Thomas (Maurice) Smith (Blurton), 10 points
Third Place ($100): Matt Bischoff, 6 points
Other finalists:
John Buckler, 5 points
Brian Quien, 5 points
Andy Smith, 5 points
Gandhi Jones, 1 point
Bert Mayer

The event was hosted by the East Bavarian Beard Club and hosted by their president, Will Preuß. There were 150 competitors and over 500 in attendance.

Moustache – Natural

1. Wolfgang Schneider
2. Péter Szilágyi
3. Mihály Varga

Moustache – English

1. Jochen Kälber
2. Rolf Spiertz

Moustache – Dali

1. Michael Wüst
2. Josef Zeiler
3. Max Pankow

Moustache – Imperial

1. Gerrit Mücke
2. Rainer Maute
3. Eugen Hipp

Moustache – Hungarian

1. Günter Rosin
2. Kristéf Anbrus
3. Josef Ibach

Moustache – Freestyle

1. Günter Krause
2. Willi Feldmann
3. Bernd MC Elm

Partial Beard – Natural

1. Lalos Dusan
2. Wolfgang Serway
3. Franz Schottenhammer

Partial Beard – Fu Manchu

1. Lutz Giese
2. Dr. Detleff Steinhöfel
3. Josef Nerb

Partial Beard – Musketeer

1. Lothar Roller
2. Jürg Biland
3. Reinhard Bürker

Partial Beard – Imperial

1. Karsten Allwardt
2. Hans-Peter Jahn
3. Karl-Heinz Rost

“Sideburns” – Freestyle

1. Dieter Besuch
2. Hervé Diebolt
3. Franz Mitterhauser

Partial Beard – Freestyle

1. Marijan Vidakovic
2. Manfred Richter
3. Bernhard Greller

Full Beard – Verdi

1. Karl Roos
2. Willi Segalotto
3. Bernhard Heinzmann

Full Beard – Garibaldi

1. Fritz Sendlhofer
2. Albert Pletzenauer
3. Siegfried Seeholzer

Full Beard – Natural

1. Jack Passion
2. Franz Pill
3. Ernst Schuster

Full Beard with Styled Moustache

1. Siegfried Jezierny
2. Albert Schmid
3. Hans Horst

Full Beard – Freestyle

1. Hans Gassner
2. Gerhard Knapp
3. Klaus Leible

Thanks again to the East Bavarian Beard Club for an incredible event!  Official results in German and these pictures on their website.

OVERALL WINNERS

First Place: David Traver, Anchorage, Alaska
Second Place: Karl-Heinz Hille, Berlin, Germany
Third Place: Jack Passion, San Francisco, California

MOUSTACHES

Natural

Kees Lek, Netherlands
Keith Jefferson, United Kingdom
Ben Davidson, Ridley Park, Pa.

Dali

Tony Papai, Germany
Max Klaus Pankow, Germany
Robert Starnes, New Orleans, La.

English

Lutz Giese, Germany
George Haskins, Fairbanks
Sam Holcombe, Jacksonville, Fla.

Hungarian/Wild West

Nicholas Dighiera, Eagle River
Guenter Rosin, Germany
Josef Ibach, Germany,

Imperial

Benjamin Juergens, Los Angeles
Patrick Melcher, Los Angeles
Alex Antebi, Los Angeles

Freestyle

Keith Haubrich aka Gandhi Jones, Seattle
Devon Holcombe, Jacksonville, Fla.
Luk Vanderbeuren, Belgium

PARTIAL BEARDS

Alaska whaler

Jerem Feltman, Kenai
Aaron Suring, Juneau
Shawn Campbell, Anchorage

Freestyle Partial Beard

Stuart Wilf, Colorado Springs, Colo.
Roland van Den Bremt, Belgium
John Plummer, Anchorage

Fu Manchu

Ted Sedman, United Kingdom
Detleff Steinhoefel, Germany

Imperial Partial Beard

Karl-Heinz Hille, Germany
Udo Fritzsche, Germany
Mark Voermans, Belgium

Musketeer

Juergen Draheim, Germany
Frazer Coppin, United Kingdom
Reinhard Burker, Germany

Natural Goatee

Paul Beisser, Santa Cruz, California
Breman Grove, Evansville, Indiana
Wolfgang Servay, Germany

Sideburns/Muttonchops

Toot Joslin, Tahoe City, Calif.
Bruno Panza, Italy
Bill Mitchell, Georgia

FULL BEARDS

Verdi

Karl Roos, Switzerland
Markus Bross, Germany
David Casswell, Kenai, Alaska

Garibaldi

Douglas Renfro, Anchorage, Alaska
Norman Pendergraft, Eagle River, Alaska
John Price, Atlanta, Georgia

Natural Full Beard

Jack Passion, San Francisco, Calif.
Rooty Lundvall, South Everett, Washington
Alois Plettl, Germany

Natural Full Beard with Styled Moustache

Bernd Popiak, Germany
Bob Gengler, Eagle River, Alaska
Kyle McNair, Ontario, Canada

Freestyle

David Traver, Anchorage, Alaska
Gerhard Knapp, Germany
Hans-Peter Weis, Germany

Hometown favorite and Beard Team USA member David Traver was crowned overall champ, having styled his beard to resemble an Alaska snowshoe which earned him top honors in the freestle full beard category. Meanwhile Germany’s Karl-Heinz Hille’s elaborate moustache earned him second. San Franciscan Jack Passion placed third with his long, red natural beard. The winners took home engraved gold pans.

The next HUGE event in the sport of bearding will be the Beard Team USA Nationals in Bend, Oregon on June 5, 2010, where $5000 in cash prizes will go to best beards and moustaches in the USA. The competition is open to everyone. Even Canadians!

Unofficial Trophy Count

In 2007, the World Beard and Moustache Association, an organization made up of beard clubs representing some 10% of the participants at the World Beard and Moustache Championships, accepted the proposal of the Norwegian Moustache Club to hold the 2011 world championships in Trondheim, Norway in a room with a seating capacity of 250.

Heinz Christofel of Heddesheim, Germany, was chosen by the spectators as the people’s choice. Seventeen-year-old Cameron Bynum of Reno, Nevada, was awarded a special trophy as the youngest competitor, and Bram Rosenfeld of Hong Kong received a trophy as the contestant who traveled the farthest to attend, 6900 miles.

The results in the individual categories follow.<!–adsensestart–>

For a the results for the 2005 World Beard and Moustache Championships, go here:  http://www.jb-photodesign.de/neueSeiten/bart/wm-results2005.html

For a complete list of the results of the 2007 World Beard and Moustache Championships, go here: http://www.handlebarclub.co.uk/wbmcwinners.shtml