European Beard and Moustache Championships
A three-person squad from Beard Team USA is on its way to Germany for the European Beard and Moustache Championships in Amberg on September 23. The European championships are a biannual event that takes place in even numbered years. This time the East Bavarian Beard Club will play host.
BTUSA's squad consists of Dennis Dickerson, Terry Pierson, and yours truly. Dennis (a Robert E. Lee look-alike who appropriately enough is also captain of the Army of Virginia, a division of BTUSA) will compete against very stiff competition in the Verdi division. Terry, the pride of Atlanta, has a good shot of placing in the full beard natural division. As usual, I will place near the bottom in the full beard freestyle division. Oh well.
Whatever. Coincidentally, the EBMC happens to coincide with Oktoberfest in Munich, the world's biggest beer bust, and I will be quite content drowning my sorrows with a liter or two of the famous brew.
As is always the case, Germany is expected to dominate the competition. Check back here for a full report.
posted by Phil Olsen @ 10:55 PM
8 comments
8 Comments:
Grow Beard Grow!
GO TEAM USA
Enjoy - and tell us all of your exploits!
Herr Wilhelm Schulz
In Carson City, Nevada
Best of luck to the team!
I wish we could join you to shoot more photos this time around!
Andrew and Rachel Niesen
Atlanta, GA
What are the requirements to join BTUSA?
Have a tasty Octoberfest brew for us. I'm sure it will be a great event.
We'll see you guys in Brighton!
Jeff & Theresa
Joyce, WA
Congratulations to you for resisting conformity, corporate culture, and androgyny by embracing the beautiful, unique and utterly personal habit of growing a full beard.
Like a fingerprint, a year or more of full growth on a man's face produces a one-of-a-kind appearance that defies trend, pop culture, and media driven conformity. It is a very natural and beautiful symbol of individualism, and honors the self-expressed essence within each man.
At the National Beard Registry, we support individual creative expression, resistance to blind conformity or media driven corporate culture, and promoting the notion of a world where every individual is valued.
The National Beard Registry is based in America but the word National in its name applies to any nation. International boundaries are only in our minds. Conformity is an international malaise. Beards are beautiful on every continent.
Thank you all men of conscience, together we will change the face of the future.
All One Humanity!
May Peace Prevail On Earth!
Registrar
National Beard Registry
how did we do?
Un grandissimo e mitico Olsen!By from Switzerland
Thanks for thhis
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