Bashore BrewHaus Beer Olympics Closing Ceremony

What a time was had this past weekend at the Bashore BrewHaus 1st Annual Beer Olympics. Here's a quick recap of the events.

• The first match of the day pitted the Banana Hammocks vs. Blue Steel. The first event of the match was Name That Beer and it was Matt Junak defeating Blue Steel captain Kevin Courneya 1-0 in a tightly contested first match. Blue Steel was able to even up the round with the next event Beer Billiards in which last minute sub Amanda Courneya defeated Michelle Flick. The third and decisive event in the round was Beer Darts and Blue Steel member David Ketchmark was able to defeat the Banana Hammocks Jason Hill thanks in large part to a bulls eye hit by David early in the round - Blue Steel advances (Round MVP Amanda Courneya)

• The second match of the first round featured Stoned Black Magik against Here Comes the Lipstick. The first event of this round was a wild card event chosen by Lipstick's Captain Karen Thomas and the event ended up being Beer Trivia. Here Comes the Lipstick was able to comfortably secure a victory in the game winning 40-27. In the second event Black Magik was able to even the score and Dave Kennedy was able to defeat Kurt Blasius in Beer Darts. This led to a very excited final game of the round which ended up being the very demanding Boat Race. Here Comes the Lipstick was able to prevail by a very slight margin and there was some contention after the game due to our first VOMIT of the day....the ref ruled that the expulsion had come long enough after the game was over and that Lipstick would move on. - Here Comes the Lipstick advances (Round MVP Aren Rabe)

• The third match of the day was the first elimination match with the Banana Hammocks taking on Stoned Black Magik. The first game in this round brought about our first look at 1 liter volume chug with The Banana Hammocks Randy Flick coming from behind to defeat Stoned Black Magik's Dan Hailey by a little less than an 1/8 of a liter.

Stoned Black Magik was able to even the score as the team of Josh Lemmer and Josh Cook were able to defeat long time house champs Michelle Flick and Jason Hill in a good game of Beer Pong. The final event of the round was again Boat Race with The Banana Hammocks crushing the Stoned Black Magik as two consecutive rounds of chugging really seemed to wear on the team in black. - Banana Hammocks Advance/Stoned Black Magik eliminated (Round MVP Randy Flick)

• The fourth match of the day was the first best of five round and involved Blue Steel taking on Here Comes the Lipstick. The first game of the match involved Lipstick's Matt Bashore taking on Blue Steel team captain Kevin Courneya in a game of Name That Beer. Matt was able to defeat Kevin with score of 2-1 in another tightly contested game of Name That Beer. Here Comes the Lipstick was able to keep it going as Aren Rabe defeated David Ketchmark in a very close game of Beer Darts. Wrapping it up Here Comes the Lipstick was able to close the round out and send Blue Steel to the Losers Bracket by defeating them in the first Relay Race of the day. - Here Comes the Lipstick advances (Round MVP Matt Bashore)
  
• The fifth match of the day was a best of five elimination match and was a rematch between Blue Steel and The Banana Hammocks. The first game of the match was a game of Beer Trivia between Blue Steel's Kevin Courneya and Bart Maas and the heavily favored team of Randy Flick and Matt Junak from the Banana Hammocks. The game was tight throughout with the Banana Hammocks leading 12-9 going into the third round. A rousing comeback by Blue Steel in the third round left the game tied 18-18 after three rounds and sending the game into overtime. Shockingly in overtime Blue Steel was able to secure a victory and win the game 30-26. The second game of the round had Blue Steel's Amanda Courneya and David Ketchmark defeating The Banana Hammocks Michelle Flick and Jason Hill in a game of Beer Pong....leaving some to wonder if the long reign of Jason and Michelle as Bashore BrewHaus' best beer pong team was over and if they should slowly slip into retirement. Down two games to none The Banana Hammock's began mounting a comeback with Jason Hill defeating Kevin Courneya in a very close, down to the wire game of Beer Darts. Heading into the fourth game neither team seemed to have the momentum, but due to a very tough break and a pesky table The Banana Hammocks fell short in a crazy relay race. Blue Steel posted the best time of the day in the event with a time of 1:31 and was able to advance to the finals to face Here Comes the Lipstick. - Blue Steel Advances/Banana Hammocks eliminated (Round MVP David Ketchmark)




• Blue Steel was able to secure a victory in the finals of Beer Olympics due to a forfeit by Here Comes the Lipstick as members of the team were not able to continue in the events. Congratulations go out to our Champs - Blue Steel. Blue Steel will be the only team that will be allowed to return next year as a whole to defend there title.
  

A big thanks to everyone that participated and came out to watch this event. A good time was had by all and we'll do it all again next year!

CHEERS!