Tie Showdown: Week 22

From Top to Bottom, Left to Right: Roslynn : Lane : Jeff : Colin : Cat : Byron : Ben : Adam

Week 21: And the winner is...

Congratulations to Adam for winning week twenty-one of the Tie Showdown! This mark's Adam's second victory in the Tie Showdown, and thus inducting him as a member of the Tie Showdown Grover Cleveland Memorial Committee, the membership of which is comprised of individuals who have won the Tie Showdown on two non-consecutive weeks.

We've brought in a very special guest writer from Berekely, CA, the (future) world-renowned landscape architect Nathan R. Hodges to write this week's victory post because I'm too busy being humble.

"Being an avid fan of both Adam and the blog tieshowdown.blogspot.com I was really happy to see that the A-Bomb's tie handily pulled in the victory this week. A wicked geometric job that evoked the hazy color fields of Rothko, the modernist gardens of Guevrekian, and midwestern crop aerials this tie was too alluring to ignore. A similar tie was banned from the Paris TieDown (08 due to accusations of uncertain subliminal effects skewing the vote. I didn't have the good fortune to be able to cast my ballot this time around, but I probably would have voted for Adam or Andy (who zipped right into second place with a flush 17 votes) But really, as a long-time tieshowdown fan and voter I can honestly say that there are no real losers in the tieshowdown, just insufficient plaid."

More of Nathan R. Hodge's work can be viewed at http://greenishbrown.blogspot.com/. Visit him.

Tie Showdown: Week 21

From top to bottom, left to right
Wynde : Roslynn : Lyndsey : Ben : Kristin : Kristian : Charlie : Jim : Jeremy : Adam : Jeff : Ernest : Colin : Byron : Alby : Andy : Cat

Week 20: And the winner is...

Congratulations to Lane for winning week 20 of the Tie Showdown! Lane was there in the beginning, competing valiantly in Week 1, and has repeatedly produced some of our favorite presentations (writing on his computer).  This week, twenty later, Lane has finally entered the Tie Showdown Hall of Champions with 44% of the total votes cast, beating out some other close competitors. It's rare that such an obscured tie wins (to my knowledge, it's never happened, and I know everything...), but the Lane's tie-tease was all the voters really needed to see -- several shimmering striped shades of red is a stupendously satisfying succulent success recipe.  

Ben got 2nd place. Big surprise.  (It's getting really boring writing that! I don't know how many more jokes I have about being in second place... ) 

Other notable participants: Derrald with his flow chart and severely out of context holiday tie were a fan favorite (29%).  Cat (26%) and Jeff (20%) also brought some fantastic ties this week. 

Congratulations again to Lane for winning the twentieth week of the Tie Showdown, his first wooden key, and his rightful place in the Tie Showdown Hall of Champions. 

Tie Showdown: Week 20

From top to bottom, left to right:
Stef : Scott : Megan : Matt : Lane : Jim : Jeff : Ivan : Emily : Dave : Dan : Colin : Chris : Ben : Alisa : Adam P : Byron : Adam Z : Devon (because of editor error, Devon is listed as Liz on the voting) : Cat : Derald

Our sincere and heartfelt apologies for several errors in this week's post. First, Jim and Jeff's labels were switched, then Wynde's photo was not included, finally we incorrectly named Devon as Liz... NOT A GOOD WEEK for the tie showdown editors. Please

Week 19: And the winner is...

Congratulations to Steve for winning the 19th week of the Tie Showdown! Yeah, Steve !!!!! Steve, a long time fan favorite and reliable participant of the tie showdown has yet to make much noise on the neckwear field of battle. But it's a new year, a new story, and Steve kicks off 2009 right by winning his first wooden key and enters the Tie Showdown Hall of Champions with 52% of the vote.

"Always a Bride's Maid" Ben* puts up another second place showing with 37% of the vote with what may be the most confusing tie the world has ever seen. Someone called it the mullet of ties: business up top, party at the bottom. Unfortunately, it was not enough to overcome Steve's parrot tie, and all of it's speldor.

Congratulations again to Steve for his victory this week - all of those times the tie showdown photographers just barely caught you coming back from lunch has finally paid off.

* = Technically, Ben did win once, so this may be a bit of a misnomer. But the alliteration is too good to pass up.

Tie Showdown: Week 19

From left to right, top to bottom:
Steve : Scott : Roslynn : Jim : Heather : Erin : Byron : Ben : Adam : Alisa