Tie Showdown: Week 35

From top to bottom, left to right:

Cat : Adam : Steve : Megan : Laura : Lane : Jim : Jeff : Colin : Byron : Ben

Week 34: And the winner is...

Congratulations to Cat for winning Week 34 of the Tie Showdown........ wait, what?! .... Are you serious?..... You're joking.... Lane won?!.... Seriously, don't joke. Cat went to China and took her picture wearing a tie on the Great Wall of China, and you're telling me that despite having a very healthy margin for an entire week, she somehow lost? .... I even wrote her victory post as soon as I saw her photo. We almost gave her wooden key early... Seriously, Lane won?! ..... Wow...

Congratulations to Lane for winning Week 34 of the Tie Showdown! This is Lane's second victory, which has earned him his place in the Tie Showdown Grover Cleveland Memorial Committee....

In second place was Cat, who, lest we forget, went to China, and had her photo taken wearing a tie on the Great Wall of China.

I just want to make sure I pointed that out.

Congratulations to Lane for his big win this week! And I'm stunned.

Tie Showdown: Week 34

From top to bottom, left to right:
Lane : JP : Jim : Jeff : Dan : Cat : Ben : Adam

Week 33: And the winner is...

Congratulations to Laura for winning Week 33 of the Tie Showdown! Laura, with the assistance of two birds, has won her very first Tie Showdown Wooden Key with 68% of the vote. Though the week was short (Thanks to Louis Butowski, International Tie Theif), Laura managed to draw enough attention to her tie-tying skills to claim her place in the Tie Showdown Hall of Champions.

Regular competitor Byron just can't get a break. Though he may come close, he cannot seem to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. This week, Byron stayed close until the final days, eventually losing out to Laura.

It should be noted that Laura sits right next to Byron, and has placed the Wooden Key where Byron can see but not reach it. That's cold, Laura.

Congratulations again to Laura for winning this week's Tie Showdown!

Tie Showdown: Week 33

You will likely notice this week's Tie Showdown was a few days late, and as our many fan blogs suspected, Louis Butowski, International Tie Thief was responsible. We returned to our Intergalactic Headquarters after a busy afternoon to discover that our camera was stolen and in its place was a ransom note. The demands, as always, were nearly impossible to comply with; raising Joey Ramone from the dead for a private concert? It took two days and involved a necromancer, several spirit conjurers, and a bit of graverobbing, but that's the level of passion and can-do we at the Tie Showdown bring to the table. Without further ado, we present week 33!

From top to bottom, left to right
Laura : Jim : Jeff/Charlie : Colin : Cat : Byron : Ben : Adam

Week 32: And the winner is...

Congratulations to Tiffany for winning Week 32 of the Thai Showdown, errrr, I mean the Tie Showdown. Honestly, we all knew this one was over before it even started. When I saw Tiffany wearing this last Wednesday, it was pretty clear that she was going to win. We boys were merely here as a formality. Oh well. The creativity here is fantastic, and this is a well-earned victory for Tiffany with 55% of the vote.

Jim came closer than anyone with 27% of the vote.

Congratulations again to Tiffany for her victory in the Tie Showdown, and taking her place in the Tie Showdown Hall of Champions.

Tie Showdown: Week 32

From top to bottom, left to right:
Tiffany : Jim : Dan : Ben : Adam

Week 31: And the winner is...

Congratulations to Teresa for winning the 31st week of the Tie Showdown! We knew it was only a matter of time before someone played the bolo tie trump card, but never did we anticipate a full Scouts uniform to accompany it. Clearly she failed her merit badge in knot tying, but managed to find a creative way to enter the necktie fray. An excellent play by Teresa en route to her second Tie Showdown victory, and a place in the Tie Showdown Grover Cleveland Memorial Committee.

Not that it was terribly close, but an exhausted-looking Adam came in 2nd place. What a loser; he clearly couldn't make a fire without matches in the woods or prepare a splint for a broken leg.

Congratulations again to Teresa for looking trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean and reverent and for winning this week's Tie Showdown.

Tie Showdown: Week 31

From top to bottom, left to right:

Adam : Ben : Byron : Christine : Colin : Dan : Jeff : Lane : Mike : Teresa : Ronda

Week 30: And the winner is...

Congratulations to Dan for winning Week 30 of the Tie Showdown! Dan is a bit of a newcomer on the scene, but his enthusiasm is high. After two solids weeks of competition, Dan introduced the previously unused "Old Man In the Park" move to the game, and wins his place in the Tie Showdown Hall of Champions.

Jeremy, regular competitor, perennial favorite, all-around awesome guy, made a serious effort for an unprecedented third championship. In the final few hours of voting, total votes shot up for both competitors to numbers rarely seen, a clear indication of intense lobbying on both sides. In the end, however, Jeremy's 41% was not enough to beat Dan's 45%.

Congratulations again to Dan for winning the Tie Showdown.