L.A. ‘stachethletes win big at national facial-hair competition
Several L.A.-area mustachioed men (and one with award-winning sideburns) won big at a national facial-hair face-off over the weekend, taking home seven medals -- five of them won by members of one club of beard and mustache enthusiasts.
According to the official results announced Sunday, local competitors taking home gold medals in their respective categories at the Oct. 25 event in Portland, Ore., included Dan Lawlor (in the Freestyle Moustache category), Roberto Campos (Imperial Moustache), Jeffrey Moustache (Musketeer), Nate Johnson (Sidburns) and Steve Scarpa (Fu Manchu).
Additionally, Matt Bilfield took home a silver (second place) medal in the Dali Moustache category and Al Underwood took home a bronze third-place medal in the Musketeer category.
All but Scarpa (who hails from Tehachapi) and Underwood (from Toluca Lake) are official members of a local group of facial-hair fanatics known as the Los Angeles Facial Hair Society (though Scarpa serves as a judge when the group holds its own local competitions).
The wins clearly help cement Los Angeles’ reputation as the launchpad for award-winning lip spinach. Less clear, though, is what exactly the event is. Officially dubbed the “Just for Men World Beard and Moustache Championships” (the beard dying product is a title sponsor) and legally trademarked in the U.S. by organizer Phil Olsen, the event is not affiliated with the biannual, long-running Euro-centric World Beard and Mustache Championships organized by the World Beard and Moustache Assn. -- which isn’t scheduled to take place until 2015 in Leogang, Austria.
According to organizers the roster of competitors included more than 300 men from 29 U.S. states, the U.S. Virgin Islands and nine foreign countries. The below results are listed in descending order from first- to third-place finisher.
Moustache Division
Natural Moustache
John Cordes
Devon Holcombe
Curtis Cole
English Moustache
Snidely Mansfield
Benjamin Taylor
Dali Moustache
Jeffrey Well
Matthew Bilfield
Ian Stetler
Imperial Moustache
Roberto Campos
Joshua Miller
Nicholas Davis
Hungarian Moustache
Gordie Blair
Joseph Jeszeck
Gabriel Fall
Freestyle Moustache
Daniel Lawlor
Brooke Mahnken
Greg Vaughan
Partial Beard Division
Goatee Natural
Jeffrey Carta
Monte Wiess
Nathan Sobel
Fu Manchu
Steve Scarpa
Josh Philippe
Imperial Partial Beard
MJ Johnson
Patrick Ryan
Derrick Strang
Musketeer
Jeffrey Moustache
Dennis Dickerson
Al Underwood
Sideburns
Nathan Johnson
Toot Joslin
Josh Jasmin
Amish Beard
Kevin Graybill
Josiah Farmer
Matt MacLean
Partial Beard Freestyle
Kevin Riordan
Steffen Rasile
John Barnes
Full Beard Division
Full Beard Natural (due to a scoreboard error, co-winners were recognized for second and third place in this category)
Andrew Shuler
Charles Hazleton and Justin Mulhollen
Jamison Chop and Jordan Dauby
Full Beard Styled Moustache
Travis McFarland
Burke T. Kenny
Nate Hardenbrook
Verdi
Nic Mahoskey
Jonathan Coates
Shannon Fallon
Garibaldi
Madison Rowley
Joel Andrus
Hurvey Haskins
Full Beard Freestyle
Jeffrey Jensen
Xtopher Grey
Greg Arens
Overall Winner
Madison Rowley
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