World Beard and Moustache Championships
The World Beard and Moustache Championships is a biennial competition in which men with beards and moustaches display lengthy, highly-styled facial hair.
The first Championship took place in Höfen-Enz, Germany, in 1990.
On September 1, 2007, competitors of the world's most hirsute faces from the UK, America, Germany and other countries convened for the championships in Brighton. It was hosted by The Handlebar Club with comedy performer and renowned moustache wearer Michael "Atters" Attree acting as Chairman and Master of Ceremonies. Facial hair categories were judged by celebrity moustache wearers including actor/singer Nick Cave and musician/poet Billy Childish. The international event was staged within the Brighton Centres Main Hall.[1] Categories include Dali moustache, goatee and full beard freestyle.[2][3]
The 2009 event was held from May 19 to the 24th in Anchorage, Alaska. The main Championship Contest was held on May 23, 2009. The host club distributed over $16,000 to local charities via the International Lions Club 49A foundation 501C4 and the Miners & Trappers Ball Inc a 501C3 organizations. Anchorage hosted the most ever competitors, eclipsing the previous U.S. venue of city Carson City, Nevada.
The 2011 championships were hosted by "The Norwegian Moustache Club of 91" in Trondheim, Norway on May 15th. The 12th incarnation of the contest will be in Stuttgart, Germany in November 2013 and will be hosted by Belle Moustache Beard and Culture Club. [4].
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[edit] Contest
There are 3 brackets of facial hair: Moustache, Partial Beard and Full Beard. Each bracket is broken into individual categories. There are usually 17 categories but there were 18 different categories for the 2009 championships.
[edit] Moustache
- Natural Moustache - maximum of 1.5 cm beyond the end of the upper lip (may be styled but without aides)
- English - slender, hairs extremely long and pulled to the side
- Dali - slender with long tips, straight up or arching up
- Imperial Moustache - small and bushy with tips arching up
- Hungarian - big and bushy, beginning from the middle of the upper lip and pulled to the side
- Freestyle - All moustaches that do not match other classes
[edit] Partial Beard
- Natural Goatee - facial hair grown only on chin, upper and lower lip (may be styled but without aides)
- Chinese - chin shaved with moustache tips long and pulled down
- Musketeer - moustache long and slender, beard small and pointed
- Imperial - hair to be grown only on cheeks and upper lip
- Sideburns Freestyle - all other sideburns with shaved chin
- Alaskan Whaler - All beards with no moustache - (a one-time category at the 2009 championships)
- Partial Beard Freestyle - all partial beards not matching other classes
[edit] Full Beard
- Verdi - short and round, length not to exceed 10 cm
- Garibaldi - broad, full and round, length not to exceed 20 cm
- Natural Full Beard - as grown, no aids allowed
- Natural Full Beard with Styled Moustache - as grown, only moustache can be styled with aides
- Full Beard Freestyle - full beards not matching other classes, but considered the most creative over all other categories in the full beards.
[edit] External links
- Official homepage of the World Beard and Moustache Association.
- Official homepage of the 2009 WBMC. Hosted by the South Central Alaska Beard and Moustache Club
- Official homepage of the 2007 WBMC. Hosted by The Handlebar Club
- Official homepage of the 2005 WBMC. Hosted by the Berlin Beard Club
- World Beard and Mustache Championships Enthusiast Page.
- Beard Team U.S.A. Page.
- National Geographic article about the competition
- The Bushrangers - Australia's first ever team for the World Beard and Moustache championships
[edit] References
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