Whew, That Was Close
Well, I made the finals for the competition tomorrow night. But just barely. I took 11th place - the top 12 move on to the finals. Overall, I was happy with my round. I nailed the first half better than I could've imagined; the second half, not so much. Couldn't hit any of my juggling moves to save my life. All I was really hoping for was a clean round, regardless of how I placed. I ended up with 7 drops and 4 spills, all of them in the last 45 seconds. So, I know what I need to practice tomorrow. That, and the round goes from 3 minutes to 5 minutes, so I've got some time to fill (some ice scoop flair and the chin stack will definitely help.)
I was seriously impressed with the overall performance of the other competitors, especially the Omaha crew. It's rare that competitions will produce such impressive talent from the local area - usually the big guns come in from out of town. But these Nebraska boys can bring it. And the out of town people were pretty sharp, too.
I'm writing this post from my iPhone at 3am so I can't exactly put the hyperlinks in, but check out the local crew here at OmahaFlair.com and ArsenalBartending.com. And most importantly, you can watch the finals streaming live on omahanightlife.com on Tuesday night CMT starting at 8pm. I'm second in line so I should be up about 8:05. I have no delusions of winning - I'll leave that to Levi Donaldson or Martin Janica or Chris Bridges - but if I pull off a clean, fun round that gets the audience cheering, I'll consider it a success.
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let's go chris !!!
practice practice practice !!!
flair flair flair !!!
have a good luck !!!
you can do it!
hope to see those new flair tuts
and those cocktail mixes yey!
goodluck chris and thanks in advance for the tuts
nice man landing on that chin stack hehe
good luck man!