Congratulations guys and gals!!!!!!!!

All 10 win the sets. No one has to buy one according to Blair.

OH YEAH! I’M HIGH ON LIFE FELLA’S!!!

Congrats Adam

I think Ryan is crying on the floor right now. LOL

RYAN! You Dooog!! hahaha Congrats to everyone!! Now where’s my pink helmet?? WHEW!!

I also want to tell you that very soon I will be running another “Collectors” contest with an even bigger prize…so If you are not in the list below…PLEASE do not despair. NO ONE CAN WIN A BLAIR’S CONTEST TWICE. I want to say thank you again!

I think another one might just do away with some of them
Some chile heads just about poped on this one I think

Congratulations everyone! Wow, all 10 sets, thats huge!

pmac on 3/13/2006 at 7:12 pm said:

I also want to tell you that very soon I will be running another “Collectors” contest with an even bigger prize…so If you are not in the list below…PLEASE do not despair. NO ONE CAN WIN A BLAIR’S CONTEST TWICE. I want to say thank you again!

I think another one might just do away with some of them
Some chile heads just about poped on this one I think

Heart attacks in the near future???

Congrats one and all! It is good to see some familiar names in there and kudos to Blair for his gracious gifts.

Keep the karma in the good side… more contests coming:)

Eman is bouncing off the walls - he is very excited - I saw the results first and started screaming before he even knew what was going on

Congrats all!!! Blair is truely the man and has proved once again he isnt in it for anything but the love of it!!

can’t…breathe….

Congrats all you winners!!! I am soooo happy for all you guys

I’m looking forward to the pictures of the sets coming in!

Bring on the next 1!

Yeah I can’t wait to see them!!!

Where is Mad, does he know yet???

Just got off the phone with mad…HE KNOWS!

Christmas in March, eman?

The biggest “O” face EVER!!!!!

That’s 3 of us that I know of that won, is there anyone else?

I have read the write-ups and must say that 10 people, I believe deserve a great CONGRATULATION to ALL. Also looking forward
to see the photos that come from this.

Congratulations to all!!!!!!!

eman, ryan…congrats to you both!

You guys deserve it!

To all — it makes it so much more special that we could share this moment with everyone, this blog rocks!!!!!

thanks chris k .. that means alot!!!!

Congrats to all! I can’t say it’s surprising that Blair would do that. You have no idea how generous he truly is- I could tell you stories (but won’t) from my business dealings with him. A fine gentleman indeed.

Congratulations all. Can’t wait to see pictures!

Maybe Blair will grace us with pictures prior to shipping?

Hey ryan, to help you out, I sent kerin at extremefood your name and address. Oh shoot, I used my address though…

Someone must be giving Mad oxygen!!!!

chris k…lol lol!!!!
I haven’t eaten all day due to stress, will be back with y’all later after dinner!!

Congrats all !!!!

Cheffy, he was still at the bar when I called him- he was freaking out!

Congrats all who won, enjoy your collections!

And it’s great to see so many go to HSB regulars win! If anyone needed proof, this just goes to show how great a spot for collectors this blog is.

Bring on the second contest!!!!!! Round 2!!!!

Sweeeeeeeet.

I’ll bet, when we met at the FFS it was really great to meet a guy with such Hot Sauce enthusiasm.

Thank you Chris, and everyone else. To keep myself from overreacting this weekend I had convinced myself that I wasn’t going to win and accepted my fate. This came as a total surprise and now my office know how much of a geek I am. I yelled out loud “OH MY GOD!”…they thought I had done something horrible. Thanks everybody, this has been a most excellent day. Keep in mind, this has been kind of a double edge sword. Though we have won this round, we are automatically disqualified from the next. I’m cool with that, I really hope the next contest is won by more HSB people. Rock on guys!

Blair, should you happen to catch this, thanks man. We all appreciate the long hours of reading that you and your fellow judges put into this. Please extend my thanks to them as well.

Feeling VERY alive,
Ryan Davis

ryan, you still at work. tell the boss to give you the night off (with pay)!

Hey Nick, can we list all the winners who are regulars here on HSB?
Some of them go by a different (blog) name on here and not everyone knows that.

I think 5 out of the 10 that won post here.

chris k on 3/13/2006 at 7:31 pm said:

eman, ryan…congrats to you both!

You guys deserve it!

Oh thanks a lot Chris, I didn’t deserve it?? :)

Thank you Blair! I read a lot of the entries, and they were all great. I almost feel bad accepting a prize when I know how many other great chiliheads were fighting for it, but I’M STILL FRICKIN PUMPED UP! I know that my entry on the site was all chopped and rearranged, I’m assuming everybody else’s was as well. Mine was SO long it was almost ridiculous.

Congratulations to my fellow HSB writers and bloggers who won. You deserve it!!!!
Eman - wow - just wow!!!!
Ryan - make a new helmet!!!

Now lets see the pictures!!!!!!!

Nick Lindauer on 3/13/2006 at 8:16 pm said:

Chris - I added that to the post just as you left the comment.

Thanks nick

The lunacy and anticipation is over….Congratulations to each of you!!! It’s really cool to have so many of the regulars here pull out the WIN, most everyone here sat on pins and needles awaiting this for so long and now it’s good to see people you know enjoy it. You guys have such incredible collections and sounds like you poured your hearts out to THE MAN! To the victors go the spoils- enjoy them guys!!!!!!!!!

Adam2 on 3/13/2006 at 8:12 pm said:

Oh thanks a lot Chris, I didn’t deserve it?? :)

Sorry Adam, congrats to you and also MAD.
See what I mean, I dont know everyones real name either. Thanks for fixing that Nick.

I was just kidding of course Chris - Much love here!

Congrats to all!!! I want to see pictures when they come.

Congrats guys! That really rocks!

Ha I was hoping either eman or Ryan would win cause it was easy to see just how bad they wanted it. But both of them won so its better for us all! haha Congrats to all. I cannot wait to see what is in these suckers! too awesome!!!

Now how complete will eman’s collection be?! ha If he had not won it would have sorely been lacking all the rarest Blair’s products. But alas! He will not worry, that is until UPS gets it and then they don’t know what they are getting into!

eman needs to weigh in here - from the pictures, it would appear that his collection must be near complete!

Congrats guys! Christ, maybe now you’ll all get some sleep, your posts for the last few nights had bloodshot cracks in them. LOL!!!

Let’s now get on to the next subject…. DEFCON ZERO Batch #2 :) :)

It’s getting there guys…besides this incredible honor as one of the winners, the last few nights have been quite fruitful for new Blair’s products, the past week alone has added about 10 other new products not yet in the collection. And as of now, with the incredible help I have been getting from pmac (you rock) we are working on something very special(not a beyond though)
stay tuned

Hold on hold on,

I just had to run home. i tried to get on the HSB from my phome and it was a disaster. ‘m probably going to have a $10,000 phone bill because I forgot to disconnect. Eman and his wife called me. I went bananas. I started cheering and they asked me to leave the one bar. So I ran into some Spanish place, i brought the whole bar a round. Managed to do an OJ Simpson and collect the 8:45. I got on the wrong train and luckly it’s NJ transit, I got off at Newark and, as usual my train I was supposed to be on was late. Jumped on that train, got a hold of the MRs. and here I am. I’m cooking some rice and some savage chili I made yesterday. I can’t wait to see what we get. i’m so happy. I never won anything in my life (except on ebay - which really dosn’t count). Well I have to see what we get. i have some plans in store for it (details to follow) It has to do with what i wrote Blair. Like i said details to follow. FECKIN AWESOME! FEEL ALIVE MY BROTHERS (and sisters). Congrats to all Ryan, eman Aaron All good stuff.(As I tilt my beer bottle to you all) And congrats to all my friends here I feel like we all won this

Shit (oops my potty mouth) My chili is burning

Hey MAD (and all) - you going to last the 30 days untils you get the stuff
Hope you guys don’t go crazy waiting for your delivery!

Geez, just “listening” to you guys the past couple of days has even given ME anxiety. So happy for all of you, you can tell your all completely freaking out and thats great. Congrats!

I’m not I’m dropping a line to Blair I going to ask if I can personally pick it up

Mad_Reilly on 3/13/2006 at 10:17 pm said:

I’m not I’m dropping a line to Blair I going to ask if I can personally pick it up

Now THAT is a proactive plan if I ever saw one!

See MAD, arent you glad you didnt fall off the building? (earlier)

Mad_Reilly on 3/13/2006 at 10:17 pm said:

I’m not I’m dropping a line to Blair I going to ask if I can personally pick it up

Now that doesn’t surprise me!!!!! Congrats again. You going to the next DEFCON day MAD? I’m definitely at this one.

Mad, glad to see you made it home safely….nice job on getting kicked out of the bar!!!!

Only in true HSB fasion - We didn’t get kick out - We were asked to leave. There’s a difference! Huvason you bet your ass I’ll be there!!!! Gas mask and all

Sounds to me with all the trouble with the HSB guys and bars that we should just find one somewhere and rent the place out for the night so we can raise all the ruckus we would like lol Either that or just drink beer in the comfort of out own homes and say we did

Too even make today even greater, I got a new picture of Blip#2 today
That’s Mad Reilly’s Reserve #2. He’s (I need another boy - I want my football team) due out in Aug 12

Aaron ….those gold inscribed heads will get you in trouble every time…LOL

Wait untill Zest Fest

MSK, did you ever mention if it washed off yet?
I am not implying you had not showered since then… just curious.

If it wasn’t my first year of employment at the company I am with I would try and head over. It sounds like it would be most awesome to head over to Zest Fest!

You have to be REALLY out of hand to get kicked out of a bar in Ft Worth. Just ask MSK, he could have been charged with assult year before last for aproaching a guy whom he thought had provided the signed bottle from Tony Tabasco.

Really, you just have to know when their closing times are. AND where to go next!

Chris….The local carwash turned me down yesterday. Said something about not having the proper cleaning solutions to handle 2 weeks of non-washing. Nor did the have the proper equipment to handle just the body without touching the head…LOL

Chris- was at the office til 5:15 pst and had to run a few errands. Just got home. Congrats to the other 4 guys (Adam, I think you deserve it
) Gotta shoot an e-mail off to Blair, be back in a sec.

What ????? You want to actually wash that off???????

just the body without touching the head

Ya didn’t catch that part…LOL

Wheeewwww I just had the biggest bowl of chili & rice.

If you guys (contest winners) thought you couldnt sleep last night, just wait till tonight…

Just wondering MSK. You could wash your head and it may not come off for awhile. It depends what type of ink he used.

Oh no, another idea.
MSK, why dont you have CaJohn sign it via a tattoo next time?
Something for someone to shoot for. Get an actual tattoo of you favorite sauce creator’s signature. It would never wear off.
(this would be tricky though since the tattoo artist would have to do the actual tattoo, but maybe your idol could guide his hand)

chris k on 3/13/2006 at 11:25 pm said:

Oh no, another idea.
MSK, why dont you have CaJohn sign it via a tattoo next time?
Something for someone to shoot for. Get an actual tattoo of you favorite sauce creator’s signature. It would never wear off.
(this would be tricky though since the tattoo artist would have to do the actual tattoo, but maybe your idol could guide his hand)

Maybe not your head though, that may hurt.

You coud do a reserve bottle on your shoulder or somthing?

enjoy the celebration ryan, us east coasters need to sleep.
I will expect to read all about it in the am.

past my bedtime,
the Dr is out…

I just want to say that my full name is Jason Tomashunas and I am one of the lucky winners in the contest. I just want to say thank you to Blair and everyone who entered into the contest. I promise i will take pics and send them into HSB as soon as they get here!!!

Thanks everyone!!!!

Jay

Jay on 3/13/2006 at 11:43 pm said:

I just want to say that my full name is Jason Tomashunas and I am one of the lucky winners in the contest. I just want to say thank you to Blair and everyone who entered into the contest. I promise i will take pics and send them into HSB as soon as they get here!!!

Thanks everyone!!!!

Jay

Congrats Jay! Now a proud owner of a cutting room floor collection!!

Congratulations Jay! Sorry I didn’t include you in any of my earlier posts, it was somewhat difficult to tell who from here had won due to the differences in names (HSB/extremefood.com). Way to go man.

Chris, sorry I didn’t get to chat with ya more tonight. Had to go to my parents’ for a bit, getting ready for some work on my truck, getting laser surgery on my eye on Wednesday, its been hectic. Not a whole lot in the way of celebrating going on, as I try to be a humble person when it comes stuff like this (and this kind of thing NEVER happens to me). My son was very excited (I’m slowly but surely turning him into a chilihead ) But I don’t know anyone nearby that is nearly as enthusiastic about hot sauce as I am. So I’m keeping my celebration to myself…my insides are going off like fireworks (TALK ABOUT AN ENDORPHIN RUSH!)

On a side note, an even more amazing thing happened today. My wife is not fond of hot food. She doesn’t use hot sauce, and she is a VERY busy woman with little time for herself. Countless nights she has waited for me to come to bed while I typed away on here all night long. Today I called her from the office to tell her of my good fortune and that I would be home late because I had to take some things to my parents. She got home early today and rather than spend her time getting some rest as she should, she spent quite a bit of time making a surprise for me…When I got home at about 8, I found hanging on the wall above my computer an 8.5 x 11 picture frame. She had taken the time to get on the blog, get caught up on all the goings on, printed up the “Twas the Night Before the Contest” poem, gound some stationary with chile peppers, arranged it, and framed it for me. Today I feel like the luckiest man alive. Not just because I won a contest, but because my wife, whom I love dearly, expressed her happiness for me in spite of my obsession for hot sauce and this blog which has taken up a lot of my time. I would also like to add that everyone here has exemplified the best of what being a chilihead is all about. There have been no hard feelings expressed that I’ve seen neither here, nor behind the scenes. This is truly a great bunch of people. I am both proud, and honored to be amongst all of you.

Sincerely,
Ryan Davis

Sniff!

Damn Ryan! That even gave my heart a patter! My wife made strawberry shortcake for me to help ease the depression Works everytime

I’m happy for all of you! You guys deserved it!

MSK, I’m starting to crave some of that strawberry shortcake…I’ll trade you my cutting room floor stuff for a bowl of it Could you send that priority mail insured?

kidding man. Chin up, there’s another contest on the way.

MSK and Ryan - I love you guys for being Night-Owls just like me!

Oh man…the strawberries were the reddest most sweetest to ever hit town. Hint hint wink wink nudge nudge.

Adam I don’t usually hit the sack until 2:30 3:00 central time. Last night/morning it was 3:30.

Did somebody say CAKE……..Can’t sleep, I’m trying to fight off a horrible flu bug- can’t stop coughing and my wife threw my out of bed!! Very nice sentiments Ryan and congrats again.

Ryan on 3/14/2006 at 12:17 am said:

On a side note, an even more amazing thing happened today. My wife is not fond of hot food. She doesn’t use hot sauce, and she is a VERY busy woman with little time for herself. Countless nights she has waited for me to come to bed while I typed away on here all night long. Today I called her from the office to tell her of my good fortune and that I would be home late because I had to take some things to my parents. She got home early today and rather than spend her time getting some rest as she should, she spent quite a bit of time making a surprise for me…When I got home at about 8, I found hanging on the wall above my computer an 8.5 x 11 picture frame. She had taken the time to get on the blog, get caught up on all the goings on, printed up the “Twas the Night Before the Contest” poem, gound some stationary with chile peppers, arranged it, and framed it for me. Today I feel like the luckiest man alive. Not just because I won a contest, but because my wife, whom I love dearly, expressed her happiness for me in spite of my obsession for hot sauce and this blog which has taken up a lot of my time. I would also like to add that everyone here has exemplified the best of what being a chilihead is all about. There have been no hard feelings expressed that I’ve seen neither here, nor behind the scenes. This is truly a great bunch of people. I am both proud, and honored to be amongst all of you.

Sincerely,
Ryan Davis

That is so cool ryan! To most outsiders, this whole thing seems crazy, nutz, and you collect what? Im glad that you not only won, but that your wife (even though she may not have agreed) knew that this was special to you and helped to make it that way. Awesome!

PS, you wanna autograph the poem :-)

Ryan, I also know the feeling as I am sure others here do.

I really must be tough with not many around that understand. I was away last night and I was met with laughter when I said I had to get home to hear the results of the contest. What contest? cutting room floor. What do you win, hot sauce? Then a whole buch of laughing. I will not name names or even say how I know them, but that was the general reaction I got. Some people will never understand.

True Nick. thats pretty cool.

Nick, I know Im not seeing things, but a couple of minutes ago there was a pimp you sauce up there (top). Now that is relplaced by Black Mamba 1 - Lee 0. Didnt like the look?

No problem, I just felt like asking because I like to check in 1st thing when all the new stuff is up,

chris k on 3/14/2006 at 6:14 am said:

Ryan, I also know the feeling as I am sure others here do.

I really must be tough with not many around that understand. I was away last night and I was met with laughter when I said I had to get home to hear the results of the contest. What contest? cutting room floor. What do you win, hot sauce? Then a whole buch of laughing. I will not name names or even say how I know them, but that was the general reaction I got. Some people will never understand.

Chris K - I know exactly where you’re coming from on this one! When I saw the winners after sitting at the computer for about 4 hours refreshing web pages - I realized that I had NO ONE to tell! My fiancee sort of understands, a little, but she was like “hey, good work… you hungry?” Thank God for you guys otherwise I’d probably go nuts!

Congrats to all that won. What an exciting time for you die hard collectors!!

Adam2 on 3/14/2006 at 9:04 am said:

Chris K - I know exactly where you’re coming from on this one! When I saw the winners after sitting at the computer for about 4 hours refreshing web pages - I realized that I had NO ONE to tell! My fiancee sort of understands, a little, but she was like “hey, good work… you hungry?” Thank God for you guys otherwise I’d probably go nuts!

I know Adam. It must be even tougher if you’ve won. Your all excited and evryone else thinks your nutz. At least you have the HSB. We (most of us) understand.

Good mornig people

Good morning Mad, I take it you slept well?
If I understand it correctly, you AND Huvason will be making a grand appearance at the next Defcon Day on April 1st. This should prove to be interesting. Beer specials and free wings all afternoon, together with 2 major chiliheads, who could ask for anything more?

Chris - None of us will ever laugh at you for collecting hot sauce. You sir have an AWESOME collection that I could only hope to someday achieve. Take pride in it, smile and say to yourself…F’em…works for me

Like i said “You bet your ass I’ll be there!” Should be a great time Did you get my email? it’s been buggy lately. I crashed after i ate my chili last night!

Nick - my BS Reserve V1 consisted of an open bottle of Iguana XXX (sucks, but my son likes it) 1 melted white candle from Halloween, a bit of nail polish for pizzaz, 1 Blair’s death skull and 6 nails

MSK - you’re an evil, evil man…Strawberries are my favorite!

Mad, going right to bed after eating chili is a dangerous prospect (especially for the sheets) at best, however there is an up side, at least you can give a nice dutch oven out in the morning, LOL. Got your e-mail, you’re on the ZERO list (sounds a bit strange, but it’s all good). I’m interested how many people from the HSB will be able to make it, Hell it’s only 2 blocks from the train station.

Ryan on 3/14/2006 at 10:26 am said:

Chris - None of us will ever laugh at you for collecting hot sauce. You sir have an AWESOME collection that I could only hope to someday achieve. Take pride in it, smile and say to yourself…F’em…works for me

I know ryan. It was just the reaction (laughing) that I got when I mentioned that the prize was hot sauce. They were like, AND??? (is that all…ha ha) I tried to explain…limited bottles, Blair’s, signed, only a few of them…etc, but I just couldnt convince them. Oh well, they dont get it….YET! HA HA (evil laugh)

As for my collection, thanks. I need to finish the family room so I can get them all back on display again. Inst much to look at in all those boxes… :-)_

Is eman out shopping for a new cabinet today????

Creator, now that its all calm around here again (for the moment).
When are you going to stir it all back up with your Defcon 0 release?

DEFCON Creator on 3/14/2006 at 10:25 am said:

Good morning Mad, I take it you slept well?
If I understand it correctly, you AND Huvason will be making a grand appearance at the next Defcon Day on April 1st. This should prove to be interesting. Beer specials and free wings all afternoon, together with 2 major chiliheads, who could ask for anything more?

I am definitely there (barring another 2 feet of snow!) Wife says she’s coming as well (she promised last time if I didn’t drive in the snow shoe would come with me) - but I doubt it. Right now me and my brother.

I couldn’t agree with you more Creator- there’s not much better then a good bowl or two of chili brewing and bubbling in the lower G.I. overnight to get the day started off right. You may not make friends and upset some housemates but the daily consititutional is a beautiful thing.

Chris… You talking about the “Name the Caption” thingy? IU guess whoever wins the ZERO batch 2 should know before they go on sale to the masses.

The guy in the office with me is turning all sorts of colors. The can of Lysol just ran out

Mad you need to tell your ofiice mate to find a match real quick or it’s going to be tough go holding his breat all day.

Nooooo No match. Me might blow up!