On Your Mark, Get Set, Grow!

"Moustache Champion" courtesy of Flickr Contributor Princess Red who traveled to Berlin for the 2005 World Moustache Championship

Throw away your razors, guys, and embrace your inner mountain man: it's time to start cultivating your entry in the first ever North American Beard and Moustache championship. The prestigious follicle competition will take place in Bremerton, Wash. on July 5th. The competition, put on by Bremerton's Whisker Club, is expected to bring moustaches, as well as the faces to which they are attached, from as far away as Europe.

The president of the Bremerton Whisker Club is himself a seven-time competitor in the moustache and beard world championships. He is hoping that the Bremerton competition will bring as many as 150 magnificent moustache entries. The winners of the North American Championship will have a chance to compete with the best beards and 'staches in the world at the 2009 World Championship in Anchorage, Alaska.

We have the utmost faith that a local beard or moustache can take this competition by storm. Seattle is home to tens of thousands of ironic moustaches, musical beards (Fleet Foxes, anyone?), the classic trucker-stache, heavily bearded bears, and Apollo Ohno's soul patch. Not only do we believe that a Seattle local can take the competition, we have the sneaking suspicion one of our readers can bring home the trophy. In honor of the competition, we'd like to conduct our own Seattlest Facial Hair championship. Post a link to your most impressive moustache and beard photos in the comments and Seattlest will declare a winner on Monday, complete with your magnificent moustached photo. We can't wait to see what you can grow!