Current Standings... 1. Perry, UNKNOWN... 2. Todd, 120... 3. Temke, 77... 4. Joe, 66... 5. Guy, 54... 6. Grant, 32... 7. Russ, 29... 8t. Kevin, 27... 8t. Horton, 27... 10. Barbs, 25... 11. Fletch, 19... 12. Max, 18... 13. Pretti, 17... 14. Rich, 10... 15. Seven others tied at 5...

Sunday, July 11, 2010

The Number One Photo of the first half of the year...

And the #1 All-star photo of the mid-season countdown goes to...

Horton!

There were many submissions of reading to small children, even larger groups of children, even with more odd looks on peoples faces (See Perry's submission).

Horton's version of this achievement however really has it all and really covers any elements of a sticker challenge you could ask for. And covers them well.



In public, reading to other peoples children, with other adults in the room witnessing the nonsense, that's pretty good for starters. Let's dig deeper.

Horton throws the visor on his small child, a move that was emulated later in the challenge by others (See Grant submission), furthermore it matches the outfit!

He has also managed to get the full attention of four small children that are clearly enjoying themselves, one small child who seems disturbed by the entire situation and in the corner there seems to be a secondary adult monitoring the situation.

With all of this one can only wonder if Horton was late for work that day.

Congrats to Horton and then the challenge recommence!

Saturday, July 10, 2010

#2...

Sneaking this one in before the deadline...

#2...

The waiters...


Temke getting the waitstaff in Puerto Rico to pose with the sticker album...

There is alot to say about this but at them moment, three pictures will have to be worth a thousand words.

Friday, July 9, 2010

Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Doctor. Annnnnnnnnnnd #3

When making up this achievement, Max said, "Well we gotta through more things that are easy on the list, like how about next to a bag of recyclables?"

Perfect I thought, anybody can do that, easy no problem, quick snap, a couple of stickers and we move on.

Little did I know Joe would come up with a Top 3 all-star photo from that task.


Full medical garb, full visor mode, winter glove work going on...

Quite a go of it here, this photo really has it all.

Nice beard work as well.

Boom.

Thursday, July 8, 2010

No. 4... World Cup... Olympic Games... GAS Challenge...

Just a few days prior to the World Cup, one of the most significant competitions in the universe of sports and not to upstage the big ESPN special tonight on where Lebron is going to end up... the Sticker Challenge announces the #4 photo on the all-star photo list.

In front of yet another sign of great competition, the olympic torch, Todd brought home the bacon, in full visor setup up.

#4 - Vancouver's Olympic Torch!


Next Todd will be joining DWade and Chris Bosh in Miami.

Moving on.

Wednesday, July 7, 2010

Top 5. Starting with, you guessed it... #5

One might wonder when scrolling through photos 6 through 10, if this Perry kid is winning the competition, where are his allstar photos.

Not to mention, if this Todd oddball is in second place how could it be possible that they aren't represented in the allstar photos.

Well just wait for it...

Wait for it...

Wait...

for...

it...

#5...

DUNE BUGGY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


This photo alone shows just how important it is to have your sticker album and visor combination on your person at all times.

How else could you possibly complete with asking the owner of a random dune buggy outside of your work place to take a photo of you reading a sticker album and wearing a visor? How else? I mean really, tell me? You can't because it's not possible.

And away we go...

Tuesday, July 6, 2010

Down to number six...

From the demented mind of the youngest competitor in the challenge. Maxwell figures out a way to make a giraffe cut-out at the zoo creepy.

Just for artistic and creativity alone this photo hits at #6.



The style, the grace, an adult giraffe with a human head... following a baby giraffe with a sticker album head. Beautiful.

Top 5 begins tomorrow.

Monday, July 5, 2010

Numero 7...

The minor publicity that The Great American Sticker Challenge has garnered across this fine nation, a competitor not intially participating in the challenge submitted a quality photo with his own original sticker album.

With his dog reading it...

#7



Thanks to Fletch... the first K-9 to make a visit to the challenge.

He looks really interested in it. More to come.

Sunday, July 4, 2010

#8 in the Allstar countdown...

For a week, Russ went on a run of all runs, that found us seeing a bit too much of his ass.

Somewhere stashed between the photos of him with his wife's bra over his head and photo evidence of his need for a bra himself was this gem. #8 on the all-star count down.



Russ. In the middle of winter. In a hot tub.

Reading a 1981 Topps Sticker Album.

And the countdown continues.

Saturday, July 3, 2010

All-star Photo #9...

As we continue our count down of the 10 best photos so far, we find ourselves in the beautiful Dominican Republic on the wedding day of Temke's brother.

In the first and only of it's kind, before Shaun's wedding, a photo, of a bride, on her wedding day, reading a sticker album.

God help her and the rest of her marriage.



An instant classic and #9 on the All-star count down!

Stay tuned for the rest of the count down leading to the second half of the season!

Friday, July 2, 2010

All-Star Photo Number Ten...

The first photo in the list of All-Star break top ten photos is the first photo ever submitted to the challenge, Pretti, playing an instrument, while holding the sticker album and wearing the visor.

A simple, straight forward, 2 point photo submission but a classic one at that...

#10



From the kick-ass Gibson guitar, to Pretti actually holding a cord, this photo sparked the challenge and away we went.

Congrats to Pretti for having the #10 All-star photo!

#9 to come tomorrow!

Thursday, July 1, 2010

All-star Break!!!!

It's been awhile and there are about 25 photos to be submitted but over the next 10 days, starting tomorrow, I will be releasing the All-Star photos from the first six months of the sticker challenge...

Both Perry and Max have pending photos...

Stayed tuned for the All-Star Top Ten and more great submissions.