Rosstache 2009 - Burt Reynolds' Club

Rosstache 2009 Wrap-Up

2009-03-29T10:09:00.000-07:00

A sincere thank you to all the donors, participants, and supporters of Rosstache 2009! This year's competition broke Rosstache records for both participants (79) and total money raised for charity: just over $9,000.00!

Below are the award winners along with lots of great photographs from the event. And though we close the book on Rosstache 2009, remember that it's never too early to start planning your 'Stache for Rosstache 2010!

Your Brothers in the Stache,

The Burt Reynolds Trust

Category	Winner
1st Place Fundraiser - Smokey & the Bandit	Russ Baruffi
2nd Place Fundraiser - Smokey & the Bandit	Sam Bryson
3rd Place Fundraiser - Smokey & the Bandit	Mark Peterson
1st Place Fundraiser - Cop & A Half	Brent Morgan
2nd Place Fundraiser - Cop & A Half	Sal Zavala
3rd Place Fundraiser - Cop & A Half	Anil Khorana
Best White-Trash Stache	Todd Bowie
Best Cop Stache	Josh Mandel-Brehm
Best Original Stache	Sheel Mohnot
Best Creepy Stache	Byron Kaufman
Best Redhead / Blonde Stache	Alden McLellan
Best Stache in Absentia	Hanns Anders
Hottest Woman of Rosstache	Janine Korovesis
Best Overall Stache	Erik Gomez

Updated Photos!

2009-03-24T19:52:00.001-07:00

Final Contestants List!

2009-03-19T09:18:00.000-07:00

Ladies and Gentlemen, Boys and Girls -

I proudly give you the final compilation of our brave Rosstache soldiers, abandoning vanity and embracing the raw sexual appeal of the glorious 'Stache, all in the name of charity.

Donors, please reference their names in the message line of your donation. All donations must be in before the final judging during happy hour at Skeeps on March 26th - Next week!

Also, don't forget to donate to the Professor Stache Off, where you select your favorite lip-broomed Professor to shave during the final event. Scroll down for more information.

Your Brothers in the Stache,

The Stache Trust

Smokey & The Bandit	Cop & a Half
Alden McLellan	Amit Raghavan
Andrew Boyink	Andrew Zrike
Ben Dzialo	Anil Khorana
Ben Friedenson	Brent Morgan
Bharath Iyengar	Jack Fritz
Brian Katzman	James Lynch
Brian Wahlgren	Jason Fein
Byron Kaufman	Jeff Cheek
Chris Nielsen	Julian Lim
Damian McGough	Justin Walker
Damien Taylor	Kevin Rosanski
Daniel Thal	Luke Bakalar
Dave Gaucher	Matt Armstrong
David Huang	Mike Elzahr
Dhivakar Janarthanan	Mike Gitig
Eddie Kim	Nate Schmid
Erik Gomez	Nate Troup
Guarav Anand	Pradeep Sagi
Guarav Parnami	Ryan Alexander
Hanns Anders	Sal Zavala
Harry Werts	Sandip Mody
J.J. Lippincott	Sanket Bansal
Jaime Olaiz	Shubba Howlander
James Baran	Sourabh Tolasaria Tim Weil
Jamil Ali Jason Dombi
Joe Digirolamo
Joe Johnson
Joe Malcoun
John McQueen
Josh Katz
Josh Mandel-Brehm
Kent Knudson
Marc Berkowitz
Marcin Wojtczak
Mark Leo
Mark Peterson
Matt Jung
Matt Plumb
Matt Schaar
Matt Turner
Michael McGrath
Mike Holland
Mike Kelly
Mike Zarrilli
Nick Abstoss
Paddy Moran
Paul Zahka
Randall Temple
Ross Pysh
Russell Baruffi
Sam Bryson
Sameer Soleja
Sandip Saha
Santiago Vargas
Scott Harrington Sean Marshall
Sheel Mohnot
Shelby Jordan
Stockton Reece
Thomas Leahy
Todd Bowie
Tony Ehrbar
Will Gatziolis
William Andrews
Yuri Haverman

Cop & a Half Contestants

2009-03-19T09:07:00.001-07:00

Professor Stache-off

2009-03-12T14:51:00.000-07:00

Have you ever wondered how one of your favorite facial-haired professors would look like clean-shaven? Well now is your chance to turn that wonderment into a reality. As part of this year's Rosstache, we are having the first Professor Stache-off, in which one unlucky professor will have to shave off his beloved stache/goatee. The professors (who have all been sporting facial hair since before the Dow was last at 6500) that were kind enough to participate in this year's Professor Shave-off are Professors Gautam "Porter's sixth force should be my moustache" Ahuja, Damian "My goatee is sweeter than a kiwanee dumper" Beil, and Gautam "The NPV of my moustache is more significant than its IRR" Kaul.

So how exactly does the Professor Stache-off work? If you would like to see a particular professor shave off his facial hair, donate money to his "Time to shave off the stache/goatee" fund. Whichever professor collects the most money will have to shave off his facial hair at the Rosstache finale on March 26 at Skeeps (either live or on video).

Professor Gautam "Porter's sixth force should be my moustache" Ahuja

Professor Damian "My goatee is sweeter than a kiwanee dumper" Beil

Professor Gautam "The NPV of my moustache is more significant than its IRR" Kaul

Smokey & The Bandit Contestants

2009-03-08T10:41:00.000-07:00

Smokey & The Bandit Contestants

2009-03-08T09:31:00.000-07:00

Rosstache Intro

2009-02-15T23:00:00.000-08:00

Yes, you heard correctly. Rosstache is back this year and better than ever. For those of you not familiar with this particular event, let me fill you in on the secret. Rosstache is month-long moustache growing competition where Rossers sacrifice their vanity in order to raise money for charity. It is usually amongst the men, but since we don’t discriminate here at Ross women are highly encouraged to participate (more on this below). Each contestant is responsible for two things: growing the most awesomest stache they’ve ever seen and gathering donations from friends & family for charity. This year we will be raising funds for the Penrickton Center for Blind Children (more info on them on the side). Judging will happen at the RSA happy hour scheduled for March 26^th. We’ll provide more details about the actual night of the event and what categories the competition entails at a later date, but we wanted to get it kicked off right now. Just remember to take your clean shaven pics now, sign up with us and then listen up for details to follow.

If you don’t have time to read this all, please visit our website for more information. Our website will be updated frequently with pics from contestants, memorable stories from previous years and inspirational words of wisdom from the Stache Trust.

This year, the extended spring break allows us to create a category so dangerous, so demanding, that it has never before been offered in the history of Rosstache. Not for the faint of heart, this category – aptly named the Smokey and the Bandit – is only for the manliest of men, who dare grow the ‘stache during Spring Break, willfully exposing themselves to throngs of lustful, mustache-adoring spring breakers around the world. We’re gonna split up Rosstache into 2 Divisions: Smokey & the Bandit and Cop & a half (think NBA and NBA D-League, FBS/FCS, Serie A/Serie B, etc…). The entries for the first, and most reputable, will start tomorrow, Monday, February 16. The latter grouping will initiate moustache growing on the first day of Winter A (Monday, March 9) – these are the types of “men” who may think it necessary to be clean shaven for spring break to help improve their “chances”. I implore them not to worry, women dig scruff. In fact, a hot MAcc was recently quoted as saying “I love the stache” – so grow those lip brooms far and wide and join the real men in the first group. The requirement is that you show up clean shaven to our booth in the Winter Garden Mon-Wed (12-5) or at happy hour on Thursday. If you can’t make it to any of these locations (i.e. MAP travel, newly developed hermit behavior, frequent molting) send an email to burtreynoldsclub@umich.edu attaching a photo of you holding up a current newspaper (think hostage situation) with a face as smooth as a baby’s bottom.

For those of you worried about MAP travel, DON’T. We’ll have an “in absentia” category for those that can’t physically make it on March 26^th. For those who are worried about their lip broom affecting the productivity of their MAP team and/or still working on securing various forms of employment, do not fret. It has been scientifically proven that a good stache improves your chances by 72.7%.* But if you feel the need for a stachetrust bailout, then take a picture of that stache before you shave it and enter it into the “TARP” category (to be judged by the crowd at the final judging event).

Women of Rosstache: this will be a separate category where females who do not wish to grow their own lip brooms can obtain a fake moustache from the Rosstache team and submit a photo of them wearing this magical moustache to be judged at the final competition at Skeeps (creativity rewarded).

Finally, for the first time ever, an event of EPIC proportions: THREE professors have agreed to go HEAD-2-HEAD-2-HEAD in a stache-off. That’s right, your favorite mustachioed professors (Gautam Kaul, Damien Beil and Gautam Ahuja) have agreed to a competition for this charitable event with the loser shaving off their oh-so-beloved facial hair. How does this work, you ask??? Well, you will be given the opportunity to donate for the professor you’d most like see keep his cookie duster. The two professors that raise the most funds will be allowed to keep their stache, whilst the other will be doomed to shave it before our final judging event. So get out there and donate for the ballyhooed stache you’d like to stay – and feel free to shamelessly urge your friends to do the same.

In Burt We Trust,

The Burt Reynolds’ Club Executive Team

burtreynoldsclub@umich.edu