The Tangled Web's 2011 Costume Contest 

The Judges have turned in their votes, all ties have been broken (kinda) and we have winners!

Winners are listed at the bottom of the page

  Victoria Wiles, Julia Misa, Mattie Keyser, and Roddy Kiser were all representing the Captain America movie as Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter, Bucky Barnes, and Johann Schmidt

  Emma Peoples came as Marvel's Black Widow in a completely home-made costume.

  Grayson Peoples came as Ultimate Captain America.  She is a HUGE Captain America fan!

  The Peoples girls made a pretty impressive team!

  Dalin Williams came in as the cutest Dr. Who ever - complete with Sonic Screwdriver!

    Dalin Williams also came as a very happy Dragon.

    Owen Chapman was Carl from The Walking Dead

  the Sterling family had a GREAT 'Storyteller' theme where their book characters came to life!  All the Sterling family costumes are home-made!

    Luke Sterling was a deadly Ninja!

    Hannah Sterling was Adventure Reader!

    Jonathan Sterling was Indiana Jones complete with Bull-Whip action!

    Angela Sterling was Padme Amidala from Star Wars

    Matthew Sterling was Hunter of the Undead.  Matt always has a great costume.

    Alex Tisdale came as Man-Thin from Marvel Comics!  He couldn't walk...but he did the entire costume for $20!  All home-made.

    Victoria Wiles came as Flynn Rider from Tangled

  Tim Burkett came as Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead.  Nice home-made costume right down to the badge!

  River Wilson came as Lil Superman.

    Lauren Wilson came as a very cute Wonder Woman!

      Heather and Alex Haynes came as Finn the Human and Princess Bubblegum from Adventure Time!

      Madison Shuster came as a cute Mad Hatter from Alice in Wonderland!  (She made Dennis' costume too!)

  Adam Linder came as Godot from the Phoenix Wright Video Games.

  Lexie Phillips came as Supergirl!  She was a cutie!

    Sierra Damato came as Edwina Scissorhands.  This was pretty impressive and hand-made.

  Lindsay Gregg came in a completely hand-made Batwoman costume!  It was very well done.

  Coe Dantzler came as L from the Death Note series.

  Danielle Gardner came as a Magic: the Gathering Girl.  All the MTG cards were legit, too!

      Annie Fitch came as Apocalypse Woman!  She scared me!

    Stewart MacWilliam came as...The Green Hornet!  Very nicely done!

    Greyson Wisecarver came as a cute and happy little Captain America!  he did Great!

    Katelyn came as the Pink Power Ranger and she was putting the bad guys in their place all day!

    Toni Chavez came by in her Panda suit because she's sweet.  She wasn't really trying to enter the contest, but we made her anyways...

    Alex Morrison came as The Grim Reaper and was pretty spooky without Billy and Mandy around!

  Bryant McAbee came as Clark Kent/Superman.  Superman couldn't rock that beard like that, though...

    My friends Avereigh Blanton and Caroline Sapier came by to visit!  Aren't they pretty?

    Casey Roan came sporting a hand-made Cyclops outfit (from the Grant Morrison run).  A very good effort!

    Myles Moore came as Harry Potter!  He kept casting 'Winnet-Contestus!' 

  Jason Galloway came as DC's The Question. 

    Blake Whittaker came as Summer-Casual Venom.

  Ashley Burgess came as Raggedy Anne.  Very nice costume and make-up!

      Kara Harris came as Mario!  She was marching around and kickin' Koopa Shell all day!

  Chuck Hart came as Chuck Hart - Agent of Shield!  Nicely done and he had all the right props!

    Chris Harris came as Sharon Carter - Agent of Shield!  Their costumes worked great together.

    Chris came to our 1st ever Halloween Costume party in 1998 and was holding my son, Logan as 1 yr old Baby Superman.  Time Flies...

  David Willingham came as a Hydra Soldier.  That David is a bad, bad, man!

    Allison Pennington took time away from Hogwart's to come as Hermione Grainger. 

    Robby Hayes came as Robert Beermaker, Steampunk Gentleman.  His costume was ridiculously cool and he even shaved his beard to fit the costume.

    Katie Mims came as Liz, from Shaun of the Dead.  She ain't playin'!

    Emily Chen came as a Lolita Doll and she was very cute!

   Aileen Welsh came along with Emily as a Witch!

  Owen Walker came as a S.W.A.T. Officer!

    Elaine Walker was a cute, cute, cute, little Butterfly!

  Thad Troxell came as the Joker!  He made the scrubs too!

  Casey Buckner came as the Joker from Batman, The Dark Knight movie.  Casey was in character the entire time and did a great job!

    Danielle Gardner came as Killer Croc.  She latexed her whole body (OUCH!) and had awesome prosthetic teeth, contacts and claws!  The contacts were the creepiest part of the whole deal!

    Annie Fitch came back in her hand-made Batgirl costume.  As always, she did a great job!

First, a note about what our Judges look for:  They look for Creativity, Costume Accuracy, Attention to Detail, Posing, and Overall Effect.  They focus on these things to balance the field so that someone who spends $800 on a costume doesn't have an unfair advantage over those who don't or can't spend that much.  Since our judges don't personally know any of the contestants, it gives them specific things to look at and look for.  I'm at home and sleepy and the prize list is at the store - I'll update it in the morning!

AND THE WINNERS ARE:

1st Place Men's Costume: Alex Tisdale as the Man-Thing - Wins $50 cash and a $50 TW Gift Card

2nd Place Men's Costume: Casey Roan as Cyclops - Wins $25 cash and a $25 TW Gift Card

3rd Place Men's Costume: Chuck Hart as Shield Agent - Wins $25 Gift Card

Honorable Mention goes to Robby Hayes as Steampunk Gentleman and Tim Burkett as Rick Grimes from The Walking Dead - Wins our appreciation and a random prize!

The Womens division is always difficult that this year was no exception! There was only 1 vote separating 1st and 2nd place, 3rd & 4th place was a tie and 5th was only 1 vote out!  That's CLOSE!  I had to go out and recruit 2 extra Judges just to help break apart the ties!

  First Place Women's Costume: Sierra Damato as Edwina Scissorhands - Wins $50 cash and a $50 TW Gift Card

Second Place Women's Costume: Danielle Gardner as Killer Croc - Wins $25 cash and a $25 TW Gift Card

Third Place Women's Costume: Tie  for Lindsay Gregg as Batwoman and Annie Fitch as Batgirl - Each wins a $20 TW Gift Card

Honorable Mention goes to Victoria Wiles for Flynn Rider (and I think her Steve Rogers was great too) - Wins Random prize and our thanks

Best Group Cosplay goes to the Sterling Family for their StoryTeller idea.  Very nicely exectuted theme.  They won a $50 TW Gift Card!

The kids...Ahh, the kids!  This is just too hard to separate but I am WOWED by how many kids we had in the contest this year.  The kids part is hard because most of their costumes are not home-made and then it becomes a cute contest - that I'm not getting in the middle of!  I though ALL the kids were adorable so I'm going to give a Top 6 Award for the home-made outfits and then we are going to put together gift bags for all of the other contestants.  They are all winners for coming out!

Our Top 6 Kids were: Emma Peoples, Grayson Peoples, Myles Moore, Greyson Wisecarver, Heather and Alex Haynes, and Owen Walker (yeah, I know that's 7 but Finn and Buttercup count as one)