"Flair Bartenders Shakedown"
West Palm Beach, Florida USA
March 19th 2007

The competition is more then halfway and there are only a few spots left to make it to the finals.... Do you have what it takes to be the first ever "Flair Bartenders Shakedown Working Flair Champion"? The Flair Bartenders Shakedown is the first Flair bartending competition based entirely around Working Flair. For the forth qualifier we saw the battle of the locals. It was the locals turn to solidify there spot in the finals. After the last bottle was throw the final outcome was...

1st Place

Luciano Pantiroli finished in first place this month with a strong showing of Miami Flair style.

Luciano had his time to shine and this time he did just that. With some great looking hair and some great working Flair skills Luciano stole the show and the crowd's applause.

Extremely well done and we look forward to seeing him in the finals on June 18th 2007. Click on Luciano's picture to the right to see a highlight of his round.

2nd Place

James Burke finished in second place this time and also qualifies to come back on the finals. James came out of the gates strong with a great Budweiser promotion where he dressed up as a Budweiser knight to start his round.

James is still going to collage and flew down from Boston to qualify this month. With his friends in the crowd he gave them a great showing of some of the new blood in Flair bartending today.Great job James and look forward to seeing you in the finals.

Click on James's picture to the left to see him in action.

Also rounding out third place again this month was Cesar Romero. Consistency is the key. To place in the top three with the talent of our competitors is a huge accomplishment. We are looking forward to seeing what you have planned next month...

Taking this months honorable mention goes to Martin Janica and Mauro Garrido who put on a show stopping demo of tandem Flair skill that people are still talking about. Under pressure and no pressure at the same time... Great job guys!

The results are in... 1st place... Luciano Pantiroli, 2nd place James Burke, 3rd place Cesar Romero, forth place Yavuuz Dereli and fifth place Josh Gates.

A special thanks to all the competitors, judges, staff, Blue Martini and supporters who made this event a success. We will see you next month, where the drink list changes along with two new finalists.