"Flair Bartenders Shakedown"
West Palm Beach, Florida USA
March 18th 2008

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Do you have what it takes to be the second ever "Flair Bartenders Shakedown Working Flair Champion"? We welcome back the Flair Bartenders Shakedown, the first Flair bartending competition based entirely around Working Flair with familiar sponsors this year... Blue Martini, SKYY Vodka, Finest Call, Midori, X-Rated, Bar Products, Spill-Stop, Flairco, Rock&Record, the FBA, Flairbar.com and BarWars LLC. For the second qualifier of the second running we saw some of Florida's finest battling it out behind the Flairco Portable Bar. Again at Blue Martini, West Palm Beach, Florida in front of a standing room only crowd all cheering for their favorite Flair bartender to make the finals. In the end, the scores were tallied and the final results were...

1st Place

Dario Doimo finishing in first place this month after another big win at Legends of Bartending in Las Vegas the month before.

Dario has been on fire lately. Winning Best in the West, Legends and now our 2nd qualifier... we have to ask ourselves... could this be Dario's year? All we know is that the finals are shaping up to be one hell of a show again this year!

Dario had an extremely smooth routine behind the Flairco bar with difficult new moves making the world of Working Flair look easy. His two tin and X-Rated bottle routine was crowd roaring. Well done! Click on Dario's picture to the right to see a highlight of his round.

2nd Place

Chad Tocco finished in second place this month and also qualifies to come back on the finals.

Chad sporting his BarWars V Prequel shirt rocked the house with his personality and stage presence. Starting off with a nice Finest Call shoulder stall to finishing with a three bottle juggle where he threw off a bottle to the barback then continued to Flair two bottles and then the barback threw the third bottle back where Chad continued his three bottle sequences. Very nice!

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

Also rounding out third place this month was Hector Acevedo. His Finest Call stall after kicking it off of his foot was sweet. Looking forward to your routine next month...

This months honorable mention again goes to Drew Bryant who with each month is getting increasingly better and better! Only makes for a better overall bartender, kind of like this month's article on Flairbar.com... Check it out for yourself!

The results are in... 1st place... Dario Doimo, 2nd place Chad Tocco, 3rd place Hector Acevedo, 4th place Drew Bryant, 5th place Raimel Perez, 6th place Sergio Roman, 7th place Eric Moon, 8th place Dave Deese and demo by Cesar Romero.

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.