Well, we did it. 20 years. If this was a marriage, we’d have to gift each other a China set… or new trophies made of China?
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- “There Will Be Guac,” inspired by Daniel Day Lewis yelling about milkshakes. Winner of Best Alternative.
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- Jordan and Amanda finally struck oil with this one.
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- Angela’s “Guaky” Pocky sticks. Second place for Alternative Guac and Presentation!
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- Angela and Alvy posing with their entry. (He barely helped, honestly.)
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- Maggie & Ian’s “Guacstachio”, tied for 3rd place for Alternative.
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- Maggie posing with her pistachio-filled entry. It was… nuts.
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- Dave & Lauren’s “Spoons Out,” tied for 3rd place Alternative. Like “Knives Out,” it was a brilliant deconstruction of familiar elements.
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- Dave & Lauren hoping for votes, just like Rian Johnson during Awards season.
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- My “Schoolhouse Guac,” winner of Best Presentation. The cardboard “TV” played all the classic educational cartoons… until my iPad ran out of battery.
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- The guac was inside the schoolhouse, of course.
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- A screenshot of Waynee’s entry, a guacumentary that was posted on Instagram TV over the course of the week.
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- The actual guac part was less impressive than the film, which may have cost him votes. But he got mine! The man flew to Hawaii — anything for the shot.
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- Maurissa’s “Guac Pops,” winner of the Icarus Award. They look great here — but not so much an hour later.
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- Maurissa smiling because she doesn’t know she’s getting Icarus yet.
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- Audrey’s “Don’t PIT All Your Eggs In One Basket,” runner up for Icarus. They were pretty! And in a basket, as described.
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- Audrey with her creation.
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- Jaikar’s “Brain on Guac,” a drug-addled entry, 3rd place for Icarus.
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- Jaikar inspired a lot of important conversations for parents on this day. “Mommy, can I eat those mushrooms?”
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- Zimmer’s “Chicavocado Guac,” a riff on the hot dogs of his new hometown, Chicago.
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- Winner of Best Traditional! Here is the man himself, putting the fixin’s on, just like a street vendor.
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- Meghann’s “Basic B*tch Guac,” second place for Traditional. Did not contain pumpkin spice latte or actual Uggs boots.
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- John & Sara’s “Dwayne ‘The Guac’ Johnson,” a cleverly titled Traditional that tied for 3rd place.
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- John and his kid posing like The Rock himself, only even more charming and buff.
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- Travis’s “The Guac Place,” tied for third place Traditional. If it’s anything like The Good Place, it will change premises every year.
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- Holy forking shirtballs, it’s A Good Place reference!
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- Josh & Alison’s “Overpromising & Underdelivering,” not just a guac but a way of life. Tied for 3rd place Traditional.
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- Evan and Erika’s “Slider Guac!!” They were sliders. With guac. And pineapple.
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- I appreciate the dedication, matching their Hawaiian sweet rolls with Hawaiian outfits.
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- Tim & Henry’s “Guac v. Ferrari,” Henry’s blatant excuse to get a new Lego race car.
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- According to Tim, a professional comedy writer, Henry came up with the “pit stop” pun himself.
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- David and Edie’s “Im-Peach-Mint” guac, a pretty great double pun, incorporating both peaches and mint.
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- But like our Senate, the judges didn’t vote for it. Here are the Ichioka’s laughing at the demise of our once great democracy.
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- Mark and 3-year-old Phoebe’s entry. Guess which one of them drew the picture and named it.
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- Mark is good with a crayon and is just learning how to make words.
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- Rachel & JT’s “Guac w/ a Field Goal,” something I wish the Niners had more of today.
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- Robin was back with her Guackies brownies for the fourth or fifth time (I lost count)… But I appreciate the dedication to one idea!
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- Rhonie’s “Guapical Paradise.” The kid won last year, but she was unable to defend her crown with this one.
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- Some past winners hanging out in the new Winner’s Lounge location, where we keep the good alcohol and snacks.
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- Long lost cousin Dave Pava and Lynn showed up! Love these guys.
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- And now for some random pics of people enjoying themselves.
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- And cute kids.
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- Oh yeah, there was also a football game. I’m trying to forget what happened there.
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- What we really come for: the trophies.
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- Zimmer accepting his win.
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- Jordan and Amanda, finally getting their hands on a real trophy.
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- Maurissa accepting the tiny Icarus cup.
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- In the Winner’s Lounge, the traditional champagne toast…
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- …and drinking from the trophies. Yummm, silver polish.
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- The cutest kid of them all, in a snazzy new Guac Bowl shirt, available in the “STORE” tab above.
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- Thanks for coming, or just looking! See you next year!
