Home Cooking Star Season 1 Winner Announced!

Blind voting for all 3 sauces took place on Saturday at a private gathering of different folks – with sauces labeled A, B & C. A was Penny Malcolm’s, B was Sheryl Robinson’s and C was Diana Angenent’s. Votes were monitored so that each person could vote only once. Anyway – the race was VERY close – A got 7.5 votes, B got 9 votes and C got 7.5 votes which means that Sheryl Robinson’s sauce is Season 1′s winning BBQ Sauce – congratulations Sheryl!

The “1/2″ vote happened when someone was torn between 2 sauces and could not pick so 2 people gave 1/2 vote to A and C, and B picked up 2, 1/2 votes. Thanks Penny and Diana – your sauces were GREAT but for the majority, Sheryl’s Sho B Gud BBQ sauce was the best!

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Top 3 Announced!

The top 3 positions belong to:

1.  Penny Malcolm

2.  Sheryl Robinson

3.  Diana Angenent

View the score sheet below – thank you everyone for your participation…now down to the final round!

The top 3 advance!

Home Cooking Star BBQ Sauce Contest – UPDATE

The vote count is mounting – latest numbers as of 5PM tonight PST – just over 24 hours more of public voting – so get everyone in to vote FAST!  Only top 3 advance (as we combine these public voting numbers with the votes for each commercial; both public and our expert(s).

1st position: Penny Malcolm – 562

2nd position:  Michael Huffstetler – 439

3rd position:  Sheryl Robinson – 410

4th position:  Diana Angenent – 384

5th position:  Rich Hollenberg – 334

6th position:  Suzy Weaver – 180

7th position:  Craig Thompson – 174

8th position:  Gerrie Riddle – 153

9th position:  Kevin Varble – 121

10th position:  Tony Riedl – 111

11th position:  The Dores – 69

WordPress is having some hiccups…

I did all the work to add all the new numbers in the blog last night and then forgot to hit “publish!”  Sheesh.  Anyway – sorry about that – new numbers tonight are up a bit since I skipped last night.  Anyway – keep going…only 2 days left!

1st position: Penny Malcolm – 505

2nd position:  Michael Huffstetler – 430

3rd position:  Sheryl Robinson – 402

4th position:  Diana Angenent – 371

5th position:  Rich Hollenberg – 314

6th position:  Suzy Weaver – 179

7th position:  Gerrie Riddle – 153

8th position:  Craig Thompson – 149

9th position:  Kevin Varble – 121

10th position:  Tony Riedl – 109

11th position:  The Dores – 69

Public Vote Stats – Home Cooking Star

Votes are coming in nicely for the commercials – now let’s see how the contestants are doing with the public support – numbers are below for today – 7/20/09 – VERY INTERESTING changes in ranking!!!

1st position: Penny Malcolm – 397

2nd position:  Michael Huffstetler – 375

3rd position:  Sheryl Robinson – 347

4th position:  Diana Angenent – 337

5th position:  Rich Hollenberg – 281

6th position:  Suzy Weaver – 175

7th position:  Craig Thompson – 141

8th position:  Gerrie Riddle – 133

9th position:  Kevin Varble – 118

10th position:  Tony Riedl – 107

11th position:  The Dores – 69

Reality Online Contest Requires Contestants to Create their own Commercial!

When creating the show, Home Cooking Star, challenges were devised to determine who would advance to the next level.  Most of the challenges surrounded the BBQ Sauce recipe that each submitted and included a cook-off of the same ingredients in one hour (black box challenge).  The challenge underway now is the TV Commercial competition where each contestant either produced their own or wrote the script and storyboard for HCS to produce.  There are amazing results and anyone reading this post should go and check it out – click here.  After you watch you’ll want to vote for the best one – please do!!!  Send your friends and family to vote too and oh by the way, show your colleagues the possibility of using a similar concept in their business model!  We would love to syndicate our content to other web properties!

Voting is OPEN for Contestant Commercials!

Part of the Home Cooking Star challenges includes each contestant creating their own commercial for their sauce.  Each has either created their ad or written the script and done a storyboard and we have created their ad for them.  Voting is now open and will partially determine the winners in this round, taking the current 11 contestants down to only 3!  So, watch and vote at:  http://homecookingstar.com/ads.html – make sure you scroll down to see all 11 videos – they are amazing!

Commercials…the very big deal tonight!

Almost done – will be posted by midnight and the voting begins – for the BEST commercial created by each of the final 10 (11) contestants of Home Cooking Star!

Latest Vote Count – 7/17/09

Just finished the shooting of the commercials – so much fun!  Below are the latest vote counts before I go to bed early so tired!!!  Will edit those clips starting tomorrow.

1st position: Penny Malcolm – 292

2nd position:  Sheryl Robinson – 269

3rd position:  Rich Hollenberg – 256

4th position:  Michael Huffstetler – 237

5th position:  Diana Angenent – 179

6th position:  Suzy Weaver – 161

7th position:  Craig Thompson – 124

8th position:  Kevin Varble – 110

9th position:  Tony Riedl – 93

10th position:  Gerrie Riddle – 91

11th position:  The Dores – 69

The 16th’s Numbers – Home Cooking Star

Okay – another day; all commercials are in – and oh what fun this is!  Below are the rankings for today, the 16th of July – NEW leader:  Penny Malcolm and Michael Huffstetler moves into 3rd!

1st position: Penny Malcolm – 259

2nd position:  Rich Hollenberg – 241

3rd position:  Michael Huffstetler – 224

4th position:  Sheryl Robinson – 219

5th position:  Suzy Weaver – 151

6th position:  Diana Angenent – 118

7th position:  Craig Thompson – 115

8th position:  Kevin Varble – 108

9th position:  Tony Riedl – 93

10th position:  Gerrie Riddle – 90

11th position:  The Dores – 69