I have samples to give away of the Mighty Leaf Green Tea Tropical tea that we will be sampling in an episode that will airing the last Monday in February. First several people to email me at brandice@steaptv.com are going to get a sample in the mail in time to drink this tea along with us on the 25th!
Hop to it! 
Offer ends when I am out of supplies, and thanks to Mighty Leaf for providing generous samples.
This is it! The eight contestants’ teas are tested and a winner is chosen! There were no losers, since all eight contestants will be receiving free teas, but there was definitely one tea that came out on top.
Watch the video to see who won our first Tea Showdown:
Filming took about five hours total, so you may notice a bit of caffeine-induced hysteria and what may have been a case of caffeine hangover by the time we had sipped our way through eight cups of tea.
The Disembodied Voice (Amy) joined us for this episode as a third official judge of the eight teas. Each of us drank each tea and gave them each a score between 1 and 10. The tea’s three judges’ scores were added together to give the tea its final score, with the highest final score being the winning tea. We also announced each judge’s favorite (i.e. highest scored) tea.
Here are some of the pictures from our tea-drinking marathon:
If you were one of our eight contestants, you can expect an email from us in the very near future so that we can obtain mailing addresses for each of you and get your pick for your free tea. We’re emailing each contestant one at a time, in order of highest to lowest Showdown scores (the highest score getting first pick of the free tea).
This has been a really successful event for STeaP, and we look forward to bringing you more contests and promotions throughout 2008! We have also received samples from several tea companies that we will be featuring soon, so watch for more opportunities to win tea goodies and learn more about what some of the smaller tea companies have to offer.
Tea Showdown is being filmed tomorrow and will be live all over the internet on Monday, January 7th!
These are the teas that will be battling it out for some super fun prizes:
You can see all them pictured here (except the Tazo, which Joe and I realized we had forgotten as I was writing this entry - don’t worry, we’re on it!), on Joe’s dining room table, eager to be tasted tomorrow during filming! The memory game is included in this shot to help all of your tea-addled brains to remember to watch the big Tea Showdown on Monday, January 7th to see who wins the 2008 title of… well, something we haven’t decided yet.
Bad News: Some of our teas did not arrive in time to do the showdown for New Years, so we’ll be doing the Tea Showdown for January 7th. Sorry for the postponing, and we promise the New Year’s Eve show will still be a great one!
Good News: STeaP is hitting NYC in two weeks! Joe won a contest for Haydenfilms over at Viddler and has chosen yours truly to accompany him on the trip, so we’ll be filming a VERY special STeaP episode in New York City that will likely go live the week after the Tea Showdown.
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So overall, mostly good news, and you’ll get two really special episodes two week in a row! Hope that will make it worth the wait, and don’t forget to check out our New Year’s episode, which will still be full of (hopefully) yummy teas.
Do you know of a great tea company that might want to send us some tea samples to review? STeaP is actively accepting submissions for reviews in 2008, and we would love to review tea companies that are loved by YOU, the viewer. Send us your suggestions, and don’t forget that Friday (THIS Friday) is the last day to send us your submission for the huge Tea Showdown of 2008!
Just send us an email at steap@steaptv.com with the name of your favorite tea, how to properly prepare it, and hopefully you’ll be picked to win fabulous prizes during our first episode of 2008!
To participate in the Tea Showdown here at STeaP, you only need to do a few things:
That’s it! In a future episode we will have to ultimate tea showdown with all of the teas being sampled blind! Brandice and Joe will rank the teas on a 1 to 10 scale and the tea with the highest score will win! If there is a tie, the disembodied voice will select the winner from the highest ranked teas. And only one entry per person, please!
The winner will receive the following prizes via mail:
December 21st will be your last day to submit entries, so give it some thought and then throw us an email asap! The Tea Showdown will be our first episode of the New Year.
Let the battle begin!
