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Currencies Direct Chilli Charity Challenge

Deepak Goyal brought the ‘hottest sauce in the Universe’ into the office and laid down a challenge - who could eat the most!

Obviously, there was a charity angle to the proceedings as is always the case with Currencies Direct so the brave contenders all paid £3 each to enter the competition with all money being donated to charity as Deepak was stumping up the £20 prize fund from his own pocket - hurrah!

The rules were simple:

Contestants all compete at the same time in rounds.
Each round will consist of one drop of sauce on a dorito that the contestants must eat and then not take a drink for 30 seconds.
All those lasting for 30 seconds pass through to the next round.
All contestants may take a drink between rounds should they wish.
The drops of sauce will increase at a rate of 1 per round, so round 2 has 2 drops, round 3 has 3 drops etc etc etc.
The competition stops when there is only one person left.

We started with 10 participants, these were:

Natalie Lewis
Courtney Baisch
Marco Sabba
Dan Cousins
Deepak Goyal
Imran Khan
Jose Ivars Lopez
Daniel De Souza
Mark O’Sullivan
Craig Montano

But we lost Mark O’Sullivan and Jose Ivars-Lopez before the competition even began, so just 8 took up the challenge!

There were smiles from everyone at the beginning……..

But these soon started to diminish…..

And there was a lot of brow mopping!

Until there were only two left! Measurement of the ‘hot sauce’ was precise for the final round where a dessert spoon each of sauce was needed!

Courtney and Craig were both ready for the sauce!

Both were impressive and it was clear neither was going to back down! The event was declared a draw, and Courtney and Craig shared the prize fund.

Well done to everyone that took part - you are all soooo much braver than I am and we raised an extra £40 for charity - double hurrah!

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