Craft Corner Deathmatch was a television show aired on the Style Network in 2005. The Style Network is an American cable television network based in Los Angeles, California. ...
Two contestants are challenged by host Jason Jones to make things such as notebooks and handbags out of various objects. After ten minutes, the contestants show their projects to a panel of judges who then rate it on a scale from one to ten. After two rounds, the winner faces the Craft Lady of Steel for a bonus prize. Jason Jones is a resident of the state of Louisiana, and is the current elected chair of the National Lavender Greens Caucus, the official voice of LGBTIQ people within the Green Party of the United States. ...
Viewers who have had their fill of the recent craze for crafting and home-makeover shows may be disappointed to learn that everyone comes out alive from the "death" matches.
But one contestant eventually is voted out of the cage by three judges, and the winner goes on to compete against a real craft professional, Jocelyn Worrall, who is known on the show as the Craft Lady of Steel and who once worked for - you guessed it - Ms.
CraftCornerDeathmatch does have a certain ring to it, though.
CraftCornerDeathmatch pits two contestants against one another as they make crafts based on a given theme and supplied with materials that can come from either the cornercraft shop or the corner of a homeless shelter.
The contestants are given 10 minutes to make their crafts while being verbally abused by the belligerent host whose tongue-in-cheek ribbing of the contestants flusters them as they furiously struggle to come up with a crafting idea that fulfills the given theme for that round.
At the end of each 10 minute crafting session the results are judged by three women who don't necessarily have a crafting background, but they more than make up for that with a serious lack of personality.