Matt Timms has hosted offbeat contests at bars around Brooklyn for more than a decade (see cover story). The Takedown events started as chili cook-offs advertised with black-and-white flyers and have evolved to incorporate bacon, Bob Ross paintings, and out-of-this world color posters. Look back at some of the most radical Takedowns Brooklyn has ever seen and the flyers that promoted them, as told by Timms. — Matthew Perlman
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