Contestants Revealed for the ‘Great Christmas Light Fight’

The battle of holiday decorations will get underway on December 9, 2013 when Great Christmas Light Fight debuts on ABC. The new series pits four families against each other each week as they compete for the best decorated homes in order to earn cash prizes. The new competition series will be judged by Extreme Makeover: Home Edition‘s Michael Moloney and Sabrina Soto.
 
$50,000 will be given out to a winning family at the end of each episode for a total of $250,000 over the limited run of the series.
 
How it works: “In the first Christmas lights competition of its kind for television, 4 families will compete each week to transform their homes for the holidays. These 20 families were chosen through an extensive nationwide search, based on their previous elaborate Christmas light displays, incredible choreography and over-the-top designs.”
 
The 20 Families:
 
12/9:
Blount/Laguna Hills, CA
Holt/Chesapeake, VA
Goff/Canon, GA
Lynch/Whitestone, NY
 
12/16:
Simmons/Cathedral City, CA
Rhodes/Cedar Park, TX
Small/Orange, CT
Tittiger/Stockbridge, GA
Baughman/Prosper, TX
Plauche/Pass Christian, MS
Larsen/Elburn, IL
Yangello/Pennsville, NJ
 
12/23:
Hyatt/Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Downs/Norman, OK
Satterwhite/Mechanicsville, VA
Paradowski/Decatur, GA
Gay/Lagrangeville, NY
Macrina/West Reading, PA
Kowalczyk/Tinley Park, IL
Mize/San Rafael, CA