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Epoxy Depot USA and Epoxy Floor Wars: Competition That Teaches the Trade

Inside the Pennsylvania-rooted supply network behind the YouTube series often nicknamed “Epoxy Wars” — how the battles work, why contractors watch, and a full directory of episodes from the official channel.

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Epoxy Floor Wars Season 3 | Episode 8

Published Sep 26, 2026 · youtube.com/watch?v=s8uwIZE1SHg

If you have heard installers talk about Epoxy Wars, they almost always mean Epoxy Floor Wars® — the multi-day floor-coating competition produced by Epoxy Depot USA and streamed/edited for YouTube. The producer, sponsor, and supply house behind the arena is Epoxy Depot, a multi-location epoxy and decorative-concrete supplier with a corporate office in Cleona, Pennsylvania, and training/event roots in nearby Lebanon.

For EpoxyMagazine.com readers — crew leads, shop owners, and coating nerds who learn as much from watching a bad grind as from a perfect broadcast — Epoxy Floor Wars matters because it puts preparation, chemistry, teamwork, and showmanship under the same fluorescent lights. It is not a weekend DIY clip. It is a trade spectacle built by a distributor that already stocks the kits, grinders, and training calendars contractors live on.

Why a supply house built a gladiator arena

Epoxy Depot positions itself as more than a cart-checkout warehouse: products, equipment, service, and training for residential, commercial, and outdoor coatings work. Public materials highlight metallics, flake systems, overlays, stamped and stained concrete, epoxy counters, and installer workshops. That mix — materials plus education — is the natural soil for a competition series. Sponsors get airtime. Spectators pay a cover and leave with a shirt. Gladiators pay an entry fee, bring portfolios, and leave with either a trophy split or a hard lesson about moisture, timing, and ego.

The company has staged live events for multiple seasons (trade coverage and the official site describe roughly three years of head-to-head battles before a planned leap to World of Concrete). Season 3’s championship window was publicly listed for October 16–18, 2025, with Orange Team captain Ethan Schneider congratulated as the winner. The 2024 Blue Team, captained by Andrew Henningsen (Infinity Concrete Creations), claimed that year’s title. Looking ahead, organizers say there will be no 2026 Depot-hosted edition in the usual format — because Season 4 is aimed at Las Vegas, January 19–21, 2027, at World of Concrete, with marketing promising a bigger stage and a $50,000 prize target.

Industry voice Rick Lobdell (Concrete Mystique) has been publicly identified as a commentator for the YouTube show. Epoxy Depot owner Steven Moore Jr. is widely associated as the organizer/creator side of the house. Captains, judges, and “gladiators” rotate by season — early published rules named captains such as Isaiah Pride and Brian Bourne for a Lebanon-era event.

How the competitions work

Strip away the helicopter entrances and limo chariots (yes, past seasons have leaned into the theater), and the format is surprisingly instructional:

• Two teams — typically Blue vs. Orange — with four drafted “Gladiators” each plus a captain.
• Draft & entry — applicants submit project portfolios; accepted competitors have historically paid a non-refundable entry fee (publicly cited at $2,500 per gladiator) and handled travel, with partial lodging/flight reimbursement noted in older rules packets.
• Shared mission — complete a large decorative floor (often described as 400+ sq ft) plus additional challenge areas (vertical pieces, captain battles, skill tests) over roughly three days.
• Floor discipline — published rules have limited how many gladiators may work the slab at once, required timed switches (e.g., every 15 minutes), and assigned penalties for crowding the floor.
• Lifelines — captains may get timed emergency lifelines; captains themselves are often barred from tools except during those windows.
• Judging — industry judges score skill, teamwork, creativity, and finish quality; penalties can swing outcomes (Season 3 organizers stressed harder challenges and penalty impact).
• Purse — earlier seasons publicly advertised a $20,000 team prize; press for Season 3 cited figures around $35,000; the Vegas edition is marketed at $50,000.

For working contractors, the educational value is the constraint set. Same products. Same square footage. Same fatigue. You watch how a team sequences grind, repair, primer, body coat, broadcast, and topcoat when the clock is loud — and how captains coach without touching a squeegee.

Epoxy Wars Episodes

Below is a directory of videos found on the official Epoxy Floor Wars YouTube channel (youtube.com/@EpoxyFloorWars), researched September 16, 2026 (CT). Titles and URLs are taken from the channel and its playlists — nothing fabricated. Official playlists exist for 2025 Live, 2024, and 2023, but the channel’s full Videos tab is the more complete catalog. Early 2023 battle days were also promoted on Facebook; those Facebook-only day streams are not duplicated here unless they also appear on this YouTube channel.

Season 3 (2025 competition / 2026 YouTube releases)

Epoxy Floor Wars Season 3 | Episode 1

Published Apr 8, 2026 · youtube.com/watch?v=9P1L_PLVOXc

Epoxy Floor Wars Season 3 | Episode 8

Published Sep 26, 2026 · youtube.com/watch?v=s8uwIZE1SHg

2024 competition series (Season 2 on YouTube)

Announcements, 2023 archive & shorts

Count from this research pass: 23 distinct videos with verified YouTube URLs on/linked from the official channel (15 numbered/pilot competition episodes + 1 Day-1 live long-form + 7 promos/archive/announce clips). Gaps: multi-day Facebook streams from early seasons may not all be mirrored as full YouTube episodes; Season 3 may still grow; Vegas 2027 content is not yet a full episode run.

What contractors should take from the series

Watch Epoxy Floor Wars the way you watch a good failure analysis video. Pause on moisture conversations. Note how teams protect edges when they are tired. Compare metallic showpieces to flake systems under the same lighting. Pay attention to how captains communicate when they cannot jump on the floor. That is trade education wrapped in competition packaging — and it is exactly why a national supply network would put money and logistics behind it.

If you are applying for a future draft, start where the organizers start: a clean portfolio, honest photos of real slabs, and a crew that can switch on a timer without losing the film. If you are only watching, subscribe to the official channel and treat each episode like a jobsite walk-through you did not have to drive to Lebanon — or, soon, Las Vegas — to attend.

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