*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. The rat-a-tat chant, delivered rhythmically with a booming voice, feeds the tension in the room and gets the adrenaline flowing.

-[AUCTIONEER CHANT]. 7 [AUCTIONEER CHANT]. 700 and a half. [AUCTIONEER CHANT]. 1,300, [AUCTIONEER CHANT]. 1,300 [AUCTIONEER CHANT]. 14 [AUCTIONEER CHANT]. 14 you want ...

At the World Livestock Auctioneer Championship, which has been held annually in the United States since 1963, eager contenders gather to show off what they refer to as a chant: a rhythmic, rapid-fire ...

The auctioneer chant is nothing short of an art form, pulling in the casual passerby and luring dedicated followers to each event. Scott Schuster's chant is a familiar one in the Grand Forks, N.D., ...

CLEAR LAKE, Iowa - If the walls could talk at the Best Western hotel, they couldn't get a word in edgewise. The World Wide College of Auctioneering is back in session. "Rubber baby buggy bumpers," the ...

Phil Edwards was a senior producer for the Vox video team. The fast-talking style that auctioneers use has a name: They call it “the chant.” Or, in the words of Livestock Marketing Association world ...