Thank you for everyone who was able to attend our first BBQ contest at The Hatchie Hollow Bolivar contest this past weekend. We all had a great time and I had at least four or five folks come to me to say that they really liked our team (the people).
As you know by now, we were fortunate enough to have placed first in shoulder in the preliminary round then finished third. We also had a first place finish in both the anything but award with Johnny's stuffed chicken (The left overs went in 3- minutes so I never got a taste) and first place in anything but sauce (Jeff's tomato sauce). My personal goal was to not come in dead last, so over all - not a bad weekend.
This was a trial run for us, to kind of break in the rig, get use to setting up and giving the team members a cook out before we packed up for the winter. Well, it turned out to be something a little more special than that. Granted there were only 10 teams there, but there were some really big names there that we beat. This is a great start.
I would love to go down the list of names to thank everyone for what they did, but inevitably I would leave someone out, so I am just going to send out a huge thank you for all of you who contributed and helped out, we couldn't have done so well with out you. Hopefully everyone who showed up and who hadn't been to a BBQ contest for the work part, has a better understanding of how much work actually goes in to setting up, cooking, preparing, break down, etc.
Our next event is the UAB & Memphis game November 17th. This is basically going to be a tail gating party where we turn in some ribs and sauce. Should we be lucky enough to win, we will have our entry in to Memphis In May paid for and a $750 check. But lets focus on having fun.
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