Chili Head
New member
We cooked in our second competition yesterday at the Paxton swine and dine.
There was a live bands stage at the end of Main Street and vendors and BBQ teams lined up along both sides of the street for several blocks. Thousands of people walking up and down the street checking us out and asking questions. It was awesome! Most of the questions we got were about our cookers made from trash cans ( drums) as one lady put it. I even had several competitors checking out my BPS drum too. I explained to everyone how to get a drum and where to order the kit from. It was so much fun talking with everyone. Almost as much fun as when they announced the winners.
The final tally was close..very close. The top two teams actually tied at 336 points and the tiebreaker came down to taste scores. There was a KCBS judge at every table but not all judges were KCBS certified.
Bourbon smoke BBQ scored 161.714 in chicken and 174.857 in ribs.
We ( smoking buds BBQ ) scored 158.857 in chicken and scored 177.143 in ribs.
The tie breaker taste scores were..
Bourbon smoke BBQ - chicken 39 ribs 43
Smoking buds BBQ - chicken 40 ribs 45
We got our first grand champion with first place ribs and second place chicken!
Not bad considering we tied for last place chicken at our first comp to getting second in chicken this time. We went to work on our chicken after the dismal finish in our last comp. We're getting closer and I have a better idea now of what the judges are looking for. I still need to work on getting the chicken to be more uniform in size. The ribs were perfect! We turned in ten bones all from the same slab. They couldn't have been better in my opinion.
Here's the pics of our boxes. You judges and competitors please let me know if you see anything we could do better.
Me on the right and my right hand man Tom on the left.
There was a live bands stage at the end of Main Street and vendors and BBQ teams lined up along both sides of the street for several blocks. Thousands of people walking up and down the street checking us out and asking questions. It was awesome! Most of the questions we got were about our cookers made from trash cans ( drums) as one lady put it. I even had several competitors checking out my BPS drum too. I explained to everyone how to get a drum and where to order the kit from. It was so much fun talking with everyone. Almost as much fun as when they announced the winners.
The final tally was close..very close. The top two teams actually tied at 336 points and the tiebreaker came down to taste scores. There was a KCBS judge at every table but not all judges were KCBS certified.
Bourbon smoke BBQ scored 161.714 in chicken and 174.857 in ribs.
We ( smoking buds BBQ ) scored 158.857 in chicken and scored 177.143 in ribs.
The tie breaker taste scores were..
Bourbon smoke BBQ - chicken 39 ribs 43
Smoking buds BBQ - chicken 40 ribs 45
We got our first grand champion with first place ribs and second place chicken!
Not bad considering we tied for last place chicken at our first comp to getting second in chicken this time. We went to work on our chicken after the dismal finish in our last comp. We're getting closer and I have a better idea now of what the judges are looking for. I still need to work on getting the chicken to be more uniform in size. The ribs were perfect! We turned in ten bones all from the same slab. They couldn't have been better in my opinion.
Here's the pics of our boxes. You judges and competitors please let me know if you see anything we could do better.
Me on the right and my right hand man Tom on the left.