Plow On Plowboys

Last weekend, the 30th Annual American Royal BBQ contest took place in Kansas City. This is the world's largest bbq contest with over 450+ teams competing for a chance at the $12,500 grand prize. There is also an invitational contest that pits grand champion bbqers from all over the country against each other. This contest alone has over 100 competitors and a $10,000 grand prize. This year the Pork Pullin Plowboys took home the coveted Grand Championship at the American Royal Invitational. Congrats to Todd Johns and his team for a great win. Check out the full results here: American Royal Results

Bob Dylan - Gospel Plow

Winchester Quick Results

We had a great time in Winchester this weekend. Here are the quick results:

Overall - 21st out of 47 teams
Chicken - 20th
Ribs - 40th
Pork - 8th
Brisket - 17th
Sausage - 5th
Desert - 7th

Check back later for a full review. Congrats to Wild Bunch Butt Burners for their Grand and Jiggy Piggy on the Reserve

Contest Results: Clarksville, TN

Here are the quick results from Clarksville:

Overall - 14th
Chicken - 25th
Ribs - 15th
Pork - 13th
Brisket - 7th

Check back later for a full report.

Cookeville Recap

Team Ulika closed out the bbq season with a contest in Cookeville, TN. This was the 19th year for the event put on by former KCBS president, Tony Stone. Tony started this contest as a hamburger cookoff at Tennessee Tech. Now, 19 years later, it has developed into a very fine KCBS event that coincides with the city's Fall Fun Fest. The weekend festival featured bands**, inflatable games, local interest booths and craft vendors. There were the standard festival food vendors as well as an Indian food vendor which seemed strange in a small Tennessee town festival.

BP and I arrived on Friday morning and eased into our spot just north of the town square. The other teams were scattered about in a large parking lot and along the city streets. We were next to The Dead End Society, who had just received an invitation to The Jack. They won the Cookeville event last year and got drawn as a wild card. We also caught up with our friends at Team Bobby-Q. As they were visiting with us, I realized that I had not brought any lump charcoal for my BGE. Luckily, Bobby had packed an extra bag and they hooked me up big time! Bobby-Q had also just been invited to The Jack and we look forward to seeing them in Lynchburg later this fall.



Later in the evening we enjoyed some margaritas and food provided by Paul of BigBriq.com. Paul works in the liquid smoke business and as one of the factories is near Cookeville, he had several people out to enjoy some bbq and drinks. Paul also sells and markets some of the best charcoal around. His Big Briq charcoal is a lump briquette that burns clean and has no artificial binders. It is the prefect charcoal for my Stumps gravity feed smoker.

** Note: The only problem with having "slash" events (i.e. KCBS cookoff / fall fest) is the inevitable obstacle course through which one must maneuver in order to turn in the meat. During this Saturday's turn-in, BP (always the team walker) had to wade through an inflatable laser tag arena, a skate park and...a death metal band. Yes, death metal. Yes, at 12:00 in the afternoon. Yes, at a street festival in downtown Cookeville.



When the awards rolled around, we got calls in three of the four meat categories. We were most excited about our 7th place pork. We had not received a call in pork all year and it had been our strongest category in 2007. So, seventh place felt pretty good. Speaking of seventh place, that was our overall finish as well. We were very excited to finish in the top ten after not competing for two months. This was our last event of the year, and we are already making BIG plans for next year. I will post a season recap sometime soon.....

Cookeville Results

Here are the quick results from Cookeville.

Overall: 7th (26 teams)
Chicken: 10th
Ribs: 15th
Pork: 7th
Brisket: 6th

I will post a full review later.

Pulaski Results

4th Place Brisket

Yes the brisket is the only thing worth mentioning at this point, but I will have a full report later this week.

Congrats to Jiggy Piggy for their Grand.