Well the BBQ Season has started for us this year we kicked it off with Hold'em & Hit'em this event is held every year at the Farm & Ranch club in Houston January 15th & 16th.

This is the 23rd year for this event http://www.hhclub.org/bbq.html

With 122 Teams competing for a piece of the 10,000 in Prize Money some of the best team around the State of Texas come out and compete.

This year we placed 6th in Ribs & 3rd in Brisket and finished 3rd overall nice way to start the year off. Our next event will be at the Humble Rodeo and BBQ February 5th & 6th

Well this has been a very successful year Barbequing for us, Starting with our first grand champion too attending to the American Royal.

The American Royal was held October 3-4 this year they had 124 teams for the Invitational in order to participate in the invitational you must of been a grand champion of a qualifying event.

We had a very respectfully outing we placed twenty ninth overall, the next day was the open competition it is open to anybody that pays an entry fee. This year the had over 486 teams entered, we placed 51st overall with an 8th place in Ribs.

What a rush to hear your team name called and to get to walk up on stage with all the other winners in that group, very special.

Hopefully we can qualify to make back again next year.

The Big Easy was kind to us the past weekend, First off this event was fun with the bands on Friday night and the fun we had on Bourbon Street Saturday night was a blast.

We won first place in Ribs and Tenth place in Pork Butt out of 28 teams we ended up finishing tenth overall.


Next Stop Bedford

Well the count down is on less than 45 days we will be heading to Kansas City to compete in the American Royal Invitational Cook-Off this event will have 200 plus teams competing for the 10K plus prize money, This is a two day event the next day is the "Open" contest they will have over 500 teams in the event try to get some of the 20k in prize money.

this week was very exciting for us we received our invitation for the Jack Daniels BBQ Cook-off in Lynchburg, TN. This makes us eligible for the drawing just to get into the "Jack" they have over thirty teams just for the state of Texas trying to get one spot so wish us luck the drawing is September 3rd will be a long day for sure.

this Weekend it's off to the Big Easy for the New Orleans BBQ Challenge up date to follow

Well this past weekend we went to Wagoner, OK to Whitehorn Cove Marina this was their first KCBS event. It was supposed to be held on Memorial weekend but was postponed due to flooding.

This event was very hard like most the teams were very tough the three best teams in Oklahoma were at this event, so we new it would be a fight. Overall I am very pleased with our success we place 4th in chicken, 6th in pork butt, 6th in ribs, and I blew it brisket 15th.
Overall we finished 7th i will take it. full results here
http://www.kcbs.us/events.php?year=2009&month=07&id=1863

This past weekend we cooked the Inaugural Sam Houston Race Park BBQ Cook -Off this event was really a BBQ RIB burn here is an excerpt from the paper and the link http://www.stallionesearch.com/default.asp?section=19&story=6041

In addition to live racing events, The Park hosted the Inaugural BBQ Cook Off where 10 teams battled it out to find Houston ’s Best Ribs along with bonus categories Best Sausage and Best Beans.
The grand prize trophy, $300 cash and bragging rights for Houston ’s Best Ribs went to team She Thinks My Slabs Are Sexy, led by head cook Glen Jarrett; second place went to team Great Balls of Fire led by head cook Eric Johnston; and third place went to team Cork N Fork led by head cook Mike Gray. Best Sausage was awarded to team Wounded Rabbit led by Brian Trafton, and Best Beans was awarded to team Palmas led by Santiago Rivera.
“The BBQ event was tremendously popular and each of the 10 teams worked really hard all afternoon and had a great time ,” said event coordinator Jason Price. “In addition, we had a lot of people come out taste the BBQ plates as well 24 teams come out to participate in the Washer Tournament so all in all, it was successful afternoon at The Park.”

Well after three years of competing WE finally broke through and was GRAND CHAMPION at Caldwell this was an IBCA cook-off with 55 teams.

I have had several Reserve Grand Champions but this is my first GC. With this win we will be competing in Kansas City at the American Royal in October and I'm looking forward to it. Last year I was invited to help out Doug & Carrol Ritter of Ritter's BBQ because they both had qualified to cook I was their box runner for that weekend and I learned alot.

Thanks for all that have helped me along the way hopefully it won't be a one and done GC for me.