Well, we didn’t win anything today but neither did the team that beat out Pigs last year by 1/10th point.
5 categories, each weighing 20%, were judged today ~ Chicken Wings, Sausage, Pork Ribs, Side Dish, and BBQ Sauce. During the ceremonies, one team was called for a ribbon in the Sausage category… They approached and said they had not submitted for that category. Pigs and I along with his wife looked at each other saying WTF? A short time later, another team was called for a trophy (2nd place) for Side Dish ~ They approached and said they hadn’t submitted that category. WELL,…at that point, we knew there had been a major FU in the judging! The man in charge insured everyone that these 2 incidents would have no affect on the final outcome ~ NOW, we knew they had totally screwed this event up! (Today’s anyway). I don’t know what happened, Pigs doesn’t either, but a royal FU occurred today and since they used the same system (KCBS Blind Judging system) as yesterday, I question yesterdays KCBS State Championship results as well, (but who am I ? ?).
Well, that’s off my chest!
I have to say, I thoroughly enjoyed both days at Oinktoberfest this weekend! (Well, until the end anyway…) I met a lot of fine people and learned one hell-of-a-lot ! I very much appreciate Chris and Val allowing me to tag along and get in the way today! All of the teams at both events were extremely pleasant and forth coming (well, to a degree…).
I took 96 pics yesterday and 105 today, so I need to weed through them and format a web page of some sort for everyone. It should be up some time tomorrow afternoon…