ROADMAP to the THROWDOWN Forum

Use this thread to map to threads or posts you feel can be important to members, in order to guide them like a roadmap into the Throwdown forum. These can be helpful tips (like how to take a farking picture), epic dishes, or classic posts/threads that seem to live forever.

Give the post a brief description of the important topic(s) within the link(s).

Find the thread or post, copy the URL from the address line in your browser and paste it into a post in this thread.

Although these posts have links to some of the better threads in our forum, it by no means is all inclusive. Use our advanced search feature and search for keywords in 'titles only' to find loads of info on all topics, or perform a tag search to find helpful topics.

For clarity, posts will occasionally be combined to keep things organized.

THE SPIRIT OF THE BBQ BRETHREN THROWDOWNS - What they are, who can join, why, and many other of lifes questions answered

HALL OF FLAME - Gallery of all of our past winners ***WITH INDEX TO ALL THROWDOWN THREADS***
2009 BBQ Brethren Throwdown Hall of Flame
2010 BBQ Brethren Throwdown Hall of Flame
2011 BBQ Brethren Throwdown Hall of Flame

PHOTOGRAPHY TIPS
The *OFFICIAL* Throwdown Photography Tips thread with input from many members

THROWDOWN CERTIFICATES
Moose's *OFFICIAL* Temple of the BBQ Brethren Throwdown Certificates (please enter with reverence and awe)

F'in-A-Que's
What Are the Official Throwdown Rules?
How/Where Do I Submit My Entry?
What Makes a Good Throwdown Entry?
How Are Votes Decided?
What is the Zero Club?
Are Multiple Entries Allowed?
What is the Throwdown Whiplash Club?
How Can I Add a Link to the Throwdowns in My Signature?
How To Maximize Visibilty And Attract New Members To The Throwdowns - In case you think we need some more people, or just new people that don't suck!
Brethren PSA - Why are there separate ENTRY and DISCUSSION threads?


The Never Ending Pork Chop Thread - Get yours in before it's all over!

How It All Started - or, who the fark made this farking mess and what did you do to him afterwards?

A Few of our Favorite Things

The Sadly Shortlived THROWDOWN MASTER SERIES!
#1 Porterhouse Steak - Entry Thread - Voting Thread - Winner Thread
#2 Spare Ribs - Entry Thread - Voting Thread - Winner Thread
#3 Tri-Tip - Entry Thread - Voting Thread - Winner Thread
#4 Chicken Leg Quarters - Entry Thread - Voting Thread - Winner Thread
#5 Pork Belly - Entry Thread - Voting Thread - Winner Thread
#6 Chuck Roast - Entry Thread - Voting Thread - Winner Thread

OK, I've got this thing started out with the links above.

This will reduce the clutter of so many sticky threads, and also make for a very quick way to find the info you are looking for.

If there are any other things you would like to include in the Roadmap, please make a post providing the links.

If anyone has questions about the Throwdowns that they would like answered, please feel free to start a thread in the Throwdown forum asking your question.

Gore, it sounds like you and Guerry are looking for the same thing.

I love the idea of letting other people write their own "Cooking with the Master" shows. Someone other than me that is!:becky:

Hey....now that I freed BBQ Grail up from those pesky MOINK Certificates, maybe he'll make us a nice "Captious" episode?

Vote results are no longer tracked, unfortunately. It is up to each of you to keep track of your own results and such. We will announce winners, and put them in the Hall of Flame (2012 in progress), but that's it.

fingerlickin' said:

Just so I have this straight. I entered 6 dishes into the noobian vs veteran's and got 4 zero's, but the way I understand it is if any of your dishes got a vote then none of the zero's count. Correct?

I'm not sure why I'm asking you since your new around here, but hey, if you read the rules I'll accept your answer.

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I think we can look towards mathematics for the answer.

You got four zero's and two non-zeroes, so the sum of your votes was not a zero. Assuming of course that all of your dishes add up, otherwise the summing methodology may not be appropriate.

Alternatively, if one considers that multiple entries would truly be multiples, then taking each vote tally and multiplying would result in a total of zero votes. But I think we all know that we never multiply vote totals because that would give people with multiple entries a major advantage so long as none of there dishes receive zero votes. I mean, if they get 9 votes on one dish, 3 on another, and only two on a third dish, that is a total of 54 votes, putting them right into contention.

Equally, if votes were added, as suggested in the first example, that too would give multiple entries an advantage (even when we're doing sums and not multiples). So clearly even if one's dishes do seem to add up, they simply can't be. Likewise, even though they are multiple entries they clearly are not multiples either.

So, obviously, what we are lacking is perspective. We need to look at ones dishes (multiple or otherwise) as one great big hole. That's right, A HOLE!:heh: oops, I meant WHOLE!

Keep in mind that dishes only take on the properties of a hole when there are zero's, perhaps because 0 looks like A HOLE!:heh: Without a zero involved, there is no way for the set of dishes to have properties of A HOLE...I mean whole.

So, as A HOLE, you had 4 out of 6 zero's, which can be simplified to 2/3 of a zero, meaning you did not quite achieve zero, you were only partway there.

Now for you farking idiots out there who are going to try and farking claim that 2/3 of zero is illegal, I assure you it is perfectly legal ( in some states), and you only incorrectly believe that division by zero is illegal (or even bad) because you rely too much on calculators and/or computers and are not fully comprehending mathematics and the reality of the actual validity and proper healthy usage of dividing by zero. You have just been brainwashed by "the system" to believe this is bad for you and should therefore be illegal.

Even if this is confusing to you and you think division by zero should be illegal or bad or whatever, it should still be painfully apparent that you truly only achieved 2/3 of zero, thus you did not fully equal zero, and there it is, clear as farking day contrary to what you may perceive to be reality.

Just ask Gore.