Contest Announcment 64429: July 5-6, 2013 / Cameron MO 2013 Crossroads BBQ Contest Needs More Judges and Cook Teams

[Mustanger]

RE:
64429: July 5-6, 2013
Cameron MO 2013 Crossroads BBQ Contest
Needs More Judges & Cooks

I received my Certified BBQ Judge acceptance letter today from the Cameron, MO 2013 Crossroads BBQ Contest.

They need more certified judges and cooks.

As far as I currently know, this is the only contest being held in the greater Kansas City, MO during the weekend of July 5-6, 2013.

All interested cooks and judges, please contact the Cameron Chamber of Commerce as soon as possible.

At the end of this posting is an abbreviated cut & paste of a portion of the email that I received today.

If any judges are interested in carpooling from the greater Kansas City area to the Cameron contest, please PM me on this site.

You can also contact me via the fabulous and only site specifically dedicated to BBQ judges carpooling in every state of the union, as well as many foreign countries.
http://bbqjudges.org/68320/68362.html

I have no connection, financial or otherwise, to BBQJudges.org, other than greatly admiring their concept and their website.

Missouri: BBQJudges.org
http://bbqjudges.org/68320/index.html

Carpools: Missouri
http://bbqjudges.org/68320/68362.html

BBQ Forum: Missouri
http://bbqjudges.org/68320/68341.html

Organizers’Page: Missouri
http://bbqjudges.org/68320/68404.html

Cooks' Corner: Missouri
http://bbqjudges.org/68320/68425.html

For each state of the union and for each foreign country listed, they also have the same following categories.

a. BBQ Forum
b. Carpool Page
c. Organizers’Page
d. Cooks' Corner

Source URL:
BBQJudges.org

Anybody can post in the appropriate area without registering.

Therefore, please play nice!!!

Thank you.

Ken
The Mustanger

2013 Crossroads BBQ Contest
July 5-6th


Thank you!

I would personally like to Thank You for contacting the Cameron Chamber of Commerce about serving as a KCBS Certified Judge for the 2013 Crossroads BBQ Contest. We have you on our list and look forward to working with you during the contest. You will receive a few more e-mails similar to this one giving you updates on how many teams we will be expecting.

Our current goal is to welcome 60+ teams to our event. You know what that means.....we need lots of certified judges! If you have friends who are certified and would like to join us please have them e-mail/call our office, office@cameronmochamber.com 816-632-2005.

Crossroads BBQ Contest Registration Form

Thanks again and welcome aboard!

Michelle Fagerstone
Executive Director
Cameron Chamber of Commerce


Cameron Chamber of Commerce
205 N Main
Cameron, Missouri 64429
(816) 632-2005



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[arrowhead]

i'll be at cameron. liberty missouri is having a contest on the 3rd and 4th of july, i'll be there, too. love the double dipping weekends.

 

[Mustanger]

Liberty - July 4, 2013 - Liberty 4th Fest BBQ Contest

arrowhead :

Thank you for your kind reply.

Have you received your acceptance email from the Liberty 4th Fest BBQ Contest yet?

If so, when did you apply?

I sent my application in on Jan 29, 2013.

I haven't heard anything back yet.

Please advise.

Thank you.

Ken
The Mustanger

KCBS CBJ, RMBBQA, MBN, NCPC

 

[arrowhead]

arrowhead :

Thank you for your kind reply.

Have you received your acceptance email from the Liberty 4th Fest BBQ Contest yet?

If so, when did you apply?

I sent my application in on Jan 29, 2013.

I haven't heard anything back yet.

Please advise.

Thank you.

Ken
The Mustanger

KCBS CBJ, RMBBQA, MBN, NCPC

when i typed that, i thought i had been confirmed. i checked my emails and i haven't been yet. i sent gayle an email asking her what my status was.

i applied on 29 jan also.

 

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i'm going to travel up to billings montana and judge at the montana state fair august 14/15 and then down to worland wyoming and judge on 16/17 august.

scott city/garden city ks on jul 6-7 and 7-8

am waiting for the judging to open up for the royal.


that's my double dipping for the year.

 

[Mustanger]

American Royal Open 2013

i'm going to travel up to billings montana and judge at the montana state fair august 14/15 and then down to worland wyoming and judge on 16/17 august.

scott city/garden city ks on jul 6-7 and 7-8

am waiting for the judging to open up for the royal.


that's my double dipping for the year.

arrowhead : That sure sounds like some great trips.

Concerning the American Royal:

Yesterday, March 4, 2013, I talked to Kim Palmer, the new BBQ Coordinator for the Royal. She told me that the enrollment information for cooks and judges will be put up by the end of this week, March 8, 2013. Kim Palmer also told me that the sign up for judges will be very similar to 2012.

It will probably be at:

http://arvolunteers.com/

or at:

http://www.americanroyal.com/events.aspx?s=h&sf=all&view=GalleryView&c=15

As of late last month, the 2012 info was still up on the Royal site.

On February 8, 2013, they told me that the 2013 Royal BBQ information would be up by mid-February.

Unfortunately, that never came to be.

Oh well, it is still early. The Royal is still 7 months away.

I checked the Royal web page today. Some of the 2013 info was up, with 2012 pictures.

Nobody needs to worry about getting in to judge the Royal Open.

In 2012 we had 540 teams competing.

That meant a total of 630 judges and table captains.

The reps were really sweating it.

They used all of the judges that showed up. They used all of the table captains that showed up. Then they grabbed those who paid $15.00 to judge. Then they grabbed the other volunteers that showed up. Then they scoured the halls. Then they grabbed people off of the street.

The end result was that they still way short and did not have enough judges and table captains.

So the table captains had to do double duty and serve as judge 6.

Those table captains really worked their tails off.

Since the American Royal BBQ Open is the absolute largest BBQ competition in the free world, it is no wonder that the table captains had to do double duty.

Considering the fact that we were short about 90 judges, the 2012 American Royal Open BBQ Contest went very well.

Now the Royal Invitational is a very different matter.

In 2012 we had approximately 140 teams for the Royal Invitational.

That translates into 164 total judges. Therefore, one had better sign up pretty early.

As I recall, in 2012 I signed up in early May for both the Open and the Invitational. I got accepted for both. However, I did not receive an official email until about 2 weeks before the events.

Hope this helps.

Ken
The Mustanger

KCBS CBJ; RMBBQA; MBN; NCPC

 

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I just signed up for Liberty and Cameron :grin:.