Eggspert
Full Fledged Farker
- Joined
- Apr 25, 2012
- Location
- Willmar, MN
I personally think the huge surge in classes available has caused the decline in the sport as well. I love classes and try to take one every year, but it has caused everyone to be so damn good. The variability in boxes turned in must be splitting hairs at this point for judges so they have to nit pick and give a 7 for a seed in the sauce on chicken. Plus, back when we started as a new team, knowing nothing about competition BBQ we would get a call per contest. Now unless you go to classes and know your stuff, you don't have much of a chance. So we have competitions with teams that are invested and established, but we don't add new teams in year to year. They don't get hooked like we did starting out and got a call competing against the Big Teams on a couple of BGE's. So they do a contest, go home empty handed and don't do another contest. I would like to see contests give a free entry to the new teams (under 5 contests cooked) for the next year. Might be a way to replenish the pound....
Eggspert
Eggspert