We received some very exciting news this week... Team Prairie Smoke & Spice has been invited to participate in the 30th annual American Royal Invitational BBQ competition. This is truly a huge honor and we are planning on attending. Kansas City - wow. There is an open division in this one as well for anyone to participate - and everyone does. In fact, the open division draws upwards of 450 teams - they are expecting quite a few more for this 30th Anniversary of the contest in 2009.
It's held October 1-4, so it's coming up fast. http://www.arbbq.com/
So more about that - This weekend is the Manitoba Open BBQ Championships, an event that has been running for a couple years now but this is the first yeat it's a fully sanctioned, 4-meat, traditional rule contest. It's held in conjunction with the Morden Corn and Apple festival, and everything I've heard says this is a really great festival and competition. We are one of two teams attending from East of Manitoba - that means 11 or 12 teams are from that province alone. AWESOME. While we do have a few good BBQ friends there I had no idea there were so many closet BBQ'ers in that province, I am so excited to get out there and meet them. Head judge extraodinaire / BBQ Queen Angie Quaale is flying out for this one too, making this her third visit to the prairies in less than 2 months. We are lucky out here.
Congrats on the Invite to the American Royal. Kansas --- Cool !
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