This past weekend we competed in the Olathe Kansas Wheels "N" Squeels contest. This was a first time event for the organizers and can I say they hit a home run with this contest. I can not put into words how organized this contest was. These people acted like they have run this contest for the last 100 years. The contest was held at the Olathe Bible Church in Olathe Kansas. They had 48 teams competing and they seriosuly had room for 500 teams. The church is located on a huge piece of property and come to find out, the reason nothing was bulit on the majority of this land is because of gas lines that run under ground. Sounds like a great place to have a BBQ contest doesn't it :)
We all arrived Friday and it was hot. Friday night after we got everything ready for the competition we hung out with family and friends. The highlight of the weekend was being able to stay in Mike 40' RV. That thing is a beauty and it turns alot of heads when people see us staying in that but cooking on trash cans. Trust me several people asked what the hell we were doing!
Got up early saturday morning to start cooking and everything got put on in time. One of the traditions with BBQ contests is a good luck shot that is hosted by a team. The shot is usually "Gentlemens Jack" and it is usually done at 9:22 or 11:00. Why these times I do not know, but taking a shot of whiskey at that time of day is ROUGH! One of my good friends, Jerod Caton with www.Porkmepurple.com was kind enough to host this one. One thing that can happen that is sometimes uncontrolled is another team will pop in with more shots and guess what you better take them because as they always say, "its good luck" This happened to us witrh Paul from the www.Pickledpig.com ! The ironic thing is Paul was Grand Champion of this contest so maybe there is karma that will be coming our way :). By the way if you get a chance take a look at the Pickled Pigs website. It is incredible the amount of info he has on there.
After all the shots were done we were a little pressed for time with the chicken. Gee go figure! Thankfully cooking chicken on the trash cans can be easy. We have cooked chicken in as little as 27 minutes. This chicken was cooked more to tempt then time and it turned out pretty good.
The awards were at 3:00 PM and it was HOT! Temperature was close to 100 and thankfully the wind kept the temps managable. I think the highlite of the contest was after the awards presentation. Earlier saturday morning they had a chinook helicopter flew in for the public to tour. After the awards the organizers wanted to add a "Grand Finally" to this contest by having the chinook take off before everyone left the contest. This was freaking amazing. They took off and not only did they blow over an outhouse but they ruined a perfectly good KU EZ Up. You can see it before it blew over in the picture above.I will admit I felt bad for the team that lost that tent but when I saw it had the dirty bird on it I was like oh well! I do hope the organizers made it right for that team. As I walked by there camp and saw the damage I heard one of the guys from that camp say "this was an awesome contest until now," as he looked at the damage done by the chinook taking off. I have admit I had to agree with him.
We are off for the next 2 weeks and our next stop will be Paola Kansas August 28th and 29th.
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