NKC March 12th and 13th 2010

Hey I know we are late getting this posted but better late then never IMO! We survived the winter and cooked a ton of food in practice sessions and Will was even kind enough to buy us a new toy, a trailer that is big enough to live in. we had 1 practice cook out of it and it was really nice. Everything organized and really allowed us to concentrate on cooking without having to worry about the weather.

NKC was start of a new season for Stick-N-Chicks BBQ team in 2010. As usual the contest was fun but very cold. It is always hit and miss when it comes to this contest. Weather wise you never know what you are going to get. The selling point of this contest in my opinion is its is the first one in KC and tons of teams are anxious to get cooking from a long winter.

This year was no diffrent then last other then the amount of teams exploded from 78 last year to 108 this year. My personal opinion is the reality show "BBQ Pitmasters" shown on TLC had alot to do with it. It was fun the to see the growth of the sport.

Our cook was good and we were lucky enough to have good friend of ours, who as I write this has become a "Master BBQ Judge" (you get to be a master judge after having judged 30 competitions). He hung out all weekend with us and it was fun to get an opinion from someone who knows what to look for when it comes to BBQ. For this contest we finally hit all of our marks. we went in with a plan to follow our cook schedule and we did a good job doing that. The overall results showed in that too.

Although we did not get any calls we finished strong. Overall we finished 19th out of 108. Chicken was 27th, Ribs were 20th, Brisket was 37th (All of us thought we got robbed on brisket, we did think it was one of the best we have cooked), Pork was 36th overall.

All in all a good cook for the start of the year. Our next contest is Pleasant Hill MO on April 2nd and 3rd 2010.