Oxford's Town BBQ Throwdown 2008

Oxford's Town BBQ Throwdown is Sanctioned for 2008!
Below is the contact information for the contest.
Date: October 24 & 25th 2008

Organizer: Kelly Melissa Brown, Office Manager
Oxford Convention and Visitors Bureau
102 Ed Perry Boulevard
Oxford, MS 38655
Office: 662-232-2367
Cell: 662-801-4977
Fax: 662-232-8680
email: kelly@oxfordcvb.com
website: www.oxfordcvb.com
www.oxfordbbq.com

Judging Chairs: Sandra & Kyle Aylor
cell: 901-531-8054
Phone: 901-753-6980
Email: oxfordbbq@comcast.net

1st Annual Barbecue Cook-off

Memphis Barbecue Network along with the Henry County Georgia Chamber of Commerce are announcing the 1st Annual Barbecue Cook-off will be held at the Nash Farm Battlefield in Hampton, Georgia on April 18 & 19, 2008.Hampton Ga. is approximately 25 miles south of Atlanta. Held in conjunction with the 2nd Annual Simply Southern Jubilee. More details will be coming soon.

Sarah Robbins
Henry County Chamber of Commerce Convention & Visitors Bureau
1709 Highway 20 WestMcDonough, Georgia 30253
(p) 770-957-5786
(f) 770-957-8030
www.henrycvb.com

Kids Barbecue Contest

This is a re-post from the MBN Group on Yahoo from Dalton Pittman from Curly Tail Smokers:

Hello every barbecue fan,
my name is Dalton Pittman with the curly tail smokers if you don't already know I hold the worlds largest kids barbecue contest in Memphis tn. This year we are looking for as much help as we can get. If you like barbecuing and kids at the grill than this is a contest for you. if you would like to help us this year my home number is 901-937-8235 just give me a shout there or on-line talk to you later Daton Pittman.

The Philadelphia Ham Jam Arts Festival

The Philadelphia Ham Jam Arts Festival and the Memphis Barbecue Network announce the 2008 edition of the Ham Jam BBQ Contest. Held the weekend of April 18 & 19 in Philadelphia MS, this will be the 6th year for the Philadelphia contest & festival. This event is being organized by the Philadelphia Mainstreet & Tourism folks.

Contest Organizer: Madonna Green May
12931 Road 624Philadelphia, MS 39350
Phone : 601-527-7786
email greenmj@bellsouth.net

Judging Contact: Madonna Green May
12931 Road 624Philadelphia, MS 39350
Phone : 601-527-7786
email greenmj@bellsouth.net

We won the 2nd annual Battle of the Bones

I would like to start this article with a huge thanks to Jason at the U of M and to the Highland Hundred Club for their support and participation in the BBQ contest this year! We would also like to thank all of the volunteers including the judges who devoted time, effort and I am sure a few dollars to make the whole thing possible.

To view more pictures, go to: http://picasaweb.google.com/MemphisREMAX/BattleOfTheBonesBBQContest2007

We as a team had planned on tail gating at the UAB game tis year from the pre-season. We planned on taking the rig out to Toby Field and having a grand time before and during the game. Then the announcement that there was going to be a Rib BBQ contest with the Memphis In May type judging (blind only). Wow! what a wonderful coincidence and opportunity for Optimus Swine to have fun AND practice cooking our ribs.

Our last batch of ribs (before the Battle of the Bones) came out scorched, crispy and as moist as an over cooked piece of beef jerky. (we were learning our new smoker). We were determined to make an improvement (had no where to go but up).

Our original goals were very humble; simply to turn out a better product than last time and to have a great time doing it. We did just that with the help and support of our team members. We were very overwhelmed and surprised to find out that we had made the finals and ecstatic to receive 1st place. We won a guaranteed entry in to Memphis In May 2008, $750 and a trophy to show off from time to time.

We had a great time and will definitely be in Birmingham next year to defend our title and represent the University of Memphis and the Tigers football team. GO TIGERS !

Bolivar Pictures!

Here are a few pictures of our Bolivar BBQ trip. There is also a link to the album online with all the pictures in it. From the album, you can order pictures, download them, view them and what not.

Enjoy!

Our Bolivar BBQ photo album

View our team on the MBN

Here is a link to our picture on the MBN Group website. We made the news, lol.

http://ph.groups.yahoo.com/group/MEMPHISBARBECUENETWORK/photos

Hatchie Hollow Bolivar Contest

Thank you for everyone who was able to attend our first BBQ contest at The Hatchie Hollow Bolivar contest this past weekend. We all had a great time and I had at least four or five folks come to me to say that they really liked our team (the people).

As you know by now, we were fortunate enough to have placed first in shoulder in the preliminary round then finished third. We also had a first place finish in both the anything but award with Johnny's stuffed chicken (The left overs went in 3- minutes so I never got a taste) and first place in anything but sauce (Jeff's tomato sauce). My personal goal was to not come in dead last, so over all - not a bad weekend.

This was a trial run for us, to kind of break in the rig, get use to setting up and giving the team members a cook out before we packed up for the winter. Well, it turned out to be something a little more special than that. Granted there were only 10 teams there, but there were some really big names there that we beat. This is a great start.

I would love to go down the list of names to thank everyone for what they did, but inevitably I would leave someone out, so I am just going to send out a huge thank you for all of you who contributed and helped out, we couldn't have done so well with out you. Hopefully everyone who showed up and who hadn't been to a BBQ contest for the work part, has a better understanding of how much work actually goes in to setting up, cooking, preparing, break down, etc.

Our next event is the UAB & Memphis game November 17th. This is basically going to be a tail gating party where we turn in some ribs and sauce. Should we be lucky enough to win, we will have our entry in to Memphis In May paid for and a $750 check. But lets focus on having fun.

UAB vs. Memphis Tigers Football

As most of you know, we have been excited about the UAB football game in November against Memphis here at home. Partly because of the rivalry and atmosphere, but also because we were planning to tail gate with the Smoking Rig starting the day before and inviting th BBQ Team to participate.

The two schools have been passing a trophy back and forth depending on who has won the game for a few years now. The trophy is a rack of ribs because of the history rib cooking has in both Birmingham and Memphis (Memphis is better of course).Well, it just got better, believe it or not. For the first time, they are going to have a rib only BBQ cooking contest with both schools invited to participate, professional and amateur teams alike.

There will be awards, trophies, and an entry in to Memphis In May BBQ contest awarded. The only other category is BBQ sauce. What a perfect cap to an already wonderfully planned weekend! Mark it on your calenders, and plan to be there.

Here is the link to read all about it.

http://gotigersgo.cstv.com/sports/m-footbl/spec-rel/100307aaa.html