Lowell Riverwalk Brew-B-Q
 

The organizers did an excellent job and were very helpful. It was really nice to have clean bathrooms and showers.

Grand Champion: Steel Smokin' BBQ
Reserve Champion: Ole Ken-Chuckie BBQ

Overall:
1 Steel Smokin' BBQ
2 Ole Ken-Chuckie BBQ
3 Smokin' Scotsmen BBQ
4 Great Lakes BBQ & Feed C
5 Winks BBQ
6 Beale St Smokehouse BBQ
7 iBQ'N
8 Extreme Roasters
9 Pork of the North
10 Megjam Smoke
11 Squirrels 2 BBQ
12 Giggly Pig BBQ Team
13 AWW Hell
14 Full Metal BBQ
15 Capt N & Smoke
16 Sweet Racks & Smokin' Bu
17 2 Skinny Cooks
18 Grilladelic
19 Rubbed, Smoked and Sauce
20 Simons Family BBQ
21 Pigs-N-Digs BBQ Team
22 BEAR CAT SMOKERS
23 Here Piggy, Piggy
24 Donnies Bar-Be-Que
25 Boogie Barbeque
26 2 Smokin' Smiths
27 Tamarack's Northwoods Sm
28 Barbeque Inc.
29 Snake Strike BBQ
30 BBQ Bob & The Saucers


Chicken:
1 Steel Smokin' BBQ
2 Ole Ken-Chuckie BBQ
3 Winks BBQ
4 Beale St Smokehouse BBQ
5 Smokin' Scotsmen BBQ
6 Great Lakes BBQ & Feed C
7 Giggly Pig BBQ Team
8 BBQ Bob & The Saucers
9 AWW Hell
10 Simons Family BBQ
11 2 Smokin' Smiths
12 Rubbed, Smoked and Sauce
13 2 Skinny Cooks
14 Pork of the North
15 Capt N & Smoke
16 Donnies Bar-Be-Que
17 Grilladelic
18 Megjam Smoke
19 Extreme Roasters
20 Here Piggy, Piggy
21 Full Metal BBQ
22 Boogie Barbeque
23 Squirrels 2 BBQ
24 Sweet Racks & Smokin' Bu
25 iBQ'N
26 Barbeque Inc.
27 BEAR CAT SMOKERS
28 Snake Strike BBQ
29 Tamarack's Northwoods Sm
30 Pigs-N-Digs BBQ Team


Ribs:
1 Ole Ken-Chuckie BBQ
2 Sweet Racks & Smokin' Bu
3 Steel Smokin' BBQ
4 Grilladelic
5 Full Metal BBQ
6 Smokin' Scotsmen BBQ
7 Great Lakes BBQ & Feed C
8 iBQ'N
9 Squirrels 2 BBQ
10 Pork of the North
11 Megjam Smoke
12 Winks BBQ
13 AWW Hell
14 Extreme Roasters
15 Beale St Smokehouse BBQ
16 Capt N & Smoke
17 BEAR CAT SMOKERS
18 Pigs-N-Digs BBQ Team
19 Giggly Pig BBQ Team
20 Donnies Bar-Be-Que
21 Boogie Barbeque
22 Simons Family BBQ
23 2 Skinny Cooks
24 Snake Strike BBQ
25 Tamarack's Northwoods Sm
26 Here Piggy, Piggy
27 Rubbed, Smoked and Sauce
28 Barbeque Inc.
29 2 Smokin' Smiths


Pork:
1 Ole Ken-Chuckie BBQ
2 iBQ'N
3 Steel Smokin' BBQ
4 Extreme Roasters
5 2 Skinny Cooks
6 Smokin' Scotsmen BBQ
7 Great Lakes BBQ & Feed C
8 Sweet Racks & Smokin' Bu
9 Beale St Smokehouse BBQ
10 Giggly Pig BBQ Team
11 Pork of the North
12 AWW Hell
13 Squirrels 2 BBQ
14 Megjam Smoke
15 Rubbed, Smoked and Sauce
16 BEAR CAT SMOKERS
17 Winks BBQ
18 BBQ Bob & The Saucers
19 Full Metal BBQ
20 Here Piggy, Piggy
21 2 Smokin' Smiths
22 Capt N & Smoke
23 Grilladelic
24 Simons Family BBQ
25 Donnies Bar-Be-Que
26 Barbeque Inc.
27 Boogie Barbeque
28 Tamarack's Northwoods Sm
29 Pigs-N-Digs BBQ Team
30 Snake Strike BBQ


Brisket:
1 Steel Smokin' BBQ
2 Great Lakes BBQ & Feed C
3 Pigs-N-Digs BBQ Team
4 Smokin' Scotsmen BBQ
5 Capt N & Smoke
6 Winks BBQ
7 Beale St Smokehouse BBQ
8 Megjam Smoke
9 iBQ'N
10 Squirrels 2 BBQ
11 Extreme Roasters
12 Simons Family BBQ
13 Pork of the North
14 Full Metal BBQ
15 Rubbed, Smoked and Sauce
16 2 Skinny Cooks
17 Giggly Pig BBQ Team
18 BBQ Bob & The Saucers
19 AWW Hell
20 Ole Ken-Chuckie BBQ
21 Grilladelic
22 BEAR CAT SMOKERS
23 Sweet Racks & Smokin' Bu
24 Boogie Barbeque
25 Tamarack's Northwoods Sm
26 Here Piggy, Piggy
27 Donnies Bar-Be-Que
28 Barbeque Inc.
29 2 Smokin' Smiths
30 Snake Strike BBQ

I have a couple of photos to share. Even after all of the damage and rain I had a great time and am extremely happy to have made the top ten with such a great field.

Special thanks to everyone that offered to help me after all my gear was either soaked or ruined. I had a brethren (can't remember his name) from Holland stop in and offer to help me clean up and the ladies from Aww Hell kept checking in and offering assistance.

This photo was taken after "the storm from hell". You can probably tell where my canopy was before it flew away. The drums and cambro never moved but the wsm was knocked over.
http://www.richardmparker.com/storag...10/Lowell5.jpg

This is my neighbor Aww Hell BBQ. They were kind enough to attempt to recover my ez up but only the sides were salvageable.
http://www.richardmparker.com/storag...10/Lowell6.jpg

You can see here the damage to my truck. The red trailer in the background is where my ez up landed. I don't remember there team name but they lost two of their canopies and damaged a third.
http://www.richardmparker.com/storag...0/Lowell10.jpg

Rich, was that Ron that stopped by?

Kudos to the cooks for making it through the storm and making their turn-ins on time. :clap2::clap2::clap2:


Here's a few more pics from this wonderful event.

Riverwalk Brew-B-Q

Nope I would have remembered Ron.

Nice pics! - Can you email me the one with me getting my 2nd place in pork?

2 Smokin Smiths are the ones that had their rib box blown out of there hands on the way to turn it in. Brutal!

Congrats to all who walked and making it through that storm

Just a note, Bearcat is a member, not sure they are listed on the sticky of brethren teams.

Guess I'm pretty late updating on this one. We left straight from Lowell up to Escanaba for the UP Hog Wild comp the following weekend.

Lowell was a great time again, except for that freak storm so many have shared photos of the aftermath of. It hit right when we'd closed the box on our ribs. Shot fairy made it to the turn in without losing the box, although I understand there were those who didn't. Had to be a 50-60MPH wind there. 5th pork was our best showing....:rolleyes:. Only our second comp of the year though, so I'll take 2-5 in pork.

Was great that the showers worked even into Sunday morning (we stayed Saturday night, watched the fireworks, and headed out Sunday at about noon) Hopefully we will make an annual swing to Lowell and then UP Hog wild every year.

Was especially great to meet many of the GLBBQA members from this forum, including Bubba for the first time!