Never competed before and am considering it this year. There is 2 comps about 30 miles away and I was thinking of entering 1 of them.
How do you pick the comp to get your feet wet.
Do you recruit a team
Do you have people in charge of certain meats
Do you have 1 Chief and alot of Indians
All Freaked out
How was your first
Tell some stories
Dan
If you have TWO within 30 miles of you, you
NEED to do both! What I would give for a comp that was 30 miles from me!!!! Please do them both!!!! :icon_devil
Given the above, do not be afraid of course, but understand you will be LEARNING for a while. This is a good thing.
As others said, YOU need to decide how to organize your team, but in my opinion, yes, you want help, and more than anything everyone needs to know their roles up front, whatever they are. Friends and Family who love to Q make a great team, at least to start with. In fact, that is pretty much the reason we compete - to have fun and hang out. The "various members own different meats" is a great way to go, in my opinion. And hey, its your first time, you can always change it up.
Our first sanctioned comp as a full team was a great experience. We had fun, learned a little, enjoyed one anothers company, and could not believe our ears when we got a 4th place ribs walk(~50 teams), 47" trophy, and cash that more than covered dinner and brews that night.