Thanks Greg. Congrats to you as well.
I agree with everything you said. I was kind of surprised actually. I expected this contest to be a total mess. Instead I found it to be pretty well organized. They were contstantly picking up trash, keeping it clean, water readily availible, ash & grease dumps all over, reps checked on us quite a bit and quiet hours were strictly enforced followed by a sweep of cops running off the riff-raff by 11:15. I did have two complaints...they cut the power when it rained, which didn't really bother me except that I lost my radio...and they didn't hand out boxes until about 9am, which threw us a little since we generally build our boxes over night (and we had 2 extras to make because of the misc and sausage categories).
Other than that, we had a nice time...It's a lot like North KC, or even the Royal...if you know what you are getting into going in, it's not so bad.
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