Grand Rapids 2007

Jeff, I had planned on attending yesterday morning. The rain detered me from driving over.
I read on another forum that Great Lakes Feed and Grain Team took GC.
Ford Allison is the boss/owner of that team. Not sure if you met him last year or not. He had the 2 FE 100s, inside a trailer located on the tennis courts I believe.
Im kind of curious if the conditions had improved as well.
Im sure Tonto and other will let us know.

Here is the top 10 all meat catagories:
44 Teams

overall
1 - Great Lakes BBQ and Feed Co.
2 - Down Home BBQ
3- Whiskey Harreys Bootleggers
4- Extreme Roasters
5- Jus' Blowin' Smoke
6- Smokin' Scotsmen BBQ
7- All Day Smoke
8- Barvarian Smoke BBQ
9- Pork Pirates
10 - Motley Que Crew

Chicken
1- All Day Smoke
2- Great Lakes BBQ and Feed Co.
3- Voogt Farms
4- Barvarian Smoek BBQ
5- Big Moe's BBQ
6- Motley Que Crew
7- Whiskey Harreys Bootleggers
8- Taters-N-Grits
9- Down Home BBQ
10- Smokin' Scotsmen BBQ

Ribs
1- Jus' Blowing Smoke
2- Pork Pirates
3- Great Lakes BBQ and Feed Co
4- Extreme Roasters
5- Whiskey Harrys Bootleggers
6- Down Home BBQ
7- Pork Pimps
8- Smokin' Scotsmen BBQ
9- Micky Sticky Hawgs
10- Frog's Hair BBQ Team

Pork
1- Whiskey Harrys Bootleggers
2- Bowmans BBQ
3- BBQ Mole
4- Charlie's Smokin Bar-B-Q
5- Great Lakes BBQ and Feed Co
6- All Day Smoke
7- Extreme Roasters
8- Jus' Blowing Smoke
9- Apple Baron BBQ
10- Schultz's Backyard BBQ Brisket

Brisket
1- Barvarian Smoke BBQ
2- Down Home BBQ
3- Dr Chuckies BBQ
4- Hot, Smoky and Righteous
5- Motley Que Crew
6- Voogt Farms
7- Simons Family BBQ
8- Donnies BarbeQue
9- Bowmans BBQ
10- Great Lakes BBQ and Feed Co.

Being that this was our first comp, thus having only read about the past conditions, we were pretty pleased. No electricity, water buffalo only, no grey water dump......but we had the motorhome. Plenty of clean porta potties, and ice was plentiful. seemed to me that they were definetly trying to improve from past years.

Forgot to say Congrat's Ford!!!!!!!!!!. I see you joined us today. It was great meeting you and everyone else at GR....we had a blast! See you in Mears.:wink:

Congratulations Ford and Tonto. Great job to both of you and all your team members.

BTW, is Motley Que Crew our Motley Que? If so, congratulations are in order for your 10th place overall.

Great showing Tonto and your team. Im so happy that creature comforts were much better this year than in the past.
I see in the results Big Moe placed again as well. Did he show up after 7am again to start his fire?
Sorry I didnt make it over to meet you as I had hoped.

Congrats Tonto.... That's a great way to start out in your first contest.

MilitantSquatter said:

Congrats Tonto.... That's a great way to start out in your first contest.

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Ditto!!! Nice job!!!

Nice job on your first GC, Ford! Yet another Lotta Bull grad from Lynchburg, TN class to get a GC.

Thank you all......it means a lot :wink: ... and I would like to say thank you to all Brethren. I have learned so much from ya'll and don't think for a minute we would have had such good results without the invaluble info and commradery(sp?) you give so freely. I learned this weekend that what they say about BBQ folks being the best is an understatment!!!!!! OK, I'll get off my soapbox now(sorry I'm a chick with a Martini or two in me)

Bull, never got to meet Moe, and to be honest, most of the weekend was a blur....we met so many folks that I could'nt even tell ya where he was set up. Sorry you coud'nt make it , hope to see you in Silver Lake.

Jim, I'm embarresed to say I don't know if it's the same Motley Que.....but they were great folks!!

Jeff......I must have said your " it ain't brain surgery, just BBQ" saying to myself 50 times....thanks

Must sleep soon, not sure how some of ya'll do it every weekend:eusa_clap :biggrin:

Way to go Tonto and Ford, I am happy for both of you !! It is good to see great people doing great things!!

Congrats on a good showing for your first comp!!:eusa_clap:-D