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when should a "backyard team" turn pro?
when should a "backyard team" turn pro?
can we all agree that we dont need to have the "nobody is a pro" conversation every time someone mentions being a "pro".
thanks for the replies... i started competing last year in backyard. and have done well, came in 5th overall out of 75 teams my first time out... i have competed about 7-8 times and have had several calls in both ribs and chickens, have had one RGC and missed one RGC by .0002... anyways... i feel like some teams are "professional backyarders" and im not sure why they wouldnt want to step up... i myself feel like i need to step up after completing this "season" as a backyarder....
Last year was our first year to compete and we started in the backyard division. We won the AL governor's cup and moved up to pro this year. We always wanted to move up but there are teams that have no intention of moving up.
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no, because not everyone knows.
Some sanctioning bodies you can participate in only 1 event and still qualify for and win GC for the whole competition.
How is this possible? Highest individual score of the competition?
Yes.
In at least 2 that I know of, being MBN and GBA, if you're in the top 3 after the initial scoring (in each category) you go on to finals. Highest overall score from finals wins GC.
I like competing in MBN, but I dont have 2 cookers large enough to do all 3 categories, so I skip whole hog. I just do whole shoulders and ribs. I could GC the competition with either one of those.
Where other sanctioning bodies, like KCBS for example, GC is determined by the total of all your scores.
I surely wasn't trying to imply that one was better than the other; just that there are very different ones out there and that in some of them you could just, as an example, enter ribs only and compete, and IF you end up having an awesome outing you could GC the whole thing...
We jumped right in. Never did a backyard.