Well I went and done it now.........

Best of luck. Have fun with it!

Sounds like they're using the little 2oz cups you'd use in the crowd favorite portion
of a chili cookoff...

Not a great way for BBQ (IMHO), but I'd prepare for it. You'll want to have your BBQ
small enough (chopped, dare I say it) to fit plenty in there. You'll get about 6 lbs of
meat out of a 9lb. 6x16oz = 96 ounces roughly per butt in finished meat. I figure
you'll put about 1.5 ounces of meat in that cup, averages being averages. I expect
you'll get about 65 cups filled per butt. That's what, 16 butts? Wow. I'd ask the
organizer if that's what they had in mind. Seriously.

Also, you'll want to sauce this quite a bit. There's not really enough meat in an ounce
or two to get a good flavor to come through. Someone will probably win this with
a really good sauce and average Q.

<--- Thinking to myself... You wont want to do this all at once. If you do, you'll end
up with cold food and all that goes with it (bad taste, risk food contamination, etc).

Again, I'd call the organizer and talk with them to verify the number of butts.

I agree with ^^^^^.....

Personally, I think a full KCBS comp would be less work....

I would also not even think about doing any vending if what they told you is correct....

Make beans with fatties or hog apple beans, something simple. Great volume, cheap price, tastes great!

Absolutely, have fun. I'm not certain how much of what your learn on this one
will correlate/transfer to another (possibly sanctioned) competition. Comps are
on a timed turn-in schedule; miss it by a second and you're DQ'd. You wont really
get timing down on this one. The volume of meat is completely different. You
wouldn't necessarily want to chop your pork (I suppose someone does, but...) in
a comp. The organizer has really set up a very peculiar BBQ competition, IMHO.

This is a straight forward crowd favorite. By the way, many if not most times the
best BBQ doesn't win. This is about working the crowd. If you have children, get
them out in the crowd in front of your area/booth and bring the people in. Solicit
for votes. Work it. Play some music. Something/anything to bring people in and
really push for their vote/ticket. I've never seen a BBQ comp do this. I've seen
MANY chili comps do this, and it can be fun, in addition to the real blind judged
piece. Even then, the larger teams with more people to work the crowd almost
always win. If you're going against a local company (or fire department, police dept,
etc) that brings in the locals; you've probably lost this contest before it starts.
Their votes are already spoken for (so to speak).

We do something similar once a year at Stone Mtn; a chili cookoff. We have about
10 of our friends/family work the crowd. We use a cow bell when we get a vote. We
play the "Who Let The Dogs Out" song quite a bit (play on Lake Dogs). The kids
place "Lake Dogs" stickers on other kids' shirts, etc. We've done well a few times in
crowd favorite, but it's almost impossible to win against the really big teams with young ladies dressed in bikini's, etc.

Good luck! It sounds like a chili cookoff gone BBQ...

Is pork butt the requirement? If not, I'd be thinking MOINK Balls :clap2:
Here's about 1/4 of what you would need...

The problem with a public vote like this is 2 things.
1) the local team always wins. (maybe your the local team)
2) Your putting up a lot of money to feed the public for no return.

Have fun with it, but I'd take my chances at a sanctioned contest.