Just talked to Kent
Ok, a little more info about the Labor Day weekend contest.
Thursday evening, Sept 2, the Chest to Chest cooks meeting will be held at 4 Legs Up BBQ Restaurant, with Kelly & Roni Wertz sponsoring a Prime Rib dinner for the Chest to Chest contestants. Friday Sept. 3 will have the Chest to Chest judging that early evening, 6 to 7 pm, with the Chest to Chest awards afterwards. Prize money is $3,000.00 winner take all, and of course the much desired trophy, the Bull Peni$ Walking Stick.
Saturday Sept. 4 will be the KCBS 4 meats contest, including ancillaries Anything Beef and Dessert.
Sunday Sept. 4 will be another KCBS contest with the standard 4 meat categories.
Entry fee will be as follows:
Both Saturday and Sunday contests entry is $375, this is for all categories including ancillary. This is for a 20 x 40 space, including electric, and tickets for 4 free bags of ice. Please note the 20 x 40 space is paved frontage, there is more room behind the paved area that is grass for most of the spaces. If you only want to cook for one day of the contest the entry fee will be $275 plus 2 free bags of ice.
Prize Money:
$2000 for Grand Champion
$1000 for Reserve Champion
$200 for 1st place each category (including ancillary)
$150 for 2nd place
$100 for 3rd and 4th place
$50 for 5th thru 10th place
Ribbons for 1st thru 5th places (if they got ordered, lol)
The awards are for each contest so if you are Grand Champion both days you get $4000.
The Fair Board is planning on having a hamburger feed for all the teams Saturday evening, with the cooks potlucking a salad, vegetable, or dessert. Plus if we can get a sponsor, free beer.
Those with RV's can come early and stay late with no extra charge, we do ask that you let us know what type (how big) an RV so we can park you for the best fit.
Kent is going to "try" to get the website updated this weekend, and will let me know when it is done and I will update here to let everyone know. He receives so much e-mail on his personal address that it sometimes gets overwhelming so we have set up a new address just for contest questions,
centralkansasbbq@gmail.com . You can also call Kent at 620 793-2985. He may be on the tractor or moving irrigation pipe so he will try to return any calls when he can. The website is
www.chesttochest.com .
David Keyse
Great Bend, KS