Smoothsmoke
Babbling Farker
- Joined
- Jan 20, 2010
- Location
- Monterey, CA
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You obviously do have an opinion on the matter... you got on one of the most read BBQ websites in the world to start a thread. You own every post for your screen name, your friend can have his own opinion on his own account.
I'll skip the obvious fact that I don't make a living off contests, and just say i don't consider myself a professional anything. I actually have a finance and computer science degree... and took up BBQ as a hobby... I'm not even a professional at making stock, peeling onions, or chopping celery. Those are actual facts... not stuff you heard from some guy who you know, who had a buddy, who heard that at 31 Flavors Ferris was very sick.
I have been pretty open on the fact that I am the team you think is shady... skirting around actually mentioning my name is lame, just say it... Honestly your vagueness is more shady than anything I did. Calling my business and my team out as hiding isn't something I'm going to allow... its not true. My business is advertised as "Competition BBQ without Competition"... and lists my Transformer BBQ team name as well as my business partners (I Smell Smoke!!! since I'd hate to get a post about how I kept that a secret). The NEBS site, where I got the info on the contest... regularly has things from my business and my team. The point was to promote my business, so hiding that would have been a little counter productive.
Final thoughts: I stopped posting on and reading bbq sites because of this type of garbage. By bashing not only my team, but my business you did call me out... you, not "your friend" called me out. I am done commenting on something you heard third person, but did forward your posts about the organizer to him just to confirm he did say those things. I'll be happy to share his reply if he's ok with that.
From reading your posts, it seems you are more upset about this than your friend. Perhaps I missed it, but if it bothered your friend so much, why didn't he confront the organizer immediately, ask for a refund and go home? Did anyone demand a refund and go home? It sounds like they were ok competing against a caterer and not against a KCBS experienced team. I figure if you are good enough to have a catering business, you probably can cook some good food, so it's hard to understand why they are mad..........other than they didn't win.Yes Brendan, this thread was obviously targeted towards the Mann Orchard contest. The reason I was vague on who specifically, was because I wanted to discuss the principle's and ideal's in regards to some one of your experience level entering a contest that seemed to be promoted and geared to an amatuer or newby in the world of competition bbq. Obviously, it didn't evolve that way.
I understand your reasoning behind using your catering company name, but I'm just saying how it looks in the big picture to those that don't know that you have two seperate affiliations and find out after the fact.
Like I said, hopefully next years contest won't leave any room for missinterpretation on any ones part.
From reading your posts, it seems you are more upset about this than your friend. Perhaps I missed it, but if it bothered your friend so much, why didn't he confront the organizer immediately, ask for a refund and go home? Did anyone demand a refund and go home? It sounds like they were ok competing against a caterer and not against a KCBS experienced team. I figure if you are good enough to have a catering business, you probably can cook some good food, so it's hard to understand why they are mad..........other than they didn't win.
Like I said, hopefully next years contest won't leave any room for missinterpretation on any ones part.
The key is knowing when to let a thread die. At this point, it's just plain embarrassing.
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There was no entry fee, so there is nothing to get back in that regard.