I went to the KCBS compitition in Scottsdale this weekend. Took a few friends and my wife as well. We had a real good time. I saw FEC's for the first time, there were several FEC 100's and one team had a FEC 750 or maybe a 1000. Wow! what a machine. I was impressed. There were several venders... CutCo, BassPro to name a few. A local grocer sponsored and had ton's of free samples, from pickles to sausage, to yogert and cereal samples. I was a little disappointed that the competitors did not have more samples. I did get a chicken wing lollipop and a thigh from the FEC teams and a spare rib from a green egg team. Maybe if we had gone later in the day they might have been more genereous. A member of one team told me there were food health regs that didn't allow sampling by the public. You could buy BBQ as much as you wanted from private vendors. They were pretty big plates though so it would have been a full meal. Anyway had a great time and thought I'd write in my experience
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