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Featured Picture 2012 4th Annual Biggest Baddest Barbeque, Bakersfield Grand Champion - Big B's Down-N-Dirty BBQ Bill and Yvonne Souza May 19, 2012 Bakersfield, CA Featured Article Stagecoach Country Music Festival & BBQ Championship By Steve Wilson April 27 & 28, 2013 Thirty teams made there way to Indio, California for the Stagecoach Country Music Festival and BBQ Championship promoted by longtime CBBQA member Thom Emery. The Festival featured many of the hottest bands in country music with the headliners being The Zac Brown Band, Lady Antebellum and Toby Keith. This year, the teams had a great view of the “Mane Stage” from the front of their camps. It was very nice to sit back after the competitions and listen to the great music being performed live 200 yard in front of us. Teams had to arrive on Thursday to move into the giant venue. We arrived about half way through the load in schedule and met Thom at the gate. You could tell things were stressful for Thom. Finally everyone was located in their spots and the friendly chit chat of the BBQ brotherhood commenced. Evening temperatures were quite pleasant. Daytime temps were downright hot for this fat dude. Inside my screened canopy on Sunday, my Thermapen recorded 112*. Friday was the start of the 3 day festival and the start of the competitions as well. Teams broke out their cookbooks to cook some International Chili Society “Home Style” Chili. Got Smoke was the winner and received the Gold Record trophy for their efforts. Saturday, Thom had lined up an International Barbecue Cookers Association (IBCA) three meat cook off. The comp meats were a ½ Chicken, Spareribs & Brisket. Chicken honor went to Meat, Inc. with 2nd and 3rd going to the split teams of Basement BBQ and Rooftop BBQ. The pitmasters, Joe and Andy, normally work together, but used the festival to gather friends and family, and put on two great performances. Sparerib honors went to one of the hottest teams on the circuit right now, Smokin’ Mo’s. 2nd went to I.A.B. 30 and 3rd went to Dirty Harry BBQ. Brisket was the last category and Honors went to Dave Malone and his team All Sauced Up. 2nd went to John and Brad at Brazen BBQ. Tom & Paul from I.A.B. 30 took home 3rd place. For the GC and RGC, there was a tie in points. And according to our IBCA Reps, K & K McIntosh, the tie was settled by the team who had the highest brisket score. I.A.B. 30 was 3rd in Brisket and Basement was 8th, thus I.A.B. 30 scored the GC and Basement BBQ was the RGC. Congratulations to all the winners. Sunday was hot, and so was the KCBS Competition. Chicken honors went to Loot N’ Booty, followed by I.A.B. 30 and Brazen BBQ. All Sauced Up was 11th. Ribs honors went to I.A.B. 30 followed by Smokin’ Mo’s and Got Smoke BBQ. Brazen BBQ was 4th place and All Sauced Up was 11th. Pork honors went to Andy Soto of Master of Disaster BBQ followed by Grillatactics and Loot N’ Booty. All Sauced Up was 4th & Brazen BBQ was 5th and I.A.B. 30 finished in 11th. As you can see it was a 4 horse race and it would come down to the brisket category for the Gold Record Trophies. All Sauced Up followed up their Saturday 1st place Brisket and repeated their domination with back to back honors in Brisket. All Sauced Up was followed by The Pit Crew BBQ and Rooftop BBQ. Brazen BBQ was 5th and I.A.B. 30 was 7th. In the Overall, The Pit Crew BBQ was 5th, All Sauced Up was 4th, and Loot N’ Booty was 3rd. The Silver Record and RGC went to I.A.B. 30 and GC honors went to Brazen BBQ and took home the Gold Record. Congratulations to all the participants and thank you to Thom Emery for his efforts, Carol & Merl Whitebook, our KCBS and ICS Reps and Kelly and Kathleen McIntosh, our IBCA Reps. I would also like to Thank the Concert Promoters for giving us the opportunity to have these three contests, at such a huge event. Golden Voice, Thank You. A quick shout out to the BBQ vendors, who also competed. I talked with Dale Ginos several times and I understand they had a fabulous weekend both vending and all 3 competitions. Well done my friend.

Upcoming Events CBBQA APPROVED EVENTS May 11 (KCBS) 2nd Anuual West Coast BBQ Classic Long Beach 18 (KCBS) Biggest Baddest BBQ, Bakersfield 24 (KCBS) 3rd Annual Blues Brews & BBQ, Brentwood June 8 3rd Annual Wagon Train Rib Cook Off, Placerville 15 (KCBS) 1st Annual California Honey Harvest Festival, Filmore 22 Feather Falls Casino 3-Meat Series #1, Oroville 22 (KCBS) 2nd Annual Pechanga BBQ Championship, Temecula 29 (KCBS) 2nd Annual Silicon Valley BBQ Championships, Santa Clara July 13 (KCBS) 3rd Annual Wine Country Big Q BBQ Championship, Santa Rosa 21 (KCBS) 4th Annual Smokin' For Gold, Placerville 27 (KCBS) 2nd Annual Siskiyou Beef Country Cook-Off Montague CA August 3 (KCBS) 5th Annual Vista Smokin' Q Classic, Vista 17 Feather Falls Casino 3-Meat Series #2, Oroville 17 (KCBS) 2nd Annual Ribs, Pigs and Watermelons, Huntington Beach CA 24 (KCBS) 5th Annual Smokin' on the Water, Lakeport September 14 (KCBS) 1st Annual Rubstock BBQ Championship, Cameron Park, CA October 5 Feather Falls Casino 3-Meat Series #3, Oroville 5 (KCBS) 3rd Annual Dana Point BBQ Championship, Dana Point CA 18 (KCBS) 2nd Annual Cowboy Up Rodeo and BBQ, Lancaster CA How To Create An Event Wiki Page Join the CBBQA Our mission is to teach, enjoy, preserve, and promote barbecue as a true American food and to help various children’s charities by conducting barbecue events throughout the state of California. Join Us Today! CBBQA Directors / Officers Board of Directors: Matt Brailey Scott Hares Dana Myers Steve Wilson Andy Allen Stephan Franklin Dale Ginos Officers: President: Matt Brailey VP: Scott Hares Treasure: Butch Richardson Secretary: Dana Myers ToY Comissioner: Abel Tirre Business Membership: Tracy Allen CBBQA Bylaws Public Financial Documents New BBQ Contest/Class/Event Information The California BBQ Association would also like to help promote your BBQ event. We work hand in hand with all the national sanctioning bodies for BBQ events each year here in California. Information on what options we offer the event promoters of California can be obtained by contacting our Chairman of the Contest Committee. Please send all BBQ event inquiries to- Matt Brailey (president@cbbqa.org) Please provide Event date(s) Location List of what specific info you may be looking for. If you have a charity that is interested in putting together a BBQ fundraiser, we would also like to here from you. CBBQA Team of the Year 2013 STANDINGS 1- Knock UR Sox Off BBQ 307 Ryan Moore ~ Fontana, CA T2- Ridge Route Boys 300 Curtis Trigueiro ~ Bakersfield, CA T2- Simply Marvelous 300 Stephen Franklin ~ Ventura, CA 4- Left Coast Q 285 Matt Dalton ~ Banning, CA 5- Hog Island Pitmasters 282 John Hendrickson ~ Discovery Bay, CA 6- Burnin and Lootin 274 Jerry Aguilar ~ Cornoa, CA 7- All Sauced Up 256 Dave Malone ~ Valencia, CA 8- Butchers Daughter 211 Donna Fong ~ Alameda, CA 9- Big Poppa Smokers 208 Sterling Ball ~ Coachella, CA 10- Smokin Mo's 205 Mike Lindley ~ Yucca Valley, CA 11- Smokin' Yankees BBQ 203 Chris Juencke ~ Stockton, CA 12- Porketeers 194 Dennis McGrath ~ El Cajon, CA 13- Loot N' Booty 190 Sterling Smith ~ Scottsdale, AZ 14- Big B's Down & Dirty BBQ 185 Bill Souza ~ Pacifica, CA 15- Wild Willys Smokin Hot BBQ 184 William Wilson ~ Riverside, CA 16- Rooftop Barbeque 181 Andy Allen ~ Menifee, CA 17- Bowling Over Pigs 180 Chuck Collondrez ~ Brentwood, CA 18- All Hogs Go to Heaven 176 Steve Madaule ~ Lancaster, CA 19- Funtime BBQ ~ 159 Benny Adauto ~ Whittier, CA 20- Lady of Q 157 Sylvie Curry ~ Ramona, CA 21- ZZYZX Bar B Q 147 Jason Miranda ~ Rancho Cucamonga, CA T22- Who's Smokin Now 146 Raymond Porter ~ Banning, CA T22- My Smokin Grillfriend 146 Jeff Pollock ~ Bakersfield, CA 24- Too Ashamed To Name 143 Scott Hares ~ San Jose, CA 25- Patio Pitmasters 130 Lance Miller ~ Corona, CA How to get sanctioned: ToY Event Application ® = 2013 Rookie Team -Visit the Complete Official 2013 Standings for all categories. -ToY Rules can be found at Team of the Year page Recent Events 20 High Desert Music Festival & BBQ Showdown, Victorville, CA 21 2nd annual Smoke on the Mountain, San Jose 4th annual The Ultimate BBQ Showdown East vs West IIII, Wildomar, CA 1st Annual Kings of the Que BBQ Championship, Sacramento, CA 2nd Annual Santa Anita Park Winners' Circle BBQ Championship, Arcadia Backyard on the Lake 2013, Patterson 3rd 2nd Annual PAL Super Bowl Cook Off Fundraiser (3 meat), Brentwood 8/9/10 QFest at East Shore RV 3rd Annual Wild Wild West BBQ State Championship, Lake Elsinore 2nd Annual Little Engine that Could State BBQ Championship, Vista, CA 2012_Butcher's BBQ Tell All BBQ Class in Orange Co Ca 'CBBQA Endorsed' 3rd Annual Wild Wild West BBQ State Championship, Lake Elsinore 1st Annual Needles Rt. 66 Music Brews and BBQ Championship, Needles Santee Car Show & BBQ Championship, Santee 1st Annual Win-River Casino BBQ Championship, Redding