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Hello everyone and welcome to the 2008 BBQ season. The schedule of bbq festivals and bbq competitions has been updated at our main website, BBQ-Festivals.com

Not all festivals and competitions have updated their information but we are in the process of contacting each of them for updates. We are also trying to get a schedule of all KCBS sanctioned bbq events for 2008 so they will be easily identified on our directory.

If you know of a bbq festival or cookoff/competition that we have missed, please send us the information so we can update for everyone.

If you are in Tampa Florida area and it is the weekend of January 11-12, then you and a bunch of your friends and competitors are going to fire up the grills and smokers and have a BBQ Competition.

That is exactly what is going to happen this weekend in Sebring, when cooks gather for the annual Central Florida Barbecue Festival. Skip Adams the co-chair of the festival says “the smell alone will be enough to draw you in” if you are driving by. About 40 teams are expected to gather at Firemen’s Field for the competition with the main events being on Saturday including chicken, ribs, brisket and pulled pork.

Visit TBO.com to read the full story on this upcoming event.

For an extensive list of BBQ Festivals and BBQ Competitions across the USA visit BBQ-Festivals.com

It is called “Q For The Kids” and it is held in Fairbanks, Indiana. This KCBS sanctioned barbecue competition will be held on June 6th and 7th, 2008 and is the second of what coordinators hope will be a long line of cookoffs. Event Coordinator, Patty Lenges told BBQHub.com that their first event in 2007 attracted 26 teams from 6 states with a great overall turnout.

Q For The Kids is a fund raising event in support of the Fairbanks, IN community center which is “all about the kids” and provides for a safe environment for kids from a 30 mile circle to hang out. Of course there are other events for adults but the main thrust of the community center is providing programs for kids.

The four (4) KCBS categories will be judged in the following order:

CHICKEN . . . . . . . . NOON
PORK RIBS . . . . . . 12:30 pm
PORK . . . . . . . . . . . . 1:00 pm
BEEF BRISKET . . . . 1:30 pm

Electric Available for Contestants
Beer Garden
Live Music
Showers Available
Electric Available >(Bring your own cord)

For more information on the 2nd Annual Q For The Kids KCBS Sanctioned Competition visit the Fairbanks, IN Community Center Website.

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