Rhino,
Welcome to the site, great to have you. Sounds like you have some great experience in the BBQ world. We might have to tap into some of that.
Congrats on founding the ILBBQS, I know how difficult that can be as well as organizing the BBQ festival.
With the BBQ Festival, who do you get it sanctioned by and how many teams do you typically pull in? I know we have a lot of members on here that love to travel to a good contest, so maybe one day we will get a group together and make the trek to the Festival, it does sound like a blast.
Once again, great to have you on here, hope you enjoy the site. We do have a bunch of great members.
Mike