This year’s BBQ Fest pics are ready! Here’s the link to the Picasa photo album. 255 pics of the team and the festival.
A few random pics:
Me leaning against a post in the booth and drinking a beer. Definitely not my first beer.
Members of the Ques Brothers representing at the awards ceremony. I stayed behind to watch the booth, but I sent my camera to the awards with Mikey the Camera Nazi.
No caption necessary.
A lot of beautiful girls walked past our booth and this definitely wasn’t one of them.
This was a problem. This sign was on the path to our tent (S 158), but you’d never know it because it indicates that only hog (H) teams are straight ahead. The first day, I stumbled upon our booth quite by accident, thinking I was still a couple of blocks away. Last night, some of my invited guests told me they walked around for close to an hour before they found our booth. Memphis in May needs to improve the accuracy of their signage.
Team leader Chuck, who celebrated his 34th birthday Friday. (Note: The previous sentence may contain some factual inaccuracies)
The results were posted last night and our shoulder competition team The Ques Brothers finished 12th out of 72 teams. That’s a very good result for a first-year team, and better yet, the cooks know what they need to change to get better scores next year. Last night as the event was wrapping up, everyone was saying how we had formed the perfect team – people who know how to cook, people who know how to construct, people who know how to party, and everyone gets along well. This looks to be a team that will be around for years to come and will hopefully bring home some top-10 trophies.
A couple of videos:
This one was taken about 2:30 PM Thursday afternoon when not many people were around. It’s just a quick tour of all areas of the booth. Nothing real special here, just a memory of our booth for those of us who were on the team. It’s also a good introduction of what a BBQ booth (correction: one of the best BBQ booths) looks like, for those who have never attended the festival.
This is the second video, taken about 7 PM Thursday night after the park got busy.
I was able to edit and upload all the photos in about an hour using Google Picasa, which is part of the Google Pack of free software. Last year, using Paint Shop Pro and Coppermine, it took me 3 times as long to edit and upload half as many pictures.
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Got one more post to come – observations on how to attract lots of hot women to your BBQ Fest booth. That one will probably be ready tomorrow.
Hope all the links work. Enjoy!