" BOB" > wrote in news:w2M9g.72067$Jk3.20349
@bignews5.bellsouth.net:

> I'm a certified judge in both KCBS and FBA, and I sometimes cook with
> some cook teams. All of the teams know that it is a game. They'd
> never cook what they like to eat for a competition, and the food that
> they eat for their meals *at* the competitions are never the
> (generally) heavily sauced foods that they turn in.

Wow. I'm speechless. When I got into competitive BBQ 20+ years ago,
everyone I cooked with was cooking the very best BBQ they knew how cook.
The only difference between out contest meat and what we'd serve our
friends or customers was that we took a little extra care to be sure the
contest meat looked as good as it tasted and smelled. Competition culture
is either completely different in KCBS, or its changed a lot since I quit
competing 10 or so years ago.

> It's tough to
> leave personal preferences out of the judging portion, but (at least
> *I* try to) a judge is supposed to judge the entry "as it is
> presented". Yes, personal tastes and prejudices still enter into it.

This is an issue for judges and critics everywhere. But there are still
standards. Pork drenched in chocolate shouldn't win a BBQ

> This is getting long, and I notice that the original troll, err,
> POSTER has pulled his usual "post a message, reply once, then run off
> when someone responds with a fact or two" type of troll.

As I'm the original poster, consider me offended. Further, I'll suggest
you google my past participation here before youaccuse me of trolling.

Once again, I assumed that this was the sort of place someone might come
to ask a question or throw out a comment regarding BBQ, so I did. My
apologies if discussing BBQ contests in AFB or questioning the logic of
KCBS rule upsets you.