Carroll Sausage BBQ Bash at the Bark in the Park
The GBA travelled for the first time to Sylvester, Georgia on September 28, 2019 for the Carrol Sausage BBQ Bash as part of their annual Bark in the Park to benefit the Best Friends Humane Society for Worth County. A full house of thirty-two professional BBQ teams competed for their share of over $6,000 in prize money and hand crafted wooden cutting boards. It was announced at the end of the event that we will be returning next year on September 26, 2020.
Budmeisters made a triumphant return to GBA competition claiming the Grand Championship and $1,500 for their winning pork entry. They finished 19th in loin, 1st in pork, and 2nd in ribs. They also earned the only 600 scores of the day in both the pork and ribs preliminary rounds. Lang BBQ Team won their second Reserve Grand in a row, winning $1,500 in Sylvester by finishing 5th in loin, 2nd in pork, and 4th in ribs.
Hold Your Horses won the Loin category, followed by We Want Que. Smoke’N Cowboys took third place Loin in only their second contest.
Budmeisters finished first in the Pork category. Lang BBQ Team came in second for the second straight contest, and Bayshore Porker’s took third place.
Fire in the Hole won ribs after finishing third last time in Griffin. Budmeisters came in second and Bayshore Porker’s was third.
Full Loin, Pork, and Rib Results
All Reserve Scores
Next up is the always exciting GBA State Championship at the Deep Roots Festival in Milledgeville, Georgia on October 26. Then we have Smokin’ on Blackshear, another first time contest at Lake Blackshear on November 16. We finish the calendar year with returning contests in Moultrie on December 7 and Americus on December 14. The spring is starting to shape up as very busy with the possibility of eight contest over eleven weeks.
Hope to see everyone at a GBA event soon!