BBQ Sauce Competitions List for 2013

Here’s our updated list of BBQ sauce competitions or barbecue competitions with a sauce sub-competition that you should enter this year in 2013:

 

National BBQ Association Awards of Excellence

• When:  Jan 18 2013  (Entries due), will be judged Feb 19-23rd
• Where: Ina, Illinois
• In-Person(do you have to be there to enter): Not necessary
• Entry Fee? Yes
  

ZestFest 2012 / Fiery Foods Challenge

• When: January 21-23rd
  
• Where: Irving, Texas
  
• In-Person (do you have to be there to enter)? No
  
• Entry Fee? Yes

Memphis in May

• When: May 3-5, 2013
  
• Where: Memphis, TN
  
• In-Person (do you have to be there to enter)? Yes
  
• Entry Fee? Yes

The Saucekers

• When: August 9, 2014
• Where: Boston, Massachusetts
• In-Person (do you have to be there to enter)? No
  
• Entry Fee? Yes

American Royal BBQ Event

• When:  9/20/2013 (deadline for entry)
  
• Where: Kansas City, Missouri
  
• In-Person (do you have to be there to enter)? No
• Entry Fee?  Yes $50

Gettin Sauced

• When: Saturday, September 28, at Hops & Grain Brewing in Austin
• Where: Austin, Texas
• In-Person (do you have to be there to enter)? No
  
• Entry Fee? Yes

Scovie Awards

• When: Annually, October timeframe
  
• Where: Albuquerque, New Mexico
• In-person (do you have to be there to enter)? No
  
• Entry Fee? Yes

National BBQ Festival

• When: Annual, typically November
• Where: Waycross , Georgia
  
• In-Person (do you have to be there to enter)? No
  

Any others, let me know in the comments.

Thanks,

Brian ( @bbqsaucerviews )