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The BBQ Times “For The Folks That Want A Little Smoke In Their Life”
Volume 5• Number 2
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Scott Smith, his wife Lynn, their son Christopher, and Mitchell Bedwell share big smiles after winning Grand Champion of the Calhoun, GA KOA Campground’s, 2nd Annual Smokin’ Up the Campground BBQ Competition December 7, 2013.
28 Pages
■ Audrey Evans.............Page 4 ■ Moultrie, GA..............Page 3 ■ “Famous Dave” ....... Page 6 ■ Jacksonville, FL ....... Page 7 ■ SCBA ........................ Page 8 ■ National BBQ Cup...Page 10 ■ Elba, AL ................... Page 12 ■ Jeff Petkevicius.......Page 13
■ Classifieds .............. Page 15 Official Publication of:
Photo by Suzanne Burton
By Audrey Evans Editor & Publisher
To the northwest of Atlanta and to the east of the Alabama state line is a town named Cedartown, Georgia and that is where you might find Scott Smith on a normal day. Scott owns and operates Southern Q Smokers but keeps his feet wet on the BBQ circuit too. Scott was one of the final ten teams to compete the second day in Las Vegas, has had mul-
tiple perfect 180 scores and is a member of the 700 club. After all this information it should be no surprise that Scott and his team, Que’n, Stew’n & Brew’n would take home Grand Champion prizes in Calhoun, Georgia December 7 at the Calhoun KOA Smokin’ Up the Campground. Friday night started off with lots of good drinks, food, fun and friends at the Battle of Bands and continued on at the campsites which kept the good warm fire, like Scott Smith. Saturday morning, it was absolutely cold, wet and dreary
but teams, judges, reps and attendees bundled up and went at it for the love of BBQ as turn ins began and the day dredged on. Dealing with the weather appeared to affect a lot of the cook teams in this strong field of sixty-five teams. At the end of the day, Scott Smith had pulled it out with a total 698 score with a second place in brisket, fourth place in pork, seventh place in ribs, and thirty-third in chicken. Pitmaster Tim Grant from Truebud BBQ out of Tonganoxie, Kansas was hot on pursuit for the day as he vied for the first place
See QSB Calhoun on Page 2
December 2013