The Pigs on the Run BBQ Team is a BBQ Competition team out of Fluvanna county Va. Its members come from all over the Mid Atlantic area. Pigs on the Run finished "Top Five in Pork " in the World at the American Royal National BBQ Championships 2006. Pigs on the Run BBQ competition team has won Four Grand Championships. They are also ranked in the Top 100 BBQ teams in the country.
We are based in Batesville Arkansas and have a combined 15+ years of competition cooking. We use Cattlemen's in all of our sauces and glazes and have been very pleased with the results. We are a team who is going to have a good time wherever we go and enjoy meeting and cooking along side the best teams in the world.
Lakeside was "born" in 2003 after Mike, our pitboss, was bit by the BBQ bug. Mike's obsession actually started many years ago when he started homebrewing. Beer was his first passion, until one too many episodes of Alton Brown enticed him into constructing his first smoker made from two large terra cotta pots.
The Cosmic Cooks are a competition BBQ team located near Dallas, TX. The team has been cooking together since 2003 and they have many awards to show for their efforts. Most notable are two top three finishes at the National Championship Barbeque Cookoff.
Mike Hedrick [aka Pirate Mike] started the Pit Pirate BBQ Team after only cooking BBQ for just three years. Mike is from North Carolina and tapped into his old school roots for recipes and methods he still uses to this day.
The Lost Nation Smoke Company was born into the mind of Rich Decker in 2001. While watching a food network television program about barbecue Rich wondered how's his would measure up against some of the competition cook's in New England.
Tom & Josh's Orgasmic Slabs (The Slabs) was founded in 1996 by Josh Wilson and his cousin Tom Wilson. Tom & Josh decided to start competing at the 1996 American Royal where they received a 7th place honorable mention in chicken for their "Tommy Wings".
Q Haven’s first competition was the Rhode Island state championship in May of 2006 and they took 3rd place overall and 2nd place in the brisket. They were hooked.
We started at the 2nd annual BBQ contest. Friends and family of Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Armstrong and Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Schully. Our team was then known as The Saturday Night Group.
Welcome to 10 Bones BBQ! With over 8 years of serious competition cooking and catering! I guarantee you won't find a team more dedicated to "old school" cooking and "Baby Back Ribs"! We baby these babies, from start to finish!
The Beverly Pigbillies BBQ team was started in 1998 by a group of employees of AIMS Logistics in Collierville TN. At the time AIMS Logistics had about 35 employees. Co-founders Dave and Ned Nelson started the company in 1994 and were looking for a way to entertain employees and clients.
The Funny Farm BBQ Team began competing in late 2006 in one non-Kansas City Barbeques Society&trade: (KCBS) sanctioned event with two small smokers where we had a stroke of luck and placed second in pork. In 2007, we began turning our attention to events sanctioned by KCBS™.
The Killer Hogs have been competing and winning in the Memphis in May&trade: BBQ circuit for almost 10 years. After years of sharpening our recipes and mastering our smokers, our not-so-humble barbeque team is now a force to be reckoned with in the competitive bbq circuit.
We are known most for our ribs & BBQ sauce, our sauce has won 10 contests in the last 10 years. We have only been a team for 10 years, this year Memphis In May™ was our 10th anniversary year. We started this team with the intentions of conquering the world, and feel we’ve done pretty good for a bunch of, to quote the old guys, "no cookin, to much beer drinkin, way to much partying, BBQ is a serious thing, no good kids".
Our team consists of Friends and neighbors. I even have one cousin on the team who happens to be the Mayor of Butler Alabama. We have been cooking together for 8 years.
During MIM 2004, my friend Lisa McGee and I visited the tent of a friend and had a wild idea to start a Patio Porker team of our own. Lisa and I are both educators, and she envisioned the team name as "No Pig Left Behind."
I am Myron Mixon, Chief Cook of Jack’s Old South Competition Bar-B-Que Team. I started Jacks Old South in 1996 as a way to promote our family Bar-B-Que sauce that was made by my mother and father, Gaye and Jack Mixon.