The Best Dam Barbecue Challenge takes place in Bicentennial Park - right in the middle of Old Historic Downtown Boulder City. Located immediately adjacent to City Hall, Bicentennial Park is located at 999 Colorado Street, Boulder City, Nevada 89005 and is comprised of 7 acres of beautiful green grass and trees. One of the park's most attractive features is the Gazebo Bandstand, built for the Bicentennial Celebration, is an excellent …
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We've been spending the last couple of months lining up our first round of sponsors for the 2011 Best Dam Barbecue...and we've got some great ones again this year...both returning and new! VERIZON is once again sponsoring the Family Fun Zone - one of the most popular features of our event...and it will be bigger and better this year than ever! CHANNEL 13 and KOMP 92.3 are partnering with us on the media aspects of the Barbecue and the …
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Yes, that's right! We are less than one month away from the 2011 Best Dam Barbecue Challenge and the event is shaping up to be bigger and better than it ever has before! We'll start issuing out information updates in earnest now, just to keep everyone up to date on the final event preparations...so be on the lookout for them. You can get updates in your email in-box by signing up for our Latest News updates (at the bottom right side of our …
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Get 'em while you can -- they're HOT! Applications have now been posted to the website for the Barbecue Challengers, Vendors and Judges...although there are very few judging positions still remaining. Here are handy links for ya: 2011 COMPETITOR APPLICATION 2011 VENDOR APPLICATION 2011 JUDGING APPLICATION And don't forget about the KCBS Judge Training Class we're holding on May 26th from 6pm - 10pm (location tbd, but in Las …
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This year marks a major change in the number of individual competitions that will be a part of the Best Dam Barbecue Challenge.  We will no longer hold competitions for two of our past challenges - those being "Anything Butt" and "Desserts". In making this decision, our goal was to bring the focus back to the four individual competitions sanctioned by KCBS -- Chicken, Ribs, Brisket and Pork. The prize money that was formerly allocated to …
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As you may have noticed, we have a new and improved website, just in time for the Best Dam Barbecue Challenge of 2011 in Boulder City, Nevada! We've not only kicked the design up a notch, but have added a host of new features throughout the site...we hope you are already enjoying it! Our new website will allow us to manage the website's content more easily, so we'll be able to not only keep it better updated in the future...but add on a lot …
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