Cook Team Details
The 14th Annual Smoke on the Lake BBQ Festival
Friday, May 10th & Saturday, May 11th, 2024
This is a single weekend, open-entry, BBQ event conducted in association with the Georgia BBQ Association.
Any team with at least one current GBA membership is eligible to compete. GBA rules and regulations.
Vendors will be onsite selling food as well as providing activities for the public on both Friday and Saturday.
Cook Teams are prohibited from selling food to the public.
Questions? Please contact Jude Dooley at 336-407-5052 or judedooley@gmail.com
Entry Fees for Cook Teams
10x20 Space
$200 Early Registration - before Feb 14
$250 Registration Fee - Feb 15 to April 14
$300 Late Registration - after April 15
20x40 Space
$400 Early Registration - before Feb 14
$450 Registration Fee - Feb 15 to April 14
$500 Late Registration - after April 15
Prize Details
Grand Champion – Trophy & $1,000
Reserve Champion – Trophy & $500
Meat – 1st $200 (Trophy), 2nd $150 (Trophy), 3rd $100 (Trophy)
Meat – 4th–5th Ribbons
Lord of the Wings – Trophy and $750
People’s Choice Pork – Trophy and $750
Mystery Meat – Trophy and $100
Friday Night Judged Chicken Wings – Trophy and $100
People's Choice Competitions
Lord of the Wings & People's Choice Pork have the largest direct impact on our community. The funds raised thru taster tickets are used for multiple Rotary charity events and community efforts. Your support is encouraged and needed.
Lord of the Wings
Friday
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM
People's Choice competition featuring Chicken Wings
Cook Teams must have Chicken available at 5:15 PM
Each participating BBQ team will prepare their own special flavor(s) of chicken wings and the public will judge.
Festival/Concert goers will be able to purchase a book of 3 taster tickets with 1 voting ticket.
After sampling different team's wings the taster will give the voting ticket to the team that they liked the best.
Each cook team is responsible for distributing the wings at their individual cook site.
The Team with the most voting tickets will be crowned this year's Lord of The Wings.
Winner will receive Trophy & $750.00
All teams will receive wings to assist you in the event.
The wings can only be used for the Lord of the Wings competition.
Any team caught using the wings for anything other than the Lord of the Wings competition will be disqualified from the entire event.
People’s Choice Pork
Saturday
11:30 AM - 2:30 PM
People's Choice competition featuring Pork Butt
Cook Teams must have Pork available at 11:15 AM
Each participating BBQ team will be preparing their own pork butts and the public will judge.
Festival goers will be able to purchase a book of 3 taster tickets with 1 voting ticket.
After sampling different team's BBQ they give the voting ticket to the team that they liked the best.
Each cook team is responsible for distributing the wings at their individual cook site.
The Team with the most voting tickets will be crowned this year's People’s Choice Pork.
Winner will receive Trophy & $750.00
All teams will receive butts to assist you in the event.
The butts can only be used for the People’s Choice competition.
Any team caught using the butts for anything other than the People’s Choice Pork competition will be disqualified from the entire event.
PEOPLE'S CHOICE COMPETITION RULES
If Cook Team receives chicken wings or pork butts, the Team must participate.
Cook Teams may not purchase tickets to stack their ticket count.
Cook Teams may not trade tickets with other Cook Teams.
Provided meat is only allowed to be used for the associated event.
After the competition ends, any remaining meat will belong to the Cook Team.
Ancillary Competitions - for Judging only
Mystery Meat – Friday, 6:00 PM turn-in time
Chicken Wings – Friday, 6:30 PM turn-in time
Each participant will be provided with a food item at the 3:30 PM Cook Teams meeting. Participants can prepare the item any way that they wish
Location
Logan Farm Park
Setup
Friday after 10:00 AM
Please check-in before set up
Lunch
Friday at 1:00 PM
Lunch provided by Chick-fil-A
Cook Teams Meeting
Friday at 3:30 PM
Judges Tent
Serving Times
Lord of the Wings
Friday 5:30 PM - 9:00 PM
Teams serve Chicken Wing samples to the Public
People's Choice Pork
Saturday 11:30 AM - 3:00 PM
Teams serve Pork samples to the Public
Turn-in Times
Friday
6:00 PM Mystery Meat
6:30 PM Chicken Wings
Saturday
9:45-10:00 AM Chicken
10:45-11:00 AM Ribs
11:45 AM-12:00 PM Pork
BREAKFAST
Saturday at 7:30 AM
Breakfast provided by Copeland’s
Awards Ceremony
Saturday at 3:30 PM
PAST WINNERS
2023 Cook Team Winners
2022 Cook Team Winners
2021 Cook Team Winners