The World Barbecue Championship will bring the greatest competition barbecue teams, cooks and chefs together in Kissimmee, Fla. to settle the score and name the World Barbecue Champion. The World Barbecue Champion will advance to the Final Table and see if ‘America’s Cuisine’ will rule the world.

Choosing from all the major sanctioning bodies, The World Food Championships will accept the champions of the world’s premier barbecue competitions to compete in Kissimmee.

What will start as a host of the absolute best championship pitmasters from across all sanctioning bodies, will end up with just one winner… the World Barbecue Champion.

WORLD BARBECUE CHAMPIONSHIP
$10,000 GRAND PRIZE

2015 BARBECUE COMPETITOR PACKET 

Competition Structure

The World Barbecue Championship features three rounds of competition.
Ancillary Categories:  competitors will compete for bonus cash in the ancillary competitions, points and scores do not apply to the overall championship.  
Competition Categories:  all competitors will compete in the World Barbecue Championship and turn-in various meats that will be defined in the competitor packet.  
Finalist Round:  the top competitors scoring competitors in the opening round will face off for culinary supremacy in a special barbecue-themed finalist competition.

Competition Schedule

The World Barbecue Championship will be limited to the first 87 entrants who are fully qualified, registered and confirmed. Any qualified entrant who wants to compete after the field is full must seek a special exemption from the WFC competition committee.

WFC Qualifying Events- to be announced by Jan. 31, 2015 

If a contest or competition winner is unable to accept the invitation and participate in The World Food Championships, invitations will be extended to an alternate winner at the same event or the winner of an additional event.
Rules, processes and tournament structure for the WFC are subject to change, but all decisions made by the WFC competition committee are final.

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