The American Royal Barbecue is the largest competition in the world, attracting nearly 500 teams for the open event. It is also considered to be one of the BBQ ‘Majors’ and to win it is one of the biggest achievements possible in the BBQ world. We sent a team out last year, for most members it was their first time cooking in America and while it was a baptism of fire, the team members learned a lot about American competition BBQ.

This year the team has grown in numbers, allowing more BBBQs members to get a taste of American competition BBQ. The team is as follows:

• Toby Shea              - British Bulldog BBQ
• Adie Platts             – Bite The Bullet BBQ
• Steve Heyes           – Royal Q Pit Crew
• Chris McQuillan      - Stick t’ Kettle On BBQ
• Cuan Brown            - BBQ Fanatics
• Neil Welsh              - Royal Q Pit Crew
• Ben Cops                - BBQ Fanatics

With only seven weeks to go until the guys fly out, everyone’s getting pretty excited. We’ll post some more news between now and the point the team flies out and the guys will be blogging live from Kansas on this site, so stay tuned.

Additionally we have launched new websites for our competition series Pit Masters and Ready Steady Q, check them out at:

www.pitmasters.co.uk

www.readysteadyq.co.uk

Over the coming weeks we’ll also be refurbishing our forums with a great new look and feel and we have a great new recipe website Grill School in the works.