The 2010 FBA
Triple Crown Series
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Bubba's On A Roll
 | Hey, somebody tell the TV producers to come to Florida and watch Bubba Latimer kick some butt. There are a lot of one-man cook teams out there, but few that have had Bubba's success. |
Team Bub-Ba-Q took the Grand and 1st place in Chicken with a new high score for the year. This win has given him more than a 40 point lead in the Team of the Year. Unknown BBQ was Reserve, 2nd place in both Pork and Brisket, and the winners of the sauce competition.In the Backyard division, Jamakin Me Hungry won Grand and Good Buddies BBQ was Reserve. Growing ever larger in its sixth year, Smoke On The Water continues to shine as one of the brightest jewels on the FBA circuit. Complete scores and photos can be found here. |
It's A Grand Slam!
| Bubba Latimer, the one-man cook team called Bub-Ba-Q, knocked one out of the park at the 8th Annual Top of the Lake |  |
Barbecue Affair in Okeechobee, Florida. First place in all 4 categories and Grand Champion - you can't do any better than that. 44 teams took the field, but Bubba took all the gold. The Woodhouse Grill, head cook Mike Leonardo, was Reserve, almost twenty-eight points behind the leader.In the first qualifying contest of the 2010 Triple Crown, Bub-Ba-Q has set the bar high; will he able to sustain this pace? Winter Haven will tell the tale! Full results and photos can be found here. |
The Frozen Tundra of Sebring
| 2010 will now be remembered as the year that started out with the big freeze. But the cold weather was no match for Forrest Dilmore with his first Grand champion at the Central Florida Barbecue Festival in Sebring. His first place Brisket was just enough to wrestle the lead from Rob Bagby's Swamp Boys, who took the Reserve trophy five points back. A total of 34 cook teams braved the frigid north winds and icy rain to cook one of Florida's oldest barbecue contests. | 
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And the forty-two judges, wrapped in blankets and heavy winter coats, were thankful the FBA doesn't have on-site judging! The full tale of the tarps and space heaters is told here. |
The Triple Crown Championship
| Close the book on 2009, the Triple Crown Championship and the Southern Blues & BBQ contest are now complete. Mount Dora Bar-B-Que Company hammered the Rib category with a 197.86666 that, along with top 10 calls in the other three categories, landed them the title of 2009 Triple Crown Grand Champion. Bub-Ba-Q with two second places and a third, was reserve. In addition to the Big Green Egg, the winner of the Triple Crown also received a | 
The Big Green Egg awarded to the Grand Champion and some of the trophies.
2009 FBA Triple Crown Grand Champion - Mount Dora Bar-B-Que Company, Larry Baker, head cook.
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DigiQ II Power Draft Control, compliments of the BBQ Guru.com. Scores for the Triple Crown Championship are here. |
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From the FBA Contest Calendar
