The Surf & Turf, California State BBQ Cook-Off, held at Imperial Beach, July 24th, 2004 The following writeup is message Eva Harris left on the cbbqa@yahoogroups.com message group.  Eva & Hayward KCBS Rep'ed this event!

From:  Eva Harris <bbqlady1@pacbell.net> Date:  Sun Jul 25, 2004  2:31 pm Subject:  Surf n Turf cook off   I would like to thank Gene Goycochea for the best cook off that he has ever held.  I watched Gene work until 2:00 am Saturday morning trying to make sure everything was right for the kids that were coming to do the kid's q and to make sure all the rides for the kids were in place.   It was very very cook-friendly, you dropped your pit and parked you rig in the same spot. The only sad part was that Hayward and I couldn't cook the contest because at the last minute we had to Rep it.   Now for the winners of the cook off, lets give the top ten a drum roll...     Grand Champion      Tres Hombre' (AZ)     Reserve Champion       Oink County Cookers (AZ)        3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10    Burbank Bad Boys    Qn4U    OTWBBQ    Susie's BBQ (NV)    Famous Shamus (new Team)    Smoke-a-licious (new Team)    Gourmet Grills    Men Of Mesquite (new Team)              Chicken   1 Oink County cookers  (AZ)   2 Arizona Critter cookers (AZ) 3 Tres Hombre (AZ) 4 Famous Shamus (new Team) 5 Burbank Bad Boys     Pork Butt    1 OTWBBQ (new pork king) Todd Eves   2 Oink County cookers (AZ) 3 Action Bar-B-QUE company (new team) 4 Arizona Critter cookers (AZ) 5 Burbank Bad Boys     Pork Ribs   1 Men of Mesquite (new team)   2 Out of this world 3 Sug's Shack (new team) 4 Big Bite BBQ (new team) 5 Tres Hombre (AZ)     Brisket   no photo    1 Burbank Bad Boys (new brisket king) 2 Tres Hombre (AZ) 3 Oink County cookers (AZ) 4 QN4U 5 Smoke-A-Licious     I would like to thank all the new teams for coming out   1 Smoke-A-Licious 2 Famous Shamus 3 Men Od Mesquite 4 Sug's Shack 5 Carnivious Porkers 6 Big Bite BBQ 7 The Smoking Hole 8 Action Bar-B-QUE     I would also like to thank the out of state teams for coming   1 Tres Hombre 2 Susie BBQ 3 Oink County cookers 4 Arizona Critter Cookers   Thank you Very much Eva I would also like to thank our older teams for coming out and giving your support to the new teams   1. Holy Smoke 2 Gourmet Grills 3 OTWBBQ* 4 Out Of This World 5 Burbank Bad Boys 6 QN4U   * (Todd Eves--his Sponsor contributed a new smoker for a prize to the Grand Champ)