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Bandit BBQ Crew
Jim 'Rhino' Reincke - Crew Chief
The never stoppin’, hard rockin’,
competition barbeque team of
Bandit BBQ Crew has been competing in the U.S.
since 2007. Hailing from scenic Southern Illinois, USA;
Jim
‘Rhino’ Reincke, Crew Chief, started the team as a way to explore his
passion for outdoor cooking.
In 2008 the crew grew to include a full-time
teammate in Rod ‘Hopper’ Rodawald (also of Southern Illinois) and a bevy of
‘Bandit BBQ Babes’ to help with the
entertainment and tedious side of competition life.
While 2007 was a great year of
growing for Bandit BBQ Crew, their real victories began in 2008,
and continued to roll through 2009, with awards
coming in from both Nationally and Regionally Sanctioned contests. 22 of
23 meat categories entered in 2008 garnered
Top 10 finishes for Rhino & Hopper (the
only non-Top 10 finish came in 13th of a field of 40 professional teams); and
their first GRAND CHAMPION & RESERVE GRAND CHAMPION titles coming in 2009. They
attribute the victories to a couple basic factors…MojoRub.com
Original Seasoning Blend and
(most importantly) Having Fun!
In addition to
Bandit BBQ Crew, Rhino is
the founder of the Illinois BBQ
Society and creator of The BBQ Boot Camp™.
60+
Top Ten Finishes in the last 24 contests!
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Big O' Dang O' BBQ Team
Aaron Moore - Team Founder
We started our competition barbecue
adventure in 2003 with a trip to Memphis, TN and high hopes of
eating some of the world’s best barbecue at the Memphis In May
Barbecue Contest. We were quick to learn that the teams
weren’t there to feed the public and unless you had an inside
connection you weren’t likely to get to sample the “good stuff”.
In the spring of 2004 we completed the
Memphis Barbecue
Network (MBN)
Judging requirements and judged our first
MBN contest in
Tunica, MS. After judging
MBN barbecue
contests for almost three years, we longed for something more.
In 2006 we became judges for
Kansas City Barbecue
Society (KCBS)
and also competed in our first KCBS sanctioned contest as cooks.
Although we didn’t come in last place, we were close and I had the
bitter taste of defeat lingering on my pallet. It did not matter I
was hooked on competition barbecue.
Since 2006 we’ve competed in about a
dozen KCBS
sanctioned contests, and a few
Illinois BBQ Society
(ILBBQS) and
St. Louis
BBQ Society (SLBS)
events.
16 Top Ten Finishes in
their first 10 contests!
Click Here for full team bio.
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