From Jen Windsor, Chairman, Event's Committee:

***Reminder

If your POD is planning to host a Regional Open Championship (ROC) in 2011-2012 applications must be received by the CASI Executive Director (garjans@suddenlink.net) 120 days prior to the Event. ROC’s are not applied for at the Great Pepper’s Meeting. Please send your applications in early, we are coming up on a very busy time of year and I wouldn’t want something to slip through the cracks.

REGIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS - A Regional Open Championship should be a high-profile prestigious event drawing the attention of the public and media that will bring positive exposure for CASI and the cook off charity.

a. APPLICATION – A Regional Open Championship may be requested by submitting an application to the CASI Executive Director.

1) APPLICANT – A Regional Open must be applied for by a participating pod.

2) DEADLINE – Application must be received no later than 120 days prior to the event.

b. APPROVAL – A Regional Open Championship may be approved by the CASI Board of Directors upon recommendation by CASI Executive Director and regional Great Peppers, based on the following criteria:

1) REGION – A Region must have defined areas but do not have to bound exclusively by state lines.

2) POD REQUIREMENT - Region must have a minimum of two (2) CASI-recognized Pods.

3) COOKOFF REQUIREMENTS - Each region must include fifteen (15) CASI cookoffs in the prior year.

c. REGIONAL REQUIREMENTS - Region involved must maintain the minimum requirements of application for continuance of a Regional Open Championship. Any region falling below the minimum requirements when those standards have been met.

d. TRAVELING - Regional Opens may travel. Rotation would be determined by local organizers.

e. ONE PER YEAR - No region may be the site of more than one Regional Open Championship per chili year.

Thank you for your help with this. 

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From Kim Draper:

We had 25 bbq’ers and 30 chili cookers on Saturday. Sunday had 26 paid cooks and 23 turned in.

Here are Saturday’s results for the "No Adult Supervision CCO and BBQ":

Pinto Beans

1^st – Julie Richards

2^nd – Jessie Resendez

3^rd – Gene Everett

4^th – Ryan Cooper

5^th – Sheryl Valentine

6^th – Richard Lett

7^th – Tommy Smith

8^th – Taylor Fox

9^th – Bob Huseman

10^th – Jon Decker

Chicken

1^st – Tommy Smith

2^nd – Bernie Phillips

3^rd – Kevin Robertson

4^th – Josh Branam

5^th – Dick Odom

6^th – Keith Hughes

7^th – Jon Decker

8^th – Lee Roy Childress

9^th – Bob Huseman

10^th – Taylor Fox

Pork Spare Ribs

1^st – Bernie Phillips

2^nd – Ray Bonner

3^rd – Taylor Fox

4^th – Tommy Smith

5^th – Josh Branam

6^th – Scott Campbell

7^th – Blaine Gibson

8^th – Josh Gandy

9^th – Cary Dickson

10^th – Esmael Cantu

Brisket

1^st – Richard Lett

2^nd – Jon Decker

3^rd – Ray Bonner

4^th – Bernie Phillips

5^th – Kevin Robertson

6^th – Cary Dickson

7^th – Taylor Fox

8^th – Jessie Resendez

9^th – Dick Odom

10^th – Lee Roy Childress

Reserve Grand Champion – Ray Bonner

Grand Champion – Bernie Phillips

Chili

1^st – Sheryl Valentine

2^nd – Scott Campbell

3^rd – Kim Draper

4^th – Jennifer Sherfield

5^th – Paul Mulkey

6^th – James Bauer

7^th – Gene Everett

8^th – Connie Collier

9^th – Margarett Lopez

10^th – Guy W. Bates

Sunday Chili

1^st – Sheryl Valentine

2^nd – Lisa Clevenger

3^rd – Don Clevenger

4^th – Kim Draper

5^th – Wes Heflin

6^th – Barbara Schueler (Q)

7^th – Susan Campbell

8^th – Vickie Childers (Q)

9^th – Kelly Draper

10^th – Margarett Lopez

NOTE:  We are home and I will be processing the Annual Credential Pod Reports today and will let each of you know if I find any problems.  If you have not sent your report. remember that they are due by August 15.  If they are sent early and there are problems, we will have time to work these out prior to August 15.