SATURDAY - September 23, 2006

ICS Texas State Results

We held the Texas State Championship in Jamaica Beach, Texas today. We had 13 cooks and 18 judges (all of the locals wanted to judge and we did not turn them away). The 1st place chili beat the next chili by 15 points.

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Here are the results.

ICS RED CHILI

1st Bruce Wilkins, Houston, TX 27 points

2nd Honey Jones, Canyon Lake, TX 13 points

3rd Cecil Schmidt, League City, TX 11 points

See you in Omaha

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Donna & Kevin Foley

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Mentone CA Regional - by Karen Ray

The weather forecast did not come true! It was predicted that the Inland Empire would have temperastures in the 90s with serious Santa Ana winds. Since this cookoff is held at a Christmas Tree Farm/Pumpkin Patch, this would have made for a hot, miserable and dirty day. Instead temperatures remained in the 80s with only an occasional gust of light wind. The Mentone Chamber of Commerce could not have ordered a better day for their annual event.

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The turnout from chili cooks was good for this last Regional of the chili year in Southern California. The turnout from the public was sensational. From the time the gates opened at 11:00 am the area was crowded with people enjoying the day and the beer and the People's Choice chili and the beer and the bands and the beer and the vendors and the beer. Three separate locally popular bands played throughout the day, entertaining everyone with their versions of rock and roll.

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Chairman, Jim Lotito, headed up this 6th Annual Chili Cookoff. You may remember Jim as the fellow who traveled across the country with Ormly Gumfudgin in his special Volkswagen customized to represent a stagecoach, publicizing the ICS in particular and chili in general. Jim does a marvelous job of recruiting new ICS members for this cookoff. Of 17 Salsa contestants, 5 were locals; of 27 Traditional Red entrants, 12 were locals; and 1 of the 8 Chili Verde participants was a local cook.

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The trophies are priceless. Each piece is a unique ceramic statue mounted with a commemorative plaque designating the contest won.

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The winners were:

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Best Booth, Best Showmanship and People's Choice Chili were all won by Udo Winkler. Parrot Head Chili.

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Best Costumes were the Women of Moose Lodge #1335 from Mentone.

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Salsa:

3rd, Karl Smith

2nd, Marilee Barrett, all the way from Idaho to lose a tiebreaker to

1st, Judy Barnes, thrilled to be representing Mentone at Omaha!

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Chili Verde:

3rd, Bob Wiseman

2nd, Domenique Blosfield

1st, David Thomas, cooking his 3rd bowl of Chili Verde!

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Traditional Red Chili:

5th, Kyra Schneider

4th, Gene Wheat

3rd, Mike Stewart, the defending champion

2nd, Craig Stanton, competing in his fourth chili cookoff; great job Craig!

1st, David Thomas, who had what you might call a pretty good day!

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Have you completed your ICS WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIPS Entry Forms ?? Did you send them to VICKIE at the ICS Office?

DO IT TODAY!!!!

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Did you check the ICS Web Site today, http://www.chilicookoff.com/

more ICS WORLD's News being added Daily

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