The 1st Annual Oakland Regional Grilled Cheese Invitational!
October 25, 2007
8:00pm
$5 cover
IMPORTANT UPDATE: CAPACITY FOR THE VENUE IS 144 PEOPLE. ONCE WE HAVE REACHED CAPACITY, PEOPLE WILL ONLY BE ADMITTED ON A "ONE OUT, ONE IN" BASIS. SO IF YOU ARE FIENDING FOR CHEESE, BE SURE TO GET THERE EARLY!
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UPDATE
EVEN THOUGH WE EXPANDED THE NUMBER OF COMPETITORS FROM 20 TO 30, WE HAVE ALREADY REACHED CAPACITY FOR COMPETITORS FOR THIS YEAR'S GRILLED CHEESE INVITATIONAL.
THE PEOPLE OF THE BAY AREA HAVE SPOKEN, AND THEY CLAMOR FOR CHEDDAR! THEY YEARN FOR JARLSBERG! THEY CRYOUT FOR GRUYERE! THEY CAN ALMOST TASTE THE VICTORY!
IF YOU WANTED TO COMPETE, DO NOT LOSE HOPE!
PEOPLE DO CANCEL OFTEN, SO IF YOU WOULD LIKE TO BE ADDED TO THE WAITING LIST TO COMPETE, EMAIL US AND IF A SPOT OPENS UP, YOU'RE ON 'ER, YOUR HONOR!
FYI, IF YOU WANT TO JUST EAT SAMMICHES, YOU CAN STILL SHOW UP AND JUDGE THE COMPETITION.
Ladies and Gentlemen, on October 25th, we will part the mighty mountain of loaves, wade knee-deep in the cheese and swim eye-high in the butter fat to determine who in the bay area is a Grilled Cheese Champion™.
The "Grilled Cheese Invitational" is an official competition with prizes awarded for each category. The competition will be begin promptly at 8:00 pm at Eli's Mile High Club in North Oakland. This is a serious competition and only the strong will achieve victory in The Grilled Cheese Invitational, with all the associated bragging rights available therein. All those looking to compete in the Invitational must read the rules and regulations before they register their sammich. Pre-registration for the 1st Annual Oakland Regional Grilled Cheese Invitational is now open.
Doors to the event will open at 7:00pm and the grilling will start promptly at 8:00pm.
All those planning on grilling should be there to receive their ballots by 7:30pm.
Judging for the event will be open to anyone who wants to sample grilled cheeses.
Anyone is welcome to attend this event and you do not have to compete in order to sample a sammich. All voting is done by audience ballot and each competitor must prepare at least 16 samples of their sammich for the gathered audience members to judge.
For competitors, the process is simple:
1) Show up with your recipe and enough supplies to cook 16 samples (usually four sammys cut into four samples each).
2) Grill head to head, using the patented "Olympic-rated" cooking stoves and hand off completed sammiches to the runners, who will take them inside to distribute to the hungry masses.
3) Hope for glory
For anyone looking to attend/judge the process is even simpler:
1) Show up.
2) Get sammich.
3) Eat sammich.
4) Vote on sammich
5) Repeat with pleasure!
There are three categories and they start grilling in this order:
The Missionary Position: Standard bread, standard butter, and standard cheese.
The Kama Sutra: Exotic or standard bread, butter, and cheese plus additional ingredients.
The Honey Pot: Exotic or standard bread, butter, and cheese, but a sandwich that is sweet in general, or would best be served as dessert.
For those of you who are looking to compete, you must first familiarize yourself with the rules of competition and then register your sammich to compete.
The Grilled Cheese Invitational will be providing at least 10 "Olympic-rated" cooking surfaces for the event but participants are required to bring the ingredients for the sammiches they are entering in the competition. Each competitor must be prepared to create 16 samples of sammiches, at least four sammiches cut into quarters, in order to be scored properly for the competition. Obviously, consistency will be a key element to sammich performance.
SOME RULES YOU SHOULD BE AWARE OF:
1) All sammiches must be pre-registered. There will be no on site registration WHATSOEVER!
2) There will be a maximum of 30 competitors, no exceptions.
3) Each competitor will be allowed only 30 minutes to grill. So save yourself the time and do as much prep-work ahead of time.
4) All contestants must present their sandwiches on the official plates provided. This is to insure that every sandwich gets it's 16 votes turned in.
On October 25th, we will all bear witness, but only the true, only the strongest, only proudest and most twisted ponies will earn the sacred right to hold a glimmering, golden trophy aloft for all to see and scream to the malignant heavens above: "I AM A FUCKING GRILLED CHEESE CHAMPION™!
Yours in the science of bread, butter and cheese,
The Grilled Cheese Invitational
For more information and your amusement, check out Normie's blog about the GCI at http://www.hellonormal.com
Want to help with the event? Of course you do! Email Normal: normal@hellonormal.com
Any other questions? Fine. Send them to: hotcheesygoodness@grilledcheeseinvitational.com
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