Video: North Miss. Residents Compete for Best BBQ Title

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ITAWAMBA COUNTY, Miss. (WCBI) — For a fourth straight year, barbeque aficionados descended on the Jamie Whitten Center and campgrounds in Fulton to strut their stuff.

Members of Hale’s BBQ of Fulton were among the teams taking part in the annual Stand By Your Grill BBQ Championship.

62 teams are taking part, including about 50 first-time teams.

Thousands of dollars in awards are being given out this weekend.

Itawamba County Community Development Director Kim Graham says this event is sanctioned by the Kansas City BBQ Society – the world’s largest organization of barbeque and grilling enthusiasts.

“KCBS is a great organization and they run everything top notch – the judges, the teams, the events, ” she says. “They have a handle on all that. They make sure that every event is a quality event.”

Graham says the two-day event is a boom for the Fulton and Itawamba County, as all the hotels in town have been sold out.