My town in upstate ny Clayton Ny ...foes an anual pumpkin chunkin and kcbs style bbq contest...and I did very well last year after only 8 months of practice...well after last year i was asked to do events and such all year...and with time flying by all year we have just completed this years contest...and with no actually "grand champion award"....but I have taken first in chicken and first in ribs ...I'm so elated at my continued succses....I only had to compete with seven others in my categories, but for my second year of smoking that delicious meat i feel somewhat more of a intermediate at this point....I working on my equipment all the time As I'm a fan of the beefed up T Drum smoker...kinda like a UDS nly modified with a second horizontal barrel on top for competition... next comes an actual sanctioned kcbs competition....but I'm pumped at this new hobbies I found is proving to be a sweet and smokey addiction.....so smoke on other members..and fellow uds smokers roll that coal baby!