Yep. We are in.
Ladenna: I was thinking about entering the salsa competition as well as the chili. I talked with Ron and he advised we could add that to our previous registration and I would pay the fees. I will need to get an ICS number so if it is okay with you I will get that and try to meet you at the Makerspace to change the registration and make the payment. It might mean $250.00 for the club if I should win by some miracle. Let me know if you are okay with this.
Iām sorry, I havenāt been paying a lot of attention to this thread
because I am unable to help with the event this year. However, I do have
a bit of experience with this particular chili cook off. One thing that
I wanted to point out is that a large part of the event is the āpeopleās
choiceā category. This is where people come and sample your chili and if
they like it, they can āvoteā for you (usually by putting a bean in a
jar or something). This is separate from the judging.
The peopleās choice part of this is really the most important with
regard to exposure for MakeICT. The way to maximize this effect is to
not run out of chili too quickly. Being one of the few booths that still
has chili left as others are running out is an effective way to stand out.
as 10 gallons of chili for serving to the crowd.
Steve
Thatās weird. The last line of my previous message got partially
deletedā¦ What I said was:
as 10 gallons of chili for serving to the crowd.
Steve
It got deleted again. Iām posting via the email gateway, let me try it from the web interfaceā¦
From my experience a number of years ago, Iād recommend having as much as 10 gallons of chili for serving to the crowd.
Thanks for the input Steve. We are entering the Chili for Charities competition which means we will not be entered in the Peoples Choice. I am thinking about entering the Salsa competition and would have Salsa at the booth for sampling. I thought that would be a way to get more people to the booth without having to make 10 gallons of chili or more.
It has been a while since I participated as a contestant (Iāve been a
judge the last few years), but as I remember it, you donāt āenterā the
peopleās choice. Everyone is effectively in that category by default.
Anyway, your mileage may vary and and if there is interest in doing it
next year, I might be able to help more too.
Steve
Steve,
I donāt know what the rules were before. But
āYour Chili for Charity can be prepared ahead of time and brought to the Cookoff. But if you cook on site and follow the rules, you can also enter in any of the other categories too. The only category Charities donāt get to enter is Sharon Sawyerās Peopleās Choice, but the prize for the best Chili for Charity is big enough to make up for that.
With more than 8,000 in attendance, the Wichita Wagonmastersā Downtown Chili Cookoff is a great opportunity to promote your charity and its mission.ā
The Salsa sounds like a great idea Robert. I will be at the space most of Sunday (from about 3:30 till we quit working on the wheelchair thing)ā¦
Does 3:00-3:30 seem like enough time to get that fixed? Is that a good time for you?
You are correct. That is totally different than it has been prior to
this year. It also doesnāt make senseā¦ I mean, if you arenāt going to
be serving chili, then nobody is going to come to your booth. But if you
arenāt eligible for the peopleās choice award, then why should you be
serving chili?
Anyway, good luck on the judging part of things, and it will be
interesting to see how it turns out.
Steve
Ladenna: yes I can be there at 3 and that should be plenty of time to get it done.
Cool. I tested my new canopy and I was able to put it up by myselfā¦ so we have that 10x10 booth ready to go.
How many tables would we like? I donāt have a propane burner, but do have a little propane grillā¦ are we going to need something like that to keep the chili hot?
Three tables should be plenty, two across the front of the booth and one in back for displays. I bought a small butane grill so we should be set for that. We can discuss other stuff for the booth this afternoon.
Ladenna: I had another idea for the booth. Can I get a copy of the photos that run on the web site? I have a laptop I can bring and I thought we could run the photos on it to show more of the spaces. If not I may be able to take some and have them scrolling.
I am sure Kim could probably get us the photosā¦ Paul did a 360 walkthrough of the spaceā¦ I wonder if we could play that? (Too bad we donāt have some virtual reality glassesā¦lol)
I have one of those frames, that plays photos if you want to borrow that.
Malissa: How big is your frame? Is it battery powered?
itās 8x10 and has a plug, no battery.
Thanks Malissa, we wonāt have any electrical power in the booth but we should be able to us my lap top on battery. I was wondering though if you had something from textiles we could display in the booth to promote your space. It would be cool if we could use the manikin with something made in the space on it. If not the manikin anything that shows what you can do would be great. We will have it back Saturday night.
I have a dress In donating to the Auction I can place on the mannequin Friday.