CHILI COOKOFF

Just back from the opening.

Great job Bob!!!

Much more space to move around....and it was even level. Didn't have to watch every step.

Saw dozens of friends and acquaintances.

Seems like there's more/better food vendors.

Margarita contest was well provisioned and attended. Had to jockey to get to the servers. Even got a hug from the Just Chillin' representative.

Lots to see and buy.

Good and it seems continuous entertainment..

Might even go again tomorrow for the chili.

SunFan

Do you know when is opening time for tomorrow? Thanks

11:00 A.M. till 7:00 P.M. Saturday. Lots of parking.

SunFan

Thanks for the kudos Sunfan. Moving our venue proved to be a success albeit fraught with challenges.

With our later closing time, today's party started at 5:00pm when the Time Machine took the stage. What a great time indeed.

Saturday we have Mike & the Suspects on the main stage from 5:00pm to 7:00pm so for those who like to dance and party, best to come a little later in the day and rock with us to the end!!!!!

Thanks to everyone who attended today. It looks like we may have broken a few records. We hope to see everyone again tomorrow.

What's Sunday"s opening time. Looking forward to it. Congrats. Have a feeling my Sunday will be almost entirely fueled by coffee. I'll have a body clock to reset after the "red eye". Any coffee at the cook off ?

I worked/attended every Chili Cook Off 2003 thru 2013.....sounds like I missed the best one ever.......Kudos CB.

Deb will be there tomorrow.

We volunteered and attended Friday and it was great! I love the new venue, although it takes some getting used to if you had the old set up memorized. It's a good chance to use my few remaining brain cells. The tiangis in the back has tons of beautiful things. We are returning to party today. Oh and do some shopping.

Great work Bob and the other volunteers. I'll make it over there today to see the new layout and do some shopping.

The parade starts from Actinver Bank at 10:00 and the gates open at 11:00.

I read that all 3 days were chilli and margarita tasting but 2 people I know who went on Friday said it was only the margarita tasting going on and no chilli.

The Events calender on the Chili Cook-off website stated the margarita tasting on Friday and chili on Sat/Sun. We're going today and I have been trying to get into the calender this morning and can't because of "exceeding bandwidth"...can anyone post today's events or perhaps fix the website?

Yes, as murphy's law would have it our site went down yesterday. It is a problem with the host company. We are trying to get it fixed.

Here is the schedule:

FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 2015

11:00am - Gates open to public

11:00am - 5:00pm hourly Raffle Drawing

11:30am - Welcome

12:00pm - Margarita competitions begin in the Food Court.

12:00pm - Raffle Drawing & sponsors announcements


12:15pm - The Clovers

1:00pm - Raffle Drawing

1:15pm - TBA

2:00pm - Raffle Drawing

2:15pm - TBA

3:00pm - Raffle Drawing

3:15pm - Ballet Folklorico de los ninos de Chapala

4:00pm - Raffle Drawing

4:15pm - Moy

5:00pm - Raffle Drawing

5:15pm - 7:00pm The Time Machine (Rock & Roll)

6:00pm - Raffle Drawing

7:00pm - Gate close



SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2015

10:00am - Parade starting at Actinver Bank, Ajijic

11:00am - Official ribbon cutting ceremony

11:00am - Hourly Raffle drawings begin

11:30am - Estudio Punta Y Tacon

12:00pm - Chili competitions begin in the Food Court

12:15pm - Raffle Drawing & sponsors announcements

12:30pm - Jerry Mayfield

1:15pm - Art Auction

2:00pm - Raffle Drawing

2:15pm - Lake Chapala Ballroom & Dancefit

3:00pm - Raffle Drawing

3:15pm - Mariachi Centanario

4:00pm - Raffle Drawing


4:15pm - Loui Andrade


5:00pm Raffle Drawing

5:15pm - 7:00pm Mike & the Suspects (Rock & Roll)

6:00pm Raffle Drawing

7:00pm - Gate closed



SUNDAY, MARCH 1, 2015

11:00am - Gate open to public

11:00am - 4:00pm Hourly Raffle drawings begin

11:15am - Blue Velvet

12:00pm - Chili competitions begin in the Food Court

12:00pm - Raffle Drawing

12:15pm - Ballet folklorico Xicansi

1:00pm - Raffle Drawing and sponsors announcement

1:15pm - Baile Danzon

2:00pm - Raffle Drawing

2:15pm - Lake Chapala Ballroom & Dancefit

3:00pm - Last Raffle Drawing

3:15pm - Psychqstasia

4:00pm - Chili & Margarita Competition Awards Ceremony

5:00pm- Gates close


SEE YOU NEXT YEAR!!!!!!

Thanks CBob....

Was there for the first time yesterday. Great event. We will be attending all three days. Kudos to CBob for organizing it and the volunteers. Don't miss it!

Posted the schedules on TOB with proper attribution to CBob of course!

We went over this afternoon, the Chili Cookoff was mobbed! Looks like we have a winner this year. Nice work volunteers!

Laura still has great chili, and the Hamburg's with fried onions reminded me of the PNE/CNE, had great fun manning the beer tent. had to wait until 6:00 for my first rum, great job to all the organizers.

Another fabulous day on Saturday. We had a record attendance. We had 400 people go through the chili competition in under 2 hours. Today's competition starts at noon and I recommend you get there early to get a taste

The website is working again. www.mexicannationalchilicookoff.com

Todays headliner is Psychostasia. They will be on the main stage at 3:15pm.

Hope to see everyone there again today.

What a great last day!!!!

Congratulations to our competition winners!!!

Margarita
1st place - Huggy Margarita (Just Chillin)
2nd place - Margarita Cantina
3rd place - Bomberos Margarita

Chili
1st place - El Jardin de Ninette
2nd place - Los dos Chileans
3rd place - Havana Chili

Just a side note, the kids from Just Chillin donated their $5,000 peso grand prize to the children's art program at the LCS. What an amazing act of goodwill and kindness!!!!!

See you next year!!!!

LOVED the new location. Huge improvement. I only had time to spin through there for an hour today, but it appeared to me to be going really well. Congrats to all the people involved who put in so much work. Pat yourselves on the back. Good job.

My wife worked for Love In Action and reports that they did really well and the crowds were great this year.

I have to say, though, some of the bands weren't so hot. For example, the Mariachis.

The new layout is excellent although the Tianquis seemed somewhat out of the flow and poorly attended. The other booths were pretty busy.

All in all, a great job by the Board and volunteers!

If anyone has some good pictures of this years event that we can add to our website and FaceBook page please e-mail them to me or send me a link to your upload site.

So who won (besides all the vendors & attendees)?

It is listed right above your post here!!!!!!!!!