Baggin & Braggin Corn Hole Tournament

Name: Baggin & Braggin Corn Hole Tournament
Start: 2025-10-11T12:00:00-04:00
Location: 1 Cherry Street, Hampton, GA, United States, Georgia 30228

Schedule

Sat, 11 Oct, 2025 at 12:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1 Cherry Street, Hampton, GA, United States, Georgia 30228 | Hampton, GA

Rutabaga’s Market & Café is hosting our 1st annual Cornhole Tournament & Chili Cook off on October 11th. We are looking forward to bringing the community together for a great day of fun that includes cornhole, a chili cookoff and live entertainment!
Chili cookoff starts at 9am. Cornhole starts at noon. Live music
with "Diplomats of the Beat"
Cornhole Prizes:
🥇 1st Place – $250
🥈 2nd Place – $175
🥉 3rd Place – $100
Cornhole Registration link:
https://peachstatecornhole.leagueapps.com/.../4724597...

The Chili Cookoff will start at 7am for participants and 9:30am for the public. The Cornhole Tournament will start at noon. The Cost of the Chili Cookoff is $50 per team (no more than 4 per team), and the cost of the Cornhole Tournament will be $50 early registration or $60 day of (2Person Team). Registration link: https://square.link/u/2FabiU2p

We also are looking for Sponsors for the Cornhole Tournament. If your interested please follow the link: https://square.link/u/XfwQbvkG
Rules for Chili Cookoff
The Rules
• You must have a team name of your choice.
• We encourage you to have signage with the team name.
• Teams are limited to a maximum of 4 people.
• You may have pre-cooked foods such as prep (Meat, Peppers, and Onion etc.) but the chili must be made on site.
• Come prepared to cook an award-winning chili recipe plus an optional open category entry.
• The Open Category may be prepared off site. Examples include biscuits, desserts, jellies, cornbread, jalapeno poppers etc. We recommend setting aside 20 samples for your staff to try. This item needs to be ready to our staff to come by and pick-up for judging at 11:30am.
• Teams must provide all equipment & set-up including tables, tents, cookers, coolers, etc. Rutabaga’s will provide access to water. Please plan on using gas to cook. Electricity is very limited. We would love it if you decorated your space with a jalapeno theme and the team voted “Best Dressed Booth” by our staff will win a gift basket from Rutabaga’s Market & Café.
• Each team member must sign a liability waiver on the day of the competition.
• Each team may begin setting up their booth as early as 7am. Gates to the public will open at 9am. Our team will come around to pick-up your chili for the judges promptly starting at 10:45, judging at 11:00a.m. so your chili needs to be in the designated container we give you by this time.
• Each team must prepare 5 gallons or more of their chili.
Judging
• Chili recipes will be judged by a panel of judges.
• The Open Category will be judged by Rutabaga’s Market & Café staff (we suggest saving 5 samples for our staff)
• People’s Choice will be judged by the crowd via a ticket placed in a container at your booth.
Awards
• First Place will receive a Metal and Apron and Chef hat for each participant and more
• Second Place will receive a Metal and Apron and Chef hat for each participant.
• Third Place will receive a Metal and Apron and Chef hat for each participant.
• People’s Choice will receive a Trophy
• Open Category will receive a Trophy
• Best Dressed Booth will receive a gift basket from Rutabaga’s Market & Café.
The judges will be looking for the following general attributes or characteristics of an amazing chili:
• Taste – Above all else, this is the most important factor. The taste should consist of the combination of meat, peppers, spices, with the perfect blend of flavors and no particular ingredient being dominant as stated above.
• Texture and Consistency – Chili should have a good ratio of sauce to meat. It should not by dry, watery, grainy, lumpy or greasy.
• Aroma – Chili should smell good and give an indication of what’s in store when you taste it.
• Color – Chili should look appetizing. It should be a reddish-brown color over all or a verde (green chili should of course have a green color to it.
• Bite – The bite, or after taste, is the combination of heat and flavor from the selected ingredients that linger in the mouth after the chili has been eaten. Important note: Survival contest chili or chili that was created almost as a dare will lose valuable points as it is not pleasurable let alone make a meal out of. A good chili will deliver the flavor of heat without any pain or taste bud paralysis.
Chili will be judged based on what we personally believe any common random person would most likely thoroughly enjoy the experience of.
Look for cons:
• Too salty
• Not enough savor (salt) or bland
• Too runny or clean liquid/fat or water
• Too dry (not enough sauce)
• Too spicy (taste numbing or a choking hazard)
• Not enough flavor (overwhelming ingredient which over powers the whole experience)
Look for pros:
• Savory
• Perfect consistency
• Taste the flavor of the ingredients
• Texture