We had 28 teams compete in  the 2011 Annual Barbecue Bonspiel,  but it was the "Off Kilter Curlers"  from the Chicago Curling Club that grabbed top honors that weekend.   Overall, the team uniforms, team names, great curling attitude, and great curling all made it a very special weekend for our club.

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16 teams traveled to the city of fountains,  home of great jazz/blue and barbecue.  They included our farthest travelers (Long Island Curling Club)  from New York.  Closest Travelers (Aksarben Curling Club) in Nebraska. as well as curlers from the  Broadmoor Curling Club (CO) Denver Curling Club (CO), St. Louis Curling Club (IL), Fargo Curling Club(ND), Madison Curling Club(WI),  Dallas/Fort Worth Curling Club (TX), Houston Curling Club (TX) Dakota Curling Club(MN) St. Paul Curling Club (MN), Circle City Curling Club (IN), and 3 whole teams from the Oklahoma Curling Club,

Dave Huston and Elmar Arians provide good cooking all weekend.

The winners and runners up were

• 1st Event Winner  - Off Kilter Curlers (Chicago)  Douglass Boyd,  Susan McDonald, Colin Rittgers,  Michele Rittgers
• 1st Event Runner Up  - Juggerknotts (Dallas/Fort Worth) Jeff Knott,  John Lambert,  Liana Knott, Robert Mikaloff (KC)
• 2nd Event Winner  -  Regina Rangers (Kansas City)  Glenn Schmidt, Mike Erin, Jeff Bird, and Joe Van Amberg
• 2nd Event Runner Up  - Hackers (Kansas City) Bill McBride, Darin Traff, Patrick Wietekamp and Dave Arnold.
• 3rd Event Winner  - House Cleaning(Oklahoma)  Jacob Ingalls, Bruce Maelzer, Jonathan Havercroft, Chris Johnson
  
• 3rd Event Runner Up  - N'Oh Henry! (Kansas City) John Taylor, Daryl Hunt, Tracey Taylor, Ted Brown
• 4th  Event Winner  - Sweeping Penguins (Kansas City) Chris Nazar, Donald Baker, Kyle Baker, Derrick Mahoney
• 4th Event Runner Up  - Taken for Granite (Kansas City) Doug Linder, Jon Nelson, Jeff Keal, Julie Stengle
• Bronze Event Runner Up  - 3 Davis and Dave (Denver, St. Louis, Aksarben) Brett Davis (Den) , David Suhr (Den) Keefe Davis (St.L), Nick Davis (Aks)
• Bronze Runner Up  - Dakota Cubs (Dakata CC) Ryan Claussen,  Matt Heile, Tom Berg,  James Makylla (KC)