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People’s Choice

Taste the One Meat Challenge and Help Choose the Crowd Favorite

The People’s Choice experience is the audience-facing side of the Friday Night One Meat Challenge at Mile High BBQ Fest.

For this competition, participating teams will receive pork butt provided by the event and sponsoring partners. Teams will prepare their own version of the featured meat, and samples will be distributed to attendees as part of the People’s Choice tasting experience.

This gives festival guests the opportunity to taste competition BBQ firsthand, interact with teams, and help recognize a crowd favorite.

People’s Choice Experience Highlights

  • connected directly to the Friday Night One Meat Challenge
  • pork butt provided to participating teams
  • attendee tasting and sample distribution
  • audience voting opportunity
  • live interaction with BBQ teams
  • high-energy Friday night atmosphere
  • sponsor integration opportunities
  • live music and festival crossover traffic

How It Works

The People’s Choice experience is built around the One Meat Challenge.

Participating teams will receive a provided pork butt and prepare samples for festival attendees. Guests will have the opportunity to taste the entries and participate in the People’s Choice voting experience.

This creates a fun, interactive connection between competitors and attendees while adding a strong tasting element to the Friday night festival kickoff.

Why People’s Choice Matters

People’s Choice helps turn the competition into a live audience experience.

Instead of only watching teams compete, attendees get to:

  • taste competition BBQ
  • meet participating teams
  • compare different cooking styles
  • vote for their favorite
  • become part of the competition energy

This makes the Friday night kickoff more interactive, social, and memorable.

Sponsor & Partner Integration

The People’s Choice experience creates natural opportunities for sponsor involvement through:

  • featured pork butt sponsorship
  • branded sample distribution
  • voting experience integration
  • signage and promotional visibility
  • audience engagement activations
  • team and competitor interaction
  • social media content opportunities

This experience is especially valuable because it connects the sponsor directly to food, competition, and audience participation.

Festival Atmosphere

People’s Choice will take place within the Friday night festival environment, alongside:

  • the One Meat Challenge
  • Junior BBQ activity
  • live music
  • beer garden energy
  • competitor interaction
  • western festival atmosphere

The goal is to make Friday night feel like an exciting kickoff to the full Mile High BBQ Fest weekend.

Building a Signature Tasting Tradition

Mile High BBQ Fest is being developed as a long-term western lifestyle and entertainment festival with strong growth potential.

The People’s Choice experience is intended to become one of the festival’s most interactive food traditions by combining:

  • BBQ competition
  • tasting
  • audience voting
  • sponsor integration
  • team engagement
  • Friday night festival energy

Join the People’s Choice Experience

Additional details regarding tasting, voting, sample distribution, team participation, and sponsor involvement will continue to be added as the event develops.

For People’s Choice questions, One Meat Challenge details, or sponsorship opportunities, contact the Mile High BBQ Fest team.