The weather will be getting warm soon and it’s time to start planning for our two upcoming regionals in April, as well as the main event itself in May. The Moody Ques’ board of directors met on Sunday, February 21 and we have a few pieces of news that came out of the meeting.

First of all, congratulations to team president Clay Thompson! Clay landed a job at a logistics company in East Memphis, and started Monday, February 8. With a new job, however, comes a lack of vacation time, and Clay will not be able to take off work the entire week of BBQ Fest.

In Clay’s place, Travis from Holliday Flowers will be the driving force behind load-in and booth build activities. He would like to get a group of booth workers who can commit ahead of time to help him Saturday, May 7 through Wednesday, May 11. If you have a lot of vacation time accrued at your job, it would be a tremendous help to the team if you could take part or all of that time off and sign up to help Travis. If you can, please email moodyques@gmail.com and let Travis know we can count on you and what dates and times.

The Moody Ques are competing in the fourth annual Atoka BBQ Fest on Friday and Saturday, April 1 and 2. We have assembled a cook team of Erik, Clay, and John D, with Dusty coming late and cooking too. Team members are welcome to come Friday night, but would be better off coming during the day Saturday when there will be leftover food and it will be more of a hang out atmosphere. Here’s a Google Map of the park. Take Highway 51 north out of Memphis to get there. Atoka is about 10 minutes north of Millington.

The Southaven regional happens three weeks after Atoka, and we will update you with more information in a future post.

If you know of a potential sponsor and need a printed copy of the sponsor packet detailing what we have to offer, let us know and we will get you one (or several if you need them). If you have friends, family, or co-workers who would be interested in joining the Moody Ques as team members for 2016, let us know that too.

If you haven’t paid your team dues for 2016, now is the time! The PayPal widget on the right sidebar (if viewing on screen) or at the bottom of the page (if viewing on mobile) is ready and waiting to accept your money. If you need to mail a check, email moodyques@gmail.com and we will give you the mailing address.

Thanks everyone. It’s shaping up to be a great year!