The British Open Free Style BBQ Championships™ Teams

The British Open BBQ Grand Champions and previous winners of the Smoke & Fire Festival BBQ competitions. They regularly compete in UK and even have competed in Kansas City BBQ Society BBQ competitions, USA.

Established in 2020, this team came second last year at the British Open BBQ Championship in what was a close-run competition. So we know they’ll be going for it this year.

A family of carnivores, forced together by a mutual love of meat, smoke and beer

The British Open Freestyle Grand Champions 2022 Shaun and Jo Benson

Hog and beyond was created by Simon Woods and Matt Briggs back in 2015. When not slaving over the smoker, Matt and Simon work for food manufacturer Cranswick PLC. Apart from their love of food, they use the street food outlet as a test bed for trialling new products at food festivals and street food events before pitching the successful ideas to retail or food service customers with the ability to give some real, from the street feedback, for new product development. Since 2015 we have recruited more BBQ enthusiasts onto the team which include Ben Croydon and Connor Berney, both development chefs for Cranswick PLC. Simon and Ben took on hundreds of the very best when they competed in the World BBQ Competition at Memphis in May in the United States in 2019.

Jack Cox and his team join us again fot this years comptition and they have a few suprise up there sleeves this year!

Garath Moore Team captain

We are the Bullet Brothers with a love of all things BBQ and weekends in fields drinking rum!

Notorious PIG are a group of backyard BBQ enthusiasts that came together through their love of grilled meat and Beer. Friends for over 25 years there’s nothing we like better than grilling and chilling around the BBQ

John Bingley and Andrew Gainey team up this yeaar so watch this space

Pit Squad BBQ is a new Essex-based team who will be competing for the first time. Based in Maldon (the home of the smoke), Chris & Brad love cooking over live fire and pride themselves on low & slow smoking – even if it means being up at 3am. They love BBQ for what it is – great food, amazing people, and being outdoors. PSBBQ are looking forward to meeting their fellow competitors, having a lot of fun, and learning lots along the way!

Insta: @pitsquadbbq

Up In Smoke is a team of 4 very good friends who collectively enjoy cooking with fire. Our team consists of Martin (The Man That Can), Lee (The Man That Can’t), George (The Man That Is Trying) and Mark (The Man That Might). We’re just your regular beer swilling and grilling dudes that also like to cook with flare.

Small bbq team who have entered 2 previous competitions, winning the chicken wing competition at London Grillstock in 2015 and coming third in UK chilli cookoff in 2017, kids have managed to prevent us entering any since…. Usually perform a lot better on the Saturday compared to Sunday as are way too drunk/hungover by then.

Team captain Louis brown