World Food Championships Blogger Summit Contest
Scheduled to occur right before the ultimate food fight in Kissimmee, Fla., the World Food Championships and Yummie Nation have teamed together to produce the most unique Food Blogger Summit yet! Designed to parallel and kick off Food Sport's biggest tournament of the year, 50 exclusive Bloggers who are ready to roll out their pens and put on their aprons are being invited to throw it down in the Opening Round of WFC. The fun begins Nov. 2 and culminates with a battle in Kenmore Kitchen Coliseum on Nov. 4. Let's see who can handle the heat!
This fun challenge pits the pen against the pin and the recipe against the mixers as the 50 selected bloggers put their skills on the line for bragging rights and cash prizes!
A day-long tutorial in the Champion’s Classroom on DAY 1 will teach the 50 Summit attendees the art of food sport and the path of a successful champion when it comes to lasting sponsorships, social platform communications and networking via today’s Instagram, Twitter and Periscope platforms. They will get the inside scoop on competing like a champ from our Food Sport gurus!
On DAY 2, the 50 Summit attendees will shuttled to the most interesting culinary headquarters of the central Florida region, where they will be wined and dined in exciting venues with menus distinctive to the area.
And on DAY 3 they will get up close and personal with the DNA of the World Food Championships, as they enter the arena to prepare a special recipe in a challenge that can win them prizes and prestige. Afterwards, while the judges determine he winning recipes, they'll leave in the welcoming arms of Experience Kissimmee to see the community that is a leading destination for Florida travel.
Finally, the evening of DAY 3 will include the bloggers own award ceremony at the official Kick-Off party for the World Food Championships, where hundreds of food sport champions, sponsors, judges and volunteers will gather to congratulate the bloggers and get ready themselves for a week of food competitions like never before!
The only question is....where will YOU be Nov. 2-4?
Will YOU be at the World Food Championships Blogger Summit?
Are YOU the writer ready to put YOUR skills to the test?
If you're up to the challenge, send us your application NOW!
Because only 50 Bloggers will make it....and we can't wait to see who wins the First Annual Food Blogger Challenge!
In no more than 750 words, tell us your story!
1) How
did you get interested in blogging about food?
2) What
is the key to your success as an influencer in food media?
3) Have
you had experience as a food competitor? If not, what intrigues you about food competitions?
4) What
food do you specialize on your blog? Are you a vegan, Vegetarian, Fan of Bacon,
a Sausage-a-tarian? Love BBQ and stop writing about it? Tell us all about your
food point of view.
5) How
do you feel about competing in the First Annual Blogger Invitational
Championship? Are you nervous? Feeling confident? Will YOU be the first to win
the Food Blogger Championship at the World Food Championships in Kissimmee,
Fla.?!
Ready....Set.....Write!
Application Deadline: ASAP
Admission Notifications: Immediately
Where to Submit:
Give us your 750-word application along with the general form information by going to:
www.worldfoodchampionships.com/getinvolved
The Fine Print
Seats in FoodFightWrite Bloggers Summit are extremely limited. By submitting your application you are indicating both your enthusiastic interest in attending and your assurance that you will participate in the entire three days of Summit activity!
A Few Words about Finances:
There is NO Charge for FoodFightWrite registration this year.
Each participant will be responsible for travel and hotel expenses.
World Food Championships and Yummie Nation encourage all participants to take advantage of the negotiated room rates at
The Melia: worldfoodchampionships.com/hotels.
Accommodations can be easily extended for those staying on for 2015 World Food Championships.
Saucy Mama is Presenting Sponsor at FoodFightWrite
Saucy Mama has become the
presenting sponsor of the first food competition for bloggers at
FoodFightWrite, the second annual blogging component of the World Food
Championships.
"The Barhyte Specialty
Foods brand, Saucy Mama, is a growing pantry of ‘must have’ sauces and flavors
for all sorts of chefs and home cooks,” said Suzie “Saucy Mama” Barhyte, head
of product development for Saucy Mama.
Mike McCloud, CEO of World
Food Championships, scheduled for Nov 3 – 10 in Kissimmee, Fla., said that
Saucy Mama discovered the World Food Championships when two things happened in
2013.
“First, one of our
contestants became the runner up in a Saucy Mama contest and asked the brand if
they would sponsor her in the sandwich category at the World Food
Championships,” he explained, “and second, the Saucy Mama crew came to the
event and saw for themselves what a major foodie event World Food Championships
has become.”
Barhyte said that Saucy Mama
has remained true to its Oregon-based roots of being a “mom and pop” store through
its Sauce My Shelves program, which garners a grassroots following to encourage
favorite stores to carry the brand.
“People across the food
competition world are seeing the potential of using our unique flavors as the
secret weapons of their recipes,” she added.
McCloud said that “seeing is
believing” and that an onsite visit set the stage for Saucy Mama to become a
key sponsor on the blogger side of WFC. Scheduled to start right before the
main event, the blogger summit will last for three days, Nov 2 – 4, and
culminate with the blogger cooking contest.
“We knew that the Bloggers
Summit competition would be a perfect fit for these distinctive blends of
spices and sauces as our bloggers set down their pens and throw on their aprons
to show off their cooking talents,” McCloud said.
Slightly modified from last
year, FoodFightWrite is now an invitational event that will feature 50
well-established food bloggers, who will be treated at no charge to a day of
learning, a day of travel and discovery and a final day of competition.
“It is one thing to write
about food sport, but it’s hard to really appreciate it until you’ve thrown
your culinary skill on the line,” McCloud observed.
FoodFightWrite is the first
competition to take place in the 2015 World Food Championships Kenmore Kitchen
Arena. Winners of the First Annual Saucy Mama Blogger Challenge will be
announced at the Kick-Off Reception for the World Food Championships on
Wednesday, Nov. 4. The public is invited to watch the Bloggers compete for
bragging rights and cash prizes beginning at 11 a.m. in downtown Celebration,
the heart of Kissimmee, Fla.
About Barhyte Specialty Foods – Barhyte
Specialty Foods, based out of Pendleton, Oregon, has roots dating back 200
years and 6,000 miles away in Germany, where Jacobus Barhyte first created a
sweet-and-sour mustard that he brought to the US. Many generations later,
Jan and Susan Barhyte began selling mustard from the original recipe, as well
as other signature creations, through their Swift and Martin Station Deli.
Thanks to overwhelming demand, the family launched their own manufacturing
operation in 1977. Today, the company offers more than 65 award-winning
mustards, marinades, sauces, and other condiments through the Barhyte Specialty
Foods and the Saucy Mama brand, as well as through co-branded and private label
relationships.
You know you want to stay here!
World Food Championships and Yummie Nation encourage all participants to take advantage of the negotiated room rates at
The Melia:
Accommodations can be easily extended for those staying on for
2015 World Food Championships.
Each Food Fight Write participant will be responsible for travel and hotel expenses, but there is NO Charge for Blogger Summit registration this year.
Want to be at the FoodFightWrite Bloggers Summit?
First 50 Applicants Will Have Fee Waived for Conference!
Apply NOW!
Here’s how.
First 50 Applicants Will Have Fee Waived for Conference!
Apply NOW!
Here’s how.
In addition to the traditional
information, we are asking each applicant to submit a “Blog” post in which you
tell us your story in 750 words or less, making sure to answer these questions:
1) How
did you get interested in blogging about food?
2) What
is the key to your success as an influencer in food media?
3) Have
you had experience as a food competitor? If not, what intrigues you about food competitions?
4) What
food do you specialize on your blog? Are you a vegan, Vegetarian, Fan of Bacon,
a Sausage-a-tarian? Love BBQ and stop writing about it? Tell us all about your
food point of view.
5) How
do you feel about competing in the First Annual Blogger Invitational
Championship? Are you nervous? Feeling confident? Will YOU be the first to win
the Food Blogger Championship at the World Food Championships in Kissimmee,
Fla.?!
Once you’ve written your “post” go to worldfoodchampionships.com/foodfightwrite
to submit and post as part of your
application – Hope to see you in Florida in November.
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