Last year the Ques Brothers surprised folks by taking home a third place trophy in the shoulder category in just their second year in competition. This year, the size of their team has more than doubled to 76 members.

“Last year everyone on other teams were coming over to our booth and they had so much fun they joined,” said Mike “Mikey” King.

They’ve created a booth that looks like Chile, from Eastern Island moai (don’t call them Tiki heads!) in the front to a beach in the back. They’ve got a movie screen set up and the folks from the Center from Southern Folklore will be showing live concert videos of Memphis musicians tonight (and other videos throughout the festival).

This is one of the teams I’ll be following over the next couple of days. They placed 12th the first year and then took the third place trophy last year, so they’s planning on a big win this year.

“If you just keep following the line, we’re going to take all of it this year,” said team member Christopher Blank. –Jennifer Biggs