If a bunch of hardcore barbecuers want to get together and figure out who's the best barbecuer year in and year out, and call it a sport, why not? Why deny them that ability to call their own passion a sport if it's properly organized, has rules and clear winners and losers?

Random, but I decided to google competitive barbecuing... the internet has everything haha

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/page2/story?page=rovell/050909