Crisfield Oyster Festival & Toy Run
Featuring McTavish Market
November 30th, 2013 noon
(Rain date Sunday, December 1)
Motorcycles meet up at in the designated area of the Fruitland Walmart parking lot around noon. With a State
escort, enjoy the back roads ride along the Bay down to the town of Crisfield where FOOD, MUSIC,
SHOPPING abound. All toys and donations are collected and distributed locally to needy children. There will
be oyster shucking contest, oysters all kinds of ways,market place with holiday vendors, art work, and of course
holiday cheer! This is a great time to help a community that desperately needs it. Come on out and BUY
LOCAL!!! And enjoy the chance to make a child’s Christmas a little bit brighter! EAT LOCAL OYSTERS!
RSVP TO:
friendsofcrisfield@yahoo.com
443 783-5705.
Crafters book your table space ($20)
Oyster Shuckers call or email for registration
Oyster Stew entries call or email for registration
FB: https://www.facebook.com/events/450946501683721/
Whether you own a motorcycle or not, come on out and have fun! Enjoy a great ride STARTING at 11am
Fruitland Walmart and ending at Blue Crab Café in Crisfield on 8th St.Oyster Shucking Contest 1:30 ($300
Prizes!), Oyster Stew Cook-Off 2:30,
Fritters,Shooters,Steamed,HalfShell, GREAT unique gifts & market, along with festivities and entertainment to
celebrate the spirit of giving to a child
IN OUR LOCAL COMMUNITY.
This event is sponsored by:
(YOUR BUSINESS HERE)
Crisfield Police Department
Reynolds Excavating
Crisfield Pizza Shoppe
Crisfield Oyster Shucking Competition Rules
All participants must fill out a registration form and submit a $10 entrance fee. Please submit it
before 12 pm on Nov 20, 2013. Event organizers will confirm entry with participants through email
by Nov 25, 2013. Participants must sign in by 12:30pm at Blue Crab Café, shucking competition
starts at 1:30.
Maximum of 6 participants based on a first come, first serve basis.
Prizes
•
Picture and recognition in the 2014 Festival program and other marketing
materials as deemed appropriate by the festival committee
•
Included in media releases and media relations relevant to the title for one year
1st place: $150
2nd place: $100
3rd place: $50
The Contest
The contest starts at 2:30 p.m. (time subject to change) on the deck at Blue Crab Café on 8 th Street in
Crisfield, MD
Judges
We are extremely happy to welcome our three judges this year including:
1) Jim Tawes, Tawes Real Estate
2) Danny Thompson, Somerset Economic Development
3) Billiejo Chandler, Wedding Caterer and Pizza Shoppe
Oysters
Each contestant will receive 14 to open and have to present only 12.
Tools
Judges must approve hand wear, shucking knives and any related equipment at the time of sign in.
Competitors may wear finger stalls or gloves and may use towels and/or boards to hold oysters in
place (the festival will not supply any equipment and must be brought by each competitor). Each
competitor may carry up to two shucking knives in case of breakage. Competitors may also bring their
own ‘box’ to shuck on to elevate the space in which they shuck.
Presentation
Each contestant will receive a platter of coarse salt at the beginning on which to present the shucked
oysters.
Time keeping
Each participant will have a separate timekeeper. There will be one Chief timekeeper.
The participant will poise his/her shucking knife at head height to indicate readiness.
At a signal by the MC, all timekeepers will simultaneously start their watches and all participants will
start shucking.
When a participant has completed shucking and has arranged 12 oysters to his/her satisfaction,
he/she will either tap the table or raise both hands overhead and step back from the shucking table.
The timekeeper will stop his watch immediately. The participant may not touch the tray of oysters
after he/she has signaled their completion.
Each timekeeper reports his/her competitor to the Chief timekeeper who records each participant’s
time on each official score sheet.
Scoring/Penalties
Each competitor’s overall score will be a combination of shucking time, shucked appearance,
presence of shell, grit, broken shell cup, meat cut, etc. Judges will add seconds to each competitor’s
shucking time according to the following schedule.
1. The following conditions render an oyster un-presentable and subject to the following
penalties:
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sec/oyster
Un-presented (less than 12 opened oysters on the completed platter) – 30
•
Not presented upright or meat cut out of shell – 10 sec/oyster
•
Presented on a flat shell – 10 sec/oyster
•
Presented with blood on oyster meat – 30 sec/oyster
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Presented with a broken (in two pieces) under shell – 10 sec/oyster
2. Each oyster presented with shell, grit, mud or other extraneous material incurs a penalty of
2 seconds.
3. Each oyster presented with the meat cut or mangled incurs a penalty of 2 seconds.
4. Each oyster incompletely severed from the shell incurs a penalty of 3 seconds per oyster.
Total Scoring
The judges will provide the Chief timekeeper with each competitor’s penalty scores and the Chief
timekeeper adds this number to the actual shucking time.
The Winner
Total time (shucking time plus penalty time) for each competitor is tallied by the Chief timekeeper and the scores given to
the MC to announce.
The winner is the competitor with the lowest total seconds and has not been
disqualified.
Disqualification
Disqualification could result from a unanimous decision of the judges and timekeepers that the competitor:
•
Did not comply with the rules of the contest
•
Distracted a fellow competitor by vocal or physical interference during shucking
•
Committed a flagrant and unseemly impropriety during the competition
FRIENDS OF CRISFIELD
Oyster Stew Cook Off Rules & Information
Saturday, November 30, 2013
Noon to 4pm
8th Street, Crisfield, Maryland Blue Crab Café
Entries should be judged based on: taste, aroma, color, consistency. Maximum entries allowed Is 8 so first
applications received will be accepted. There is a $5 entry fee due at the time of registration.
1.
Entries must be one gallon and be in a crock pot.
2.
Entries will be accepted from 10:00 a.m. until 11:00 a.m. at the above location.
3.
Every entry must have a big spoon or ladle.
4.
Please bring an extension cord in order to plug in your crock pot.
5.
Please do not put names in a visible spot on pots, lids, spoons, ladles, hot pads, etc.
6.
They will be labeled with a number so that the judging can be fair.
7.
Tasting tickets sell for $1 each or 7 for $5 Judging will take place at 12:30 p.m.
The entry with the most tickets in their jar WINS!
_____________________Tear Off and Submit___________________________________
Prizes and/or ribbons will be awarded at 3:30; Winners do not need to be present.
Pre-registration Information Below is required and please attach the recipe.
Name: ______________________________________________________
Phone: ___________________ Email: ___________________________
Name of Recipe: ______________________________________________