Fast Eddie’s Fine Swine, a local competition cook team will compete in the 2012 World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest in Memphis, Tenn.

Fast Eddie’s Fine Swine is led by pitmasters Justin Hembree, of Hendersonville, who is Tryon’s Town Manager, and Eddie Smith, who is the Deputy City Manager for Kannapolis.

During the Milledgeville, Georgia’s Deep Roots festival held on Oct. 22, Fast Eddie’s Fine Swine were finalist in the pork shoulder category with a second and third finish overall. The wins secured the event’s “passdown” slot to represent the Deep Roots festival in Memphis next May.

Memphis in May’s World Championship Barbecue Cooking Contest will be held May 17-19, 2012 at Tom Lee Park in Memphis, Tennessee. Hundreds of teams will compete for over $110,000 in prizes and supreme bragging rights.  The event is recognized as the world championship of competitive barbecue.