You haven’t registered to compete yet? Seriously!?

Listen, we both know you’ve been dreaming of a Grilled Cheese Champion Trophy for a while now, and we both know that it will be THE VERY THING that helps you get the girl/guy/promotion/new car/house/jacuzzi/winnebago/moon base you’ve been waiting all your life for. Not everyone can be a professional chef, but ANYONE can be a grilled cheese champion!

All we can do is make the playing field and determine the winners. It’s up to YOU to make yourself a GRILLED CHEESE CHAMPION!  It’s only $25 to compete and you get an official competition kit that includes a skillet, cutting board, knife and stuff. STUFF!!!! Plus, you and a friend will get a chance to fight with some of the the best cheese slingers mankind has ever known.

The clock is ticking down and it’s time to compete. Registration closes soon!

Go ahead, champ, make it happen and remember…. “VICTORY. It’s what’s for winner!™”

The 11th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational is happening on April 20th, 2013 and will be the biggest, cheesiest, MOST imperial delight to ever land on the toasted, melted shores of Los Angeles.

NOWHERE will you find more hot cheesy goodness than at the GCI, with vendors such as The Grilled Cheese Truck, Heywood Grilled Cheese, The Counter, Greenspan’s Grilled Cheese, The Oaks Gourmet, Melt It, Elbows Mac & Cheese, Cheesy Amigos, Dogtown Dogs, and many more, you’ll be able to pack your belly to bursting with hot cheesy goodness!

Plus, there’s music!  The infamous RICHARD CHEESE AND LOUNGE AGAINST THE MACHINE will be playing the GCI at 12:30pm!  ALL THIS CHEESE will definitely turn it up to 11!

There’s cooking demos, costume contests, poetry contests, cheese calling contests, music, food, beer, glory, glory and MORE glory!

What? You haven’t bought tickets yet! Well not to worry.

Tickets are on sale now! Even though we have reached capacity for official judges for 2013, don’t you worry because you can still vote in the People’s Choice awards by purchasing as many hot and fresh grilled cheese from our vendors that space and time will allow.

Our Sponsors are totally the best people EVER!

The 11th Annual GCI is presented by The Grilled Cheese Truck, the most followed food truck in the world and creator of the infamous “Cheesy Mac & Rib,” a powerhouse sandwich with Sharp Cheddar Cheese, House-smoked BBQ Pork, Southern-style Macaroni & Cheese and Caramelized Onions on French Bread.  At the event, you can participate in their “MotherLoaded Eating contest, which takes place at 4:20pm. Enter the contest here!

Our exclusive cheese sponsor, CABOT CREAMERY, has teamed up with our bread sponsor La Brea Bakery and will be providing samples of grilled cheese made from award-winning cheddar and other delicious cheeses.  We also have free samples from Boulder Canyon potato chips, Kruegermann Pickles and Jarritos soda pops!

Visit the fundraiser Beer Garden curated courtesy of Beer Belly to get tastes from New Belgium Brewing, Lagunitas Brewing, Sierra Nevada and more. Proceeds from the beer garden benefit the Rotary Club of Los Angeles.

We’ve pulled out all the stops for this year and it’ll be one for the record books. On 4/20, there’s only one place to be and that’s at the 11th Annual Grilled Cheese Invitational!

Yours in bread, butter, cheese, and victory,

Tim Walker

Chief Instigator & Founder

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