The Hot Sauce Contest is now accepting rubs!

• All entries MUST be PRE-REGISTERED by 08/01/2023
• All entries MUST be produced in North Carolina 
• All entries MUST have a professionally labeled bottle (ready for retail)  
• Each entry MUST fill out an entry form with contact information and check the “category” for entry judging  
• No entry will be accepted if “pepper extracts” are used in the ingredients
• ALL Sauce Contestants  must pre-register each bottled sauce and mail it to NC Hot Sauce Contest, 300 Williamsboro St. Oxford NC 27565 by August 1, 2023, to qualify for "blind" judging 

1. Fill out the entry form listing the category with 1 sample bottle for the sauce to be judged. 
2. The top 3 contestants in each category will be called to the Baily Farms Pepper Eating Stage where the Champion for each listed category will be announced. 
3. A cash prize of ($500) will be given to each category Champion and medals will be awarded to the 2 runner-ups in each category.
4. Sauces entered by mail AND not present at the day’s festival are limited to 1 entry per contest year Mail to: NC Hot Sauce Contest, 300 Williamsboro Street, Oxford NC 27565
5. First place Champions will receive a jpg “winner” seal in recognition as a 2022 NC Sauce Winner to add to labeling providing that sauce winner the much-deserved bragging rights as a 2022 NC Hot Sauce Winner!​   
6. Winners will be announced from the Julia Overton Main Stage. 

We will NOT accept ANY product "privately labeled" outside of North Carolina for a named NC Company or any sauces containing "pepper extract".