Three levels — upgrade anytime, pay only the difference
Event Listing-Daily
$14.99 USD
or $37.99/year annual
List your event and make it searchable.
- Public event page on search & the map
- Date, location, flyer image & contact
- Optional link to your own outside sign-up form
- No per-team fees
Not included
- Online team registration & approvals
- Scoring, judges & results
- Event P&L & Budget tool
- Rules Packet, Flyer Maker, QR rib cards
- Organizer Resources: user guides, printables & sample flyers
- Results emails & Hall of Champions
- Team account benefits for teams (online sign-up, saved results, career stats & standings)
Scoring Only-Daily
$29.99 USD
or $74.99/year annual
Score your cookoff and drop the unreliable scoring spreadsheets. You handle sign-ups.
- Everything in Event Listing-Daily
- No more unreliable scoring spreadsheets: results are tallied with no math errors
- Pick a Scoring Style (KC-Style, Steak, Chili, People's Choice)
- Add teams manually, organizers enter all scores
- Automatic results, ties & tiebreakers
- Print results or Email to Me (after Finalize & Lock)
- Results stay private unless you publish them
- $1.00 per entry, charged when you Finalize & Lock (People's Choice & Kid's Que free)
Not included
- Online team registration & approvals (teams always pay the organizer directly)
- Results emailed to every team
- Event P&L & Budget tool
- Rules Packet & sign-off, Flyer Maker, QR rib cards, PC Tracker
- Receipts, Clone to next year, judge cards & People's Choice ballots
- Organizer Resources: user guides, printables & sample flyers
- Team account benefits for teams (online sign-up, saved results, career stats & standings)
Full Organizer-Daily
$44.99 USD
or $112.99/year annual
The complete event platform. No spreadsheets, no paper math.
Most popular- Everything in Scoring Only-Daily (organizers enter all scores)
- Online team registration with approve / decline
- Results emailed to every team + Hall of Champions
- Teams get the full benefit of their EasyCookoff team accounts only on this level: online sign-up, results saved to their history, career stats & standings
- Rules Packet with team sign-off
- Built-in Event P&L & Budget tool: budget vs actual, sponsors, profit & break-even, Excel download
- Flyer Maker, QR rib cards, PC Tracker
- Receipts, Clone to next year & all printables (judge cards, People's Choice ballots)
- Organizer Resources unlocked: every user guide, the worked rules example & sample flyers
- Competition Entry Fees: entries 1–12 $2.00 each, 13–24 $1.50 each, 25 and up $1.00 each (People's Choice & Kid's Que free)
Upgrades: Listing → Scoring Only-Daily $14.99 · Scoring Only-Daily → Full Organizer-Daily $14.99 · Listing → Full Organizer-Daily $30. Your event, teams and scores carry over. Competition Entry Fees apply only to Full Organizer-Daily events.
Annual plans & add-ons
Run several events a year? Pay once for the year instead of per event. Per-entry fees apply ($0 through May 31, 2027 “limited time”; regular fees from June 1, 2027).
Event Listing
$14.99 per event
$37.99 / year
Scoring Only
$29.99 per event + $1 per entry
$74.99 / year + $1 per entry
Full Organizer
$44.99 per event + entry fees
$112.99 / year + entry fees
Cooking class / demo
$29.99 + $1 per participant
$74.99 / year + $1 per participant
BidGive Pitside auction (add-on, any level)
$29.99 → $0.00, FREE through May 31, 2027 “limited time” “limited time”
$74.99 / year
BidGive Pitside: winners pay the organizer directly — EasyCookoff never collects, holds or distributes auction money.
Full Organizer-Daily: One Activation. Unlimited Cookoffs & Divisions.
Run your whole competition day — 4-meat, ribs, steak, chili, ancillary, Kid's Que, People's Choice — for one $44.99 activation plus small per-team sign-up fees.
Launch offer: activation is FREE for events activated before May 31, 2027 — you only pay per-team sign-up fees.
Full Organizer-Daily — $44.99 per event + per-team sign-up fees
- Unlimited cookoffs, divisions & teams
- KC-Style, Steak, Chili & People's Choice Ticket Counts — pick a Scoring Style per cookoff
- Team registration with approve / decline
- The only level where teams get the full benefit of their team accounts — online sign-up, saved results, career stats & standings
- Live leaderboard, Champions Cards & Hall of Champions
- Every print form: Champions Form, Read Order, score sheets, payout ledger
- Built-in Event P&L & Budget tool (Full Organizer-Daily only): budget vs actual, sponsors, profit, break-even & Excel download
- Flyer Maker and QR rib cards
- Rules Packet builder — auto-filled, printable & publishable, with team sign-off
- Branded payment receipts by email, with a printable Receipts list per event
- Clone to next year in one tap, with anniversary reminders
- Organizer Resources unlocked: every user guide, printable judge cards & People's Choice ballots, the worked rules example and sample flyers
Full Organizer-Daily: pay for competition entries
Competition Entry Fee
A competition entry is one team entering one meat or ancillary category — it is not per team. One team entering Chicken + Ribs + Pork + Brisket = 4 competition entries.
Rates stack — each lower rate applies only to the entries in its tier. The more entries you have, the lower your average cost per entry.
People's Choice / Ribfest tallies and Kid's Que entries are FREE when your event also has a paid cookoff — if they're the only cookoff scheduled, each team entry is charged at the normal rate.
Small community cookoff
10 competition entries · e.g. 10 teams × 1 rib contest
≈ $6.50 per entry, all-in
Typical BBQ competition
50 competition entries · e.g. 12 teams × 4 meats + 2 ancillary
≈ $2.26 per entry, all-in
Large competition
100 competition entries · e.g. 25 teams × 4 meats
≈ $1.63 per entry, all-in
Teams pay nothing to use EasyCookoff
Team captains sign up free and invite their team. Teams only ever pay the organizer's own entry fee, using whatever method the organizer offers.
Team Sign-Up- Free account & team profile
- BBQ Ticker cook timer & step tracker for up to 6 meats — free for every account through May 31, 2027 “limited time” (May sign-ups: 30 days), then $5.99/month or $59.99/year per team, AI pitmaster cook coach included
- Invite unlimited team members
- Free event search & Team Finder
- Scores & results after every event
- Career history & milestone alerts
- Add past off-platform cookoffs: places won, prize money, flyer & award photos
- Season trophy shelf on your team page, printable for any year
Organizer-Controlled Payments
Organizers choose how they collect team entry fees — Venmo, Cash App, Zelle, Wise, PayPal, cash or check — and approve each team's entry in the app. EasyCookoff provides the registration and competition tools; it never holds or touches team money.
Spreadsheet vs EasyCookoff
Scoring Only-Daily ($29.99 + $1 per entry) and Full Organizer-Daily ($44.99 + per-team sign-up fees) both replace unreliable scoring spreadsheets. Here are the math errors you avoid:
| Spreadsheet | EasyCookoff | |
|---|---|---|
| Adding up scores | Hand-typed formulas that break when a row is inserted or a cell is overwritten | Totals are calculated automatically, the same way every time |
| Judge weighting | Easy to forget or mis-apply appearance / taste / tenderness weights | Weights and rules for the Scoring Style you pick (KC-Style, Steak, Chili) are built in |
| Ties & tiebreakers | Settled by hand, often under time pressure at awards | Tiebreakers applied automatically and shown on the results |
| Wrong team, wrong box | Copy-paste mistakes move a score to the wrong team | Each score is saved to the right team and logged in the Score Log |
| Last-minute changes | No record of who changed what | Finalize & Lock, plus a logged reason for every unlock |
| Awards & printouts | Retyped into a separate document | Champions Form, Read Order and results print in one tap |
Live fee estimator
How many judged meat or ancillary entries do you expect? (e.g. 20 teams × 4 meats = 80 entries)
Count total team entries, not teams
- Each contest a team enters counts as an entry. A team entering your rib cookoff and your ancillary cookoff = 2 entries.
- A team entering a 4-meat cookoff = 4 entries for that one team.
- 10 teams × 4 meats = 40 team entries. Enter 40 below, not 10.
People's Choice / Ribfest and Kid's Que entries are FREE on the platform when your event also has a paid cookoff — tally tickets and enter Kid's Que scores at no charge, so don't count them above. If your event has only a People's Choice / Ribfest or Kid's Que cookoff, each team entry is charged at the normal rate.
Activation
$44.99
Entry fees
$36.00
Your total
$80.99
Entry fees: 12 × $2.00 + 8 × $1.50 = $36.00
That's $4.05 per entry all-in. Teams always pay $0 to the platform.
Rates stack: 5 more entries and each extra entry from #25 on costs only $1.00.
Free for organizers
Built-in Event P&L & Budget tool
Every event gets its own accounting workbook, named after your event — like "Jump-Off BBQ Championship P&L". Turn it on or off anytime.
- Budget vs actual profit & loss for every event
- Break-even team count and profit margin
- Rib forecasting, invoice and extra-rib reconciliation
- Auto-filled from your registrations, payouts and fees
- Print or download to Excel anytime
No monthly subscription. Optional annual plans. Otherwise pay only for the events and competition entries you run. Organizer charges (activation + Scoring Only-Daily team fees or Full Organizer-Daily Competition Entry Fees) are paid by the organizer with a card or PayPal. Pricing is subject to change; see our Terms & Conditions. Event Listing-Daily ($14.99) is a flat price. Scoring Only-Daily ($29.99) adds $1.00 per entry, charged when you Finalize & Lock results — People's Choice and Kid's Que are free alongside a scored cookoff.