Built for BBQ cook-offs

Your event website, registration, campsites, vendors & tickets — one platform for your cook-off

PitSentry is your event website. Schedule, rules, sponsors, and contact pages live alongside registration — teams pick their campsite on a live map, returning teams get first right to last year's spot, vendors book booths, fans buy concert tickets, and the gate scans everyone in. Nothing to stitch together.

Also runs vendor fairs, festivals, and concert-only events — same maps, booths, tickets, and gate.

Also runs vendor fairs, festivals, and concert-only events — same maps, booths, tickets, and gate.

Everything an event needs

One site. The whole event.

From the public schedule page to the first returning-team email to the last car through the gate — it all runs in one system, on your domain.

Your event website

Home, about, schedule, rules, sponsors, scholarships, vendor info, contact — every public page your event needs, on your own domain, edited from the admin. Registration isn't bolted onto a site; it's built in.

Interactive campsite map

Teams tap the site they want on an aerial map of your grounds. Power, water, size, and price per site. Taken sites grey out the moment they're claimed.

Returning-team priority

Last year's teams get one link and first right of refusal on their spot before the public window opens. Keep it, move it, or release it — one click.

Add-ons at registration

Tents, porta-cans, power, ice — sold right in the registration flow with stock limits and a waitlist. Setup reports tell your crew where every tent goes.

Vendor booths

Vendors register on their own booth map with pricing per location. Block off sections until you need them; open them one column at a time as you sell out.

Concert tickets & tables

Sell general admission and reserved tables straight from your site. Promo codes, tiers, and QR tickets — no third-party ticketing fees.

Gate check-in

Scan teams and ticket holders in at the entrance from any phone. Live counts of who's on the grounds.

Admin & reports

Rosters, campsite assignments, add-on setup lists, financials — exportable to Excel and printable for the gate and the setup crew.

Feed for your sanctioning body

CBA, IBCA, and LSBS bring their own judges and scoring. PitSentry hands them a clean roster with blind numbers so contest day starts on time.

Email & text

Returning-team notices, confirmations with receipts and campsite details, turn-in reminders — branded to your event, sent from your name.

Season, simplified

From returning teams to the front gate

Three phases, one platform — no handoffs between tools.

01

Returning teams claim their spot

We load last year's roster. Each team gets a link, keeps or moves their site, adds tents and porta-cans, and pays — before the public ever sees the map.

02

Registration opens to everyone

New teams pick from what's left. Vendors book booths. Fans buy concert tickets and tables. Stock limits and waitlists keep add-ons honest.

03

Event day

Your setup crew works from the add-on map. The gate scans everyone in. Your sanctioning body gets the roster feed. You run the event, not the spreadsheet.

Pricing

Simple, per-event pricing

A flat platform fee. We never touch your entry fees, vendor fees, or ticket sales.

BBQ cook-offs

Teams, campsites, add-ons, vendors, and the concert — the whole event.
  • $500at signingSetup — we build your event website, draw your venue map, set up sections and pricing, load your returning teams, and add your sponsors.$300 each year after: new dates, pricing changes, returning-team rollover, sponsor and website updates.
  • $500at openDue when registration opens.
  • $22per team$500 minimum. Balance above $500 due when registration closes or 24 hours before the event starts, whichever comes first.A team is every team holding a confirmed campsite, paid or comped.
  • $10per boothVendor booths, due with the balance.
Concert tickets and concert tables included

Vendor & concert events

No cook-off — booths, tickets, tables, and the gate.
  • $500at signingSetup — we build your event website, draw your booth map, set up sections and pricing, and add your sponsors.$300 each year after: new dates, pricing changes, sponsor and website updates.
  • $500at openDue when registration opens.
  • $22per booth$500 minimum. Balance above $500 due when registration closes or 24 hours before the event starts, whichever comes first.
Concert tickets and concert tables included
You keep your money. Entry fees, vendor fees, and ticket sales go straight to your own Stripe account. No revenue share, no per-transaction cut — one platform fee, invoiced off the system's count.
Example: a 40-team cook-off with 20 vendor booths — $500 + $880 + $200 = $1,580 the first year; $1,380 each year after.

Concert-only events — contact us for rates.

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From an organizer
“We went searching for a single platform to run our event. For 21 years we went with 3–5 different apps and spreadsheets to make this event work. PitSentry was the app that finally consolidated everything we needed — team spots, vendor spots, team and vendor registration, returning-teams management, reports — and will handle all our concert ticketing needs without taking a cut. One platform fee and everything is ready for us next year.”
Mark B.
Past President, Smokin’ on the Rio — World Championship BBQ Cook-Off
Questions

Frequently asked questions

What organizers ask before they sign.

How much does PitSentry cost?
A $500 setup fee at signing ($300 in later years), $500 when registration opens, and $22 per team with a $500 minimum — the balance is due when registration closes or 24 hours before the event, whichever comes first. Vendor booths at a cook-off are $10 each. Concert tickets and tables are included. See the pricing section for the full breakdown.
Does PitSentry take a cut of our entry fees or ticket sales?
No. Every dollar from team entries, vendor booths, and ticket sales goes straight to your organization's own Stripe account. PitSentry charges a flat platform fee and never touches your money.
Does PitSentry handle judging and scoring?
Sanctioned events — CBA, IBCA, LSBS — bring their own judges and scoring software. PitSentry provides the roster feed with blind ticket numbers so your sanctioning body starts on time. Judging is available as a module for unsanctioned events.
Can returning teams get their same campsite?
Yes. Last year's teams each get a private link before public registration opens. They see their prior site pre-selected on the map and can keep it, move to a different open site, or release it — then add tents, porta-cans, and jackpots, and pay.
Does this replace our event website?
It is your event website. Home, about, schedule, rules, sponsors, scholarships, vendor info, and contact pages are all built in and edited from the admin — on your own domain. Registration isn't bolted onto a separate site.
How long does setup take?
Most events are live within two weeks of signing: we draw your venue map from an aerial image, set up sections and pricing, load your returning-team roster, and add your sponsors. You review, we adjust, registration opens on your date.
Can we use our own domain?
Yes. Your event runs on your domain — for example smokinontherio.com — with your logo, colors, and favicon. PitSentry stays behind the scenes.

About PitSentry

PitSentry is built by RioPlex Technology in the Rio Grande Valley, Texas, and runs Smokin' on the Rio — a CBA-sanctioned world championship cook-off with 175 teams, a vendor hall, and a concert. It was built for that event first, then made available to every cook-off that runs the same way.

Founded in 2026. One developer, one platform, no outsourced support. When you email, the person who built it answers.

Contact

Demos are free and take thirty minutes. Bring your grounds map.

Ready to run a cleaner event?

See PitSentry on your own grounds map. Demos are free and take thirty minutes.

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