Challenge Stage
Are you Man (or Woman) enough to take it on?!?
There are laughs throughout the day with our Men (or Women) v Food challenges on the Challenge Stage. Any adult over 18 can take part as long as you sign the disclaimer and are up for a laugh!
The challenges start off gentle and get harder throughout the day. The first challenge is at 11:30 with Cracker Challenge - NEW for 2024, extensivly tested by the GBFF team with hilarious results. At 12:30, as we head to lunchtime, the huge sausages are cooked and our Men v Meat competition kicks off. Want to see a grown man cry? Then the Challenge Stage is the place to be for our Chilli Challenge at 3pm. It's hard to watch and harder for our contestants to stomach - but whatever happens it’s great entertainment. We'll take our contestants from a Jalapeno all the way to the World’s Hottest Chillis - if they can handle it! Only one will walk away as the victor!!
We wrap up the fun with Pairs v Treat which is a dessert-based challenge where Pairs of competitors compete against other pairs to be first to finish platefuls of delicious goodies
It's only a fiver to enter each of the challenges and every penny will go to Charity. Sign up at the Challenge Stage on the day – be quick though as there is only a limited number of spaces for each event. As well as prestige, the winner of each challenge will win one of our coveted T-Shirts!
In between all that, on the Challenge Stage at 1:30 we taste and judge the cakes entered for our Cake Off. This is free to enter - bake a cake for the cake off and get into the festival for free! Find out more and enter
Places fill up fast, don't miss out!The Challenge Stage Schedule
Jam-packed throughout the day (subject to change though, so check on the day!)
First thing – Meet the producers.
11am - Kids Mini Challenges
11.30am – Men v Food (Wheat)... Fastest time to eat 3 crackers, how high up the leaderboard will you go.
12noon – Brownie Off Taste & Vote!
12:30pm – Men v Food (Meat)... the big sausage eating contest!
1pm – GB Cheese Off - Taste & Vote!
1:30pm – Cake Off... Taste & judge cakes
2:30pm – Family Quiz
3:00pm – Men v Food (Heat)... hot, hot, hotter! Chilli eating challenge.
3.45pm – Pairs v Treat... Teams of two take on our dessert-based challenge
4pm - Kids Challenges / Gin Off (at Trentham, Hardwick & Arley)
The Challenges
11:30pm Cracker Challenge
It sounds easy, getting to the top of the leaderboard isn't tho!
12:30pm Sausage & Cider Challenge
Competitors aim to eat a yard of sausage and down a pint of cider faster than anyone else.
3:00pm Chilli Challenge
Hot, hot and hotter. If it gets too hot there is a pint of milk (then you're out!). Medics will be on hand.
3:45pm Treat Challenge
Teams of two take on a mammoth sweet treat… with a nice little twist.
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