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'BBQ Brawl''s Season 6 Has a New Twist — Why Bobby Flay Likes the Change (Exclusive)
The sixth season of BBQ Brawl premiered on Food Network on Sunday, June 1 Flay tells PEOPLE new captains Maneet Chauhan and Antonia Lofaso give the show "renewed energy" Season 6 also features a new rule in which the winner of the first challenge gets to pick their captainBBQ Brawl's sixth season premiered earlier this week with a new twist: The winner of the first challenge gets to pick their captain. Bobby Flay, who faces off with fellow captains Maneet Chauhan and Antonia Lofaso, says the shakeup from previous seasons, in which captains picked their entire teams, changes the dynamic — in a good way. 'We always want to be that person because everybody has an ego,' Flay tells PEOPLE. 'And so it kind of got turned around on us for a second, which I actually liked.' The first episode, which aired Sunday, June 1, saw chef Aarthi Sampath choose to be on Lofaso's team. Flay says the new season has 'serious renewed energy,' thanks to the addition of Lofaso and Chauhan. 'When I asked them to do this, they prepared themselves so incredibly well for so long prior to shooting this,' he recalls. 'I mean, they did tons of research. They were practicing, cooking, all this sort of live-fire cooking, and they really brought their own sort of energy and attitude and obviously flavors to it. And I will say that they kept me on my toes the entire time.' The culinary star adds that Lofaso is 'all about impactful flavors.' 'She's so intense in her mentoring in the best way,' he explains. 'She's very dedicated to her team. She wants them to do really well. She's almost kind of like a proud mom to them.' Chauhan, he observes, is 'a master with Indian flavors and ingredients.' 'It was really interesting watching those ingredients come to life in this sort of very classic American function of barbecue,' he notes. The new season, set at Star Hill Ranch in Austin, Texas, sees 12 new brawlers face off in teams led by Flay, Chauhan and Lofaso, aiming to win over returning judges Carson Kressley, Brooke Williamson (whom Flay began dating earlier this year) and Rodney Scott. Flay says the series' contestants tend to be 'students of the show.' 'They pay very close attention,' he says. 'Obviously, I've been on every season, so they kind of know what I like and what I don't like, what my style's going to be, how I'm going to mentor them, and those kinds of things.' 'They don't know who the other two mentors are going to be until they get there, but I think that every season, they seem to be better,' he continues. 'And I think it's not that everybody's better than the prior seasons, but they're just more schooled. So they know, they kind of drill down on what they need to do to win.' When it comes to fan reactions to the long-running series, which premiered in 2019, Flay says 'everybody has an opinion' on barbecue. 'And so we get a lot of feedback of, 'I wouldn't have done it that way and my grandfather would've never thought that was good.' And then people are like, 'I can't believe I have all these new ideas about barbecue. I never thought about it that way.' So it kind of goes both ways. But the one thing about it is people are watching it and they're interested in it and I love when people have opinions about stuff. I think if it was all just good or all just not good, there's no reason to watch. But when there's a conversation about it, which there is tons of conversation about BBQ Brawl, it works.' Read the original article on People
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Politics
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State Senate passes bill to prohibit ranked choice voting
Mar. 4—dbeard @ MORGANTOWN — The state Senate passed on Tuesday its version of a bill to prohibit the use of ranked choice voting in local, state or federal elections, and sent it to the House of Delegates. The House has its own, slightly different version that will be on second reading — the amendment stage — on Wednesday. The Senate bill is SB 490. It defines ranked choice voting — generally abbreviated as RCV — as occurring in rounds where losers are eliminated until one candidate scores a clear majority. As previously reported, RCV is used statewide in Alaska, Hawaii and Maine. RCV is prohibited in Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. It was noted on the Senate floor that eight other states are considering banning RCV. Sen. Mike Oliverio, R-Monongalia, a bill co-sponsor, stood in support of it. He cited the hypothetical example of WVU meeting Pitt in the Backyard Brawl, where Pitt outscores WVU in the first three quarters, but WVU makes a fourth-quarter comeback and seemingly wins by a point. But, Oliverio said, the referee decides that Pitt won three quarters compared to WVU's one, and gives the game to Pitt. "We live in a society where we have winners and losers and this bill just restates that, " he said. "We have in West Virginia an incredible electoral system. We get it right in West Virginia, " he said. "I think it's important that we pass this bill ; we get rid of this silliness that has taken place in other states, and we continue to have the finest elections in the country." His 13th District colleague, Sen. Joey Garcia, D-Marion, rose in good-natured opposition to the bill, noting that the Brawl features just two opponents, while RCV typically applies to elections with multiple candidates, especially primaries. Primary winners often score only 30 % of the vote, he said. RCV can lend some moderation and if a city or county wanted to try it, he'd be interested in seeing what happens. "I do think we're rushing in the other direction a little too quickly." Tuesday was Marshall University Day at the Capitol, and Judiciary chair Mike Stuart, R-Kanawha, prompted chuckles across the room by saying, "Other than a bad analogy using a non-football school like Pitt, rather than Marshall University to play WVU, I've got nothing." The vote was 31-2, with the only other Democrat, Majority Leader Mike Woelfel, D-Cabell, joining Garcia. The House bill is HB 2683. It contains a shorter definition of RCV and different phrasing of the prohibition. The most significant difference is a sentence saying the prohibition doesn't apply to internal political party processes. Municipal elections bill On Monday, the Senate unanimously passed SB 50, to align municipal election dates with statewide primary and general elections. It sets a compliance date of July 1, 2032, for municipalities with charters that have to be amended by the voters, and for municipalities without charters that can do it simply by ordinance. SB 50 also heads to the House.
Yahoo
05-03-2025
- Politics
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State Senate passes bill to prohibit ranked choice voting
Mar. 4—dbeard @ MORGANTOWN — The state Senate passed on Tuesday its version of a bill to prohibit the use of ranked choice voting in local, state or federal elections, and sent it to the House of Delegates. The House has its own, slightly different version that will be on second reading — the amendment stage — on Wednesday. The Senate bill is SB 490. It defines ranked choice voting — generally abbreviated as RCV — as occurring in rounds where losers are eliminated until one candidate scores a clear majority. As previously reported, RCV is used statewide in Alaska, Hawaii and Maine. RCV is prohibited in Idaho, Montana, South Dakota, Oklahoma, Missouri, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida. It was noted on the Senate floor that eight other states are considering banning RCV. Sen. Mike Oliverio, R-Monongalia, a bill co-sponsor, stood in support of it. He cited the hypothetical example of WVU meeting Pitt in the Backyard Brawl, where Pitt outscores WVU in the first three quarters, but WVU makes a fourth-quarter comeback and seemingly wins by a point. But, Oliverio said, the referee decides that Pitt won three quarters compared to WVU's one, and gives the game to Pitt. "We live in a society where we have winners and losers and this bill just restates that, " he said. "We have in West Virginia an incredible electoral system. We get it right in West Virginia, " he said. "I think it's important that we pass this bill ; we get rid of this silliness that has taken place in other states, and we continue to have the finest elections in the country." His 13th District colleague, Sen. Joey Garcia, D-Marion, rose in good-natured opposition to the bill, noting that the Brawl features just two opponents, while RCV typically applies to elections with multiple candidates, especially primaries. Primary winners often score only 30 % of the vote, he said. RCV can lend some moderation and if a city or county wanted to try it, he'd be interested in seeing what happens. "I do think we're rushing in the other direction a little too quickly." Tuesday was Marshall University Day at the Capitol, and Judiciary chair Mike Stuart, R-Kanawha, prompted chuckles across the room by saying, "Other than a bad analogy using a non-football school like Pitt, rather than Marshall University to play WVU, I've got nothing." The vote was 31-2, with the only other Democrat, Majority Leader Mike Woelfel, D-Cabell, joining Garcia. The House bill is HB 2683. It contains a shorter definition of RCV and different phrasing of the prohibition. The most significant difference is a sentence saying the prohibition doesn't apply to internal political party processes. Municipal elections bill On Monday, the Senate unanimously passed SB 50, to align municipal election dates with statewide primary and general elections. It sets a compliance date of July 1, 2032, for municipalities with charters that have to be amended by the voters, and for municipalities without charters that can do it simply by ordinance. SB 50 also heads to the House.
