WEATHER IS FINALLY STARTING TO COOL DOWN
LET’S GET READY TO GUMBO!

Do you think you make the best gumbo around? Do your friends and family endlessly rave about it?

Well now is your chance to put your roux where your mouth is!!

Come join us for the Southeast Chapter’s Gumbo Rumble
Thursday November 12, 2026
The Petroleum Club of Lafayette
111 Heymann Blvd Lafayette, LA
(You will be able to setup tents in the courtyard)

Come and eat some great tasting gumbo and support our scholarship fund.
Enter your team…All gumbo will be cooked on site with roux made from scratch or you can use store bought. Each team should be prepared to provide their own ingredients, pot, propane and burner and prepare enough gumbo for 50-70 taster bowls (Table decorations and giveaways are encouraged).

The chapter will provide the rice, bread pudding, potato salad, bowls and utensils.

To enter a team, attend, or for sponsorship opportunities or to donate a door prize please contact or use the link below.
Contact Mike Nitska @ [email protected] or Kim Dailey @ [email protected]

This year there will be three categories:
-Surf Gumbo (Seafood),
-Turf Gumbo (Chicken, duck, turkey, sausage)
-Mystery Swamp Monster Gumbo.

Awards will be given for 1st place and runner up in each category and the Mystery Swamp Monster (Most unique presentation or ingredient), plus the Fan Favorite.

All proceeds from this event will go toward funding the Southeast Chapter’s Student Scholarship Awards program. To date the SE Chapter has awarded over $130,000 in Student Scholarships!

To enter a team, attend, or for sponsorship opportunities or to donate a door prize please contact or use the link below.
Mike Nitska @ [email protected] or
Kim Dailey @ [email protected]

SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
General Event Sponsorship $350.00 (Includes 2 Tasking Tickets)
Drink Sponsorship $1500.00
Food Sponsorship (Rice, Potato Salad, Bread Pudding, $500.00

Setup and Cooking Begins: 12:00 p.m.
Official Judging: 5:30 - 6:00 p.m.
Gumbo Tasting: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
Fan Favorite Voting: 7:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Award Presentations: 8:00 - 8:30 p.m.

For only $40, you get to sample the gumbo and fixin’s and vote for the Fan Favorite, and also have the chance to win some cool door prizes.

TO REGISTER TO SPONSOR, ATTEND OR ENTER A TEAM PLEASE CLICK ON THIS LINK.