Thanks for the interest and feedback from everyone. This year is definitely going to be a bit smaller than we'd have liked it to be... but as Kent pointed out, we were pretty short staffed for awhile and then the "flood" hit and caused us to lose our building for about a week.
I hope you'll all consider checking out the event anyway and if any of you are still interested in entering the contest I'd love to have you enter. I'm willing to wave the registration fee for the contest for anyone associated with the Beer Nuts. There is currently a few "early bird" free tickets left on the registration page, but if those run out and there are others who want in, get in touch with me and I'll get you set up for free.
Hopefully we can all work on some larger scale events in the future. Thanks again!