DC101 CHILI COOK-OFF Tickets

I am so glad my friends saved me from going to waste my entire day there. We shows up about 1.5 hours before Soundgarden and we were shocked at how awful the venue and setup was. It is not at RFK stadium. It is in a parking lot next to the stadium. A parking lot with lots of potholes. It is a 1 mile walk to the porta-potties and food and a 1 hour line for beer even with not that many people there. The main VIP feature is that there is a beer garden with no line and a reserved port-pottie. Soundgarden was the only reason to go and they did play about 90 minutes and even the full price of the ticket was about what Soundgarden can charge by themselves.

Lovely weather for a day full of music. Good food options, and decent beer options (albeit, expensive!!). No free chili this year, though. What gives?! Port-o-Johns were GROSS, even before the gates opened, but that is to be expected, I guess.

How do you have a chili-cook off with no chili? How do you get away with an hour-long beer line? How do you book a bunch of boring bands with 45 minute breaks in between each act at an event advertised as a festival? Ask DC101. They pulled off the most uninspiring Saturday afternoon in my recent memory. This was my first and last "DC 101 Chili Cook Off" -- I will never attend this event again.

The music was pretty good overall, Soundgarden was awesome and they are only reason this review gets 3 stars. I'm glad I got to see them. However, I would not have purchased the ticket if I had known there was no chili at the chili cook-off. You guys really should have made it clear to the public and probably should have changed the name...its actually ridiculous that you didn't. I'd say 80% of the reason I wanted to go was for the chili, even if you had charged for the chili it would have been better than none at all. I love DC101 but I really feel like I got scammed.

why call it a chili cook off when there isn't any? The lines to get tickets for alcohol were ridiculous long. i'm so upset that I wasted $89 dollars at this event.... never again!

I thoroughly enjoy music festivals and have attended Uproar and Mayhem multiple times and was very pleased with each. I was expecting the chili cook-off TO HAVE TONS OF CHILI VENDORS...there was ONE which was Hardtimes. There was NOTHING to do in between shows but stand around, eat or look at the merchandise (which there wasn't much of a selection)..or drink beer. I think the only way to enjoy the chili cook off is to get your drink on.. it was in a parking lot so that means standing on concrete- not fun. BEWARE OF DARKNESS WAS AWESOME. I WOULD NEVER RECOMMEND OR ATTEND ANOTHER CHILI COOK OFF.

The event titled DC 101 Chili Cook Off did not actually include a Chili Cook Off. This was a 9 hour event with a no re-entry policy with several bands of very different styles with very few forms of other entertainment in a parking lot. Staff at the event had no idea what was going on and were actually asking ticket holders if they knew what was going on with the Chili Cook Off.

AWOLNATION killed it, Soundgarden was great. But there was literally 2 stands for chili. And this was a...chili cook off? Not the same as last year. I enjoyed Incubus much more, but this wasn't bad at all for its line up

I came to DC for a vacation with the Soundgarden show being the basis for coming up to begin with. I bought VIP tickets that were to include raised seating - guess what? No raised seating. Food from 3-5pm. Awful BBQ wtih suspect potato salad and slaw and you still had to pay $3 bottle for bottled water. But, besides my griping about the "VIP" experience, the bands leading up to Soundgarden sucked. The sound production for all the shows sucked. It was quite easily the worst outdoor festival experience I've ever been to. Needless to say, I won't be back.

Outstanding chili with friends chill out listen to some good music and go crowd surfing what more could you want??