8th Annual - Old Boney Mountain - Hot Summer Night - International Hot Sauce Competition

Hit APPLY NOW or START APPLICATION here to enter your hot sauces! We are on a quest to find the best tasting hot sauce, BBQ sauce and spicy mustard in the world! This is the largest, most prestigious, international hot sauce competition for charity on the planet. If you win this one, you've won the big one!  It’s super easy to enter. You do not have to attend to win. This is a mail-in only competition.

This is unlike any other hot sauce competitions or expos because this is for charity!

All entry fees go towards, event overhead and Old Boney Mountain Foundation for Kids. 

All entries must be received by May 1 to be eligible.

Awards – 31 Very Nice Trophies!

Divisions: mild, medium, hot, extra hot, fruit based, BBQ Sauce, spicy mustard, spicy snack, label. We will not be adding divisions this year.

1 trophy for Hot Summer Night People’s Choice World’s Favorite Hot Sauce

1st, 2nd, 3rd Place trophies for Hot Summer Night World's Best Small Batch Hot Sauce Company

1st, 2nd, 3rd Place trophies for People's Choice World's Favorite Label

1st, 2nd, 3rd Place trophies for World's Best “Mild” Hot Sauce

1st, 2nd, 3rd Place trophies for World's Best “Medium” Hot Sauce

1st, 2nd, 3rd Place trophies for World's Best “Hot” Hot Sauce

1st, 2nd, 3rd Place trophies for World's Best “Extra Hot” Hot Sauce

1st, 2nd, 3rd Place trophies for World's Best “Fruit Based” Hot Sauce

1st, 2nd, 3rd Place trophies for World's Best “BBQ” Sauce

1st, 2nd, 3rd Place trophies for World's Best “Spicy Mustard” Sauce

1st, 2nd, 3rd Place trophies for World's Best "Spicy Snack"

Please remember, entries must be received by mail no later than May 1, 2025. Please send at least 2 bottles or packages of each entry to:
                                Old Boney Mountain Hot Summer Night
                                            2629 Townsgate Road 
                                            Suite 235
                                            Westlake Village, CA 91361
1.     If you are entering the same sauce in multiple divisions only one extra bottle per division is required (in addition to the original 2 bottles)

2.    Please be sure to read the contest rules prior to sending in your products. Also ensure that you include the division(s) each sauce is entered into with your package.

3.    We are dedicated to promoting our small batch hot sauce industry. We have two YouTube shows that could someday be promoting your sauce(s), "Tasting Notes" and "Fresh Batch". Tasting Notes: This show highlights entries in our previous years Hot Summer Night event. We put the sauces in a grab bag an select 4 sauces to promote each week. Fresh Batch: This is a show where we highlight new sauces to the market. It can be before or after they have come out. Send in your new sauces, along with promotional and interesting information about your company, yourself and your sauce and we will line it up to get it on the show. You can fill out the application for Fresh Batch from our Hot Summer Night website! *There is no guarantee your sauces will be on either show but we will certainly make an effort to get every company who enters on. 

4.    The "World's Favorite Label" competition is back again this year. It will be completed in a “bracket” format where judges will whittle down all entries ultimately to the round of 8. In the round of 8, all hot sauce companies will decide who the final 4 contestants are. The top 4 will be voted on by the PEOPLE at our  People's Choice events along side our People’s Choice World's Favorite Hot Sauce finalists.  Please make sure you included the most favorable pictures of the sauce labels you'd like entered in the label contest. The top 3 favorite individual bottle labels will earn a trophy and a title. "PEOPLE'S CHOICE WORLD'S FAVORITE LABEL". Everyone in the world will have the opportunity to vote on the top 4 labels.