NASHVILLE, Tenn., April 22, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Hot off the grill! The World Food Championships and Bull Outdoor® Products are excited to announce that the Bull Burger Battles will be firing up for the second season in 2014. Bull Burger Battles are a nationwide series of live-event burger cookoffs to find the best burger cooks and chefs across the country. The champions of this year's five Burger Battles will be invited to compete as part of Team Bull in the World Burger Championship at the World Food Championships.

Last year, the World Food Championships and Bull Outdoor Products created the inaugural Bull Burger Battle series, which took place in San Diego, Baton Rouge, Chicago, Indianapolis and Oklahoma City. The battles were a tour-de-force of burger supremacy proving that championship burgers are created on Bull Outdoor grills.

"The Bull Burger Battles and the World Food Championships invite restaurants and backyard cooks to man their grills and throwdown to see who has the best burger in town," said Mike McCloud, president and founder of the World Food Championships. "Last year showed that once you win a Bull Burger Battle, the sky is the limit for how far you can go."

Wade Fortin, the 2013 World Burger Champion, qualified for the World Food Championships after winning the Bull Burger Battle competition in Carol Stream, Ill. Out of a field of 35 burger competitors, Team Bull was represented by three of its six members in the Top Ten round. Fortin would go on to finish third overall at the World Food Championships' Final Table. "The World Food Championships" will air as a six-episode reality series chronicling the 2013 competition on the A+E Networks' new FYI Network in the summer of 2014.

"Last year we saw an unbelievable turn out of talent, from food trucks to high-end restaurants to amateur home cooks, who built some amazing burger creations," said Mark Nureddine, owner of Bull Outdoor Products. "This innovative qualifier series for the World Food Championships shines food's brightest spotlight on world class burgers and Bull Outdoor grills."                       

The 2014 World Food Championships will invite 500 of the world's best cooks and chefs, pitting joes and pros on an equal playing field to battle it out for hundreds of thousands of dollars and the coveted title of the World Food Champion. This year, the World Food Championships will expand its former seven categories to nine, introducing the World Seafood Championship and the World Pasta Championship and highlighting cheese as the category theme for the World Recipe Championship. The 2014 World Food Championships will take place Nov. 12-18 in Downtown Las Vegas.

For more information on how to enter a Bull Burger Battle near you, visit www.bullbbq.com. 

To stay in the World Food Championships chatter all yearlong, visit www.worldfoodchampionships.com, Facebook.com/WorldFoodChampionships and on Twitter (@WorldFoodChamp).

About Bull Outdoor Products

BULL Outdoor Products Inc. is a leading innovator and manufacture of quality branded products developed and designed for the outdoor living marketplace. Our products are sold to customers in specialty retail, hearth, hardware, appliance, building materials and the building trade. Products are sold in the US, Canada, Europe, South and Central America. Bull is committed to providing the most complete line of premium products at value prices in the industry. Specific product categories include grills, cart grills, grilling accessories, rubs, sauces, fire features, outdoor kitchens and their components. The company was founded in 1993 and is currently headquarter in Rialto, California with a secondary facility and dealer showroom located in Athens, Tennessee.  www.bullbbq.com

About the World Food Championships

The World Food Championships features nearly 500 competitors seeking food fame and fortune in Downtown Las Vegas. The third annual event will invite the champions from the biggest and best food competitions around the world into a single high stakes culinary showdown for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Following a tournament-style format across multiple iconic food categories, including burger, sandwich, barbecue and more, the WFC will culminate with a Final Table faceoff where category champions brave potential elimination in front of a live audience and a discerning panel of culinary celebrities. For more information visit: worldfoodchampionships.com.

SOURCE Bull Outdoor Products