I have made Hankster's chili a few times, and it's fantastic! Never placed in any cookoffs, however (might have been my fault, though)
I laso posted a Chili Cookoff style Texas Red recipe a long time ago that is pretty tasty. This has won me some awards, a couple of 3rd place finishes. linky...
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/tilted-...red-chili.html