We went last year & again this year but were thoroughly disappointed with the festival this go around. Last year there was an actual salsa tasting competition, which was awesome, plus you were able to buy jars of salsa as well. This year the only salsa we saw was from Jo Bot & it was just a little plastic cup with no chips, sweet I love shooting salsa. Otherwise the beers were ok, if you like deschutes beer, the margarita was good. But the main thing is that it cost more this year just to get in & there was not a sample in sight you didn't have to pay for, there were fewer vendors & overall I just didn't feel it was worth the time or the money. The salsa tasting was the best thing they had going & without that it's just another excuse to charge people money to stand in an empty dirt lot with not much to do. Get your shit together chili fest or else I'm afraid this fall festival is DOA.