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Taco Truck Throwdown 2 was huge last night. The Fresno Grizzlies report attendance at 11,463, with more than 7,000 presales. No word yet on how many tacos were sold. But based on what I saw, it’s going to be a huge number. Look at all those people in line!

Thirteen taco trucks competed in the throwdown and two awards were given: People’s Choice and Judges’ Choice. Anybody who bought a taco was eligible to vote for the People’s Choice crown. Six judges sampled all 13 trucks and rated them 1-10. Our panel included: Liz Gonzales from KMPH, Danny Salas from Q97, Jason Oliveira from ABC 30, Richard Franco from New Rock 104.1, Bobby Salazar and me. Here are the results.

People’s Choice:
1. El Premio Mayor
2. La Elegante
3. Dusty Buns

Judges’ Choice:
1. El Premio Mayor
2. Dusty Buns and La Elegante (tie)
3. El Super Antojito
4. Tako BBQ
5. El Mexicano

The complete list of trucks:
La Elegante (Fresno)
La Mexicana (Centerville)
Taco Sinaloa (Fresno)
Ortega’s (Reedley)
Tacos Mazatlan (Fresno)
Tako BBQ (Fresno)
El Mexicano (Fowler)
Taco El Rey (Selma)
El Super Antojito (Sanger)
Tacos El Palmar (Fresno)
El Premio Mayor (Fresno)
Dusty Buns Bistro Bus (Fresno)
El Milagro (Fresno)

Here’s another view of the crowd. And you can see a gallery of photos from Fresno Bee photographer Eric Paul Zamora here.

If you’d like to read more about the event, check out this report from KMPH:

KMPH FOX 26 | Central San Joaquin Valley News Source

On the funny side, I spotted this Tweet from FresnoBites, who I ran into at one of the trucks last night (picture below). Here’s a link to some other Twitter talk on the event.

Reliving the #TacoTruckThrowdown right now. Not as fun as last night. #tmi

— Fresno Bites (@FresnoBites) August 31, 2012

We’d like to thank everyone for supporting the event. Mike Oz, who took a well-deserved vacation after helping to organize this event, plans to follow up with more stats when he returns.