Lolo Peak? If so on the entry form you have to give your recipe so they should be aware that there is smoked malt in there. One of the judging criteria is Uniqueness - I would count a smoked robust porter in sea of standard robust porters as unique
It does seem to me that it is about finding a good beer for them to sell, not finding the best example of a robust porter - They don't have any info on their webpage on their beers but I would guess they already have the standard line-up of Blonde/Kolsh, Pale ale, IPA, Hefe and are looking for something else for the opening.
...all this is dependant on my correct guess of brewery