3rd Annual Alva Police Department Cars, Concerts and BBQ Contest
2024-05-03 – 2024-05-04 · Alva, OK · 📍 Woods County Fairgrounds · State championship
Reps: LARRY VOTH, LYNDA VOTH
Grand Champion: MUNNY'S STOVE BBQ (701.1200) · 20 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 MAN MEAT BBQ
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
🪒 A razor-thin finish
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5712 points — closer than 90% of every championship in the data.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 1–2: DOUBLE BARREL BBQ - OK and MAN MEAT BBQ tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 2–3: MAN MEAT BBQ and THREE HOG NIGHT SMOKERS tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 5–6: Fine As* Swine BBQ and BURNIN' SANDS BBQ tied on 177.7144 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
🏟️ A stacked field
The field averaged a 1611 power rating going in — stronger than 95% of every contest tracked.
🃏 An upset on the books
MUNNY'S STOVE came in rated below the field's top team, MAN MEAT BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 25-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)
Category showdown (top / average / median score per meat)
Score distribution
Biggest rating movers (power-rating points won and lost at this contest)
Did form hold? (pre-contest rating vs overall finish — ratings called it if the dots climb to the right)
Where the field came from (home regions on file)
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 178.8572 | 177.7144 | 175.4400 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8800 | 176.0000 | 174.2628 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 177.7028 | 173.7028 |
| Brisket | 176.5600 | 173.7028 | 170.2628 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
20 entries · top 701.1200 · median 690.2000
Chicken
20 entries · top 178.8572 · median 175.1428
Pork Ribs
20 entries · top 178.8800 · median 173.9886
Pork
20 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.7028 · 🔥 perfect 180
Brisket
20 entries · top 176.5600 · median 170.2570
Ancillary categories
Run by the organizers alongside the sanctioned contest. These are judged on their own terms and do not count toward the overall score, so they're kept out of the meat stats above.
Ancillary — Ds
5 entries · top 180.0000 · median 180.0000 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Colorado Bulldawg BBQ | |
| 2 | GUYS IN A TRUCK BBQ | |
| 3 | Needs More Cowbell BBQ | |
| 4 | Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team | |
| 5 | Fine As* Swine BBQ |