6th Annual KCBS World Invitational - OPEN
2024-05-24 – 2024-05-25 · Lebanon, TN · 📍 Wilson County Fairgrounds
Reps: CAROLYN WELLS, CHARLIE BRINZA, DAVID BURSTEIN, EUGENE WICKHAM, JEANNE TITUS, SARAH WICKHAM
Grand Champion: Local Yokels BBQ (709.7260) · 118 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 ZIPS BBQ
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Perfect 180s
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
🧳 Out-of-towners took the title
LOCAL YOKELS BBQ took the Grand Championship home to IN.
🔥 A day of perfect scores
10 perfect 180s were scored at this contest.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 1–2: POOH BEAR BBQ and Rankin County BBQ Company tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 2–3: Rankin County BBQ Company and OFF THE CHAIN tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 3–4: OFF THE CHAIN and ZIPS BBQ tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
🏟️ A stacked field
The field averaged a 1646 power rating going in — stronger than 99% of every contest tracked.
🃏 An upset on the books
LOCAL YOKELS BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, GETTIN' BASTED, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 29-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 | 180.0000 | 178.8572 | 177.7028 |
| Pork Ribs | 180.0000 | 176.5716 | 176.0116 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 178.8572 | 177.7144 |
| Brisket | 180.0000 | 178.8572 | 177.7028 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
118 entries · top 709.7260 · median 682.7830
Chicken
118 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.1200 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork Ribs
118 entries · top 180.0000 · median 170.8286 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork
118 entries · top 180.0000 · median 171.1258 · 🔥 perfect 180
Brisket
117 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.6800 · 🔥 perfect 180
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 — Cocktail
51 entries · top 180.0000 · median 174.2628 · 🔥 perfect 180
Turkey Smoke Series — Turkey Smoke
66 entries · top 180.0000 · median 170.2570 · 🔥 perfect 180