2024-06-01 – 2024-06-02 · Invermere, BC · CANADA · 📍 651 Hwy 93/95
Reps: BRENDA BLACK, KEN BLACK
Grand Champion: Kreiser Barbecue (691.4056) · 9 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 SMELLAQUE
Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.
Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
Closer than 88% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.5944 points — closer than 88% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 80 times in 100
Kreiser Barbecue came in rated below the field's top team, SMELLAQUE, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 20-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was Kreiser Barbecue's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 39th tracked contest.
3 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
Slam Dunk Barbeque finished 3rd overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Pork places 1–2: Brisket Butts and SMELLAQUE tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 3–4: Kreiser Barbecue edged YOU NEED A BBQ by 0.0228. Brisket places 1–2: SMELLAQUE edged YOU NEED A BBQ by 0.0228.
Kreiser Barbecue took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork at 6th.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 165.6684 | — |
| Pork Ribs | 178.2972 | 170.8456 | — |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 169.7028 | — |
| Brisket | 176.0228 | 170.2628 | — |
9 entries · top 691.4056 · median 681.0972
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kreiser Barbecue | |
| 2 | SMELLAQUE | |
| 3 | Slam Dunk Barbeque | |
| 4 | ROKER Q | |
| 5 | YOU NEED A BBQ | |
| 6 | Brisket Butts | |
| 7 | Notorious P.I.G. | |
| 8 | Mark's Meats and Treats | |
| 9 | Smokehouse 93 |
9 entries · top 180.0000 · median 165.6684 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kreiser Barbecue | |
| 2 | ROKER Q | |
| 3 | Slam Dunk Barbeque | |
| 4 | Mark's Meats and Treats | |
| 5 | Notorious P.I.G. | |
| 6 | YOU NEED A BBQ | |
| 7 | SMELLAQUE | |
| 8 | Brisket Butts | |
| 9 | Smokehouse 93 |
9 entries · top 178.2972 · median 170.8456
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Slam Dunk Barbeque | |
| 2 | SMELLAQUE | |
| 3 | Kreiser Barbecue | |
| 4 | YOU NEED A BBQ | |
| 5 | Mark's Meats and Treats | |
| 6 | Brisket Butts | |
| 7 | ROKER Q | |
| 8 | Notorious P.I.G. | |
| 9 | Smokehouse 93 |
9 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.7028 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brisket Butts | |
| 2 | SMELLAQUE | |
| 3 | Slam Dunk Barbeque | |
| 4 | ROKER Q | |
| 5 | YOU NEED A BBQ | |
| 6 | Kreiser Barbecue | |
| 7 | Smokehouse 93 | |
| 8 | Notorious P.I.G. | |
| 9 | Mark's Meats and Treats |
9 entries · top 176.0228 · median 170.2628
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SMELLAQUE | |
| 2 | YOU NEED A BBQ | |
| 3 | Kreiser Barbecue | |
| 4 | ROKER Q | |
| 5 | Brisket Butts | |
| 6 | Slam Dunk Barbeque | |
| 7 | Notorious P.I.G. | |
| 8 | Smokehouse 93 | |
| 9 | Mark's Meats and Treats |