2024-06-21 – 2024-06-22 · Lenexa, KS · 📍 87th & Lackman · State championship
Reps: DAVE ROGERS, FORREST BRUCE, LARRY HADLEY, LARRY VOTH, LYNDA VOTH, PEG ROGERS · Prize money: $13,300.00
Grand Champion: Mulkey's BBQ (704.0344) · 172 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Smokey Bey's Barbecue
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.
What it has taken to win here, 2019 to 2026 — this edition picked out.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
704.0344 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 702.2628 Slaps BBQ set in 2021.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 87 times in 100
Mulkey's BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, GETTIN' BASTED, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 13-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
2 of 7 tracked editions
Slaps BBQ has won this contest 2 times across its 7 tracked editions.
Chicken places 7–8: Velvet Swine and Bocephus BBQ tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 5–6: Heavy Smoke BBQ and Blueprint BBQ tied on 176.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 8–9: Que or be Qued and Fern Kee tied on 175.4400 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
Mulkey's BBQ took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was chicken at 22nd.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Sublime BBQ (won 2019), Slaps BBQ (won 2021), Love 2 Q (won 2022).
Bigger than 100% of the 5,410 contests in the data
172 teams made this a bigger field than 100% of every contest tracked.
1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
Records held by every edition of this contest put together, not just this one afternoon.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019-06-21 | Lenexa, KS | Sar-Ko-Par Trails Park | 183 | 695.4400 | Sublime BBQ | SLAPS BBQ |
| 2021-06-25 | Lenexa, KS | Freedom Fields | 145 | 702.2628 | Slaps BBQ | KC Meat Sweats |
| 2022-06-24 | Lenexa, KS | Sar-Ko-Par Trail Park | 164 | 700.0000 | Love 2 Q | PIRATES OF BAR-B-QUE BAY |
| 2023-06-23 | Lenexa, KS | 87th & Lackman | 167 | 700.6288 | Damn Fine Beef and Swine | HUNKA HUNKA BURNIN' RUB |
| 2024-06-21 ← this one | Lenexa, KS | 87th & Lackman | 172 | 704.0344 | Mulkey's BBQ | Smokey Bey's Barbecue |
| 2025-06-27 | Lenexa, KS | 87th & Lackman | 159 | 707.4400 | Slaps BBQ | Squealin N Dealin BBQ |
| 2026-06-26 | Lenexa, KS | 8801 Greenway Lane | 157 | 709.1200 | Gettin' Basted | Dr. Squealgood BBQ |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 177.7372 | 177.1428 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8572 | 174.8572 | 173.1084 |
| Pork | 178.2972 | 176.0000 | 175.4172 |
| Brisket | 179.4400 | 176.5600 | 172.5828 |
172 entries · top 704.0344 · median 647.0514
172 entries · top 180.0000 · median 162.8172 · 🔥 perfect 180
172 entries · top 178.8572 · median 163.1314
170 entries · top 178.2972 · median 164.5314
170 entries · top 179.4400 · median 160.5770
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.
77 entries · top 178.8572 · median 166.8228
80 entries · top 176.5600 · median 165.0914
125 entries · top 178.8572 · median 165.1088