2024-06-21 – 2024-06-22 · Sioux City, IA · 📍 111 3rd Street
Reps: ALFRED T BOWEN, FRAN BOWEN · Prize money: $1,750.00
Grand Champion: East Bow Que (348.0228) · 17 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Hillbilly Smoke BBQ
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, 2018 to 2025 — 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.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 72 times in 100
East Bow Que came in rated below the field's top team, Big Racks BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 28-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was East Bow Que's first Grand Championship in the data.
East Bow Que finished 1st overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Pork Ribs places 9–10: Big Racks BBQ edged SMOKEY GQ by 0.0228.
Past winners of this contest cooked this edition: Hillbilly Smoke BBQ (won 2023).
11 of 15 teams from 2023-06-23 came back
11 of the 15 teams that cooked the previous edition came back for this one — a contest people put on the calendar.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sioux City, IA | 111 3rd St | 14 | 331.4744 | Ferg A Que | — | |
| 2018-06-22 | Sioux City, IA | 111 3rd st | 19 | 338.2972 | Hillbilly Smoke-IA | ROCK'N HOGS BBQ |
| 2021-06-19 | Sioux City, IA | 111 3rd st | 22 | 344.5944 | Go Ham BBQ | — |
| 2022-06-17 | Sioux City, IA | 111 3rd Street | 13 | 345.0856 | Good Old Boys BBQ | — |
| 2023-06-23 | Sioux City, IA | 111 3rd Street | 15 | 351.4288 | Hillbilly Smoke BBQ | — |
| 2024-06-21 ← this one | Sioux City, IA | 111 3rd Street | 17 | 348.0228 | East Bow Que | — |
| 2025-06-20 | Sioux City, IA | 111 3rd Street | 20 | 354.9144 | BBQ Pit Bros | — |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 175.4172 | 168.5600 | 164.5828 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7372 | 169.7028 | 165.6800 |
17 entries · top 348.0228 · median 331.9084
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | East Bow Que | |
| 2 | Hillbilly Smoke BBQ | |
| 3 | BBQ Pit Bros | |
| 4 | Good Ol Boys BBQ | |
| 5 | Just Blowin Smoke | |
| 6 | Casual Smokers | |
| 7 | Curly Bird BBQ | |
| 8 | Big Racks BBQ | |
| 9 | SMOKEY GQ | |
| 10 | 2 B's BBQ | |
| 11 | 7.62 BBQ | |
| 12 | Digger;s BBQ | |
| 13 | ROCK'N HOGS BBQ | |
| 14 | Rock'm Sock'mmm BBQ | |
| 15 | STF | |
| 16 | Smokin With Spide | |
| 17 | Louis Bros BBQ |
17 entries · top 175.4172 · median 165.1428
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hillbilly Smoke BBQ | |
| 2 | East Bow Que | |
| 3 | BBQ Pit Bros | |
| 4 | ROCK'N HOGS BBQ | |
| 5 | Digger;s BBQ | |
| 6 | Curly Bird BBQ | |
| 7 | Big Racks BBQ | |
| 8 | SMOKEY GQ | |
| 9 | Casual Smokers | |
| 10 | Rock'm Sock'mmm BBQ | |
| 11 | Good Ol Boys BBQ | |
| 12 | Just Blowin Smoke | |
| 13 | 7.62 BBQ | |
| 14 | 2 B's BBQ | |
| 15 | Smokin With Spide | |
| 16 | STF | |
| 17 | Louis Bros BBQ |
17 entries · top 177.7372 · median 165.7028
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Good Ol Boys BBQ | |
| 2 | East Bow Que | |
| 3 | Just Blowin Smoke | |
| 4 | BBQ Pit Bros | |
| 5 | Hillbilly Smoke BBQ | |
| 6 | Casual Smokers | |
| 7 | 2 B's BBQ | |
| 8 | Curly Bird BBQ | |
| 9 | Big Racks BBQ | |
| 10 | SMOKEY GQ | |
| 11 | 7.62 BBQ | |
| 12 | STF | |
| 13 | Louis Bros BBQ | |
| 14 | Digger;s BBQ | |
| 15 | Rock'm Sock'mmm BBQ | |
| 16 | ROCK'N HOGS BBQ | |
| 17 | Smokin With Spide |