2024-06-28 – 2024-06-29 · Sterling, CO · 📍 315 Main Street · State championship
Reps: BRIAN MOORE, MICHAEL WINTER · Prize money: $10,000.00
Grand Champion: Poppa Pig and Porkchop (702.2628) · 25 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Bushmaster 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.
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 69 times in 100
POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP came in rated below the field's top team, Bushmaster BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 31-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was Poppa Pig and Porkchop's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 45th tracked contest.
Brisket places 4–5: SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ and Bushmaster BBQ tied on 174.2856 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 8–9: HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ and PROUD SOULS BARBECUE tied on 170.8228 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 4–5: Blind Butt Limitless edged ROOSTER'S COMPETITION BBQ TEAM by 0.0116.
POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP won Chicken, Pork — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.
POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 2 outright wins — their weakest board was pork ribs at 11th.
1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 177.7028 | 173.1200 | 170.2628 |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7144 | 174.8572 | 169.6800 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 174.2856 | 170.2856 |
| Brisket | 176.0000 | 174.2856 | 169.7144 |
25 entries · top 702.2628 · median 671.3600
25 entries · top 177.7028 · median 168.5140
24 entries · top 177.7144 · median 168.8514
25 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.1084 · 🔥 perfect 180
25 entries · top 176.0000 · median 169.1200