The Blaze of 47 BBQ Cookoff
2024-07-19 – 2024-07-20 · Salt Lake City, UT · 📍 155 N. 1000 W. · State championship
Reps: BRIAN MOORE, STEVEN FLEWALLEN · Prize money: $20,000.00
Grand Champion: Rhythm 'n Que (692.5832) · 16 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Bourbon & Blues BBQ
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Perfect 180s
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Prize money
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
🪒 A razor-thin finish
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.1656 points — closer than 77% of every championship in the data.
🧳 Out-of-towners took the title
Rhythm n QUE took the Grand Championship home to MT.
🔥 A day of perfect scores
5 perfect 180s were scored at this contest.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 1–2: Brinkerhoff BBQ and 1 Bite BBQ tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 3–4: RACK CITY BBQ and Ribbin-1-Out tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork places 1–2: SLINGIN MEATS and Rhythm 'n Que tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
🃏 An upset on the books
Rhythm n QUE came in rated below the field's top team, Bushmaster BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 34-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 | 174.9144 | 168.5600 |
| Pork Ribs | 180.0000 | 172.5828 | 171.4288 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 176.0228 | 169.7028 |
| Brisket | 178.8572 | 170.8228 | 168.5716 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
16 entries · top 692.5832 · median 679.9372
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Rhythm 'n Que | |
| 2 | Bourbon & Blues BBQ | |
| 3 | Colorado Bulldawg BBQ | |
| 4 | SLINGIN MEATS | |
| 5 | Bushmaster BBQ | |
| 6 | Brinkerhoff BBQ | |
| 7 | BURNIN AND LOOTIN | |
| 8 | RACK CITY BBQ | |
| 9 | Tuffy's BBQ | |
| 10 | Bearded Boar BBQ | |
| 11 | CROOKED PIGS | |
| 12 | Ribbin-1-Out | |
| 13 | SinBin BBQ | |
| 14 | BIG JOHNSON'S BBQ | |
| 15 | PARROTHEAD SMOKERS | |
| 16 | 1 Bite BBQ |
Chicken
16 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.6856 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Brinkerhoff BBQ | |
| 2 | 1 Bite BBQ | |
| 3 | RACK CITY BBQ | |
| 4 | Ribbin-1-Out | |
| 5 | BIG JOHNSON'S BBQ | |
| 6 | Bushmaster BBQ | |
| 7 | Bourbon & Blues BBQ | |
| 8 | BURNIN AND LOOTIN | |
| 9 | Colorado Bulldawg BBQ | |
| 10 | PARROTHEAD SMOKERS | |
| 11 | SinBin BBQ | |
| 12 | Rhythm 'n Que | |
| 13 | Tuffy's BBQ | |
| 14 | SLINGIN MEATS | |
| 15 | CROOKED PIGS | |
| 16 | Bearded Boar BBQ |
Pork Ribs
16 entries · top 180.0000 · median 171.7202 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bourbon & Blues BBQ | |
| 2 | SLINGIN MEATS | |
| 3 | Rhythm 'n Que | |
| 4 | Colorado Bulldawg BBQ | |
| 5 | BIG JOHNSON'S BBQ | |
| 6 | CROOKED PIGS | |
| 7 | Bushmaster BBQ | |
| 8 | Tuffy's BBQ | |
| 9 | Brinkerhoff BBQ | |
| 10 | RACK CITY BBQ | |
| 11 | Bearded Boar BBQ | |
| 12 | 1 Bite BBQ | |
| 13 | PARROTHEAD SMOKERS | |
| 14 | BURNIN AND LOOTIN | |
| 15 | SinBin BBQ | |
| 16 | Ribbin-1-Out |
Pork
16 entries · top 180.0000 · median 170.2686 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SLINGIN MEATS | |
| 2 | Rhythm 'n Que | |
| 3 | BURNIN AND LOOTIN | |
| 4 | Bushmaster BBQ | |
| 5 | Colorado Bulldawg BBQ | |
| 6 | Bourbon & Blues BBQ | |
| 7 | CROOKED PIGS | |
| 8 | Ribbin-1-Out | |
| 9 | SinBin BBQ | |
| 10 | 1 Bite BBQ | |
| 11 | Tuffy's BBQ | |
| 12 | Brinkerhoff BBQ | |
| 13 | RACK CITY BBQ | |
| 14 | PARROTHEAD SMOKERS | |
| 15 | Bearded Boar BBQ | |
| 16 | BIG JOHNSON'S BBQ |
Brisket
15 entries · top 178.8572 · median 169.1888
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bearded Boar BBQ | |
| 2 | BURNIN AND LOOTIN | |
| 3 | Colorado Bulldawg BBQ | |
| 4 | RACK CITY BBQ | |
| 5 | Brinkerhoff BBQ | |
| 6 | Rhythm 'n Que | |
| 7 | BIG JOHNSON'S BBQ | |
| 8 | SinBin BBQ | |
| 9 | Tuffy's BBQ | |
| 10 | PARROTHEAD SMOKERS | |
| 11 | Bushmaster BBQ | |
| 12 | Ribbin-1-Out | |
| 13 | Bourbon & Blues BBQ | |
| 14 | CROOKED PIGS | |
| 15 | SLINGIN MEATS |