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Albany County Fair Smokin' BBQ Cookoff

2024-07-26 – 2024-07-27 · Laramie, WY · 📍 3510 S. 3rd Street · State championship

Reps: DEL ANDERSON, MICHAEL WINTER · Prize money: $8,000.00

Grand Champion: Heifers, Butts, and Clucks BBQ (701.7144) · 17 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 AMERICAN HEROES BBQ

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HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ
701.7144 · Master Series — Overall
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AMERICAN HEROES BBQ
695.3484 · Master Series — Overall
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Colorado Bulldawg BBQ
694.2400 · Master Series — Overall

Entries

17
4 judged meats

Top score

701.7144

Winning margin

6.3660
GC over RC

Field average

671.87
median 670.77

Perfect 180s

1 🔥
HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ (Pork)

Tightest race

Chicken
2.2400 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

669.6572
10th place overall

Field spread

76.1828
winner to last place

Prize money

$8,000.00
on the line

Most consistent

HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ
avg finish 2.75 across 4 meats

Double threats

7
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Pork
won by 2.2972 pts — HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ

How hot was the win?

Top 39%
beats 61% of 1951 Master Series wins in the data

Traveled in

65%
of the 17 teams with a home region came from outside WY

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.74 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1546
avg power rating going in · stronger than 51% of contests

Top-rated in the field

Colorado Bulldawg BBQ
rated 1743 pre-contest

Storylines

🧳 Out-of-towners took the title

Heifers, Butts, and Clucks BBQ took the Grand Championship home to MT.

🧹 A double category winner

HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ won Chicken, Pork — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.

📸 Photo finishes

Chicken places 3–4: Colorado Bulldawg BBQ and LaTa-Que tied on 174.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 4–5: AMERICAN HEROES BBQ and ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ tied on 172.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 5–6: ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ and M-DUBS BBQ tied on 172.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

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)

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)

Category1st5th10th
Chicken175.4172173.1772169.6684
Pork Ribs177.1428172.5600167.3944
Pork180.0000175.4172168.5600
Brisket178.2972170.8228167.9772

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

17 entries · top 701.7144 · median 670.7660

#TeamScore
1 HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ 701.7144
2 AMERICAN HEROES BBQ 695.3484
3 Colorado Bulldawg BBQ 694.2400
4 M-DUBS BBQ 691.4056
5 Needs More Cowbell BBQ 687.9312
6 LaTa-Que 682.8000
7 Brinkerhoff BBQ 679.3028
8 BRACKEN RACKS BBQ 674.1600
9 Smokin' SinBin BBQ 670.7660
10 We're Burning Daylight BBQ 669.6572
11 SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ 669.0288
12 ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ 668.4112
13 Bull-B-Que 666.1484
14 Hooligans Barbecue 662.1944
15 Monarchbbq 656.3996
16 WyoTech - Pit Crew - 2 626.7544
17 WyoTech - Pit Crew - 1 625.5316

Chicken

17 entries · top 175.4172 · median 169.6800

#TeamScore
1 HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ 175.4172
2 Needs More Cowbell BBQ 174.8456
3 Colorado Bulldawg BBQ 174.2628
4 LaTa-Que 174.2628
5 M-DUBS BBQ 173.1772
6 AMERICAN HEROES BBQ 173.1084
7 Bull-B-Que 171.9772
8 Hooligans Barbecue 169.6916
9 Brinkerhoff BBQ 169.6800
10 ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ 169.6684
11 BRACKEN RACKS BBQ 168.5484
12 SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ 167.3944
13 Smokin' SinBin BBQ 165.6916
14 We're Burning Daylight BBQ 156.5256
15 Monarchbbq 154.7884
16 WyoTech - Pit Crew - 1 149.0744
17 WyoTech - Pit Crew - 2 146.8000

Pork Ribs

17 entries · top 177.1428 · median 167.9772

#TeamScore
1 Colorado Bulldawg BBQ 177.1428
2 HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ 176.5944
3 Monarchbbq 174.2628
4 AMERICAN HEROES BBQ 172.5600
5 ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ 172.5600
6 M-DUBS BBQ 172.5600
7 Needs More Cowbell BBQ 169.1428
8 Hooligans Barbecue 169.1200
9 We're Burning Daylight BBQ 167.9772
10 Smokin' SinBin BBQ 167.3944
11 Bull-B-Que 166.2400
12 LaTa-Que 165.1316
13 BRACKEN RACKS BBQ 165.0972
14 Brinkerhoff BBQ 163.3828
15 WyoTech - Pit Crew - 2 161.6800
16 SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ 160.5144
17 WyoTech - Pit Crew - 1 153.0972

Pork

17 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.1316 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ 180.0000 🔥
2 M-DUBS BBQ 177.7028
3 Colorado Bulldawg BBQ 175.4288
4 Brinkerhoff BBQ 175.4172
5 BRACKEN RACKS BBQ 175.4172
6 AMERICAN HEROES BBQ 171.9772
7 SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ 170.2972
8 Smokin' SinBin BBQ 169.7028
9 Hooligans Barbecue 169.1316
10 We're Burning Daylight BBQ 168.5600
11 Needs More Cowbell BBQ 167.3828
12 LaTa-Que 165.1084
13 Bull-B-Que 164.5256
14 WyoTech - Pit Crew - 1 161.6916
15 WyoTech - Pit Crew - 2 160.5716
16 Monarchbbq 158.8000
17 ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ 157.0628

Brisket

17 entries · top 178.2972 · median 168.5484

#TeamScore
1 LaTa-Que 178.2972
2 AMERICAN HEROES BBQ 177.7028
3 We're Burning Daylight BBQ 176.5944
4 Needs More Cowbell BBQ 176.5600
5 Brinkerhoff BBQ 170.8228
6 SMOKIN' BOXERS BBQ 170.8228
7 HEIFERS, BUTTS, & CLUCKS BBQ 169.7028
8 ROCKET BOYS PYRO BBQ 169.1200
9 Monarchbbq 168.5484
10 Smokin' SinBin BBQ 167.9772
11 M-DUBS BBQ 167.9656
12 Colorado Bulldawg BBQ 167.4056
13 BRACKEN RACKS BBQ 165.0972
14 Bull-B-Que 163.4056
15 WyoTech - Pit Crew - 1 161.6684
16 WyoTech - Pit Crew - 2 157.7028
17 Hooligans Barbecue 154.2512

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