Last Frontier BBQ Throwdown
2024-07-26 – 2024-07-27 · Eagle River, AK · 📍 Elks Lodge #2682 · State championship
Reps: JOHN MANN, MICHELLE MANN · Prize money: $1,500.00
Grand Champion: Pitts N Grills (701.0856) · 8 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Smoked & Furious
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Perfect 180s
Tightest race
Field spread
Prize money
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 2–3: Holy Trinity BBQ and Pits and Grills tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 4–5: Pits and Grills and Smoken J's BBQ tied on 170.8228 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 1–2: Smoked & Furious edged Holy Trinity BBQ by 0.0116.
🃏 An upset on the books
Pits and Grills came in rated below the field's top team, Smoked & Furious, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 33-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)
This contest over the years full contest page →
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-07-26 ← this one | Eagle River, AK | Elks Lodge #2682 | 8 | 701.0856 | Pitts N Grills | Smoked & Furious |
| 2025-06-21 | Eagle River, AK | 18344 N Eagle River Rd | 8 | 703.9776 | Smoked & Furious | LC BBQ |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 177.7144 | 171.4172 | — |
| Pork Ribs | 177.7144 | 173.1428 | — |
| Pork | 178.2972 | 169.6800 | — |
| Brisket | 176.0000 | 170.8228 | — |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
8 entries · top 701.0856 · median 683.6112
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pits and Grills | |
| 2 | Smoked & Furious | |
| 3 | Holy Trinity BBQ | |
| 4 | Smoken J's BBQ | |
| 5 | SMOKEY HAZE | |
| 6 | TEXAS OIL DUST | |
| 7 | JC Holy Smokes | |
| 8 | Bear's Den BBQ |
Chicken
8 entries · top 177.7144 · median 171.9886
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smoked & Furious | |
| 2 | Holy Trinity BBQ | |
| 3 | Pits and Grills | |
| 4 | SMOKEY HAZE | |
| 5 | JC Holy Smokes | |
| 6 | Smoken J's BBQ | |
| 7 | Bear's Den BBQ | |
| 8 | TEXAS OIL DUST |
Pork Ribs
8 entries · top 177.7144 · median 173.4286
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Holy Trinity BBQ | |
| 2 | Smoked & Furious | |
| 3 | Pits and Grills | |
| 4 | TEXAS OIL DUST | |
| 5 | JC Holy Smokes | |
| 6 | Smoken J's BBQ | |
| 7 | SMOKEY HAZE | |
| 8 | Bear's Den BBQ |
Pork
8 entries · top 178.2972 · median 169.6914
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Pits and Grills | |
| 2 | TEXAS OIL DUST | |
| 3 | Smoken J's BBQ | |
| 4 | SMOKEY HAZE | |
| 5 | Smoked & Furious | |
| 6 | JC Holy Smokes | |
| 7 | Holy Trinity BBQ | |
| 8 | Bear's Den BBQ |
Brisket
8 entries · top 176.0000 · median 170.8228
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | SMOKEY HAZE | |
| 2 | Smoked & Furious | |
| 3 | Holy Trinity BBQ | |
| 4 | Pits and Grills | |
| 5 | Smoken J's BBQ | |
| 6 | TEXAS OIL DUST | |
| 7 | Bear's Den BBQ | |
| 8 | JC Holy Smokes |