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Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 2)

2024-07-27 – 2024-07-28 · Dodge City, KS · 📍 Wright Park · State championship

Reps: LARRY VOTH, LYNDA VOTH · Prize money: $9,250.00

Grand Champion: Finger Leikam Good (708.5256) · 20 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 MAN MEAT BBQ

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708.5256 · Master Series — Overall
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706.2632 · Master Series — Overall
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704.5372 · Master Series — Overall

The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)

How the field scored

Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.

How the meats cooked

Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.

  • Chicken 180.00 🔥
  • Pork Ribs 180.00 🔥
  • Pork 180.00 🔥
  • Brisket 180.00 🔥
134.17 180.00

Entries

20
4 judged meats

Top score

708.5256

Winning margin

2.2624
GC over RC

Field average

674.63
479.91708.53
median 693.06 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

6 🔥
BrewsCue (Brisket), FINGER LEIKAM GOOD (Chicken), CHUNKY BBQ (Pork) + 3 more

Tightest race

Chicken
2.2856 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

693.6340
479.91708.53
10th place overall

Field spread

228.6172
winner to last place

Prize money

$9,250.00
on the line

Most consistent

avg finish 5.25 across 4 meats

Double threats

7
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Chicken
won by 1.1428 pts — FINGER LEIKAM GOOD

How hot was the win?

Top 6%
beats 94% of 4707 Master Series wins in the data

Came back for more

95%
19 of 20 teams from the previous edition returned

Form held

Strong
ρ = -0.62 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1601
avg power rating going in · stronger than 78% of contests

Top-rated in the field

rated 1832 pre-contest

Storylines (7 found in this contest's numbers)

Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.

An upset on the books

30-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 70 times in 100

FINGER LEIKAM GOOD came in rated below the field's top team, CHUNKY BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 30-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.

  • champion 1686
  • top seed 1832

A first Grand Championship

66 tracked contests to get there

This was Finger Leikam Good's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 66th tracked contest.

A day of perfect scores

6 perfect 180s

6 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.

  • BrewsCue · Brisket
  • FINGER LEIKAM GOOD · Chicken
  • CHUNKY BBQ · Pork

Photo finishes

Tie closest of 14 calls decided inside half a point

Chicken places 2–3: MUNNY'S STOVE and Beef State BBQ tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 6–7: Meat Candy Q and Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 8–9: BrewsCue and CHUNKY BBQ tied on 175.4056 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.

  • Chicken 2–3 · tie
  • Chicken 6–7 · tie
  • Chicken 8–9 · tie
  • Pork Ribs 1–2 · tie

How the title was won

4 of 4 meats called to the stage

FINGER LEIKAM GOOD took the title on 4 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was brisket at 10th.

  • Chicken 1st
  • Pork Ribs 7th
  • Pork 3rd
  • Brisket 10th

A contest record in pork ribs

180.0000 best pork ribs ever cooked here

Meat Candy Q turned in 180.0000 in pork ribs — past the 178.8572 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.

  • old best 178.8572
  • across 1 past editions

They keep coming back

95% of last edition’s field returned

19 of 20 teams from 2024-07-26 came back

19 of the 20 teams that cooked the previous edition came back for this one — a contest people put on the calendar.

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)

This contest over the years full contest page →

DateWhereVenueTeamsHigh scoreGrand ChampionReserve Champion
2024-07-26 Dodge City, KS Wright Park 20 711.9888 Munny's Stove BBQ Meat Candy Q
2024-07-27 ← this one Dodge City, KS Wright Park 20 708.5256 Finger Leikam Good MAN MEAT BBQ

What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)

Category1st5th10th
Chicken180.0000177.7144174.2744
Pork Ribs180.0000176.5944172.5600
Pork180.0000177.7028171.9656
Brisket180.0000177.7028173.1084

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Master Series

Overall

20 entries · top 708.5256 · median 693.0570

#TeamScore
1 FINGER LEIKAM GOOD 708.5256
2 MAN MEAT BBQ 706.2632
3 Mad Dog BBQ 704.5372
4 CHUNKY BBQ 701.6456
5 Meat Candy Q 701.1088
6 MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ 699.3944
7 Shark Q 698.8000
8 Beef State BBQ 695.3600
9 BrewsCue 694.2056
10 Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team 693.6340
11 POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP 692.4800
12 Cities Edge BBQ 689.0744
13 WELL SAUCED BBQ 687.9200
14 SCORE ONE SMOKIN' 686.7772
15 I'll Tell You Later BBQ 682.7776
16 ROCKIN' D BARBEQUE 664.9828
17 Mercer BBQ 664.4464
18 MUNNY'S STOVE 646.1716
19 Smoke Showing BBQ 594.5832
20 Koehn BBQ 479.9084

Chicken

20 entries · top 180.0000 · median 174.2686 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 FINGER LEIKAM GOOD 180.0000 🔥
2 MUNNY'S STOVE 178.8572
3 Beef State BBQ 178.8572
4 SCORE ONE SMOKIN' 178.2972
5 MAN MEAT BBQ 177.7144
6 Meat Candy Q 176.5600
7 Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team 176.5600
8 BrewsCue 175.4056
9 CHUNKY BBQ 175.4056
10 Mercer BBQ 174.2744
11 WELL SAUCED BBQ 174.2628
12 Mad Dog BBQ 173.1200
13 MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ 173.1084
14 POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP 171.9772
15 I'll Tell You Later BBQ 170.8460
16 Shark Q 170.2628
17 Koehn BBQ 168.5600
18 Cities Edge BBQ 167.3828
19 ROCKIN' D BARBEQUE 167.3828
20 Smoke Showing BBQ 160.5600

Pork Ribs

20 entries · top 180.0000 · median 170.5428 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 Meat Candy Q 180.0000 🔥
2 MAN MEAT BBQ 180.0000 🔥
3 Mad Dog BBQ 178.8572
4 Shark Q 177.7144
5 MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ 176.5944
6 Cities Edge BBQ 176.5716
7 FINGER LEIKAM GOOD 176.5600
8 CHUNKY BBQ 175.4172
9 WELL SAUCED BBQ 173.1544
10 Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team 172.5600
11 POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP 168.5256
12 BrewsCue 167.9772
13 Beef State BBQ 165.6916
14 Koehn BBQ 164.5600
15 I'll Tell You Later BBQ 163.3828
16 SCORE ONE SMOKIN' 162.8116
17 ROCKIN' D BARBEQUE 160.5372
18 Mercer BBQ 154.2288
19 MUNNY'S STOVE 143.9200
20 Smoke Showing BBQ 134.1716

Pork

20 entries · top 180.0000 · median 171.4000 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 CHUNKY BBQ 180.0000 🔥
2 Shark Q 180.0000 🔥
3 FINGER LEIKAM GOOD 178.8572
4 Meat Candy Q 177.7144
5 SCORE ONE SMOKIN' 177.7028
6 Mad Dog BBQ 177.1544
7 POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP 173.1200
8 Beef State BBQ 173.1084
9 MAN MEAT BBQ 171.9888
10 Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team 171.9656
11 MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ 170.8344
12 WELL SAUCED BBQ 170.8228
13 BrewsCue 170.8228
14 Mercer BBQ 169.7032
15 I'll Tell You Later BBQ 169.6916
16 Cities Edge BBQ 168.5600
17 ROCKIN' D BARBEQUE 163.9428
18 MUNNY'S STOVE 159.9772
19 Smoke Showing BBQ 149.6228
20 Koehn BBQ 146.7884

Brisket

19 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.1084 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 BrewsCue 180.0000 🔥
2 I'll Tell You Later BBQ 178.8572
3 POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP 178.8572
4 MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ 178.8572
5 Beef State BBQ 177.7028
6 MAN MEAT BBQ 176.5600
7 Cities Edge BBQ 176.5600
8 Mad Dog BBQ 175.4056
9 ROCKIN' D BARBEQUE 173.1200
10 FINGER LEIKAM GOOD 173.1084
11 Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team 172.5484
12 CHUNKY BBQ 170.8228
13 Shark Q 170.8228
14 WELL SAUCED BBQ 169.6800
15 SCORE ONE SMOKIN' 167.9656
16 Meat Candy Q 166.8344
17 Mercer BBQ 166.2400
18 MUNNY'S STOVE 163.4172
19 Smoke Showing BBQ 150.2288

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