Blowin' Smoke Barbecue Cook Off
2024-07-27 – 2024-07-28 · Dillon, MT · 📍 Depot Park · State championship
Reps: BRIAN MOORE, STEVEN FLEWALLEN · Prize money: $4,500.00
Grand Champion: Bearded Boar BBQ (693.0972) · 11 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Rhythm 'n QUE
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 double category winner
Rhythm 'n QUE won Chicken, Pork — a double.
📸 Photo finishes
Chicken places 3–4: Bearded Boar BBQ and Popping Smoke Barbecue tied on 166.8344 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Brisket places 9–10: Poor Richard's BBQ and Jay's BBQ tied on 149.0972 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 8–9: Jay's BBQ edged Up on the Mountain BBQ by 0.0112.
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 | 178.2972 | 166.8112 | 154.8000 |
| Pork Ribs | 176.0000 | 164.0000 | 155.4288 |
| Pork | 177.7144 | 163.9884 | 146.2856 |
| Brisket | 173.1084 | 162.2400 | 149.0972 |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
11 entries · top 693.0972 · median 641.0860
Chicken
11 entries · top 178.2972 · median 166.2512
Pork Ribs
11 entries · top 176.0000 · median 162.2744
Pork
11 entries · top 177.7144 · median 160.5256
Brisket
11 entries · top 173.1084 · median 158.8344