Wings 4 Water VIII (COMPETITOR SERIES)
2024-09-12 · Lee's Summit, MO · 📍 2917 SW Lewis Circle
Reps: DAVID DYCHE, JO DYCHE
Grand Champion: UMB Bank (176.5600) · 37 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 AMERICAN FIRE BBQ
Entries
37
0 judged meats · 1 ancillary
Top score
176.5600
Winning margin
1.1544
GC over RC
Field average
162.87
median 162.81
Perfect 180s
0
Top-10 cutoff
166.8344
10th place overall
Field spread
30.8572
winner to last place
How hot was the win?
Top 95%
beats 5% of 58 Competitor Series wins in the data
Traveled in
5%
of the 37 teams with a home region came from outside MO
Form held
Moderate
ρ = -0.32 between pre-contest rating and finish
Field strength
1509
avg power rating going in · stronger than 13% of contests
Storylines
🪒 A razor-thin finish
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.1544 points — closer than 76% of every championship in the data.
🃏 An upset on the books
UMB Bank came in rated below the field's top team, AMERICAN FIRE BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 22-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
Score curves (score by finishing position — steep cliffs mean a spread field, flat lines a knife fight)
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)
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Competitor Series
Overall
37 entries · top 176.5600 · median 162.8112
Ancillary categories
Run by the organizers alongside the sanctioned contest. These are judged on their own terms and do not count toward the overall score, so they're kept out of the meat stats above.
Competitor Series — Wings
37 entries · top 176.5600 · median 162.8112