2024-09-13 – 2024-09-14 · Waller, TX · 📍 Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park · State championship
Reps: DEBBIE SPRAY, EUGENE WICKHAM, LARRY VOTH, LYNDA VOTH, SARAH WICKHAM, SCOTT SPRAY · Prize money: $50,000.00
Grand Champion: Chillin & Grillin Texas BBQ (694.3772) · 67 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Flying G BBQ
Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.
Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.
What it has taken to win here, 2023 to 2025 — this edition picked out.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
Closer than 78% of the 4,742 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 1.1884 points — closer than 78% of every championship in the data.
694.3772 is the highest overall score this contest has ever produced — past the 693.1660 Race Crew Drum Smokers set in 2023.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 86 times in 100
Chillin & Grillin Texas BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, MAN MEAT BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 14-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was Chillin & Grillin Texas BBQ's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 3rd tracked contest.
First to fifth in the overall standings covered just 2.4232 points.
Flying G BBQ finished 2nd overall in the first contest the data has them cooking at all.
Chicken places 1–2: TEAM CHUPACABRA and MAN MEAT BBQ tied on 180.0000 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 4–5: Red Drink Cookers and Always Forward BBQ tied on 176.5716 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 8–9: Italians Do It Better and ROLLIN' SMOKE BBQ TEXAS tied on 174.2972 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
Chillin & Grillin Texas BBQ took the title on 2 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was chicken at 19th.
TEAM CHUPACABRA turned in 180.0000 in chicken — past the 177.7372 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.
Bigger than 95% of the 5,410 contests in the data
67 teams made this a bigger field than 95% of every contest tracked.
2 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
What happened at this contest that stands in the all-time KCBS record book. A gold line is a record nobody has beaten.
Records held by every edition of this contest put together, not just this one afternoon.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023-09-08 | Waller, TX | Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park | 99 | 693.1660 | Race Crew Drum Smokers | Team Chupacabra |
| 2024-09-13 ← this one | Waller, TX | Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park | 67 | 694.3772 | Chillin & Grillin Texas BBQ | Flying G BBQ |
| 2025-09-12 | Waller, TX | Yogi Bear’s Jellystone Park | 92 | 698.8344 | Rio Valley Meat BBQ | The Pitfather BBQ |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 176.5716 | 174.2744 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.2972 | 176.5600 | 174.3316 |
| Pork | 179.4400 | 175.4056 | 174.8456 |
| Brisket | 175.4972 | 174.2856 | 171.9884 |
67 entries · top 694.3772 · median 667.9432
67 entries · top 180.0000 · median 167.4400 · 🔥 perfect 180
67 entries · top 178.2972 · median 169.1200
67 entries · top 179.4400 · median 168.0116
66 entries · top 175.4972 · median 164.5428
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.
10 entries · top 174.2744 · median 165.3942
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crooked Crown | |
| 2 | Chillin & Grillin Texas BBQ | |
| 3 | 1097 Cookers | |
| 4 | TEAM CHUPACABRA | |
| 5 | Smokin Los BBQ | |
| 6 | Heavys BBQ | |
| 7 | El Guapeaux's | |
| 8 | I'll tell you later BBQ | |
| 9 | Wizard Cookers | |
| 10 | TnT Swine o Mite |
6 entries · top 172.5944 · median 170.8514
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chillin & Grillin Texas BBQ | |
| 2 | Crooked Crown | |
| 3 | 1097 Cookers | |
| 4 | Smokin Los BBQ | |
| 5 | TEAM CHUPACABRA | |
| 6 | XTREME TEXAS COOKERS |