2025-07-18 – 2025-07-19 · Salt Lake City, UT · 📍 155 N. 1000 W. · State championship
Reps: BRIAN MOORE, STEVEN FLEWALLEN · Prize money: $20,000.00
Grand Champion: Smokin' Volts BBQ (707.9888) · 26 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Rio Valley Meat 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.
Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 69 times in 100
SMOKIN' VOLTS BBQ came in rated below the field's top team, Rio Valley Meat BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 31-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
4 perfect 180s were scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.
Chicken places 5–6: Florida Boy's BBQ and CHICKEN FRIED BBQ tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 6–7: CHICKEN FRIED BBQ and STEVO'S BBQ TEAM tied on 176.5600 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Pork Ribs places 1–2: 1 Bite BBQ and Triple Nines BBQ tied on 178.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
SMOKIN' VOLTS BBQ took the title on 3 calls from 4 meats, with 1 outright win — their weakest board was pork ribs at 14th.
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 180.0000 | 176.5600 | 175.4056 |
| Pork Ribs | 178.8572 | 176.5600 | 174.2628 |
| Pork | 180.0000 | 177.7144 | 174.8688 |
| Brisket | 178.8572 | 176.5600 | 173.7028 |
26 entries · top 707.9888 · median 691.3944
26 entries · top 180.0000 · median 172.8400 · 🔥 perfect 180
26 entries · top 178.8572 · median 172.5600
26 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.9886 · 🔥 perfect 180
26 entries · top 178.8572 · median 173.1200