2024-10-04 – 2024-10-05 · Pleasant Hill, MO · 📍 308 W. Commercial St.
Reps: DAVID DYCHE, JO DYCHE · Prize money: $3,750.00
Grand Champion: Piggy's Kin (354.3316) · 19 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 T-Dawg 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.
Closer than 93% of the 713 championships in the data
The Grand Championship was decided by 0.0344 points — closer than 93% of every championship in the data.
The ratings favoured the top seed the other 72 times in 100
Piggy's Kin came in rated below the field's top team, HESSHOGS, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 28-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
This was Piggy's Kin's first Grand Championship in the data — it arrived at their 5th tracked contest.
Chicken places 3–4: T-Dawg BBQ and Smoker and the Bandit tied on 174.8572 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 6–7: Pit Pals and Breaking Slabs BBQ tied on 174.2628 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Chicken places 5–6: HESSHOGS edged Pit Pals by 0.0116.
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-10-04 ← this one | Pleasant Hill, MO | 308 W. Commercial St. | 19 | 354.3316 | Piggy's Kin | — |
| 2025-10-03 | Pleasant Hill, MO | 300 Campbell Street | 23 | 358.8572 | ELECTRO-QUE-TED | — |
| 2026-10-02 | Pleasant Hill, MO | — | — | — | — | — |
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chicken | 177.7028 | 174.2744 | 166.8228 |
| Pork Ribs | 179.4400 | 175.4628 | 166.2744 |
19 entries · top 354.3316 · median 338.7884
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Piggy's Kin | |
| 2 | T-Dawg BBQ | |
| 3 | Poppin Smoke BBQ | |
| 4 | Pit Pals | |
| 5 | Smoker and the Bandit | |
| 6 | Too Sauced BBQ | |
| 7 | Bushwood BBQ | |
| 8 | HESSHOGS | |
| 9 | Breaking Slabs BBQ | |
| 10 | Too Sauced To Smoke | |
| 11 | Rump Rubbers | |
| 12 | Tall Boy BBQ | |
| 13 | Fern Kee | |
| 14 | SUDS AND SWINE | |
| 15 | I Smell Smoke | |
| 16 | Brothers Always Smokin Something! | |
| 17 | Big Ham BBQ | |
| 18 | J & M BBQ | |
| 19 | JJ's Meat Fixins |
19 entries · top 177.7028 · median 166.8228
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too Sauced BBQ | |
| 2 | Piggy's Kin | |
| 3 | T-Dawg BBQ | |
| 4 | Smoker and the Bandit | |
| 5 | HESSHOGS | |
| 6 | Pit Pals | |
| 7 | Breaking Slabs BBQ | |
| 8 | Poppin Smoke BBQ | |
| 9 | Bushwood BBQ | |
| 10 | Fern Kee | |
| 11 | Tall Boy BBQ | |
| 12 | SUDS AND SWINE | |
| 13 | I Smell Smoke | |
| 14 | Brothers Always Smokin Something! | |
| 15 | Too Sauced To Smoke | |
| 16 | Big Ham BBQ | |
| 17 | J & M BBQ | |
| 18 | Rump Rubbers | |
| 19 | JJ's Meat Fixins |
19 entries · top 179.4400 · median 166.2744
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | T-Dawg BBQ | |
| 2 | Poppin Smoke BBQ | |
| 3 | Piggy's Kin | |
| 4 | Bushwood BBQ | |
| 5 | Rump Rubbers | |
| 6 | Too Sauced To Smoke | |
| 7 | Pit Pals | |
| 8 | Smoker and the Bandit | |
| 9 | HESSHOGS | |
| 10 | Tall Boy BBQ | |
| 11 | Too Sauced BBQ | |
| 12 | Fern Kee | |
| 13 | Breaking Slabs BBQ | |
| 14 | SUDS AND SWINE | |
| 15 | I Smell Smoke | |
| 16 | Brothers Always Smokin Something! | |
| 17 | Big Ham BBQ | |
| 18 | J & M BBQ | |
| 19 | JJ's Meat Fixins |