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Rock Island BBQ Competition (BACKYARD ONLY)

2024-10-11 – 2024-10-12 · Stover, MO · 📍 207 N. Main St

Reps: EUGENE WICKHAM, SARAH WICKHAM · Prize money: $4,400.00

Grand Champion: BBQ Pit Bros (354.2628) · 10 teams

Reserve Champion: 🥈 Too Sauced BBQ

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354.2628 · Backyard Series — Overall
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346.8460 · Backyard Series — Overall
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346.2400 · Backyard Series — Overall

The contest at a glance (read off the scored boards)

How the field scored

Overall totals, every team on the board — tall stacks are where the pack sat.

How the meats cooked

Every board on one scale — the bar runs last score to first, the dot is the median.

  • Backyard Series — Chicken 180.00 🔥
  • Backyard Series — Pork Ribs 177.71
  • Ancillary — Pork 178.86
151.94 180.00

Entries

10
3 judged meats

Top score

354.2628

Winning margin

7.4168
GC over RC

Field average

335.84
318.81354.26
median 338.81 · last place to winner

Perfect 180s

1 🔥
BBQ Pit Bros (Chicken)

Tightest race

Chicken
8.0228 pts across the top 5

Top-10 cutoff

318.8116
318.81354.26
10th place overall

Field spread

35.4512
winner to last place

Prize money

$4,400.00
on the line

Most consistent

avg finish 1.33 across 3 meats

Double threats

5
teams with 2+ top-5 calls

Widest winning margin

Pork
won by 5.7256 pts — BBQ Pit Bros

How hot was the win?

Top 33%
beats 67% of 713 Backyard Series wins in the data

Came back for more

13%
2 of 15 teams from the previous edition returned

Form held

Moderate
ρ = -0.58 between pre-contest rating and finish

Field strength

1540
avg power rating going in · stronger than 29% of contests

Top-rated in the field

rated 1689 pre-contest

Storylines (5 found in this contest's numbers)

Everything below is read straight out of the results — the number on each card is the one that made it a story.

An upset on the books

31-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings

The ratings favoured the top seed the other 69 times in 100

BBQ Pit Bros came in rated below the field's top team, Breaking Slabs BBQ, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 31-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.

  • champion 1549
  • top seed 1689

Photo finishes

0.0228 closest of 2 calls decided inside half a point

Backyard Series — Pork Ribs places 5–6: RIBBED FOR HER PLEASURE edged Rucking Fidiculous BBQ by 0.0228. Ancillary — Pork places 5–6: B & S Smokers edged MK BBQ by 0.0228.

  • Backyard Series — Pork Ribs 5–6 · 0.0228
  • Ancillary — Pork 5–6 · 0.0228

A double category winner

2 category wins in a day

BBQ Pit Bros won Chicken, Pork — a double, and took the Grand Championship on top of it.

  • Chicken 1st
  • Pork 1st

A contest record in pork

178.8572 best pork ever cooked here

BBQ Pit Bros turned in 178.8572 in pork — past the 171.9884 that had stood across 1 earlier editions.

  • old best 171.9884
  • across 1 past editions

A perfect score on the table

1 perfect 180s

1 perfect 180 was scored at this contest — every judge at the table handing back a nine.

  • BBQ Pit Bros · Chicken

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)

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)

This contest over the years full contest page →

DateWhereVenueTeamsHigh scoreGrand ChampionReserve Champion
2023-10-13 Stover, MO 401 W. 2nd St 16 510.3312 HessHogs4
2024-10-11 ← this one Stover, MO 207 N. Main St 10 354.2628 BBQ Pit Bros

What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)

Category1st5th10th
Backyard Series — Chicken180.0000171.9772161.1200
Backyard Series — Pork Ribs177.7144168.5600155.3716
Ancillary — Pork178.8572161.1200

Official results on kcbs.us ↗

Backyard Series

Overall

10 entries · top 354.2628 · median 338.8056

#TeamScore
1 BBQ Pit Bros 354.2628
2 Too Sauced BBQ 346.8460
3 Rucking Fidiculous BBQ 346.2400
4 Bushwood BBQ 344.5488
5 Breaking Slabs BBQ 343.3712
6 RIBBED FOR HER PLEASURE 334.2400
7 MK BBQ 327.3488
8 Bad Influence BBQ 323.4172
9 B & S Smokers 319.3484
10 Smokin' Bill's 318.8116

Chicken

10 entries · top 180.0000 · median 169.4058 · 🔥 perfect 180

#TeamScore
1 BBQ Pit Bros 180.0000 🔥
2 Rucking Fidiculous BBQ 177.7028
3 Too Sauced BBQ 176.0116
4 Breaking Slabs BBQ 174.2628
5 MK BBQ 171.9772
6 Bushwood BBQ 166.8344
7 RIBBED FOR HER PLEASURE 165.6800
8 Bad Influence BBQ 163.4516
9 Smokin' Bill's 162.8116
10 B & S Smokers 161.1200

Pork Ribs

10 entries · top 177.7144 · median 168.5486

#TeamScore
1 Bushwood BBQ 177.7144
2 BBQ Pit Bros 174.2628
3 Too Sauced BBQ 170.8344
4 Breaking Slabs BBQ 169.1084
5 RIBBED FOR HER PLEASURE 168.5600
6 Rucking Fidiculous BBQ 168.5372
7 Bad Influence BBQ 159.9656
8 B & S Smokers 158.2284
9 Smokin' Bill's 156.0000
10 MK BBQ 155.3716

Ancillary

Pork

9 entries · top 178.8572 · median 161.1200

#TeamScore
1 BBQ Pit Bros 178.8572
2 Bushwood BBQ 173.1316
3 Breaking Slabs BBQ 172.5600
4 Rucking Fidiculous BBQ 168.5256
5 B & S Smokers 161.1200
6 MK BBQ 161.0972
7 RIBBED FOR HER PLEASURE 155.9656
8 Bad Influence BBQ 154.8344
9 Smokin' Bill's 151.9428

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