Dodge City Days Smokin' Saddles Double Header (Day 1)
2025-07-25 – 2025-07-26 · Dodge City, KS · 📍 Wright Park · State championship
Reps: LARRY VOTH, LYNDA VOTH · Prize money: $9,250.00
Grand Champion: Munny's Stove BBQ (706.2400) · 18 teams
Reserve Champion: 🥈 Meat Candy Q
Entries
Top score
Winning margin
Field average
Tightest race
Top-10 cutoff
Field spread
Prize money
Double threats
How hot was the win?
Traveled in
Form held
Field strength
Storylines
🧹 A double category winner
Too Sauced BBQ won Chicken, Pork Ribs — a double.
📸 Photo finishes
Master Series — Chicken places 3–4: MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ and MUNNY'S STOVE tied on 177.7028 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Master Series — Pork Ribs places 2–3: MUNNY'S STOVE and MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ tied on 176.5716 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker. Master Series — Pork Ribs places 7–8: FINGER LEIKAM GOOD and WELL SAUCED BBQ tied on 173.7144 — settled by the KCBS tiebreaker.
🏟️ A stacked field
The field averaged a 1602 power rating going in — stronger than 92% of every contest tracked.
🃏 An upset on the books
MUNNY'S STOVE came in rated below the field's top team, Meat Candy Q, and took the Grand Championship anyway — roughly a 34-in-100 shot on pre-contest ratings.
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)
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)
This contest over the years full contest page →
| Date | Where | Venue | Teams | High score | Grand Champion | Reserve Champion |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-07-25 ← this one | Dodge City, KS | Wright Park | 18 | 706.2400 | Munny's Stove BBQ | Meat Candy Q |
| 2025-07-26 | Dodge City, KS | Wright Park | 19 | 707.4060 | Finger Liekam Good | Damn Fine Beef & Swine |
What a call cost (the score it took to finish 1st, 5th and 10th)
| Category | 1st | 5th | 10th |
|---|---|---|---|
| Master Series — Chicken | 180.0000 | 176.5600 | 173.1200 |
| Master Series — Pork Ribs | 179.4400 | 174.8572 | 171.4172 |
| Master Series — Pork | 177.7144 | 176.5600 | 174.2628 |
| Master Series — Brisket | 176.5600 | 173.7028 | 171.4172 |
| Backyard Series — Chicken | 177.7144 | 168.5372 | — |
| Backyard Series — Pork Ribs | 173.1316 | 161.6688 | — |
| Ancillary — Brisket | 173.7144 | 143.8972 | — |
Official results on kcbs.us ↗
Master Series
Overall
18 entries · top 706.2400 · median 692.4912
Chicken
18 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.1258 · 🔥 perfect 180
Pork Ribs
18 entries · top 179.4400 · median 172.2744
Pork
18 entries · top 177.7144 · median 174.8342
Brisket
18 entries · top 176.5600 · median 171.6914
Backyard Series
Overall
8 entries · top 350.8460 · median 328.7886
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too Sauced BBQ | |
| 2 | Bushwood BBQ | |
| 3 | Charcoal Gladiators | |
| 4 | Diesel Boys BBQ | |
| 5 | Smokin' Sirens | |
| 6 | Blues Q's | |
| 7 | B&J BBQ | |
| 8 | ROMAN SIMON BBQ |
Chicken
8 entries · top 177.7144 · median 168.8286
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too Sauced BBQ | |
| 2 | Charcoal Gladiators | |
| 3 | Bushwood BBQ | |
| 4 | Smokin' Sirens | |
| 5 | Diesel Boys BBQ | |
| 6 | Blues Q's | |
| 7 | B&J BBQ | |
| 8 | ROMAN SIMON BBQ |
Pork Ribs
8 entries · top 173.1316 · median 161.6802
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Too Sauced BBQ | |
| 2 | Bushwood BBQ | |
| 3 | Blues Q's | |
| 4 | B&J BBQ | |
| 5 | Charcoal Gladiators | |
| 6 | Diesel Boys BBQ | |
| 7 | Smokin' Sirens | |
| 8 | ROMAN SIMON BBQ |
Ancillary
Brisket
5 entries · top 173.7144 · median 150.2060
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Bushwood BBQ | |
| 2 | Charcoal Gladiators | |
| 3 | Smokin' Sirens | |
| 4 | B&J BBQ | |
| 5 | ROMAN SIMON BBQ |
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.
Kids-Q — Kid'S 11-15 Sliders
5 entries · top 172.5600 · median 167.4056
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | LOGAN CULVER | |
| 2 | EMALYN | |
| 3 | ZOE FITZSIMMONS | |
| 4 | BIG NITRO WILSON | |
| 5 | FAITH FELDT |
Kids-Q — Kid'S 11-15 Steak
4 entries · top 177.7144 · median 174.2800
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | FAITH FELDT | |
| 2 | BIG NITRO WILSON | |
| 3 | ZOE FITZSIMMONS | |
| 4 | LOGAN CULVER |
Kids-Q — Kid'S Q 5-10 Sliders
6 entries · top 172.5828 · median 171.1370
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | HAGEN FELDT | |
| 2 | MINI MEAT | |
| 3 | LITTLE FRITZ WESLEY | |
| 4 | ZANE FRIZT | |
| 5 | LITTLE NITRO MICAH | |
| 6 | TINY SCHMIDT |
Kids-Q — Kid'S Q 5-10 Steak
5 entries · top 174.2628 · median 171.9656
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | TINY SCHMIDT | |
| 2 | MINI MEAT | |
| 3 | LITTLE NITRO MICAH | |
| 4 | ZANE FRIZT | |
| 5 | HAGEN FELDT |
Ancillary — Misc.
9 entries · top 180.0000 · median 173.7028 · 🔥 perfect 180
| # | Team | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Smokin' Sirens | |
| 2 | KoehnBros BBQ | |
| 3 | MAN MEAT BBQ | |
| 4 | Royal Schmidt's BBQ competition team | |
| 5 | Shark Q | |
| 6 | MEAT RUSHMORE BBQ | |
| 7 | Diesel Boys BBQ | |
| 8 | FINGER LEIKAM GOOD | |
| 9 | POPPA PIG AND PORKCHOP |